Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-06
sPLINTERs FROM THE BATS.

| 1Oi SOOu WITH
Arson wants to bet money that he win
win the pennant.
| Sam Morton has hopes of winning the As
ISOLATION pennant
New York is beefing because its team is
not hitting the ball
Hank O'Day is pitching great ball. but his
| support is not good.
The story tina. Williamson was drunk IN
| Pittsburgh is not true.
| 1t looks as though old Mccormick had
! dropped out Of the game.
| Ryan's catches in center field are a feat
ure Of the Chicago games
Kelly, Hoover and Henry have been re-
leased by the Philadelphia club.
| Arthur Whiting, a kangaroo pitcher OF
| the Washingtons, is on the sick list
Catcher Myers, of the Indianapolis team,
owns considerable real estate in Buffalo.
Cincinnati has Chinaman who is anx-
| ious to become a professional baseball
| player.
The Western League this year is COM
posed Of Denver, Lincoln, Hutchinson, Kan,
and Leadville.
Pfeffer's fielding this season is very high.
His batting, however, is not up to last
years standard.
Cleveland is in poor shape to fight for the
Association flag. Nearly every member OF
the team is crippled.
Darling has been assigned to catch Van
Haltren during the remainder OF the sea-
son. What a great batting battery!
The American Association race is being
run on the cut-throat order. The positions
of the clubs change nearly every day.
Kuehne, the little good-natured infelder
of the Pittsburghs, appears to be doing all
the long distance hitting for his team.
Charley Bennett, of the Detroits, COM
plains of dull pains in his hands. 1t is
thought his days as catcher are numbered.
Gilmore, of the Washingtons, who at one
time last season was looked upon as sort
of phenomenon, appears to have gone to
pieces.
Umpire Valentine has publicly proclaimed
fines against Sullivan and Esterbrook. If
this is a sample of Mr.. Valentines justice
he must be a fine umpire, indeed.
The Chicagos are away up for the reason
that they are hitting the ball. If they had
done any smuggling last year they would
have won the pennant in canter.
A Reader.-Please give the distance of
the longest throw with a baseball and the
name of the thrower. [l33 yards, foot II
inches, by John Hatfield, of Brooklyn, n.
Y, on October Is, 1921
After Pete Browning had taken the tenn
perance pledge he went off with Manager
Jim Hart and swore off before magis-
trate He wanted it done officially. Hart
has great influence over him.
New York and Pennsylvania clubs Of the
Central League are somewhat in dread of
the jersey clubs, and they have reason to
fear them.
Short stop Cox, once of Detroit and lately
of the various New England clubs, is now
out of the business and running saloon in
New Britain.
III. D. Hurley is reported as having re-
signed the management of the Decatur
club, owing to the pressure of private bust
ness at Big Springs. Tex.
Cleveland has a great catcher in thinner
He is not only reliable back stop, but a
very quick and accurate thrower to bases
as well as a good batsman.
Dunlap asserts that he received half of
his purchase money from Detroit, and that
this will make his total income for the sea-
SOu 1Aolu Dhh pay III . "f;OOv.
The scorers are unit in their denuncia-
tons of tn" rule calling base on balls
factor in an earned run, at the same time
crediting pitcher with an error.
Manager BARNES fox terrier dog Dot
captured one of the prizes at the Kennel
Club show in Baltimore last week. The
dog was present from Billy Holbert.
The northumberland race between Fl. NJ.
johnson, the professional Splinter, and
Latham has been indefinitely postponed on
account of an injury TO the formers thigh.
1t can scarcely be comfortable reflection
for Brooklyn's S15,O00-pitcher that he Off
ciated in his clubs first defeat, and that it
should be a discarded Brooklyn battery that
downed them.
Manager Morrill, feels confident that Nash
will, with little more experience, be enc
OF the best second basemen in the country.
He is also perfectly satisfied with Sutton's
work at third
The Minneapolis and st. Paul clubs are
playing series of seven games for the
championship of the Twin Cities. st. Paul
won the first game on the oath by Z to 6 in
eleven innings.
A Louisville dispatch says: "Von der
Abe has offered President Lyons $500 for
the release of young Stratton at Kansas
City, Manager Kelly said he couldn't have
him for $4,000. a great deal is expected
of Stratton.
In Worcester they charge ladies % cents
for seat IN the grand stand. Manager
Burnham was in favor of admitting the
fair ones free, but Lowell, Manchester and
Portland said no.
The rivalry between Scranton and
Wlkesbarre Is intense, and the baseball
enthusiasts of these two cities are already
engaged in windy war over the merits Of
their respective clubs.
Manager Morrill, thinks the Bostons are
stronger in the pitchers box than any club
in the league He has quite an array of
talent in Garrison, Madden, Radbourn,
Conway and Sowders.
A New York exchange calls attention to
the Illegal delivery of the phenomenal
young pitcher Daily. of The Jersey City club
In pitching his drop ball, CT when he tries TO
put speed on the ball. he, II is said. turns his
back 10 the batter in such way as 10 make
his pitching Illegal
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