Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-09-21
GREAT BASEBALL.
The League Teams Played
Well in 1888.
NEW YORK's GIANTS CHAMPIONS.
Neiss 1nnes Reviews In His best Vein
Last Years Race for the Pennant--iiow
the War Was wsged from start to

the War Wa. waged from start to
Finish.
great baseball year was that Of 1883. II
saw as champions for the first time since their
connection with the League the New York
"Giants" In most exciting campaign Again
did the Bostons enter the battle strongly
equipped by the accession Of a new star"
and this time It was tho strong pitcher Of the
Chicago club, John O. Clarkson II was
krock, from the Northwestern league, that
Capt Anscn, depended upon mostly to take
Clarksons place. The Philadephias lost by
death That remarkably fine pitcher and gen.
eral player, Ferguson, and his place could not
be wholly filed, although the club was fortu
nate to command the services Of that promis-
ing young player, SanderA
The Detroits were badly crippled, and this
had great deal TO do with the low standing
they had at the close Of the season. Richard
was injured In the leg at the height OF
the season so that he was unable 10 rejoin the
club Thompson, Of the same club. injured
his arm so that ho was unable 10 throw, aud
the players who were substituted for these
remarkably strong men were unable to fill
their placcs and the result was that the club
was unable 10 do that fine work that won for
1t the championship Of the season previous.
do most Of its pitching, and toward the end
OF the season secured First Basemnp Becklcy
from the st. Louis Whites, OF the Western
association. He proved 10 I've great acqui.
sition to the club Had he and Pitcher Sta.
ley, who joined the club Mt the same time
that Bcckley was secured, been In the nine
from the first, the. Pttsburgs would have
made great bid for first honors.
The Washingtons were not strong enough
in their personnel To allow the pitchers conf
dence enough 10 do good work In fact the
nue relied altogether too much upon its
pitchers To win games. As was the case In
the campaign OF 1887, the Bostons opened the
season with rush md filled their admirers
with joy 10y winning straight games, 4 each
in Philadelphia and Washington and in New
York. The Chlcugos had been playing good
ball, however, aud on May . the clubs were
even, with II victories ani . defeats each
IN April, vixen tho Bos,ons had made the
record of D straight games the Philadelphias,
who beat them at the end won but games
out of o.
Tho month Of May showed some great
changes The Phadelphias rallied aud won
II games out Of 10, while the Bostons took a
great drop, winning bus II out Of 2i The
Chicagos took and held the lead after May 8
On June they had won u games and lost
but ., while the New YOrks had won Il and
lost II 10 II won and 10 lost for Detroit In
June tho Chicagos not only held the lead but
added To 1t, winning in that month II out Of
-, while the New Yorks could win but Is out
Of - The Detrots made good spurt in
this month, and had il not been for unfortun.
ate injuries they would probably have main.
tanned this gait. They won iG games out OF
%, and this gave them n record up to July
OF 81 victories and 10 defeats to y victories
and II defeats for Chicago. The New Yorks
had won 80 games and lost %, and while the
other clubs were we'll ahead the New Workers
were not out Of the race. At this time the
Bostons had won 32 games and lost "A, aud
were therefore on almost even terms with
the New Workers.
Matters changed greatly in July. Tho
New Yorks, with Whitney, of the Pittsburgs,
on third base, began TO put up the finest kind
OF hall that was ever seen in New York and
that won for it three championships, viz,
the League championship, the championship
Of tho world and tho championship of New
York and Brooklyn. President Day encour-
aged his men to do their best, and the result
was that in July the New Sorks won Is
games out Of %, a record not even approached
by any of tho other clubs This steady play
drove the Bostons out of the third place The
Chicagos fell or badly. and after having
been in the lead all the time from May , to
July %, this club took bad tumble and left
the first place TO bo fought for by the De.
troits and New Works. Tho end of July saw
the New Yorks in the van, tho Detroit sec
ond, the Chcagos third, the Bostons and
Phiadolphias close to one another in tho
fourth and fifth positions,
The following were the figures of the lst
~ Nnyy Snrl-g 4 - Lot, n,
troits won A., lost 20; Chicagos won A. lost
81; Bostons won 81, lost Il; Philadclphias
won SO, lost 80. The situation was therefore
most interesting. Tho New Workers clung
to the lead and made almost rs good record
rs in the preceding month, its record for Au
gust being 10 victories In - games played,
making the line showing for July and August
of 81 games won and but Is lost, a champion.
ship gait Tho Bostons and Philadclphias
both rallied in August, the Bostons winning
10 games out of - and the Philadelphias
securing Is games out Of -. 1t was in,this
month that the Detroit5 began To fall behind,
losing game after game until they lost II
consecutive games This put them ont OF
the race. The Pittshurgs made their best
record of tho season in this month, winning
IL games out of %. Sept. | came aud found
the Now Sorks in the van with "a victories
To their credit and 30 defeats; Chicago won
81, lost ~; Detroit won 81, lost Al; Boston
won %, lost ~; Philadelphia won 53, lost As
The New Works kept up their steady gaIt
! up to the close of the season and were never
again headed, winning by lead Of seven
| games in victories aud eleven in defeats, tho
| percentage being Ca for New York To $40
| for Chicago Had tho New Works begun the
season as strong as they flushed, the cham
| pionship would have been won in u canter
| Ii was n fine struggle between the BoStons
and rhiladelphias for the third place, but the
! BoStons could not hold their own on home
grounds at the close of the season, winning
| but five games out of ten in October, while
! tho Philadelphias Won eight out of nine. The
Detroi,s did as badly as the Bastons, and
were in the fifth place at the close of the
campaign 10y three points in percentage.
In no small measure was the winning of tie
pennant due to the fine pitching Of kecfe, of
the New Sorks who won b out of a. games
pitched, and to Welch, whose victories num-
! bercd III in I5 games. Ttcomb alsD nadc a
most crciltable record, winning - games out
| Of - played. krock, Of the Chcagos. won
25 games out OF 80; Bufhnton, Of Philadel-
phia, - out of ~; ClarkSon, Of Boston, S3
| out of So; Conway, of Detroit, 81 out Of A.
| The leading League batsnan was Ansun, OF
| the Chicago nine, whose batting percentage
was Si3 He also led the League in fielding,
| accepting ,'S5 per cent. of the chances offered
| him ON first base. a special feature in the
| campaign was the recording for the first time
| of the bases stolen, and in this respect Hoy,
| OF the Washingtons, led with 81 bases stolen
to 81 stolen b! Seery, Of indianapolis.
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