Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-14
WORLD OF SPORTS.

fords IS receiving his medicine these days.
 Tim Keefe has at last struck his gait. He retired thirteen of the Philadelphias on strikes yesterday. | Manager Walter Goldsby of the Evans villes, a well known player, was taken seriously i'll with paralysis on the field yesterday.
 'Old Sport" Campana will be on the track this evening. He said to-day to a reporter 'Everything goes in California except Waterbury watch" = New Britain Herald.
 Cartwright holds the lead in the New Britain race, closely followed by Herty. Connors, Golden, Hegelman and Carlton follow the leaders in the order named.
 Danny Richardson has deserted Staten Island. He claims that the night air l there doesn't agree with him. The only Giants now residing at St George arc Ewing, Brown, Connor and George.
 A dispatch to the Sun to-day states that the Fastons of the Atlantic associ- ation will disband Saturday night owing tc lack of patronage. Whats the matter with transferring the team to Waterbury;
 The pedestrian match at the rink yes- terday between Mrs Mary Massicotte and Billy Dayton was a financial failure, only a few dollars being taken in at the door. Dayton completed 20 miles aud the woman 15 before leaving the track.
 The Southern base ball league is crumb- ling to pieces. and Birmingham was the first to fall. Memphis disbanded y. ster- day at Mobile. The other clubs will doubtless walk the plank in short order. The game cannot thrive in the south without Sunday playing, and in most of the cities that is prohibited.
 Cleveland, the infant of the National league, is making a great showing for the first season in sucn a fast class One thing noticeable is that there is no $5 ,OO0 ''beauty" in their ranks. In McAleerthev have great hitter, and good lot of pitchers which, if Anson had. he would be in 1t "when the frost is on the pumn- kin"
 A Connecticut associated press dispatch from Waterbury says: .3The Pastim athletic clta uf this city had arranged for a l3.ro'.i1d i'oNing contest between Jim Nelson Of New London aud Jack | Mcclellan, the Goshen farmer, to take placs in July. Nelson's trainer. how ever, has written that the New London man has met with an accident and asks for a posiponenent. The mill will probably come off early i'll the fall,'
 Games to-day Philadelphia, Ut New York, Chicago at Cleveland. Washington at Boston, Pittsbug at Indianapolis. Cincinnati at Brooklyn Kansas City at Louis at Philadelphia. New Haven at Jersey City. Hartford at Newark. Wor- cester at Easton, Lowell at Wilkesbarro, Probable winners New York, Cleve- land. Boston, Indianapolis. Brooklyn. Kansas City. Baltimore, St Louis, Jersey City, Newark, Worcester, Wilkrsbarre.
 At a special meeting of the Middle States league in Philadelphia yesterday 1t was agreed to admit Norristown and Norwalk. Conn.,, i'll tine league. which will now consist of eight clubs instead of six: The clubs are Philadelphia Giants, Cuban Giants. Reading. York. Lancaster. Harrisburg and the two newly admitted clubs. Norwalk agreed to allow the other clubs concessions in the way of traYeling expenses before 1t was at- mittcd. The new schedule begins on June 20, and extends to September 15. It provides for seventy games for each club-thirtytive at home and thirty-fvc abroad
 Little Hoy Is ahead ofall tho Washing ton players in batting.
 Beckley, of the Pittsburgs, now k.sds Anson, of the Chitagos at tho bat.
 Six games played In the League and Association were won by n sing!c run.
 RadbOurne is second to Brouthrrs in the batting averages of the Boston play CTS.
 Old John Clapp. who caught for the | MetropolitanSa and Now IorSs years ago, Is now playing with the tthuca team.
 Ryan is now playing eh"r. stop for the Chicagos like a veteran. In seventeen chances he has made only one error.
 Wagenhurst, whom the New Works re- leased, Is covering first basc for tho Minneapolis team, and Foster Is playing | center field.
 Radbourne had not sacrificed once this season Ill eleven games; Kelly and Nash, on the other hand, are Boston's' great hits in that line
 Dwyer is knson's best pitcher. He not only has command of the ball, but he feels his position we'll. Gumbert Is also doing well, but he Is not we'll sup ported.
 Arthur Irwin, of the Philadelphia aluG, expresses the opinion that tho New Yorks will fall back on their western trip, and bases his judgment on the fact that the giants have no good pitcher to relieve Keefe.
 William Mills, the IUU- yard sprlnter who | belongs at WatertOwn, Mass, and who has g record of 10 1-4 seconds, was last beard from in Johnstown just before the disaster there, and 1t Is thought he is among the victims.
 J. H. Ambruster, who left St. Louis on May to make trip to Denver on his bicycle, arrived there safely. He was on the road twenty-six days. Eleven days of the time it rained. He expressed him. self as we'll pleased with his trip.
 James oAlberts, the pedestrian, says that within the next five years the public will see 700 miles covered in six -day-go- as-you-please race. He has arranged a schedule of running day by day, which, if he can follow 1t out, will accomplish the feat. He intends to try 1t at the big six day race in New York next falL 1 Old Bill Kendick, the sprinter, ran 0 race in Frisco few weeks ago. w. Gooding of St. Paul, Patsy Cardifrs backer, had $25 on Kendick. An intimate | friend informed the St. Paul man that the veteran was 'in with the game" and wOul6 Rell him Out MT GocIjMr Do,toA