, 1888-09-11
BASE HITS.

Pitcher Shaw went to Worcester a short
time ago, pitched a good game, signed a con
tract, received $50 advance money and then
left the city. Two or three days afterward
Manager Burnham received n letter from
Baltimore, saying that he had gone home on
account of illness and that he would report
as soon as well.
1t is said that Klusman, lately of Boston,
will sign with st. Paul.
Rochester leads the International Associa-
tion in playing e~rrorless games. 1t has
played seven perfect fielding games.
Mike Kelly will go to Australia with
Spalding's combination.
Tom Lotus is nothing If not original. His
attest is on Kansas City. "They don't give
rain checks in Kansas City, said he. "Well,
what do the people get in case it rains before
the game is finishedf' was asked. "Mud
checks"
The Athletics certainly have the oppor-
tunity of their lives to win the pennant. If
they don't get a lead in the next three weeks
it is hardly likely that they will ever get to
the front this season.
Buck Ewing is full of confidence about
New York's ability to win the League pen
uant. He says: "We shall lose games. All
teams do. But we can win enough to stay
where we are"
Unofficial figures make Long John Ewing
of the Louisville club the best twirler in the
American association. If Jack turns out as
good a man as his brother Buck" he will
prove a good investment for Louisville.
New York's much lauded mascot from Chi
cage begged and borrowed clothes, ran up an
account at a lunch counter near the Polo
grounds, stole Titcomb's shoes and eloped.
Cincinnati as well as Cleveland must be
weakening on the Association, as President
Aaron Stern offers to sell his team for s2O,-
900, and deliver the men next October. This
is a startling move, and in keeping with the
indications of a baseball revolution.
Brouthers has averaged a run a game in
seventy-ive games. He leads the Detroit
team in getting around the bases. He has
also crossed
Ward and Irwin AVE both picked up in
their short stop playing to such an extent
that there are no two players in the League
that are doing any cleaner or better work.
Ward, however, is much the better batter of
the two.
Milwaukee claims to have the best base
running team in the Western association.
Beckley, Conner and Brouthers, first base
men, are among the first four batsmen in the
League, while five pitchers bring up thu
rear.
The Wheeling club has the National record
for 1883. 1t Won nineteen consecutive games
and was only beaten in the twentieth game
after twelve innings had been played.
Ten players in the Association have crossed
the hundred base hit mark. OF this number
only one halls from Brooklyn.
The Boston papers do not take much stock
in the tales about Harry Wright coming to
their city next year. Yet such an event is
among the probabilities.
Milt Scott, formerly first baseman of the
Pittsburg and Baltimore clubs, has signed
with the Chicago Maroons, of the Western
association.
Andrews, who was released by the Louis
vile club, was the best fielding first baseman
in the association. Out of 294 chances offered
in the twenty-six games he played with that
organization he accepted all but one, his
average being .99Z. His weak spot was his
hitting; he only made seventeen hits in the
twenty-six games, and his batting average is
.191.
Lady Baldwin has retired to his farm at
Hastings, and will play no more ball. If he
amt pitch in the League he will not pitch
at all.
h~duSWOTbn, OuC0 Wtl hIlOWh Us u SlOlb
stop in the Athletic, Mutual, Atlantic, Eek
ford and other organizations, recently died
in New York city,
Ted Sullivan considers ODay the giant
pitcher of the League, and says his staying
power is equal to that of Radbourn in his
palmiest days.
Glasscock is very popular in every League
city but indianapolis and possibly Philadel-
phia.
Worcester is mentioned as a likely Associa-
tion city in case of a vacancy.
The fight for the leading Association bats
man is as hot as it is for the leading League
batsman. Reilly, Lyons, Tip O'Neill and
Orr, if he is reinstated, will probably be the
highest four in the Association, while Beck
ley, Ryan and White are having a close con-
test in the League.
Widner is not only a promising pitcher SO
far as mere pitching goes, but watches the
bases closely and bats well.
Breckenridge, the Logansport phenomenon
Arson was after, is claimed both by Chicago
and Canton, and he doesn't Know whether to
play with either, as his physician has forbid
den violent exercise.
Pete Browning, of the Louisville club, has
been indefinitely suspended for drunkenness.
Among the pitchers highly spoken of in tho
minor leagues are Baker, of Newark; Zell,
of Allentown; Burkett, Of Scranton; Pete
Wood, of Hamilton; Lovett, Conway, Swart-
zell, Duryea, Sowders, Wells, Winkleman,
Nichols and Klopf, of the Northwestern;
Burns, Person, Sullivan, Mitchell, of the
New England league.
The ST. Louis club has used four pitchers
in all its championship games thus far this
season; Louisville has had FIVE; Kansas City
nine, Hoffner, Allen, Kirby and Ehrett avei-
aging but three games each; Cincinnati has
had five, Cleveland has had eight, but Stem
myer, Gilks, Oberlander and Morrison only
pitched eleven games altogether.
Adapt Herself to circumstance.
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