Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-04
IN THE HALL FIELD.

What the Players Find to Talk About.
 The New Works and the St. Louis will probably be the teams to play off the worlds championship series.
 Veteran Joe Battin has been taken of third base by the Syracuse management.
 It is wonderful to see how much better team plays when even one position is strengs thened. Take the Pittsburgs, for instance, and see the great ball they have been playing since Beckley replaced Maul at first base. Look at the work of the New Works, after Whitney was put on third base and of the Bostons when. Higgins was placed on second.
 Chamberlain has been sold by the Louis villes to St. Louis for $4, 900.
 It is said in Louisville that Ramsey will never pitch winning game again if the players can help it. All, excepting Kerins, are down on him and will not give proper support when he is in the box Ramsey says he would like to leave Louisville, to show that he is not back number.
 Hudson, of the St. Louis team, is to be married this month.
 When Umpire John Kelly resigned the management of the Louisvilles he said that one trouble with the players was because they ate such hearty dinners. A good ball player must eat lightly before the game.
 The demand for more hitting in our ball games has already caused the managers and players throughout the country to set their wits st work to devise some scheme Wher eby the batting will be more free next season. Three suggestions have been made looking toward this end. First, that the pitcher be put back five feet; second, that the old four strike rule be readopted, and third, that the old rF1ia Of kEo 1feyf md 1ay hA The latter would no doubt prove the most satisfactory in the end. To be sure some players can learn to hit ball that comes over the plate at any height, but this cannot be said about all of them, for our best batters are often struck out by such long-headed pitch- cause they know the weakness of the hitters on high or low balls. The idea of making the ball livelier, as put forward by President Reach of the Philadelphia club, does not meet with the approval of the in- fielders, for they say that it would make their chances harder to accept, and instead Of having more batting, the error column would show the greater difference. That something must be done to give the batters chance to hit the ball is certain.-The Sun.
 Pagan, late of Kansas City, is pitching for Troy.
 the Spalding expedition, and Robinson isn't likely to go. Bobby declares that only $50 for the trip, and not $50 per month, is paid by Spslding to the players going.
 BurdOek of the Brooklyns was in Justice Massey's court in that city on Saturday, charged with assault Judge Massey, who is a base ball crank, administered short leo- lure to Burdock, who was laid of few days ago for inability to hit the ball. The court advised the second baseman to leave whisky alone and to get his eye on the ball. Burdock said he would try and do SC, and left the court room smiling.
 The Boston Globe says that ''Buck" Ewing will soon outshine Anson as a kicker.
 Robinson, the Browns second baseman, thinks that if Crane had signed with Cleve land instead of New York the Forest City team would have been one of the strongest in the association. He says that Snyder and Crane would make the strongest battery in the country.
 The Philadelphia club has laid of Casey without pay until he recovers his health. This is in strict accordance with the parsi- mony of the Philadelphia management. A and they stop bis pay until he gets well. Considering the work Casey has done for Philadelphia, no matter what their circun- stances may be, it is hardly @ square thing to stop his salary when he becomes ill.-The Press.
 The league has scored 23s home runs, Chicago leading with 55, New York has 45, Detroit 43, Indianapolis 29, Boston 25, Wash- ington 21, Philadelphia 12, and Pittsburg 8. The association total is 13S, of which Cincin- nati contributed 25, Athletics 23, St. Louis 20, Baltimore 15, Brooklyn If, Kansas City 14, Cleveland g, and Louisville 8. George Mollie, Flynn's old catcher, once with the Chicagos and afterwards with the Boston Blues and Haverhills, has, caught on in the Western league. Mollie is still a young man and good player. He holds the record of having made three home run hits over the left field fence of the Boston grounds in one game.