The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-06-28
BASE BALL.
Twirlers for the Cranks Not Found
in Sporting Papers.

IWlrIerS 1Or the CrankS n OF round
in Sporting Papers.
The Browns are crawling up on Brook
Ign. They will past them next week.
Grace Pearce has been appointed a Gen.
tral league umpire.
Al Tebeau, late of Bloomington, Ill. :,
has gone to Albuquerque.
Boston is to release Sutton, Burdock
and Brown, new fielder
Pete Browning has fallen from grace.
He got drunk in Kansas City aud is there
| yet.
| Pittsburgers are divided in opinion as
| to whether their club got the worst or best
of it in trading Whitney for C.eveia, d.
An eminent physician in advising Devin,
| the left-handed pitcher of the Echo club
of Philadelphia, to discontinue pitching,
said left-hand pitchers, as a rule, cannot
last long owing to the strain on the heart.
Wires are already being laid to get Har-
die Richardson and Sam Ihom pson for
the Hub nine next season. Ii $4,000
will fetch them they will wear Boston uni
forms in 1888. But will they play in the
Hub:-Sporting Life.
The New Orleans club has offered the
Lynn club 81 600 for Al Hungler's release.
big Chief" Roseman, Pete Gillespie
and Jack Nelson now comprise the out
field o. the Albany club.
The Boston directors are accused of in.
terfering with MorrllIs management of
the team. When out west Morrill, had full
control of the men, but since their return
home several changes have been made by
order of the triple-headed management.
Knell, of the Greenwood and Moran
base ball club of San Francisco, has
signed contract to play with the Pitts
burgs, and started for Pittsburg yester-
day. Knell Is left handed pitcher, and
comes well recommended as a pitcher,
batsman and base runner.
The Southern league, with view to
saving itself, has adopted a salary limit of
$4,000 per month per cub, which is 10 be
rigidly adhered TO. All of the clubs are
now beginning to cut down to that figure,
and, in order to do so, will sell the releases
of the highest salgrisd players.
Arson is financially interested in the
trip of the Chicago club to Australia next
winter. Twenty-Five men will be taken
-
Chicago club, and the rest will be picked
from the different league clubs. The
men will sign contracts and be under
Anson's control from the time they leave
Chicago until they return.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
Cleveland has only five players. The
only way tina 4; Mansger Williams can keep
track of mis- sick players is by q system
OF printed sllps, on which ne checks off
the name and injury of player. At least
that is the report,
At q distance of only fifty feet from a
man who can throw ball like streak of
hgatning, or, with the same apparent mo-
ton, send it so slowly that one. will think
it is never going TO reach him, who can
curve 1t in or out, up or down, the ques-
tion of hitting the ball at all becomes one
of some doubt, TO say nothing of "base
hits" And, then, add TO this the danger
Of swift, wild pitch carrying away an
arm or burying itself in the batsman's
stomach and the difficulty Is greatly in
creased.
Here are some of the latest things the
Cuban Giants are saying in coaching. At
recent game the Giants were at bat.
There was runner on first base. and the
following dialogue took place between the
coachers at first and third base: Say
wot ye do ober dar, a-standln' on dat
base: Why don't yer come off dat base?
Is yer married to dat bag? Come,
honey, git move or yer" Coacher on
first base: Fur goodness, chile. 30 mobe
off dat base. Git divorce frum it and
tEabel down to setind. Oars a hunk OBJ
molasses candy on dat secind bag await
in fur yer" Third base ooscher: "Yas,
and heah's yer supper right IN dis heah
third base. Wot's dat, Mr.. Umpire: did
yer call 8 strike on dat ball? Oh, fur
goodness sake, come down off dat dar
band wagin and glib de chile chance.
Look hesh, Mr.. Abe, if you don't smash
dat ball on de nose yer git release dis
blessed Ginning.