Connecticut western news., 1888-10-10
THE BALL PLAYERS, What the Ball Tossers and Willow Twlrlers
 are Doing Nowadays.

The New York team has the pennrnt within its grasp. How Anson must fume!
 There is rumor in circulation that Umpire Gaffncy may manage the Brooklyn team next season.
 The Philadelphia and Athletic clubs will play series of five games after October l7 for the championship of Philadelphia.
 Sid Farrar has had a gigantic bat built for his use. It weighs forty-four ounces, against thirty-six ounces for the average bat.
 The Davenport Club of the Western Asso- citation has disbanded. The managers claim to have lost $5, 900 during the season. It pays a ball player to "booze," remarked John Reilly, the other day, 'for then the man. ager will pay him a big bonus to keep him sober"
 Inc Brooklyn Club will have several players be Radford and Burdook Manager McGun- nigle will probably be released.
 Chamberlain, the St. Louis Browns new pitcher this season won fourteen games for the Lauisvilles lost eight and tied one before he went to the St. Louis Club.
 These are ''the sere and yellow" days of baseball for this season, for the scheduled games will soon be played. The League finishes it's season this week, aud next week will mark the close of the American games.
 John M. Ward has contributed an interesting article on the national game to the Cosnopol- ita,a Magazine. After giving concise history of the game, the base ball associations and the national agreement, MT. Ward discusses the
 
 'sAh," said a kindly old lady, as a group of we'll dressed little boys passed her gate, chow glad am to such fresh and happy faces on to Sunday school, little boys?" '.No'm," re- piled the boys, politely, s'we's goiE to de ball game."-Epoch.
 Hudson leads the Association pitchers. The average of runs earned off his delivery in 38 games was .O2." Chamberlain stands second
  1.33 in 62 games. These three pitchers belong to the St. Louis team, and they are expected by Won der Ahe to lay out the Giants.
 Philadelphia scribe, in commenting on the says: The Western custom of giving street p trade, introduced here by the Atheletic Club not we'll received. The local enthusiasts do not relish having their pet game reduced to the level of 8 catch penny circus side show.
 The next event on the card will be the series between New York and St. Louis for the cham pionship of the world. This series is attracting more attention, probably, than did the series with Detroit last year, or the two series with Chicago previously and the sentiment is gen. eral that New York will come off victor easily.
 The batting averages of the first ten men in the International Association were Stuart, of Troy, .364; Donovan, London, 8 9; Simon, Rochester, .35S Beard Syracuse, $50; Wright Syracuse, .S49; Dickerson, London, and Grant, Buffalo Ctie), .346; Marr, Syracuse, 342; Prince, London. 326; Wood, Hamilton, .322; Lehane, Buffalo, 321.
 Presidents Von der Ahe and Day respec- lively of the St. Louis and New York Clubs have agreed on the following uniform scale of prices to be charged in all the cities ill which the game for the worlds championship are played: General admission, 50 cents; grand stand, $1; reserved seats in certain sections of the grand stand, $1.50
 The experience of the past three years in regard to the policy of placing league atd as- sociation clubs as rivals for public patronage in one city has shown pretty conclusively that it is plan that will not longer admit of prof. table returns for the investments made. It was proved to be failure in St. Louis in l8S6 in New York in 1887, and this years experi- ence in Philadelphia has proved to be fail ure there. The league withdrew it's club in St. Louis in 1886, owing to the strong rivalry of the American champions.
 The New York correspondent of a St. Louis paper says of the New York team's recent bat ting: From careful study of the work now being done by the home team it has become quite plain that their work at the bat is some- what weaker than when they were running up their long line of victories. At that time the men came to the bat and bunted the ball out without any effort to make long hits. Their whole idea was to make a sacrifice hit that would move runner up base, with fair chance of hitting the ball safe. They hit at the ball hard enough now, but, as it will hap pen with many players and clubs, the ball goes right at some fielder.