Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-09-14
THE End IS NEAR.
w. I. Harris on the Close Of the
Season.
PROBABLE PENNANT TAKERS.
The Gossip Of the Ball Field Boiled
Down Into snappy Paragraphs and
Are Said.'

Given Under the Heading Things That
Are Said"
Copyright by American Press Association
The championship season in the east is
nearing an end. By Sept. 10 all the east.
ern teams Of both leagues will be- on their
way west 10 settle the possession Of two
pcnnants, and rs the east are ahead and
will fight it ont in the camp of the enemy
the contests are sure 10 be interesting aud
ought 10 bc well played. While the clubs
are battling in the west the magnutes on
both sides will have I'M opportunity to fig.
ure up the seasons profits.
The indications are that the finish fight
in the National lea-sIe will lie between
Brooklyn aud Boston, but il is not safe to
count either Philadelphia or Chicago en-.
tirely ont. Ii no decided change in per-
centage is made 10y the games of the next
week, then brooklyn will 20 west with a
slight lead and a splendid chance tn main.
tain their position. Whether they can
make as good a fight away from home as
the Bostons remains 10 be seen.
IL in the final scric, mt Boston next week
Byrnes' men can take three straight 10
will he all over but the shouting. Boston
must win two gaines of the series 10 re.
main in the ight, and | think they will do
IL, barring any further accidents 20 the
team. II there j. n dark lur.r IN the race
IL is Chicago .AusOn's men ,9r putting up
a great giul", and are liable - gnt a place.
In the Players league Br-,pn's margin
of chances is small, but it seems 10 me
sufficient. They will make % great finish,
with l;Idb0arn AMI Gumlmrt t0 10 the
pitching. Their only rivals are BROOKLYN
and New York. AMI neither team is So
well provided with pitchers ~, Boston, uu-
less kerfr sails in and shows a winning
gait not indicated by his work this sum
mer. summed up, the BoStons should
win the Players penuant. and Brooklyn
the National league bunting.
When these matters have been settled
the woods will lie full Of deals and rumors
of deals, and the average baseball magnate
will tell more yarns in n day than he will
stand by in n month.
The mainstay Of the Boston Brotherhood
team this year has been Harry Stovey.
There is a player who never squeals and
never quits.
Jim Mutrie says that his team will win
the championship next year. Jim is al.
ways CHEEKY, IN although the events Of
the season have left him a trifle disfigured,
he is still in the ring.
Major league clubs in need Of a manager
in 1891 will do well not 10 overlook Walter
Burnham, Of the New Haven club, Walter
has managed four champion tcamsi in minor
leagues, and is as shrewd a manage and as
good a handler Of players as there is in this
country today, barring, Of course, Harry
Wright, Arson, Ward. Ewing. Mutrie and
Comiskey.
The officials and others who are well
posted declare that the Players league cir
cult in 1891 will he the same as II is this
year. Ward and his hackers are particu-
larry emphatic in saying that the Brooklyn
end Of the league will stick another season.
THINGS THAT r SAID.
That my preseason estimate OF the Chi
cago Brotherhood team Is being justified.
The nine lacks In reliable battery strength,
and there is a lack Of team work and en-
thusiasm, due to the fact that st. Louis
water and Chicago oil will not mix.
That Palmer O'Neill's unfortunate tail
enders are the most cheerful set Of ball
players that ever stood up against contin-
lou defeat, and that it Is n fact that they
start of in every game with a vim that il
astonishing when one considers the handi-
caps under which they are working.
That "Fog Horn Miller is one of the
greatest ball players in this country, and
il the Pittsburg team ever breaks mp there
will he a hustle to obtain his services.
That Jack Chapman Is the managerial
success Of the season. tie has succeeded
In keeping nm experimental team. which
was practically devoid Of stars nj the start.
up at the top Of the procession, and what
is more, il wen 10 the front by displacing
the crack teams of Rochester and Phila.
delphia.
That Jack gave further evidence Of his
shrewdncss by foiling Won der Ahe's ef.
forts to obtain Ed Daily and by signing
that pitcher for Louisville.
That kelly's men will have to make a
real Garrison finish in order to win the
Players league p%ennant. And that they
are capable Of doing it and probably will.
That Mike Kelly says that if his team
had those three Pittsburg games which
they won and were robbed Of on a fimsy
excuse il would he all over as TO the Play
ers' league pennant except the shouting,
and that the public generally is inclined 70
agree with the Boston captain.
That Henry Boyle's story Of a lame arm
is nonsense. Ilenry's wife will not come
east, and he refused TO leave her.
That a frank and truthful baseball mag
nate Is the exception.
That Hank O'Day's attack of sickness Is
entirely his fault and u hard blow for the
Giants.
That Ward still claims he will win the
pennaut,
That N johnson has 500 bet against
Wards team winning the Players PEN
nant, and E.0J that Boston will beat Brook.
Ign out. W. l. HARRIS.
\ plHyer with a Future.