The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-07
PLAYERS LEAGUE.
Notes and Gossip.

back.
Lady BALDWIN was released last Tuesday
by the Buffalo club.
The crowd admires the earnest coaching
of Count Campau, the captain OF the COM
ing st. Louis champions.
Comiskey will take no chances now that
his team is winning, and is alternating
King and Baldwin right along.
Gore and Keefe left the New Yorks in the
west and returned home Monday. Gore
has a very sore leg and Keefe is unwell.
Mike Kelly realizes that there is heavy
work ahead for Boston, and is now going in
every day that he is able for the rest of the
season.
Capt. Comiskey has already won the
hearts of lovers of base ball in Chicago, and
his playing Is conceded TO be the best ever
seen there.
Arson has a new idea. lie wants to bring
a team south and practice all winter. going
north ready to beat the world. He will adj
vertise for players.
While there is no decided Improvement
In the condition of Manager Harry Wright,
his physicians report that his eyes are
gradually acquiring strength.
The return of Ed Williamson to the Chi
cogos has ivened them up immensely. Ed
Is heady player, and With Pfeffer makes
some phenomenal double plays.
Pete Browning is still playing great ball
and Is doing everything that could be asked
Of a man except sacrificing. Pietro never
did and never will learn the value Of
sacrifice hit
The people who, q week or two ago, held
up the finger Of derision at Comiskey's team
and prophesied that it would draw a very
small prize in the Players League lottery
are no longer visible.
In the Kansas City-Denver game Of June
26 Elmer Smith performed the remarkable
feat of striking out every batsman Of the
visiting team. Conway performed the same
feat in 1888 with the Des Moines team.
In the recent Chicago Boston series Bald
win and King fooled all of the Boston
sluggers except Stovey. He had made the
acquaintance OF these gentlemen many
times in the old association, hence they had
not terrors for him.
Ewing's side is still very sore, as he dis
covered after little practice the other day,
and it may be a month yet before he is able
to play. II this be so, New York may be
counted out Of the race, as, in addition to
Ewing. several other important players of
the team are not in good condition.
The Brooklyn team is still minus the
valuable services of Dave Orr, and is likely
to be so for quite time. Orr had two ribs
broken by pitched ball in one of the Bos-
ton games, but continued to play until he
was threatened with erysipelaS. He is now
at his home in Brooklyn, and Ward says it
is doubtful if he will be able to play again
this season.
The championship race in the brother
hood is growing more interesting every day,
and the prizes to be given by the board of
directors are beginning to come up for dis
cussion among the players. The club that
wins the championship will receive $50:
second in race 81 900, third IS, 500, fourth
$4,000, fifth 81. 750, sixth $500, seventh $40O
eighth-in the soup.
Pitcher O'Day, it is reported, refused to
eat at the same table with Nichols or Long
OF the Boston league in the Pittsburg hotel,
where both clubs are stopping, because they
were league men. This, if true, was silly
on O'Day's part, because neither Nichols or
Long have injured the Players league in
any way. They are not deserters-simply
players of a rival league.
Ed. Williamson's good work for Chicago
despite his still somewhat lame arm. has
been surprising. Bastain was never great
player at short and that made hole IN the
otherwise stonewall infield. Williamson
thoroughly stops up that hole and when
lathams arm is again unclaimed great
things may be expected of it. Latham is
Wards trick to offset his opponents diIa-
tory tactics is worth noting In last Fridays
Cleveland-Brooklyn game rain threatened
10 stop the game in the fifth. Cleveland
being behind, commenced the usual dilatory
tactics. Ward, fearing that it would rain
hard before the last half of the fifth inning
had been played, sent Paul Cook to bat out
OF his turn in the fifth. This retired the
SIDE, and the necessary five innings were
completed without any exhibition of wilfnI
striking out or refusal to run,
Hub Collins, the crack second baseman Of
the Brooklyn League team, came down to
MS Old Louisville home from Chicago
last Tuesday, where his club PLAYED Satur-
DAY. When asked about the fight between
the league and brotherhood he said
FROM the reports sent out nobody can
tell anything about the fight, because none
OF The clubs except the Brooklyn team are
giving out the proper attendance. For in
stance, yesterday the total attendance at
the league and brotherhood games in Chi
cage was given out as being more than
f,OOO. will bet 300 to $40 that there was
not l,0OO people at both games. On ladies'
Gay at Chicago the attendance was
gwen out as being in the
nelghborhood of 5000, when less
IMAM oOO were at the park. Both the or
CARNATIONS are losing money, and which
ever can stand 1t the longest will come out
winner" When asked what truth there
was In the report that Byrne would try and
get back into the association with his club
Collins grinned knowingly and ans wered |:
don't know anything about what Mr..
byrne intends to do. l don't think he ben
ehted himself financially by the change.
however" "Who will win the league pen-
nant" was asked. "That's hard question
70 answer. One thing is certain, however,
we viii be up near the top ar the close
Look out for u.s."