Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-04
THOSE BIG GIANTS,
The Worlds Champions Come
to Tackle the Boys
A TALK WITH MR.. MUTRIE.
Buck Ewing Gives Pointer About
the Big Battle.
WISE WANTS TO FIGHT SHELL.
A Forfeit Up and Ed Riley Talks to Cor
A TALK WITH MR.. MUTRIE.
GENERAL SPORTING NEWS OF THE DAY

The Giants, champions of the world, ar
rived in the city yesterday, and the TWO
gayest men in the aggregation were the
genial manager, "James Mutrie, ESQ.,"
and Buck Ewing. The team was all
smiles, and John NJ. Ward, President OF
the Brotherhood, was not there at that.
Ward is missed, however, and Mr.. Ewing.
amid all the talk of rivalry between the two
of them, was frank enough to say that
Johnny is missed. Hatfield is a good man,
and is playing we'll" said Buck, "but Johnny
is missed"
tmay not seem strange when it is said that
the Giants are all absorbed in the big fight.
Buck Ewing was making efforts to bet gross
Of silk hats on the result, but he could only
hnd one Kilrain man. However, the genial
and famous catcher of the worlds champions
found a minute or two in which to talk about
baseball affairs. He said:
THE GIANTS CHANCES.
'T think cur chances for winning the pen
nant are just as good now as they were u
months to-day So far we have, like Pittsburg,
been handicapped by misfortunes. Our best
pitchers have been disabled, but they are all
right now. and when they are right let no one
think we are marks ! am aware that Pitts
burg is a very dangerous club to face. Every
club in the League knows that and
the fact that Philadelphia has been
beaten five straight by them only
shows that this city has a remarkable club
when everything is all right OF course we
have no pie with Pittsburg now that you have
ct least three good pitchers. We expect to
quit even, and we may do better, and we may
do worse. The club has certainty with the
Pfttsburg team when all is right but / should
think Pittsburg has the better of the majority
of teams. At least we came here with this
idea. and if we can beat the club of this city
in our four proposed games we will go home
rejoicing"
Mr.. Ewing. in referring to the Brotherhood
proposals. said: Tim Keefe is Secretary, and
he can talk if he wants to. / have nothing to
say. because if 1 do rlay make a break. The
Brotherhood is all right, however, and it will
not disgrace itself by any foolish STEP"
SIR TIMOTHY KEEFE.
Timothy Keefe only repeated what has been
stated in these columns about the Brother
hoods demand One thing was learned def
nItely however, and that was that the Brother
hood never dreamed of making a strike this
season. Keefe laughed at the idea.
Manager Mutrie, that very genia; and well
known gentleman who always smokes very
good cigar, had much to say. He spoke in
very kindly terms about teams and managers
he had met, and his general sympathy is SO
strong that he will be panied to some extent if
the Giants have to kill the pennaht aspirations
of anybody. Mutrie, however is just the same
confidential Jeems. and Roger OCornor is just
as brawney as he ever was.
In to-day's games Morris and Fields will be
the battery in the morning for the home team,
and Crane and Ewing will represent the wis.,
itors In the afternoon game Calvin and Mil
Ter will be on deck, and Keefe and Ewing If
the latter is all right. If not, Brown will catch.
MR.. MUTRIE's POINTERS,
Mr. Mutrie was in a rather non-committal
mood on private matters of baseball but ven
tured the prediction that at the end of the sea-
son the first three clubs would rank as follows
New York (of course). Boston and Cleveland.
1--WE have been fighting against fate" said
Jeems, land our battle SO far has been one long
list of obstacles, which have been overcome by
miraculous means.
Ewing is the greatest ball player that ever
jumped over a home plate. His great mana
gerial head. coupled with practical ingenuity,
cannot be equaled anywhere"
"Hcw about Ward?" ventured The DIS
PATCH man.
HE is a different kind of a captain. Ward
is brilliant as ball player, but he has laxity
OF generalshlp in the capacity of captain"
do you think Mr. Ward will retire this year
to practice his profession, as he told The DIS
PATCH last year?'
'.Oh, no." said Mr.. Muitrie; there's not as
much money in the law in New York as there
is in baseball. He is now laid OFF from a lame
arm bit expect him here to-day"
My men are fast recuperating from their
disability, and can say right here that Crane
is the coming pitcher of the country. He's pos
sessed of qualities that no other man in the
same line has. We will take three games out
of the four from you"