The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-09-22
League Liners.
The record up to date is as follows:

MIRA DdStllldu GllDtlt tl lllt NEW al n
Club has been sold to the Ba,timoTes for
5000.
In a game between the Bro0klyns and
New Yorks, at New York. the Ewing broth
ers did the battery work, and John kept
Wards boys down to five scattering hits.
while RuSSie of the BatimOre'S was hit
hard and often.
From the manner in which the bay clubs
have been playing ball for the last two
weeks il looks as though our country cous-
ms are not in the race for the pPHnant.
Bill Smalley leads all the California play
ers in the East
Umpire Mclaughlin has at last rendered
his resignation to the managers of the Cali
fornia League, and Charley Sweeney has
succeeded him.
With McCarty in good condi ion and
Sheer supporting all three as he ha, Look
abaugh aud Coughlln for the last two weeks.
! the Haght-Street grounds Will fly tue pen
| nant in 81.
| Billy CoOnev, late manager of the Salem
| Oregon team, is in town again. He says
| that baseball is having a great boom in the
! Northwest and that there IS plenty of money
| there for good games.
| Goodenough and Hanly are the only play
| ers in the league who have not gone to first
on being hit by pitcher.
Friscos showed Pitcher Shaw that he
needed great deal Of practice in order to
run his end Of the battery. They sized him
up for fourteen hits in last Mondays game.
which Lad the effect of reducing the size of
Sans head.
Umpire Mclaughlin tiled to even things
up last Monday. lie called balls and strikes
alternately, whether they passed over the
| plate OF not.
At last Colonel Robinson has taken notice
! of the faction fight among the Colonies.
After Fridays careless game at Emeryville
he called a meeting of the PLAYERS and fined
Lehman and Carsey S25 each for their
Indifferent work, besides compelling them
10 form the battery for Saturdays game at
| Haight street.
DUNCAN has got so lately that he will not
| step out Of the way of a badly pitched ball.
If he is not careful his legs Will be as badly
| swollen as lis head.
! Colonel RObinson's action after Fridays
| game has had the effect of making the Colo
nels do little better work.
| Yesterday morning Lehman sent his uni
| form over by the rest of the club and com
| planned of being sick. The Colonel placed
| Dave Levy behind the bat and If Lohman's
sickness is not OF the genuine kind, Dave
Will keep his position and Pete will be sus-
pended.
Donahue's decisions in yesterdays game
| seemed to favor the Colonies a little bit.
Danny Sweeney is gradually passing the
older players in the batting line and bids
far to stand near the top at the end of the
| season.
There is no use for the Senators to put
| Hoffman in the box with tho COlOnels, for
they can bat his straight balls all over the
field.
Otto Young has returned to his home at
Santa Ana. He will not pitch again until
next season, when he expects to again have
control of his curves.
| With EbFight in the right field the FriscOS'
| strength at the third bag / badly weakened.
Cobb IS without exception the best and
| most effective pitcher in the Oakland team.
The new bleachers at the Emeryville
grounds are great improvement.
Pitcher Shaw'S monkey actions on the
| diamond llkens him 10 the cratic spider
| Weir, but Weir was never capable of doing
| the dirty work that Shaw is now practicing.
| Selma leads the first base men of the league
in fielding, and Stapeton ranks second with
lsaacson; Charley Sweeney and Veach close
| after him.
The Sacramentos lead in home run hits,
Stockton in triples and San Francisco and
| Oakland tie for the honnrs on doubles.
Charley Sweeney, in the few games that
be has umpired, has given perfect satisfac-
| ton.
| The Game Mt Fresno.
MERGED, Sept. 21.-The MERGED and Fres-
no clubs played the second of the series of
FIVE games to-day. The score was to in
favor of the Fresno Club. This makes the
second game for Fresno.
Eastern Games.
TOLEDO, Sept. 21.-Toledos6 6, Syracuses a.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 21.-St. Louis u, Roch-
esters l.
In the second game only seven innings
were played, the score standing 10 to in
favor of the St Louis team when the contest
broke up in a row.
The umpire ordered Griffin out of the
game. Griffin refused to CO. and the game
was forfeited to st. Louis with the score of
9to0.
COLUMBUS, Sept 2l.-Columbus 6, Balti
mores Z. Second game-Columbus Z, Balti-
| mores f.
LOUISVILLE, Sept. q. - Louisviles II,
Athletics 4. Second game-Louisvi les IL,
! Athletics 3.