Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-12

ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE TO THE DISPATCH
WAsHINGToN,A August 11.-There is a
growing impression among the patrons OF
the national game that Walter Hewitt is
growing weary of being base ball magnate,
and is systematically unloading his interest
in the Senatorial combination. The late r.
| c. Hewitt was a baseball crank, in the
| fullest meaning of the term. and have
frequently heard him say that he would
cheerfully donate 81 200 a year toward the
maintenance Of a professional club In this
| city, and not ask for any of the profits of the
enterprise. The result was that he put his
boat into the League and he never tried to
realize a single dollar on the thousands he ex-
pended. His son Walter is made of different
material. He cannot be worked up to the
''crank" point and he only looks at baseball
with business eyes.
The elder Hewett was unusually successful in
many Of his business ventures. and Walter is
now reaping his benefits from them. Since the
latter succeeded his father, as the leading and
producing spirit in the Washington club, his
sole ambition has been to get back some of the
money his father invested i'm the sport. By the
most judlcions management, coupled with sew
eral brilliant bursts of enterprise, the younger
Hewitt is now in a position to retire from the
ball field nearly $50 600 ahead of all outlay.
At the present writing he declines to 60 into
details as TO his future Intentions further than
to smile knowingly and say that he has no in
tentions of leaving the League. He insists that
because he disposed of Capital PARK to a good
advantage, it does not necessarily follow that
he contemplates disposing of his franchise. He
says he is very well satisfied with the present
condition of his team, and he predicts that he
will put even stronger combination in the
field next season. He realizes that he had
hard luck in some of his speculations early in
the present campaign, but he has learned sew
eral wholesome lessons, which will be of ma
terial benefit to HIM in procuring playing tai
talks like slayer, yet way down in your
boots" as Nick Young often says. there is a
suspicion that he may jnmp the game at any
moment
In the meantime the home folk are watching
with interest the performances of the Senators
In the West. They cut out a pretty fair start
in Cleveland. and our expectations went up to
boiling point. But after the result of Wednes-
days dreadful battle was announced, followed
by another defeat in Pittsburg, local enthu-
siasm began to simmer down considerably.
1t begins to look as though the Hoosiers will
have something to say in the settlement of the
pennant contest. Their work of the past week
against Boston and New York has oecasioned
considerable distress at this end of the line for
1t was hoped the Senators would have the
pleasure of crowding Captain Glasscock's play
ers into the tail end position. Such an occur
Senators will have to lock horns with either
Pittsburg or Chicago, for Cleveland does not
seem inclined to move much further down the
scale. in spite of the recent predictions from
various quarters that .the Spiders are on the
down grade" O'Brien seems to have regained
his old-time form. and McKean's work at short
and at the bat is very inspiring to his associ-
ates. There is no good reason why they should
not keep up with the procession and play as
well at the close as they did at the opening of
the season.
Poor Boston is suffering from an overdose of
STAR" and unless heroic treatment is resorted
to Beandow Will be plunged into one huge
closely related to the festive bean have disap-
peared, and their work upon away from home
fields is dull and heavy. Like the Detroits, in
their last stages of dissolution. they fare up
Occasionally, and then drop back to the realms
In the meantime, the New Yorks are pressing
forward with commendable energy, and every
day the fact becomes more and more apparent
that more than ordinary skill is employed In
may have their off days, but when the record
is boiled up will be surprised if it does not
show that they have had more days on than off,
L cannot close this letter without paying
During the past two seasons when the Pitts
burg club has visited this city they have ALWAYS
made their headquarters at the Arlington Ho.
tel. Frank Bennett, whom nearly all of the
ball cranks in the country know and admire, is
the manager OF the Arlington. and through
him poor Horace generally transacted his hotel
business. In conversation with Bennett recent
ly he volunteered the statement that Horace
Phillips was probably the best business mana
ger OF any travelling combination that ever
made the Arlington its headquarters He
looked after every little detail, and in all his
transactions he was as straight as a die. Two
days before he was stricken down he wrote a
most rational letter to Mr.. Bennett about a
business matter, and there was not the slight
est indication that he was suffering from any
mental trouble. X. NJ LARNER