, 1888-07-03
BASE HITS.

Ward has been under the weather all sea-
SON
Newton, Kan, has taken the place of Lin
coin in the Western league.
New Orleans has signed Houck, late of
Charleston
1t is estimated that there are over COO
amateur ball clubs I'm Chicago, with a MEM
bership OF between 1000 and 5000.
The Toledo club has a new battery, Miller
and Grumbling, late of Fort Wayne.
Clarkson will go to Australia with the
Spalding aggregation.
Brooklyn is the luckiest club In the Asso-
chiffon. 1t has no postponed games.
Pittsburg has offered $1,000 for Pitcher
O'Brien, Of the Lima club.
An attempt may be made to revive the
Hudson River league in July.
Clarkson has pitched In more hampton.
ship games than any other League pitcher
Cincinnati has never yet made a successful
first trip to the east,
John Quincy Adams Struck has become
Milwaukee's crack pitcher.
Boston bowls for better batsmen. Where
can they be hRdi
Baltimore offers to trade Joe Sommers for
Hecker.
Capt Comiskey wants the Association to
adopt the double umpire system.
Jim O'Rourke captains the New Yorks
when Ewing is not playing. Jim is the latest
Giant to try his hand at third base, and he
has an idea that he can do it as well as any
body, Denny not excepted.
Mickey Welch's arm is all right, but his
side has given out Mickey has a pretty bad
ufla aV,I ea-1 tE.N H. IN - A.
pitch for some days. 1t seems to be the same
old trouble of last season.
Boston patrons have set up a howl about
the management allowing Clarkson to pitch
whenever he wants. They say that Conway,
Sowders and Radbourn should be given their
turn in the box, and not to distribute all the
honors to Clarkson, as 1t hurts the other
pitchers of the team.
Wires are already being laid to get Hardie
Richardson and Sam Thompson for the
Hub" nine next season II $4,000 will
fetch them they will wear Boston uniforms
in 1889. 1t pays TO advertise in baseball
Just the same as In any other business,
People want TO sec stars at any time and
will enjoy their individual work in the early
part of the season When they find out that
one or two such players will not pull of the
flag then they usually sour on the much
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The jackson, Mich, club has signed Par
sons, the left handed pitcher released by
Minneapolis He pitched his first game for
jackson, the 18th, against the Chicago Re-
serves, and but one hit was made Off him.
he also struck out fifteen
The Cincinnati club is asking the other as
ISOLATION clubs to waive claim to Henry
Kappel This means that his release Is to be
sold to some outside club-either National
league or minor league.
This is a very bad year for left handed
twirlers Baldwin, Of the Detroits, is laid
of; Elmer Smith has been sent to the Hot
Springs; Ramsey has lost his cunning; XII
roy has been more than once knocked out of
the box, and Casey. Of the Phillies, has a
lame arm.
They have q new pitching phenomenon In
California He has Joined the Pioneers, and
his name is Creanor.
When Pitcher Baldwin asked Captain An
son If he could go home to nurse a lame
back, the big fellow saidi "Why yes; we
have plenty Of pitching talent and can get
along without you just as well as not" Turn
ing to a friend, he said al don't believe In
letting any of my players think l can't get
along without them-H