New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-06
SOMETHING ABOrT SPORTS.

As the middle OF May approaches, outdoor
sports are getting we'll under way. Although
cricket is still sluggish, and lacrosse has NOT yet
walked into long-lcggcd bounds Of activity,
baseball is going on mcrrily, and the TitanS cf
New York are taking big strides toward tho
championship Of 1889. Tho thousands Of their
admirers who have made it habit for years
to visit the Polo Grounds 20 see the League
games, are compelled now n wander far aiield
and to leave the limits Of Manhattan Island
in order TO SEQ their favorites chase the rock
ribbed and restless little sphere and practice
the tOboggan slide 10 the bases. But they are
feryent in tho hope that, undaunted by the
loss Of the best grounds which a club could
have in so crowded city, Ewing and his
men will keep the pcnnant here another season.
Tho Brooklyn athletes arc too meek aud lowly
TO think OF rivalling the New Ork champions
in excellence Of play. Hence they have sought
and persistcntly retain an unCbtruSYo place
near the bottom Of the list I'm the Association
games. In truth. Brooklyn is a modest town,
not given TO Boosting like Chicago and 81,
Paul Always humbIy conscious Of her i'm
measurable infenOrity TO the metropolis, she
follows afar off tho triumphant footsteps OF
New ork, hardly daring 70 lls her shy and
bashful eyes.
But as the open fields Of cities, towns and
villages in all parts of the Union rcsOund with
the agonized means Of the mrh-thumped and
long suffering horSchIdc, and loud wraRgling
with the stolid and unyieldng umpire checks
tho gayety of the Nation, the gentle naiden's
mind is filed with thoughts Of love-all" al
lawn tennis, while her partners reflections
wavcr between tho deuce Of the lawn and
the " deuce. ace" Of his losses over tho National
game at his club the night before. Few Of
our famous yachts are yet in commission, and
tho mild hum Of the regatta l. not heard in
these spring days But the Harlem River is
as full Of gIasshopper sldfs rs Tammany Hall
is Of Officc-SeekcrS demanding places from
Mayor Grant, while over the cindcr-p path and
above the hurdles flies the multitudnOus form
OF the slender and scantily clad athlete. The
annual plant from Yale College, which has
now become as inevitable and familiar as the
annual disaster to the peach crop, is going the
rounds Of tho press. Once more, as in every
previous year in q long, long series, Bob
Cook is dissatisfied with the Yale crew But
after the race at New-London he is likely to
take a more cheerful view Of the loud ting
oars Of Yale
The race-courses and trotting-tracks arc now
J in excellent condition for fast work, and day
by day the clean limbed thoroughbred and the
Spndle-shanked trotter are knoc king off seconds
! from their time in their preparation for the
great races near at hand. On Wednesday 81
next week the Brooklyn Handicap will be run,
and for the five months following prize after
| prize will be decided and race-goerS will be
Us busy as barkeepers when Democratic con-
venton invades a town;
From these hasty glimpses at few OF the
ways in which the great American public seeks
recreation in favorable weather IL is plain that
there will be no lack Of diversion for pleasure
seekers this summer. The international con-
test for the America Cup will put champagne
into the yachting season, while the addition OF
important new courses and the expansion of
the prizes at issue will make racing even more
attractive than in previous years. Baseball
will hold It's own, in spite of the blow which IL
receives in the metropolis from tho loss If the
Polo Grounds. but will hardly develop any