The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-26
PLAYERS LEAGUE,
Notes and Gossip.

Pete Browning uses the longest bat of any
one playing ball.
TIE Reynolds defeated the Bloods yester-
day by a score of IL to 10.
Five stolen bosses in one game is the record
Hub Collins made last Monday.
The Necas defeated the Reynolds yester-
day afternoon by score of Is toS.
Secretary Worth Of the Brooklyn Players
club favors change of schedule by the
Players League.
Only one man has stolen base with
Kelly behind the bat He has caught in
seven games without an error.
Despite the addition of Cincinnati and
Brooklyn, the attendance at the league
games showed in the aggregate fall-of of
about 100000
Most of the Toledo team played together
as the same team that Bug Holiday gradu-
ated from-Des Moines That was Charley
Morton's great aggregation.
President O'Neill of the Pittsburg League
club has decided to buy Dalrymple's release
from the Milwaukee club and play him in
left field. The deal is about closed
Jack kerins' accession to the St. Louis
team reunites the battery that created such
furore with Louisville in 1885, Kerins
Will play at first regularly, going behind
the bat when Ramsey does the twirling.
Too much credit cannot be given Ward
for the way he has handled his men so far.
He did not, like others, have the pick, but
rather the leavings fell to his share. From
this he has built up winning team, who,
so far, have done the best work of any club
The official scorers of the Players League
clubs are as follows: Boston, I. H. Muir
name, Boston Globe; Brooklyn, III. Davis;
Buffalo, n. Loeser, Buffalo Cypress: Cleve-
land, j. b. Foster, Cleveland Leader; Chi
cago, F. Connolly, Cnicago Times; New
York, j. M. McDonough, the Press: Phila-
delphia, Horace Fogel. Philadelphia
Ledger; Pittsburg, G. W. Mclean.
Browning's advent with the Clevelands
in Boston was the first time Pete had ever
visited the Hub. He showed the Boston
public that his association reputation as a
great batsman was not overrated. A home
run, great one-handed jumping catch and
a superb throw home, four hits four times
at bat, four put-outs, one assist, no errors.
This was the great record of Browning of
the Clevelands on Saturday.
Thursday Fred Dunlap, late second base
man of the Pittsburg National League team,
was signed by the New York PLAYERS club
Heretofore Dunlap has been paid a larger
salary than any infielder in the business,
and it was only because of the high salary
he demanded that he did not sign with a
Players League club early in the season.
Dunlap made his first appearance with the
Giants Friday, and played short. Whitney
will probably resume third base, and Hat
field be retained as substitute.
Up to May 16 the leading batters in the
Players League clubs were: Boston, Rich
ardson and Nash each % hits, Stovey "a,
Brown %; Brooklyn, Orr 20, Bierbauer 81,
Ward 30; Buffalo. Wise 10, Rowe 16, Irwin
10 hits; Chicago, Duffy 25, O'Neil %, Comis-
key l6 hits; Cleveland, Delehanty, Tebeau
and Stricken each 20 hits, Browning Is,
Larkin 10; New York, O'Rourke 81, Con-
nor &c, Richardson % hits Pittsburg,
Beckley "a. Hanlon 81. Visner II; Philadel-
phia, Shindle &c, Mulvey 81, Wood 90 hits
The various clubs composing the new
Southern Base Ball League are signing
players and getting ready for the opening
of the season, June g. The Birmingham,
Mobile and Selma clubs have already been
filled unless some reserved men are signed.
Memphis has applied for membership in
the league, and movement is on foot to
drop Pensacola SO Memphis can be admit
ted. With the low salary limit fixed and
the small amount of money raised in the
various cities, the leagues chances of going
through the season are very bright.