Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-09-21
winding Up with n Lot Of Gossip About
the Men Who Play the National Game,
and Their Prospects for the Coming
SeAaon.

aN -utauW III -ht1 Nousolta itiSt
with the fact that the Bostons were getting
beaten by the New Yorks. But it was
poor consolation, for the Chicagos were
coming along at a furious pace, winning
two games a day, with "Old Man Anson'
shouting from the house tops; I'm after
you. Look ont for me-"
Surely il is a great race, and easily pos
side for any one of the first live clubs TO
finish first. 1t would Inc hard to pick a
winner, but 1t is safe TO say that Brook.
lyn, Chicago and Boston will finish in the
three first places, unle-sthe Phillics should
develop greater form on their western trip
than they have shown in previous visits
away from home, in which event they
might yet "A place. The exact order M the
finish no man can tell now. am inclined
to think that Brooklyn may have to take
q hlc.; -. Z for either Boston or Chicago
What a triumph it woald he for your
Uncle Arson II he were 10 take the pen.
nant with a comparatively patched up
team, while Comiskey. alleged to he his
superior ms a handler Of men, with n team
of stars, is lucky to finish fifth in the Play.
ers' league.
The Bostons hold a pretty fair lead H.
the Players pennant race, aud there rrallI
seems 10 I've but one team M all likely {"
stop them, the Brooklyn brothers. But
even they are not in u position to worry
Kelly If his men play the gam they are
capable Of for the closing two weeks OF
the season.. The Giants may In in it and
they may not. Without any pitchers they
met with n disaster at Boston that il will
be hard To overcome. II Ewing's pitchers
make a great brace on the western trip
Buck may get the bunting, but the chances
are very much against IL. Baseball mem IN
New York are betting five TO three that
Buck will not finish first.
And : % the great and only Comiskcy j.
to descend next year ON the Quakers.
Well, Coinmy l. "a great player, but | have
grave doubts II he vii, lie able 10 do any
more with the Philadelphia brothers than
he did with the Chicago stars. Still he
may find a set Of men In Philadelphia who
will try to help him rather than balk him.
II 50 success may lie his. This season has
shown that Comiskey is a very much over.
rated man, for II he were the general and
manager he has been represented rs being
he would never have allowed the spirit OF
insubordination aud contempt Of discipline
that was early shown in this years Chica.
go team to have ever got footing enough
to do any harm. 1t is no defense Of Comis
key to say that he had no authority 10 r..
lease men. He has other ways Of making
them come to time, and his weakness and
vacillation prove him to he no better rs II
manager than n score of other men who
might he mentioned. Take Bufinton, for
instance. With a team like the Chicago
brothers Builintpn would have come pref.
ty close to the pennant; ut any rate he
would have got a pl.ce, something that
Comiskey's men do not seem likely to DO.
There arc so many yarns started every
day about what certain clubs will DO next
season that IL requires a close reader 10
hustle early and lac 10 simply keep
track Of them. We were told that Al
johnson would have world heaters" next
season, and since then there have been
daily JUNIORS about this player aud that
player Icing booked for Cleveland. John
Ward was the first man. After Johnnie
had fully and explicitly denied il, and re.
ceived all the advertising that could be got
out Of the matter, deal number two IL
sprung on an u~nsuspecting public. 1t IL
TO the effect that Mike Kelly is to take
charge Of Johnson's innocents in 1891 and
pilot them to victory. Neither Mike nor
any one else could do that, but it doesn't
hurt the story. But what will Boston say
to any such bereavement, especially after
that gift Of a cottage and barn, with q
horse and buggy thrown in and a twenty
five hundred dollar mortgage attached
Will Boston submit without n murmur'
Well, | should say not.
IL Comiskey goes to Philadelphia Farrai
Is u he transferred to another city. OF
course Farrar will like that. II may sug.
gest itself to Farrar that the Philadelphia
league club Is badly In need of a first base.
man, and Sid may on the expiration of his
one years contract he just obstinate enough
10 refuse 10 be transferred from Philadel
phia.
We are told that the Brotherhood T.
signing National league players right and
left. aud that some Of the magnates will
be very tired when they undertake TO sign
their men for 1891. Isn't this a little queeri
We have been told all the season that the
National league clubs were nogJod and that
the Players league had all the players.
II the Brotherhood peoplc were truthful
what on earth do they want Of the League
playersf
II took the Brooklyn and Boston Broth
erhood teams exactly two hours and thir.
ty-three minutes TO play seven innings OF
a game last Friday. and only fifteen runs
were scored in the contest. On the same
day the Chicago and Cleveland N. b.
teams played seventeen innings in three
hours and twenty minutes, tbirty-four
runs being scored In the two games.
THINGS THAI x SAID.
That Mike Kelly knows nothing about
that transfer TO Cleveland.
That had Manager Ewing made IL a lit.
tie more expensive for Crane and O'Day to
pose as "freemcn" In certain Harlem re.
sorts that Crane and O'Day would today
be in condition to pitch the Giants into the
championship.
That the absence of Ward. Welch and
Herman from the Giants did make a differ
snce, after all.
That all hands agree that Pitcher Nichols,
of the Boston team, has besn approached by
the Philadelphia Brotherhood club. but no