The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-23
THE End IS NEAR.
w. I. Harris on the Close of the
z,esez Season.
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The championship season in the east is
nearing an end. By Sept 19 all the east
ern teams Of both leagues will be on their
way west to settle. the possession of two
pennants, and as the east are ahead and
will fight it out in the camp of the enemy
the contests are sure to be interesting and
ought to be well played. While the clubs
are battling in the west the magnates on
both sides will have an opportunity to fig
ure up the seasons profits.
The indications are that the finish fight
in the National league viii be between
Brooklyn and Boston, but it is not safe to
count either Philadelphia or Chicago en-
tirely out. If no decided change in per-
centage is made by the games of the next
week, then Brooklyn will go west with a
slight lead and splendid chance to main
tain their position. Whether they can
make as good fight away from home as
| the Bostons remains to be seen.
| If in the final series at Boston next week
! Byrnes' men can take three straight it
will be all over but the shouting. Boston
must win two games of the series to re-
main in the fight, and think they will do
it, barring any further accidents to the
team. If there is dark horse in the race
it is Chicago. Anson's men are putting up
great game, and are liable TO get place.
In the Players league Boston's margin
! of chances is small, but it seems to me
sufficient. They will make great finish,
with Radbourn and Gumbart to do the
pitching Their only rivals are Brooklyn
| and New York. And neither team is so
well provided with pitchers as Boston, un-
less Keefe sails in and shows a winning
gait not indicated by his work this sum-
mer. Summed up, the Bostons should
win the Players pennant, and Brooklyn
the National league bunting.
When these matters have been settled
the woods will be full of deals and rumors
of deals, and the average baseball magnate
will tell more yarns in day than he will
stand by in a 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, and although the events of
the season have left him trife disfgured,
he is still in the ring
Major league clubs in need of manager
in 1891 will do well not to overlook Walter
Burnham, of the New Haven club. Walter
has managed four champion teams in minor
leagues, and is as shrewd a manager and as
good a handler of players as there is in this
country today, barring, of course, Harry
Wright, Anson, Ward, Ewing, Mutrie and
Comiskey.
The officials and others who are well
posted declare that the Players league cir
cult in 1891 will be the same as it is this
year. Ward and his hackers are particu-
larly emphatic in saying that the Brooklyn
end of the league will stick another season.
THINGS THAT ARE SAID.
That my preseason estimate of the Chi
cago Brotherhood team is being justified.
The nine lacks in reliable battery strength,
and there is 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-
uous defeat, and that it is a fact that they
start off in every game with vim that is
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
if the Pittsburg team ever breaks up there
will be hustle to obtain his services.
That Jack Chapman is the managerial
success of the season. he has succeeded
in keeping an experimental team, which
was practically devoid of stars at the start
up at the top of the procession, and what
is more, it went to the front by displacing
the crack teams of Rochester and Phila-
delphia.
That jack gave further evidence of his
shrewdness by foiling Won der Ahe's eff
forts to obtain Ed Daily and by signing
that pitcher for Louisville.
That Kelly's men will have to make
real Garrison finish in order to win the
Players league pennant. 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 f1imsy
excuse it would be all over as to the Play
ers' league pennant except the shouting,
and that the public generally is inclined to
agree with the Boston captain.
That Henry Boyles story of lame arm
is nonsense Henry'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'Days attack Of sickness Is
entirely his fault and hard blow for the
Giants.
That Ward still claims he will win the
pennant.
That Al johnson has 500 bet against
Wards team winning the Players pen
nant, and 500 that Boston will beat Brook
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