Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-08-10
RECORDS OF ALL ITS PLAYERS.
1Asrs Are No Stars and Everybody Works
~ C1ub Success ana Not for Records a.
IaAividual players-The Manager Mig

most important memDer Oh tne clup uiono"b"
his name does not appear on the score card.
Seated on the players bench at every game
he gives his men orders how to pitch, how TO
bat and how to run bases He knows the
weakness Of every good batter in the League.
II low ball cannot be hit by one man he is
aware Of the fact II another man finds 1t
impossible to do anything with high ball
LOTUS knows that, too. This information
he imparts TO his pitchers and they conduct
themselves accordingly.
There are fivc pitchers In the team. First
among them, according TO the records, Is
John F. O'Brien, who learned his curves,
drops and shoots nt West Troy, N. ",
the training ground OF many another good
ball player. He Is 90 years old. He first
played with tho Glens Falls club In 1885, al
ternating as pitcher and third basemnn. The
team won the championship OF tho Hudson
Valley league Afterwards he played at
Oneida, N. Y, Bradford, Pa, and Lima, q.
The Oneidas and the Limas with him in the
box, both won tho championship in the or
ganizations 10 which they belonged. The
Ckvelands, while in the American association,
bbught him from Lima, and he proved TO be
such q good man that he was hired to accom-
pany the club into the National league. lie
tlrows a puzzlng ball, but Is not very GER
tain In his aim. Recently he has lost several
games through that fault. He is medium
sized man, slow Of movement and Irish In
face and general make up.
Enoch Bakely, Cleveland's next best
pitcher might be the best In the world IL his
habits had always been good. However, he Is
doing much better under the fatherly super
vision of LOTUS, and If he is true to tho faith
he will be matchless player In his simportant
and difficult position. He was born at Black
~. t, ,x
years ago he entered the employ OF the man
ayers Of the Athletics, OF Philadelphia.
Next he played with the Keystoncs, also OF
Philadelphia, ono OF the clubs that made up
the old Union association. Later he went TO
Albany, n. ", then TO Rochester Last year
he was taken to Cleveland and at the end Of
the season hired for another campaign. lie
is good fielder and, for q pitcher, a fair bnt-
ter.
T. A. Beatln, the third pitcher, Is n south
erner, having been born in Baltimore in
1865. He has played with the Fredericks, Of
Mary land, the Allentowns, of Pennsylvania,
and the Detroits. Of Michigan. He was
bought by the latter club and by them sold
TO Cleveland at the beginning Of the present
season. The teams at Allentown and Detroit
won tho championship while he was with
them. He is first class pitcher, an amiable
payer ana an enereeuc gum che"". he
throws very skiiiiul Dali at tunes, ana
nothing delights him more than TO see bats
man strike at one OF his drops ana miss IL ny
foot or TWO. oh sucn occasions ne che"s
his gum with renewed vigor and smiles at
the same time. The facial result can perhaps
be imagined.
The fourth pitcher Is ''little' Henry
Gruber, who also went there from De-
troit He Is n New Haven boy, and before
he went to Michigan played In New England.
he has never attempted any osher position
than the one that has made him famous. lis
rank u among the pest, ana no wouiu P'r
haps be better man than ne Is even now II
he were gwen more WORK 10 90.
Charles Sprague Is the nith pitcher IN inc
team. lie was Dorm III 'ie'eiahu anu Is -
more varied assortment Of curves than any
other pitcher In the country. However he
lacks experience, and In the National league
that Is a serious fault
Byal odds the best catcher in the Cleveland
club is Charles l.. thinner, who is a sure fielder
a fine "back stop and terrific batter. When
he hits the ball it is almost sure TO go 30 the
fence IL there is one. and beyond the
reach of the fielders il there is not one
His batting average is moro than 800,
and no other man but Mexican among
all the Clevelands can be compared with
him. He was born in Marietta, o., and
Is 20 years old He is large, muscular,
smooth faced, straight as a hickory sap
ling and Just as tough, and is n pleas
ing young man to look at He has served
the clubs at Ironton, o., and Poughkeepsie
and Rochester. n. Y, His release was pur.
chased by the Cleveland management from
the latter club In 1857.
E.E. Sutcliffe, the catcher who alternates
with thinner. is also 20 wears old. He
was born in Wheaton, Ills, and has
served at Chicago, st. Louis, Savannah,
Des Moines and Detroit. When no was
at Chicago that club won the championship
In the National league, and when no was