Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-28
WORLD OF SPORTS.

Hamilton. Waterbury 'S7, leads the Kansas Citys in batting and base rum ming.
 Worcester has five good base stealers- Annis. Campion, Cudworth, Meister and Schetiler.
 Beecher of Willesbarre is said to be an applicant for a position on the Hart ford police force
 The Birmingham club of the Southern league has disbanded. It's place has been taken by Mobile.
 Newark is under contract to play at Ridgewood every Sunday when Brook lyn is away at S20o a game.
 Brouthers leads the league in batting with the tremendous average of .532. Roger Connor has struck a .360 gait.
 The Giants are very sore over the two games they lost to Chicago. The chances are that they will even up by taking three from the Hoosiers.
 Bastian would be handy man for the Phlllies. now that Delehanty is knocked out. The Phillies will now be forced to play Irwin at short.
 Manager Harry Spence is with the New Ravens, dressed to kill full of base ball, and wearing the same distinguished mustache that broke the hearts of the fair sex in the halcyon days of ST. Lowell News.
 There is one good point about the batters of the home team. The size Of a pitchers salary has no terrors for them. They hit $5, ,000 man as freely as the proselytes from the minor leagues. They know no favoritism. but spoil the curves of ali alike.-Kansas City Times. Knowles of the Jersey City club heads the base stealing record of the Atlantic | association with r.; Coogan, Johnson, Schef1ler, Petit and Brady have Is; Hen ", Black and Campion 15: Meister and Annis II; Cudworth and Donaghue 13; Mansell 12.
 In reply to Nolans challenge to run any man now in the six days race at the rink five miles, Cartwright called at the office of the DEMOCRAT this morning and expressed his willingness to run Nolan any distance from one mile up in two weeks. He prefers, however. S2oo stake.
 Gunshannon of Hartford has been a member of the Lowell club. He is quite cut up over the remarks of a CorreSpOn- dent. who jnsinuated that he was a beer drinker, etc. Gunshannon says he never drank beer in his life, and would give Sl00 if anyone could prove that he ever did.
 The Acme base ball club of this city l Is to make a trip of three days. rhe club will leave here Wednesday morn ing and play the Norwich base bail club in the afternoon. Thursday the boys play at Mystic Bridge and Friday they expect to play at New London with the Ivorytons. The Acmes are good team and will make their competitors hustle for a victory.
 Willie Murphy has caught on at Hart ford in great shape. lie has reformed and it is said he has not been drinking for eighteen months. Manager Henry controls him well and can keep hin livanic form looks well in his black Nadjy. He made star catch on Thurs day. Hartford had q slender lead witt Johnson on first base. Fields was a the bat and lifted the ball clear dow1 into left field which looked good for a three-bagger. Johnson was going dowl
 to second. and the audience looked blu, at the prospect of defeat, but Mnrph, caught the ball with one hand on the
 run and threw it to McCabe. who sen
 it to Lynch, putting out Johnson. wht
 had no idea the ball was caught, h'
 standing in mute surprise on secon,
 base. Thus Hartford won the game
 Murphy could always bat Gilmore. : is said that in 1885, while with Meriden , Murphy on one occasion had twenty seven beers inside of him. Gilmore pu a ball over the plate, and Murphy said seemed as though he saw six balls com ing instead of one, but he made a driv with his bat and managed to hit tn
 right one. and over the fence it went and he scored a home run.