Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-03
OUTDOOR SPORTS,
DIAMOND GOSSIP.

DlA"OND 1OSSIP.
 ''Thers Is no team in the league just now easy to beat. t."-Jim Mutrie.
 It behooves the champions to brace up. Watch them do it.-N. Y. Herald. We're watching.
 Boston is hitting again-a lucky thing for the teams chances and most unlucky thing for hopeful New York.
 Henry Chadwick is right. The sacrifice hit and stolen base rules are loosely de- fined, if it can be said they are defined at all.
 'None better," say John Morrill, and Jim Hart of Harry Stovey, of the Athletics. How that man does wear, too. He has been with his present club DO less than eight seasons.
 The New York boys arc not putting up pennant ball in the present series.-Boston Globe. They'll beat you out, just the same. IN. Y. Herald. Hadn't they better be about 1t, then?-Chicago Tribune.
 Pitcher Crane has evidently adopted the keefe tactics of intimidation of batsmen. He kept firing the balls at Richardson's head in recent game and concluded by striking that player on the groin.
 ''I should like to see New York and the St. Louis Browns play for the worlds championship" said Anson the other day !" ny oAAAp4y OCCduSo DOSCOu WILL not O0 Tn 1t, and I'd naturally like to see such . big pennant stay with the league"
 Among the prettiest plays in a contest are the grounders to first where the pitch CT covers the base They are also the hardest plays, for the stop must be we'll made, the throw must be accurate, and the pitcher must time himself, so as to capture the ball and touch the base.
 A private dispatch from Philadelphia to friend of Horace Phillips says. sI am happy to say that Horace is improving very fast in every way Hc knows all who call on him, and reads the papers as any one would. His mind is not quite clear, but far better than week ago."-New York Ex- change.
 The accession of Williamson has added greatly to the strength and confidence of Chicago, and it will not be as easy matter to win from the m as 1t has been heretofore They will probably beat the Clevelands out in the race, though the latter will make 8 desperate effort to be the first Western club at the close of the season.-Pittsburgh Post.
 New York had sixteen errors in recent game with Boston, according to the Boston papers, which adhere to the foolish system of charging up battery errors in the fielding error column. One would naturally sup
 
 sessed of too much independence of spirit and common sense to stick to such meth | ods.
 It is said that the officials of the Pitts burgh club intend releasing some of their | surplus players. They are convinced that thirteen, or at the most fourteen, men are enough to carry through the season.-Ex- | 3hange As they undoubtedly are. Pitts | purgh is not the only club that has come to this conclusion. All of the league clubs will likely fly lighter next year. l When Kelly came to the plate in the first inning he lifted his cap in acknowledgment l hit ita" was the suppressed murmur. "Bet your life he will," was the reply, as he drove out beauty to the left field fence. You were big man about that time, Michael; thousands cheered you and were carried away with your excellent base run. ming. Keep it up, old man; you're in it-"- Murnane, in Boston Globe. l Since Cleveland hit the roller coaster and has been going down the toboggan slide on | skates we hear little of that individual who but few weeks ago was heralded as the "greatest manager on earth" Tom Loftus has come down the slide with his team Where Is the man who few weeks age frantically cried: 90, for Loftus !"-En quirer. When the boasted coming cham pions end up in better place in the associa tion than the Clevelands do in the league there will be plenty of time to talk.-Plain dealer.
 John Ward calls attention to 8 play which Is not covered by the rules It came up al Indianapolis. With Ewing on second anG Gore on third, with one out, the batsmar hit fly to Sullivan, who caught it, and bott tried to make a base. Sullivan threw t< third and caught Ewing, but Gore crossed the plate The Chants claimed 8 run, anG McQuade gave it, then reversed his decision and asked the official scorer if Gore hai &cored before the out. The man said h. hadn't. It was a puzzler. Ward reason. that the run doesn't count because the sid, was out on the play.