Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-18
WORLD OF SPORTS.

Corkhill has been doing some phenom- enal fielding for the Brooklyns.
 Mike Hines of the Wilkesbarres has a batting average of .316, with total of .45O for the season.
 Indianapolis has made the most two baggers, New York the most triples and Chicago the most home runs.
 Mutrie says that Boston will come in fourth. Jeems could always tell funny yarns and not mean what he said. Brouthers struck out yesterday, his third time this season. And Roger Con- nor made his first error in twenty-one games yesterday.
 Anson seems to have struck his old time batting gait. In the first five games of the present trip he has made 10 hits in l9 times at bat-average .53O.
 O'Neill, of St Louis, has made 80 runs in 72 games and his percentage in batting is .352 He leads the association. Brou- thers leads the National league with an average of .4O6.
 Clarkson is Bostons winning pitcher, Welch New York's, O'Brien Cleveland's, Buffinton Philadelphia's, Dwyer Chicago's, Staley Pittsburg's, Boyle for Indianapolis, and Person for Washington. King and Latham, If the St Louis Browns, are accused of throwing games and an investigation is under way. Presi- dent Won der Ahe says if fouud guilty the pair will forever be prohibited from play ing ball. Wilmot of the Senators pounded the ball | in great shape last week, making twelve hits in six games, including 6 two -basers, | three-baser and 8 home run, only one of | the twelve being single. His average to date is $50.
 The chances are that Louisville will have l to secure Gerhardt as manager of it's team. If he is signed, he will not play except in case of emergency, as he would not be aH | improvement upon Shannon, who has been doing finely this season. | The Indianapolis players were entitled to receive their salaries on Monday, but didn't get them. President Brush telegraphed Manager Bancroft that the men would be paid July %. Classification does not seem to have lifted the Hoosier team out of the financial soup dish.
 A base tall short-stop, aged 23, and 6 girl aged 15, of Steubenville, o, loved and eloped. Nothing wonderful in that but the girl took $500. the hard earned say ings of her parents. They were arrested in Philadelphia and $4OO of the stolen money recovered.
 l The Louisville base ball management has traded Tom Ramsey, the pitcher, for Nat Hudson of the St Louis club. Hudson if regarded as a good outielder, handy with the bat and reasonably effective in the box. He will pitch in turn till Strat- ton 1ecovers the use of his arm. l Word comes from Newark that there is trouble brewing in tho Hartford club. Mobile and Say, it is.stated, went off on g spree and became intoxicated, and Mana ger Henry immediately fined them $25 each. Say, who was much incensed al this, engaged in giving his manager q humping, resulting in the latter sustain. ing black eye.
 l Gilmore, who pitched for Hartford in 1886, was in tho box for Newark against the Hartfords yesterday and was knocked out in the fourth inning "Phenomenar pitched for Hartford against his old friends and fared almost as badly as Gil. more. In 1886 both of these twirlerf were well nigh invincible.
 George Hartlett of Stamford, Conn, says that he will bet $500 that he can produce a man that will run from a standing start 100 yards in 94 seconds. If anyone wishes to test his sincerity he can be found at the Union house. Opinions seem to be in this city that if there is man who can do 9A seconds fair. for that distance, that much more than $500 could be made by simply bringing the man here and charg- ing fifty cents admission to see him run. There has been so much talk over these phenomenons who can knock 10 seconds endways for 100 yards that the public are l just in the mood to see one of them materialize-N. Y. Sun.