Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-06
IN THE BACKGROUND.
Rain and Excitement DiscOuraging the
Baseball People.

Rain and Excitement DiscOuraging the
Baseball People.
Baseball was never SO far in the back
ground in this part of the country as it is
now. Popular as the national game is in
Western Pennsylvania few people can find
time TO talk or read about it just now amid
the excitement of the Johnstown disaster.
Along with this dreadful cause the -=ca.her
has also conspired to make thr business still
more depressed. Out of for games sched-
uled indianapolis has only been able to play
one here. Suddenly it ser is as if similar de-
pressed state is existing other League cities
and as result the general receipts are below
those of a corresponding. period for last year.
Manager Bancroft, the indianapolis club,
IN 9. conversation yesterday said that the popu-
lar enthusiasm iR Il e game is still as great as
ever and probably greater, but the weather so
far has been SO wFetched that people could not
get out to see the games. Secretary Scandrett
SAID that PIttsburg is getting along wretchedly.
MANIbT6o's VIEW OF IT.
Regarding the prospect in the East, Mr. ].
n MandigoSof New York, writes to this paper
rs follo,9s:
TAg New York clubs managers have no
1ur her doubt but that June 10 will see the
orld's champions and the Boston club wrest-
erty owners are no longer opposed to the New
York club playing there, and one of them says
that, although there may have been few
tougHs about that part of the town when the
New Yorks played there, it was a hundred per
cent worse after theyl left, and it became simply
nDbesrable. The fact that movement was on
footto get the New Yorks back to the Polo
grounds has been known for many DAYS and
even weeks, but it has been kept quiet.
DESIRABLE CHANGE.
1t is good thing that the club will not be
teo mpelled to play out the season on the Island,
simply because had they to remain there it
would have cost them any chance that they may
have for winning the championship. The rea-
son of this is shown in little talk which your
correspondent had with pitcher Welch the
other day. Mickey sat near the clubhouse en-
trance: The usual good-natured smile played
about bis lips.
Il tell you what it is" said Mickev. "this
place will do any ball player up, and 1 can tell
you that we viii have to have few more men
If we expect to do anything. After pitching or
PLAYING in game down here, the strong sea air
stifens you up so that you lose all ambition. L
for one. can say that one or two. at the very
most is all the games that could pitch down
the same way. and not few would be broken
mp if they had to stay here"
The attendance at the Staten Island games
has fallen of to almost nothing, and the club is
not paying expenses. At the last Chicago
game there was a slight increase in attendance
but it was by far less than any Chicago game
ever played in the upper part of this city.
BRooKLYN IN LUCK.
The Brooklyn club is making barrel of
money. The good showing that the team made
on its Western trip has set all the cranks in the
City OF Churches crazy and the Washington
Park grounds are almost too small to hold the
crowds.
The feeling in this city that the New Yorks
viii yet win the championship by playing at
the Polo grounds is still very strong, and it is
argued that as the club is now in a better posi-
ton than they were year ago, and that they
did not begin to play winning ball until late in
June. there is no reason why they should not
do so this season.