The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-09-27
REMNANT FIGHTS.
HOW the DelrOutS Won the Con-
test in 1887.
THE WAR WAS A LIVELY ONE.
Dating and Strength in Batteries won the
Hay-H0w the Lead FIuctuates From
Club to Club

Inc OetrOitS won the championship OF 1887
asff6r a successful season and a close struggle.
tbs club won through its superior batting
powers and its strength In batteries. It was
IIJore evenly balanced than any of its Compel
&fozs- The Philadelphias were splendid sec
end, bat the clubs strength lay in its batteries
and in the splendid support rendered. Like
fhe Cleveiands of this year they were weak at
She baf, and this kept them from passing the
leaders At the close of the season the De-
fEoifs had won 10 games and lost As to 20 won
and IS lost for the Philadelphias In the series
fss1wesn the two clubs, Philadelphia won s
gSlHfes out of 18. The champion nine consist
I'd of Getzein, Baldwin, Conway, Twitchell,
Weidnnan, pitchers; Bennett, Briody, Camel,
e-sEchers; Brouthers, ID. Dunlap, Oh. White,
Ga Rowe, S. s.. Richardson, l. f. Hancock,
g. &; Thompson, +. f.
Tvs Philadelphia nine was composed of
Ferguson, Daley, Casey, Titcomb, Murphy
and Henry, pitchers; Clements, Cusick, Nc
GSnire, Dallas and Stalling, catchers; Farrar
zst5-; Bastian, 2b.; Mulvey, 3b.; Irwin, S.
81 Wood, l. f.; Fogarty, C. f. McCanley,
= E., and Andrews spare man. The sensa-
fj5u Of the season was the purchase of Kelly
from the Chicago club for $4,000. Great
Gtdfssgs were expected Of the Boston club, but
&c finished fifth, barely winning more games
than IL lost 1t started out grandly, winning
.nEIe;eeu games out Of twenty-seven in April
.ztrad May, being splendid second, and rails
5Hg the hopes of its admirers to very high
szxtelIG. The pace was too hot, however, and
1be club failed to keep up with the leaders,
ftIoggh at the end of June it was still in the
sss5ud place Chicago passed it in July, and
SlsW York was close at hand
IN August the Philadelphia club made its
brilliant spurt and won 10 games out of %.
This placed it ahead of Boston. Had Phila-
oiflphia begun the season as it ended, it would
i4aEe wen the championship, for during Au-
lgtgG and September, and the one week in
OcGo5er, it won So games and lost but IL to
Is games won and 10 lost for Detroit. Chi
esg3 ended third, and a good third, winning
y games and losing 50, or eight victories be-
hIad Detroit and four behind Philadelphia
The percentage of victories of these three
..iIyiss was as follows: Detroit, G37; Philadel-
gJhlz, 6G.9; Chicago, $50 1t was the great
5nlicId of Chicago and the twirling work of
Pitcher Clarkson, of that club that enabled
It 10 make as good a showing as was the case
agEeF losing IS out of the first 26 played. the
c{ab won 81 out of the next A. New York
apeoed well.
a. should have made far better showing
Than was the case, but there were lacking the
C0hereDcy and harmony that were visible in
fae other leading mines. Keefe and WEIGH
sglzns pair of pitchers who should have
taken the championship for any club. There
we've two newcomers in the League race-the
Pii1sbtTgs and Indiunapolis-and both fell
far siIOrJ of expectations. The former made
a spint at the end Of the season, winning six
slsSsae5 ont Of seven in that month
The season was an exciting one. even
siIJBgM the DeToits maintained the lead
salga9s5 without interruption. The other
Gibbs made desperate endeavors to get TO the
'front.' Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago
sgcFe close rivals at one time or another, but
eafsh was triumphantly shaken off
in June the Detroits met with the most re-
verses aud Chicago with great deal of good
f5rsune, the figures on July being: Detroits /
won 81, lost %; Chicagos won u, lost Is /.
Tda. EleuUits forged ahead in the next month, |
Svhle the Philadelphias took the place of
ire 6lreLgos as chief rivals of the leaders /
Sect. { Detroit had a long lead, with 80 vic |
6R-ies- % defeats to SIS victories, IS defeats
TN Chicago, and 50 victories, 43 defeats for
Detroit held its vantage in /
September, winning IS games out of "a, while !
she Fhi8adelpbias won 10 out 81, and the Chi /
cages 10 out of %.
'g;o,e Chicagos fell off greatly from their /
record Of the preceding year, while the De- .
FrOafE gyOn with a poorer percentage. New .
gorE- fell behind also and though Boston /
vsgs4 Eve games more and lost one less its rec
ord WIS not ut all commensurate with the
Efforts 70 strengthen the nine. The Chicagos
uro7ed TO be, as usual, thorn in the side of !
the Detroits, winning 10 out of the IS games
IN the series, and the Philadelphians found .
4Hs0n,s men altogether too strong for them,
winning but out of the is games, while |
ens C1icagos were so strong against the De
fFz1ifs and Philadelphias they won but
,aE1es out of IL from the Pittsburgs, and it .
Is s. strange fact that the latter won more
games from the Chicagos than from any
oiliaar clnb.
Philadelphia won the series from New
York, 10 games to z, and tied with Boston,
ard 9, and New York won from Boston &c
gzxmes 20 z. The weakness of the Bostons in
ehe games away from home was as note
4El9rthy as it is today. They won % games
sway from home to "A for the Pittsburgs
ard = for the Washingtons, and they lost IS
asray from home to So for the Pittsburgs and
~ fer fbe Washingtons. At home they Won
Sc games TO A for Chicago and Detroit, IS
Tor Philadelphia and SO for New York, and
IS Rome they lost but % games to II for De.
tEo5t, rs for Chicago, 25 for Philadelphia and
g Ger New York. NELsE INNEs.
George Kerr.
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