Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-04-20

ged somewhat last year has been
brought to life and made healthy this !
spring by the wonderful success of President |
Hewett in strengthening the team. He has
given the public a most satisfactory guarantee |
that he Is at the head of the club for business |
and Is going to leave no stone unturned TO give |
the city nrst-class team And as a result he
starts out TINS year with almost the whole base
ball public in sympathy with him. For once,
at least, he starts fair in that regard
SATISFIED PUBLIC
There has been a great revulsion of feeling
over the Ward matter, and there is no more
contented crowd than the faithful few hundred
who would sooner miss q meal than a game of
ball. MorrilFs good managerial Judgment his
qualities OF refinement, and his "a /" base ball
abilities seem to insure harmony and activity
IN the team this year, and backed by the I'M
doubtedly strong team behind him, he is going
to make a great fight for place somewhat
higher than the tail end. No one expects to see
the team win the pennant, but there are very
few who look to the same bad luck as in 1855
Wise's work in previous seasons is such as to
give the people here pretty good assurance of
a short-stop who will play first-class ball. His
brawny frame, his solid foundations and his
hard, earnest work far, have made him a
prime favorite with the crowd already.
THE PLAYERS.
OF all hard workers Mack is in the front rank,
and he will, without doubt, hold with a firm
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him in past seasons. His record of last wear of
making more assists than any other league
catcher entities him to prospectivelv high
classification, and the team should feel happy
that such man is willing TO do such hard,
honest work, not only for his own benefit, but
for the good of the club.
Morrilrs work manager is beginning TO
be apparent. He watches every opening and
inspires the men to work hard for each point
Yesterday, when Sweeny was caught off third
base, Morrill, walked over to the bench with
him and, IN quiet, pleasant way, gave him a
pointer on the way he might have done.
Sam Wise has taken the lead as coacher. and
has large able-bodied voice resounds over the
field III cheering way when a man gets on
base. Both he and Morrill, seem to have in
fused new life into the team.
Hoy doubled his toes under while running
the other day and had to lay off for the past
few games. He will be around again in time
for Wednesday, however.
O'Brien caught bad cold during the recent
damp weather, and for time it was thought
that he was threatened with pneumonia. He
was at the grounds yesterday and said that the
return of the sunshine had helped him wonder
fully, and that be expected to be in uniform
again in few days.
DIAMONDS AND CLUES.
The interest in the games between the po-
hcemen and the scribes for the benefit of the
police funds increasing. The tickets are going
fast and the members of each team are putting
in some heavy work in practice. The following
is the composition of the Diamonds: Dwyer,
assoc led Press, catcher; Jones, STAR, pitcher;
Burrlll. Critic first base; Fuller, Capital. Sec
ond base J. HadIey Doyle, Sunday Herald, third
base; Slmms, STAR, short-stop; II. NJ Larner
Baltimore SIN, center field; McSween, Pos.
| right field; McGiII, Post, left field
The Emersons defeated the lie Droit team
yesterday morning by the score of ID to IL: in
afternoon fip witt =,
Kendall Greens, score to z. The morning
battery was King and Hagner, and that OF the
evening HELEN and uagner.
The Columbl. Athletic club team defeated
the High School nine III the afternoon on Ana
| lostan Island by the score of 13 to r. The
play was sharp and the game was interesting
throughout. The batteries were Jones and
Bell for the Athletics, and Springman and Boil
! way, for the High Schools. The fielding of
liibbs and King, of the Athletics, and the
catching of Boiway of the School team, were
| the features of the game.
BALL NOTES.
Worcester has purchased Cudworth from st.
Louis for $500, the price which Won der Abe
paid Lowell for him.
The girls of the Pittsfeld Mass, High school
! have organized ball team.
Calvin has kicked on the new orange-colored
uniforms of the Pittsbnrg team, and says that
| nsuring his life. He threatens to slide to
bases SO often this summer that he will scrape
| the color out of the cloth, but the managers
| are not bothering much about this calamity.
| These uniforms are said TO cost over : 4 apiece
Calvin would look like a good, large orange
| indeed.
Such outlay and expense in uniforming
| club Is absurd. The Chicago teams dress suit
| fad last year was on something of a par with
| this, but the extravaganza not so marked
! since the men slid out of the spike tails before
| they began their contortions and their sliding
| In this way dress coat lasted long time
| But S42 orange uniform would not long be
| thing OF beauty, and its career of usefulness
| as marker, to indicate the position of man,
| would soon be at an end.
| John Morrill, has the correct idea about uni
| forms. lie thinks that club should adopt
| and keep distinctive dress, so that it would
| become landmark, as it were. Witness the
| old Red Stocking team of Cincinnati, and Chi
Cages white stockings, names that have sur
| vived the changes wrought by the curved ball
! and the tour around the world Morrill, thinks
also that the home club should at least stick to
| blue leg covers, and have two uniforms of the
same color. but of different shades, goods that
| can be easily brushed and will not show the
| stain of a slide for half season.
| 1t is all well enough for a team selected from
| a minstrel troupe-such as that which showed
| itself here last summer in the game with the
| reporters for the benefit of the yellow-fever
sufferers-to dress up IN colors that would
| shame the rainbow, goods that make the ladies
| sigh, and cuts to astonish the native. when
| they go pirouetting around bases, or whirl in
| the air when they strike at the ball and miss
it. But for men who play ball for a living and
! to show a crowd good honest work. prismatic
hues are not just the thing. BY the way, the
| Thatcher, Primrose and West-team, aforemen-
| toned, were to play in Boston on Thursday
| They ordered a lot of balls especially for the
occasion, each being very gaudy. and covered
with quotations from Mike Re 5 book, and
with some of Barney Fagan's jo< IS This was
done in order to identify balls that might stray
| over the fence.
| Baseball prophets are shaking their heads at
Anson's boasts that he will beat out New York
| and Boston, and they fear that the great cap
| tain is already about 800 out of pocket. In
| the first place his team has not been strength
| ened bit since last year, indeed some folks
| think that it is weakened. While the tour
around the world has, to a certain extent, been
a pleasure trip, and recreation, it has evolved
a considerable amount of hard work, and al
most continual ball playing. Therefore the
men on the Chicago team have practically been
on the diamond for twelve months, and they
will go into the season without that spirit that
| seems to come to a professional at the beginning
of each baseball year. Boston has been greatly
increased in strength by the acquisition of the
Detroiters and the place-makers ranking
her high.
Sam Wise is going to play great ball for
Washington this year, if his promises and his
platform are worth anything. The day he signed
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