Connecticut western news., 1888-09-26
THE BALL PLAYERS, What the Ball Tossers and Willow TwirlerS
 are Doing Nowadays.

The runOr about the BrOtnernOOQ comes ln the shape of a sensational story from Pittsburg to the effect that tue brotherhood is going to law for the purpose of oyerthrowing the re- serve rule. Such action on its part would be perfectly suicidal. If there were no reserve rule few clubs would, by reason of longer purse, gobble up the cream of the players, and their teams would be so superior over others that interest in the games would be reduced to such an extent that base all would take such a tumble inside of two seasons that the ball would indeed be lucky. It is the uncertainty, where the teams are so evenly matched in skill, as at present, that draws thu multitude and makes money for the cubs. The utter ab- surdity of the rumor is seen by simply recall- ing the fact that Ward and Pfeffer, one the founder and the other the most aggressive
 member of the order, are going out of the country, one for six months and the other for
 year. Verify, Pittsburg Is getting to be as noted for journalistic 'fakirs' as Philadelphia is for Quakers.
 ''Some of the most famous base ball stars in | America have been connected with Lincoln | clubs in the days that are gone," says Ne braska paper. ''lt is to be hoped that some of the most famous base ball stars in America
 will be connected with Lincoln clubs in the | days to come. The city must have base ball next year, or there will be seventeen different | kinds of ruin scattered over the landscape" Manager Sharsig, of the Athletic: ''My club is in wretched condition, and there is
 hardly man in it who is himself. This ac- counts for the poor showing in Cincinnati. If
 our nine had been all right, we would have | won all the games there. Weyhing is laid up, l and Seward has to do most of the pitching. | Welch. Stovey, Bierbauer and Gleason are all | in bad shape"
 There are great rumors afloat concerning John Ward and one about the Brotherhood of Ball Players. The talk about Ward is that he | IS going to play next year at Indlanapolis that
 he is going to Pittsburg; that he is going to | Boston. On one point rumor agrees. Nher- | ever he goes he will manage the team. He
 cannot go to all three places. Perhaps he won't | go to any one of them.
 Doanelly of the Washingtons and Healy of the Hoosiers have signed to go on the Austra- | Han trip.
 Johnston is at present having the greatest | streak of batting in the League. His batting | is terrific In his last ten games he has made | 20 hits, with total of 45: two base hits, 1 | three base hit and home runs. His batting | average now is .303, and if continued at the
 present rate he will soon be disputing for the | lead with Kelly and the other leaders. Pitcher John Tener, in letter to a Pittsburg
 friend, speaks enthusiastically of his experI-
 ence with the Chicagos. He admires Anson's | methods of handling players. When one of | them does poor work he receives word of en- couragement from the big man, but when he does we'll nothing Is said of it. The player is
 thus prevented from getting an attack of "swelled head"
 New York, save in 1885, has never been able to win series from Chicago. As New York has been to Boston, Chicago has been to the Gothamites-their '.jonahs." Since the ad.
 mission of the Giants into the League in 1853, they have played 97 games with Ansons men,
 and have won only SS Chicago winning 59
 The victories have been as follows: 1SS3-Chi. cago, 9; New York. ,. 1S54-Chicago, 12; New
 York, 4. 1885 Chicago, 6; New York, 1O 1SS6-Chicago, 10; New York, s. 1SS7-Chica-
 go, II; New York, $. 1SSS-Ch' 'cago, II; New York, 5.
 Detroit's reliable all round player, TTardie
 Richardson, is getting better, and will soon be
 in shape to cover second again with his old
 time effectiveness.
 There Is a prvmlse of a slight drawback in
 the series for the worlds championshipb tween
 the Browns and the New York, of course This
 disadvantage is in the umpires. Gafrney stat.
 ed that he is firmly resolved not to go into an,
 other worlds series. He says also that John
 Kelly has made Q similar resolution Gaffney
 considers this task the hardest thing he evel tackled. He says: 'sThere is honor and glory
 In 1t, and also money; but tell you there is
 responsibility and hard work in it, too, that
 want to avoid. No matter what inducement IS offered me, will not umpire the next
 worlds series."
 ''Who do I consider the best ball player in
 the country ?" said Manager Jack Kerins to a
 group of base ball men in front of the Wash.
 ington Hotel, Philadelphia, the other evening.
 ''Why, Harry Stovey, by all odds, Stovey is the
 ideal ball player of America. am surprised
 at constantly reading about Wclch, Corkhill,
 Johnson and Fogarty being the greatest field
 CTS. Harry can cover as much ground in the
 outfeld as any of them Talk about your
 Sl0,OOO beauties No ball player is worth that
 much, but If any one is it is Stovey. con-
 slider Stovey the only perfect ball player living.
 What l mean by perfect is that he has no