Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-10-10
BALL CHAT.

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 Manager McGunnigle may take 9 ball seam to California next winter.
 Philadelphia is to give Pitcher MeFet ridge, local ''colt'' of great promise, a trial.
 Burkett and Wilson, the crack Worcester battery, are said to have been sold to the Indianapolis club for s2,5OO.
 John Coleman says he will bring suit against the Athletic club to recover bal ance of salary up to the end of the season.
 Members of the Detroit club explain Shreve's ineffectiveness by the statement that since the injury to his hand he has lost his drop ball.
 Ward has won the Blackhurst medal offered the New York player stealing the greatest number of bases. Richardson was second
 It is said that Latham will take charge of the Laclede Billiard HalL King will prob ably go to making bricks.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
 Catcher Mcclure, of the Toronto club, formerly of the '.Phillies," has made such fine record this year that several league clubs have made overtures for his serv- ices.
 Reddy Hanrahan, of the Minneapolis team, appeared on the field intoxicated re- gently. He was fined $1OO and laid of with out pay for the season.
 The Boston Globe announces that it will present S1 ,OO0 to be divided among the mem bers of the Boston Baseball Club if they win the pennant this year.
 Second Baseman Crooks, of Omaha, cost Columbus $1, 800, and the same club may buy Pitcher Clark and Catcher Nagle. Brooklyn also wants a pair.
 Speaking of Clarkson, Manager Hart, Of the Bostons, says: 'In intelligence and gen. tlemanly conduct he is the peer of the best in the profession to-day"
 Last spring the Toronto club offered Q medal for the international player making the most home runs. Hoover, of Toronto, and Campau, of Detroit, are tie on ten each.
 The packers of the Philadelphia club are becoming dissatisfied with Farrar, and 8 great many consider him the weak spot in the team. They argue that no team should carry first basenan who is not a slugger, and that Farrar can not bat well enough for the s'Philles" and should not be retained.
 Base-Ballist-"Say, be you de editor of dis papera" Editor-"I am. What can l do for you9" ase-Ballist-"Why, in de re- port O de game tween de Bowsers an de Soakers yer charged tree errers agin Mugsey, de short-stop. I'm Mugsey, an l
  morrar's paper. Sees"-Life.
 If Cleveland had won the pennant Tom Loftus would have run for mayor of his home town, Dubuque, Ia. Toms ambition declined with the Spiders, and he has run the gamut of alderman, councilman, justice of the peace and constable He is now reaching for the lamp-lightership, with some prospects of a contest.-Times-Star
 Two big baseball clubs got badly bitten this season on their investment in high priced talent. Kansas City let go 6,000 big dollars for Pickett and Sowders. Pickett took cold ip his throwing arm c week after he joined the Cowboys, and has been laid up since, while Sowders has been drilled to all parts of the lot by every team in the association. Pittsburgh invested big money in Conway, and he has scarcely pitched a winning game for them this sea- son. Conway is trying to bring his dead arm to life with electric battery shocks.