Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-14
Rnneball NOteA.

THE first season that Pitcher Viau was with
the Cincinnati team he won IL straight victo-
ries, and then Hughes, who is still on the
Brooklyn team and who had made q similar
record, put a check to the Reds" winning
streak.
MULLANE and Miller are having novel race
as utility men. The Cincinnatian has filled
every position but catcher, while the Pittsburg
fog horn" has yet to cover first base. Both
will then claim to have been in every position
on the team.
SAID o baseball expert at the National
League ,grOunds yesterday: "The Pittsburg
team would make good club IL It only played
together. None of the men seem to know what
the other is going to do. They lack team work
and head work badly."-NeW York Evening
World.
EVERY ball player is more or less SUPER
stitious. Foreman Of the Cincinnatis, has a
queer fancy. He imagines that his better half
is his Jonah ANYHOW, Mrs. Foreman has
never yet seen her husband pitch a winning
game 1t is her misfortune to see her hubby
knocked out of the box every time she goes
out 10 see him play.
The Players League race is growing more
interesting every day. A victory or defeat be-
tween the first six clubs Just now changes the
position of each. There are seven clubs in the
will be seen by reference to the table. only
nine games separate the first and seventh
clubs.-PhiEadelphid Ledger.
JOHN CoRKHILL was last season one of the
strongest and most accurate throwers in the
country. 1t will be many years before he will
again make sensational assists to the home
plates. Possibly he never will He has the
dead arm" complaint and cannot throw across
the street without suffering excruciating pain.
He has gone to his home in Philadelphia to see
if rest will do it good.
'How about Lyonsf" asked Pete Browning
last night. SIS he still smashin' 'em out? say.
he's lulu wId de stick. There's no man in de
Brotherhood who can beat him. Dave Orr is
hori iaCil fl-a HIM nau III lav ,nlF6 r;
ear, on de groun', 'ginst his shirt or over his
nut Oh, Pm hIttin' 'em right along, old man.
Ny lamps are great, ana dey can't fool Peter"
Philadelphia Press.
PROBABLY no club in the League, excluding
the Brooklyns, has SO many players who have
been with a championship team in former wears
as the New Yorks. Hornung was with the Bos-
tons; Walsh, TIernan and Murphy were with
the Giants; Bassett ard Denny were in Provi-
dence; Burkett was with Worcester, and Es-
terbrook with the "Mets," at one time when
these clubs carried of the pennant
THE guessing tournament is still raging and
speaking of the prophets who are fixing up a
new Brotherhood circuit for 81, AL Sphinx says:
They put it down as New York, Boston,
Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Pittsburg
Chicago and Cleveland. In this however
they are wrong. st. Louis is to take Cleve-
lands franchise and players, while Baltimore
will succeed Pittsburg. See if we do not call
the turn"
II WAS never in such fast company in all nv
life" said Browning of the Clevelands, while
IN Boston, speaking of the Players League.
at is the greatest organization, with the best
array OF players. ever known" Captain Larkin.
who was at hand, indorsed this statement He
said: The game. as played by the Players
League, will accomplish its own work. All other
organizations are minor leagues compared with
ours and are not in it."-Boston Herald
GIVE us more batting in our professional
games has been the cry of the fans" for
years and, in order to cater to the wishes of the
baseball patrons, the Players League last
spring, when constructing its playing rules, put
the pitcher back Is inches. and further handi-
capped that individual by giving him a real
live ball to pitch with. As a result, the batting
has been much heavier than heretofore, and
there have been few of those tiresome pitchers
battles on Brotherhood grounds thus far. The
flelders do not like the change much, neither
do they like the new ball. as the chances offered
them are much more difficult to handle, hence
their averages will not look so nice when they
come out in the official guides next spring.
However. the people want more batting, and
they must have it, regardless of the wishes of
the ielders in the MISUNDERSTANDING.