Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-06-27
ANSON AT CLEVELAND.
HE BEATS ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS
AS A KICKER.

In Turn He Is Badly Trounced by the Ba-
bies Tho Kicker aud the Umpire-The
Forest city Infants Take Two or the
Three Games Base Ball Gossip.
[cLEvELAND coRREsPoNDENcK.l
The Chicago club had on unexpectedly
warm time of it upon the occasion of its
second series of & ,mes in this city, and
tho Cleveland club will remember Anson's
young men for many day to come
Anson camo down here from Chicago set
upon winning at least two ~out OF the
three games, OF making it mighty uncom-
Portable for anybody that got in his way.
Umpire Fessenden happened to be the
man to get into Anson's way during
the second game of the series, and the
result was about two hours of the
liyeliest kicking and fun for everybody
in general ever seen upon ball field.
"The old man" commenced to kick on
Fessenden's calling of balls and strikes
in the second inn ng, and thereafter ran
things with high hand I've been
robbed of games enough this season al
ready" said he after the game, "and l
made up my mind as soon as l saw how
things were going in that game that it was
time 10 do little kicking myself, and
did it.
No one who was present at the game
that afternoon will doubt Anson's state
ment. There was not an inning of the
game in which the big Captains powerful
voice was not heard in determined dis
pute with the umpire. Fessenden threat
ened, and clustered, and bluffed at the
"old man" throughout the nine innings,
but the beauty of Anson's kicking is that
he always knows what he is talking about,
and, consequently, has -tha bast of an
argument upon any rule or point of play
tnat he may decide to kick upon.
Before Anson began to kick the game
promised to be as tame one as that of
| the day before, when Cleveland had won
by a score of 5 to 4. The "old mans"
kicking, however, had the effect of awak-
| eninQ the members of both teams, and
the amount of ginger they threw into
their work made the game bitter fight
to the very end. Chicago finally took the
victory by score of ) 10 4, Dvffy's hit TO
center sending in the winning run in the
last half of the ninth inning
Another good effect of the "old mans "
kick was the battery work done by the
team. Anse himself went to bat four times
and made four beautiful hits each of which
helped along or brought in q run. Duffy
and Ryan also did great stick work, and
where Chicago had not been able before
this season to hit O'Brien they jumped
upon his delivery and deliberately batted
out their victory. 1t was triumph in
deed for the "old man." who of late has
been doing little or no batting compared
to his record of last season.
Cleveland captured the third game oi
the series handily-score to 4-thus
winning two out of the three, much tC
the discontinue of the big Chicago cap
tain. In this game the double umpire
| 10.
and McQuaid worked together in first
class style. There was no wrangling, bad
gering or kicking, and the balls and strikes
were attended to with care.
Chicago has returned home, and during
the remaining days Of the month it vii
meet the four Eastern league teams
Washington, New York, Philadelphia
and Boston. Williamson will rejoin thu
team July 4, when lie expects TO play hi
first game of the season in Chicago. Th'
return of the big short-stop will be haileC
with Joy by every lover of baseball il
the lake city, for his coming will put thu
team in smooth working order again.
CURRENT BASEBALL TALK.
Tim Keefe, of the Giants, holds thu
record on strikeouts, in a single game
for the season. Twelve OF the Bosto
mans went down before his curves in tn
struck out ten of Anson's hopefuls.
There are four players in the leagu
who have batting average of over 400
while there is not player in the associ
alton who has yet reached that figure.
,, The Chicago team has made more hom
runs than any other club so far, with
total of twenty. New York is seventh
with nine to its credit.
There seems to be nothing the matte
with John Montgomery Ward as sec
ond baseman.
,, Tom DAILY, the oil Chicago catcher
has signed with Washington. He is no.
with the team in Boston, and says his arr
is in first-class condition.
The Giants wear rubber-soled shoe
when PLAYING the outfeld on the HON
grounds, as the boards make it uncom
Portable with spike shoes. OF late visit
, ing outfielders are following the Ne
York teams example, and find that the
can play a much better game on rubbe
= than upon steel.
The player who will lay an obstruction
on the line, run into, or block off fello
! player is a damaging rnfian, and not onl
! should be legislated into obscurity bt
! seLt 10 the criminal courts for anotht
overhauling. Not more than two or thre
! cases would be dealt with before the en-
o came.
The release of Arthur Irwin to Ii
Q Washingtons cost Hewitt $4,000. III
: Washington Club has been after Irwi
+ for some time, but President Hewi
would not pay the sum demanded for h
release until he was forced to do so Il
want of a competent short-stop for b
team. Irwin will receive q salary
!, s., 200 and be Captain of the Senator
John Morrell will still play in the tea
: and be manager, while Irwin will have e,
! elusive control of the Senator'S while
the field.
4 The Baseball Brotherhood's oppos
V ton to the classification system now
!" vogue in the National League has at la
d borne fruit. The Brotherhood, throuS
@ a committee, notified President Young
e the players ideas on the subject, and
Q few days ago Mr.. Young informed Il
[t players that he had placed the matter b
O fore the League and that the club owne
o would meet the pla, oIs and talk the ma
/" ter over. The League has appoint'
I Messrs. j. b. Day. rresidcrt OF tho Ne
+. York Club J. | hogers, OF the Philadt
h phia Club, snd A. G.. Spading, OF u
r. Chicago Club, committee to act for u
Il clubs Ward, Hanlon. and Brouthers
" the PLAYERS committee. Tho conferen
d will be held in the West within the ne
10 two weeks John b. Day openly avo'
Q his opposition to the Objectionable class
lt fication rule.
i Brouthers. formerly of the Detroi
lt now with Boston, leads all the Leag
J. batters. Charley Bennett, Richards
I..tl has