Connecticut western news., 1888-05-09
THE BALL-PLAYERS.
Notes Regarding the Professionals
 Who Will Compete for Records.
THE RECORD, MAY !. l- T ,.

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 The novelty of professional base ball at 25 cents drew so many spectators at Chicago to the initial game of the Western League, Chi caSo series, that there wasn't room enough left | to play ball on in the enclosure, and the con- test had to be stopped at the end of the sixth inning. The attendance was 5000. Cunning is playing great ball for the Ath- | letics.
 Welchi is one of the best judges of 8 pitched | ball that has ever been seen, says Phiadel- phia paper. He does no lodging or falling ] down to get out of the way of inshoots, but stands at the plate like rock and lets the ball skln past his nose or ear without winking.
 The St. Louis Browns have good man in Mccarthy.
 There is a subdued air about Manager | Wright that speaks louder than mere words, and shows Low keenly he feels Fergusons loss. | Mobbing the umpire is the usual Sunday ] occupation in the South. | Charley Jones is discontented and wants his ing exemplification in baseball of the old max | i'm that "A rolling stone gathers no moss." | There is the exception to every rule In tbis case the exception is now located at Pittsburg. The champion moss gatherer is Fred. Dunlap. Ema Smith, the Cincinnati pitcher, has a lame arm, caused by the cold weather. l If Anson or Comiskey picked team of play CTS that had failed to win the championship of an amateur league, the chances are that they would get enough playing out of them to come American Association.
 Ramsay has cast his blue badge to the winds, and at last accounts was on spree.
 An exchange says spirit of dissatisfaction seems to be brooding among the Louisville players against the management It would be interesting to know just when the players of that club are not kicking against the man. ager.
 In, the first twenty games played by the Southern League there were seven blank scores.
 Another player has fallen 8 victim to the spring clements. This time it is Jim Whitney of the Washingtons, who is suffering from pleursy.
 The Boston Chicago game, scheduled to be played in Boston Oct. 1, has been, by mutual consent, changed to the morning of June IS, thus making two games for Bunker Hill Day.
 The veteran player, Jack Manning, tells some good stories of the Boston nine of 1878. s'Talk about winning game with three hits as the Bostons did the other day at Philadelphia, that's nothing" said Jack. 'sWhy, the nine we had in Cleveland in '7S won & game from the we got two. Snyder and Bond was tho battery. We not only beat them, but we shut them out"
 Manager Phil powers of the London club has become 8 catcher again, and IS doing good work.
 The Dartmouth faculty have decided that the students must drop football, base ball, or gen. eral athletics because of the excessive amount of time and money required to conduct them all. They probably will drop football.
 In the West they say that Doescher is 8 good umpire. He tolerates no back talking from the players, and makes them play ball. His decisions are as nearly correct as possible, and they are seldom questioned.
 The season is young yet, and because club loses a few games it does not mean that they have no chance for the championship. Many things may happen before the last game is played.
 o. P. Caylor says the Kansas City Westerns arc the fastest team of base runners in the busi- ness while the Association club comprises the slowest aggregation of s'ice wagons" in that organization.
 ''Talking about the Hot Springs" said Man. ager John Kelly of Louisville, referring to his experience there during the winter, ''I have lease on the ball grounds there for next spring, and 1 intend to locate twenty of the best play CTS in America on them. In other words, I propose having regular series of games on the grounds at Hot Springs next spring, 8 series tbat people will come from all directions to see. I do not know just where I will get my twenty players from, but I do know that they will be the best in the land, and that these eX- hibitions will be the best ever given there"
 The management of the Pittsburgh Club contended all winter that the team would be much stronger in batting this season than last. This may prove true, but it is about time for some of the players to hit the ball.
 Did President Day mean it when he said that Decker was the best umpire that ever stood in two shoes?
 What with releasing Broughton, sending Lady Baldwin home with the advice to learn to pitch. and shipping Sutcliffe to the same destination, and fining Hanlon s1O for not sliding to . base, it looks as if Watkins was still manager of the Detroits.
 Goldsmith, the once great pitcher of the Chicago Club, has been heard from. He is pitching for the Hot Springs team.
 Pinkney is apt to make a bungle of it if he persists ill trying to get the ball across the diamond by an underhand throw.
 It is said that Detroit would like to have Burdock.
 Charleston wants to buy Cleveland from the New Yoras.
 The New Works took four batteries with them to the West.
 In the first ten games Mike Kelly played in this season he made this record: Batting aver age, 445; total batting average, 73d He made l2 rnns IF hits, and stole II bases.
 Catcher Miller of the Pittsburgh club was trampled upon by Pfeffer of Chicago while stealing second base, and so badly injured in- formally that he will not be ablo to play again for weeks. Meantime the Pittsburgh club is looking about for another catcher.
 The Washington papers are making the fol- lowing demands: First, the unconditional lease of Gilmore; second, the unconditional release of Irwin; the replacing of Donnelly at third base, the only position in tho infield which he can play to the satisfaction of either the management or himself.
 A despatch from St. Louis says the team will undergo several changes. Stanley has been ordered to join the team. Knouff, King, and Devln will be required to do the pitching. Hudson is expected to play right field regular ly, and will only be used in the box in case of emergency. McGarr will be laid off until he recovers from his lameness, and Harry Lyons will be taken from right field to cover McFarr's position.
 All the good things which have been said about young Sowders are throughly deserved, says Boston paper. He is good pitcher, and has good command over the ball. Like young Madden it is an old head on 8 pair of young shoulders.