Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-25

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 Cincinnati won % ont of 27 games at the beginning of the season, and recently lost l2 out of 13 games.
 Base ball teams from the Manhan and brass mills played Saturday, resulting in 8 victory for the former by score of to ?.
 A New York exchange calls Harry Wheeler promising young" player. Harry played with the champion Cincinna- tis in 1882.
 A Syracuse correspondent says: "Joe two baggers and triples. Will Higgins at bag No ?, is dandy"
 Washingtonans are beginning to look upon Ed Daily as the greatest base stealer in the business. He has been appointed captain of the team when Whitney is not playing -s..
 In sixteen games previous to his retire ment Esterbrook had not made an error at first base. His batting was weak, how ever. And yet, in 1884, Esterbrook led the association batsmen.
 OBrien of Washington is doing some of his time hitting. Washington people have grown weary waiting for him to ma terialize. For the first time in 43 games he stole a base on Monday.
 Perhaps there are no men in the New England league worth S1 ,000, as contem- porary states, but Larocque, Campana, Meister, Black and Ray would make good showing in any club.-Boston Herald. The Norwalks defeated the Meridens 4 to 2 in about the best game of the season Saturday, in ten innings. Hits, Norwalk 8. Meriden 4; errors, Norwalk 1, Meriden 4; batteries, Collins and Fitzpatrick and Snow and Gardner.
 When any of the Chicago pitchers are being hit heavily Anson takes the slightest chance offered to delay game His idea is to break the spell of the batters and to give the twirler an opportunity at resting himself and getting full command of the 1 ball.
 l Of the old pitchers in the league and as sociation, Morris of Pittsburg is about the 1 only left handler who has shown up as ef- fectively as in the former seasons. Of the right handlers, Buffinton of Philadelphia, Keefe and Welch of New York. Whitney and O'Day of Washington, Radbourn of Boston, Getzein and Conway of Detroit, Calvin of Pittsburg and Boyle of Indian apolis are making the best showing in the league. "Had Cleveland known the political calibre of the Detroit club when he shook hands with the champions recently, he probably wouldn't have been so glad to see them. Rowe, White, Thompson, Twitchell, Richardson, Ganzel and Ben nett are republicans. Hanlon worships at the shrine of Merry George. Getzein says he is an anarchist, Gruber has no prefer ence, and the others-Brouthers, Conway and Sutcliffe are mugwumps. ."-Detroit exchange.
 A party of twenty sporting men from different parts of the state witnessed g hotly contested sprinting match at the Meriden Driving park, Friday, be- tween Miller of Waterbury and O'Brien ot Holyoke, two well-known runners. The race was 100 yards dash for purse ot I $500, and won by O'Brien. About $1 ,6OC changed hands. The affair was very quiet not being advertised, and but few in vited guests witnessed it. O'Brien, as soon as he finished, ran right down to the fence crawled over (the gate was locked) and dressed in his hack. The match was bona fide for $500 side, and it is believed that there was an agreement between the two men that Miller should win O'Brien .doubled" and won, thus going back or Miller and his crowd. -Meriden Republi- can Miller We know of no Miller in Waterbury who is sprinter.