Connecticut western news., 1889-08-21
BASE BALL.
THE LEAGUE STANDING
Brown has stolen 70 bases.
 Bennett has caught in 50 games.

Brown has stolen 70 bases.
 Bennett has caught in 50 games.
 Burdock is to take a nine South this winter.
 Catcher Tom O'Rourke is looking for an engagement.
 Kelly has stolen 40 bases. His batting average now is .2S4.
 Out of the players who began the season in New Haven but four are now in the nine.
 Madden has failed in but one game out of ten to make a safe hit. His batting average is .2S5.
 The Times nine will probably win the championship of the New York newspaper league.
 Sam Crane, the base ball player, has been arrested for running away with another mans wife.
 President Souden says that Ray doesn't want to go to the Baltimore club, but he will have to if he goes anywhere.
 Stickney, Tebeau, Hines, McGeachy, Con nor, Tiernan and Beckley are the latest addi- tions to the ranks of those who have made 100 base hits this season.
 Up to Saturday Smith had played in 12 games, made six runs, 12 hits with 19 totals, including five doubles and a triple; got six bases on balls, six sacrifice hits and had stolen five bases. His batting average is E .292, total .463.
 Aug. ' to Is, in seven games, Brouthers scored runs, made IS hits, with a total of 30, including three doubles, three triples and a home run. He also made two sacrifice hits. His batting average is .429, with totals of 1885.
 Boston has won 12 and lost Il games by one run; Chicago, 17-17; Cleveland, 12-13; Indianapolis, 1912; New York, s-1O; Phiia- delphia, 1877; Pittsburgs, 1O-13; Washing tons, 6-5, making in all SS games won and lost by one run.
 The appearances of the New Yorks and the Washingtons in Boston this week will be the last these clubs will make this season.
 Bristol, Conn.,, is wild over baseball this year. A baseball team has been organized with strong financial backing.
 New Britain is the home of Terry, of the Lynch, umpire in the League. Shannon of the Louisvilles; Ryan, of the Chicagos, and Beecher, of the Washingtons, played with the New Britains in 1885. p
 The Uereland Leader says {" Buck Ew- ing is confirmed and intolerable nuisance. Cleveland got taste of him yesterday in a new light, and got enough of Buck to last the next five years. He chatters like mon- key and chews like rag crusher in paper can shut him up by sending him to the bench if necessary, it will confer a lasting blessing on the patrons of base ball."
 Saturday is known throughout Connecti- cut as ''baseball day." all the important games being played that day. This arrange ment accommodates the men in the factories, who are great lovers of baseball.
 The Plainville (Conn.) Baseball Associa- is making barrel of money this season with it's club. Out of twenty-eight games played this season the club has lost but eight.
 Capt. Burdock will try to arrange games between the New Ravens and Yales this fall. .Ex-Manager Bancroft of New Bedford and MT. Howard P. Merrill of the Springfield Union will witness the New York games this week. -...e- .-
 In the Sporting Times vote for the best general player, Kelley ranks second in choice to Ewing, and Ganzell seventh. Foultz leads in the association, Comiskey second.
 An attempt is being made to introduce baseball into England, and number of prac- tice games have been played at Richmond and Leyton in Essex.
 While the Bostons were in Indianapolis Manager Hart tried his best to buy the re- lease of Glasscock, but President Brush wouldn't have it. Hart offered $7,OOO cash and two players, who, Hart says, are worth $4 ,0OO each.
 
 takes. Sam Wise couldn't cover second bag well enough for Boston, but the Washington people think he is the greatest find they have et CT made.
 Manager James Hart, of Boston, has signed contract with A. G. Spaulding to act as his private secretary at $3,0OO per annum. The contract goes into effect November 6. Spaulding wanted Hart last spring, but con- sented to wait to give Boston a chance to pro- fit by HastS experience.
 Glasscook has made twenty-seven two bag gers in ninety-one games and has been at the bat more times than any player in the League. Up to Thursday night he had faced the pit cher 40 times.
 Augusta and Bangor will probably have a bout for the championship of Maine.
 Oxford, Me-, has first class base ball team which would like to meet the Lewistons.
 Friends of Sam Wise propose giving him Q suitable present when next he appears in Boston; nearly $1O0 has already been raised.