Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-15
WORLD OF SPORTS.

Mansell, Jones and Purvis have teen suspended by the Hamiltons.
 McGeachy is playing the best centre field of any man in the league.
 Gruber was the only one of the Detroits whom Keefe did not retire on strikes yes terday. s....-s....
 The Star says "Foghorn" Lynch is sometimes wrong on balls and strikes, otherwise he is an excellent umpire.
 Anson says the Indianapolis team is a dandy one. "Why, I could take that team and about win the championship" he is reported as saying.
 "A ball tosser is either @ hero or a tramp" sagely remarks western journal. ''He is either worshipped or he is cussed. There is no middle ground around the bases for him. Ho must either cover his territory we'll or hie himself to the South ern league"
 At the Southington driving park July there will be trotting in two classes, one for local horses and purse of $75, and a 2:3S class for purse of $50; the horse distancing the field in the latter race talk ing first money only. Trotting will com mence at 1:30 p. m.
 Ned won the 2:35 class at Bristol yester- day, with Alicia close second, and Si- lesia third. The race was good one and closely trotted. In the 2:45 class Prince came in an easy winner, with Rex taking second money, Jeffersonian third, and Nancy fourth. There were but four start | CTS.
 The Black Stockings are iu what Mark Baldwin would call "hard luck" Mark himself, whom Anson pronounces one of the best pitchers in the country, is sick. | Do44 .o ~E o,,I o~4s,, C,,11s is so disabled by lame back that he has gone back to Lowell, and there is but little chance of his playing in any game of the present eastern series. ''The old man" is yet confident the boys will twin out.
 ''There she goes!'' burst from the crowd in the sixth inning of the New York-De- l troit game at the Polo grounds yesterday, as Connor sent the ball humnning down the l left center field. It was & home-run hit, and, as there was man on the bases, it netted two runs and won the game sIt's 8 long road that has no turning" sighed Capt. O'Rourke, as he saw the ball sailing down the field. The New Yorks have waited long for this hit, and it would have won almost any one of the games that have been lost by the home team in the past few days.
 The Pennsylvania Limited that carried AnSOns men, including Clarence Duval, the mascot, from Philadelphia to New Y York Thursday night, met with an accident about ten miles below Elizabeth, N. J., that came near being serious affair. The windows of every car were smashed by striking projecting freight car. Martin Sullivan was cut over the right eye by flying glass, and Ryan's face and hands were slightly cut. Anson also received a a cut on the hand. Anson played the part of a hero. With the blood streaming from a cut in the back of his hand, he jumped and caught crazed mother, who had gathered her babe in her arms and was flashing down the aisle to the car door. The woman's husband was in the smoking car at the time. When the train stopped the captain wound handkerchief about his injured hand and spoke of the whole accident as huge joke. He claims that a ball player leads charmed life on train Gus Krock lost his overcoat, but escaped I injury