The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-06-14
BASE BALL.
Twirlers for the Players and the
Crarks.
Notes Picked Up From the Cable
Around the Diamond
Points,

The Fairview boys are dying for some
body to step on their coat tails.
The Austin boys are expected home to-
day. They have played well during their
trip, and wherever they have been they
have been well spoken Of.
There is n report going around that the
Fairviews, of South Austin, were defeated
by the Kyle base ball nine, which is not
true. The Fairviews and Kyle club never
played ball, and never will, as the Fair
view fellows say.
New Orleans has lost considerable
money already this season.
Charleston has probably drawn more
people to her games this season than any
of the other Southern league clubs.
Some OF the Southern league players
on the auction block will bring big
prices at the end of the season.
Mobile will be in the Southern league
next season, sure. The wires for her entry
are already being worked.
Released Southern league players find
some difficulty in holding their end up in
the Texas league.
Had New Orleans been able to keep
Emile Geiss she might be nearer the top.
He is winning pitcher.
The Texas league seems to be steering
clear of the shoals. 1t is a s.aunch craft
The Southern league is in its third
month POW, and it seems to be holding its
own.
The ST. Louis Browns do croakiug right
along from the bench. So do the Birming-
hams.
Powell is the best pitcher New Orleans
has at present. She is on the lockout for
another man.
Swartzel, Of Kansas City, has the strike
out record in the Western association TO
date, viz: sixteen opponents struck out in
one game.
lucky Colonies. Mack, he of the auburn
locks and big mouth, is but a private in
the ranks now,
The champions of the Southern league
and the winners of the Texas league pen
nant, will probably arrange q series of
games to decide the southern champion
ship at the end of the season. 1t is good
idea.
Has pool selling any effect on the result
of base ball games in the southY There
are great many people who believe it
has, all the same.
There is not smooth sailing in all the
union leagues of the country. 1t is said
that trouble is brewing in the New Eng
land league, and also in the Western as
sociation. Exorbitant salaries cause this
and the players, in their mad grab for all,
do not see il.
The Louisville Post intimates that the
Colonels will have to join the Southern
league next year, because the company in
the association is fast for them. II they
come down this way hunting Snaps" they
will make a water-haul to a certainty,
observes the Memphis Avalanche.
Dallas was booked for the tail end when
the season opened in Texas, and it will be
remembered the local papers, at the time,
published lurid articles showing why the
team could not hope to win more than one
is leading the league, and Austin, who was
TO have walkover, is second.
Memphis and New Orleans have suf-
fered more from disabled players than the
other two clubs. Memphis has the salts
faction over New Orleans, however, that
she is near the top.
Cincinnati is having run of luck now
similar to that she experienced last year
when Tony Mullane left the team in the
iurch and packed his grip for the quiet
burg of Rutland, Vt.
The New Orleans team signed Corbett
when he was asst recovering from severe
illness, but 1t seems now he is still too sick
to play.
st Louis, Baltimore and Louisville are
most seriously affected by the new tariff
in the Association, and are all anxious for
a reduction.
There was queer game in Cleveland
the other day. The Ryes got eleven hits
to Cleveland's three, and then lost the
game.
The Georgia State league is having
trouble with its players. SO is almost
every league. The Southern is running
smooth however