Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-26
Baseball Notes.

TONY MULLANE does very well at third base.
| JoCKo FIELDS made brilliant CATCH indeed,
| yesterday.
RAIN prevented all the American Association
games yesterday.
PETE McsHANNIC has signed with the Saginaw
club to play third base.
oUTFIELDER RoUrCLIFFE, OF the local National
League team, is sick.
RoAT will play in left field at the National
League game TO-DAY instead OF Kelly.
sCHMITT's work in the box yesterday gives
| promise of his becoming good pitcher.
SCHMITT caught Tony MuIlane cleverly mapping
| at first yesterday, and Tony WAS very mad.
AL JOHNSON is not only confident OF the sue
cess of his team, but of the entire Players
League.
DIRECTOR PALMER o'NEIL said yesterday: sIt
is soon enough to talk about reducing the price TO
Is cents after our team returns from its first
trip
THERE is letter at this office for the manager
of the 0urBoys team and also one for the manager
of the j. W. SCOTS.
THERE is a good chance now of comparing Nc
Phee's second base playing with that of Dunlap.
''Biddy'' is great player and no mistake.
1T might not be bad experiment to try Paul
Hines in the outheld in the local N. l.. game to-
day, and let Sir Guy Hecker look after first bag.
MANAGER HECKER says that Kelly isnot to be
laid off to-day because of his errors yesterday,
but because he, the manager wants to try Koat in
left field.
THE widow of fGround-Keeper Daily, of the Polo
Grounds, has been presented with a purse Of sS4
this city.-Neto York Worid.
BASEBALL is certainly un certain. Who would
have thought that Al Johnson's lot, after being
walloped almost to death at Buffalo, would come
and do up our champions?
NORMALLY Billy Earle, the little globe trotter.
is MEMBER of the St. Louis club. His release
from Cincinnati has not yet been announced, but
the terms of transfer have about been completed.
kINsLow is very anxious TO know what Man.
ager Ewing is going to do with him. Kinslow
played short for the New Orleans club last year,
and he is confident that he would make a success
of it in either the in or outheld.
THE position of first baseman under Glasscock
and Denny is exceedingly hard. They both throw
SO savagely after stopping a hard ball that the
PLAYER on the bag has to be constantly on the
move. For that reason neither Shomberg, Hines
nor Esterbrook could cover the position for the
Hoosiers.-NeD York Sun.
MANAGER EWING said yesterday that no one
had the authority to state that he thought of sign
ing shannon Of last years Louisville club II
have since had a talk with him. however and he
NAV have trial, but there is nothing definite on
that point. The position he will play, if he plays
at ALL has not been considered. ''-Nelo York Sun.
A ALoNDoN exchange saws that baseball clubs
are being formed at Middlesborough Rston,
Stockton and Darlington, and an association is
proposed for the Cleveland district with view of
Messrs a. A. seeid and MSore Ier
students at Edinburgh University, are spending
their Easter vacation in the district in order to
initiate the natives into the mysteries of the
game.
THE official score book of the Brooklyn IN. L.
Club is not only novelty in its way but is neat
and handsome The book contains 81 pages, over
which are distributed beautifully engraved like
nesses with biographical sketches of every men,
Der of the team. The two middle pages are de-
voted to the scoring of the game. The frontis-
piece is the design of Secretary Ebbetts of the
Brooklyn Club. A bat contains The name Brook
lyn.', The home plate beneath has the words s,at
home with. - and then "A balls. arranged in the
form of diamond, has the games to be played at
home and in chronological order. Upon each
corner is = base with various Inscriptions there
on. Nothing like tiAis score book has ever been
published before.
IN response to the fining of some OF his PLAYERS
by Substitute Umpire Weeden in Boston, Presi-
dent Byrne says: 1.-The whole thing has been
greatly exaggerated. Manager MeGunnigle was
told not to allow the men TO do anything bolster
GUS. or In fact, anything that bordered on Amer
lean Association tactics, except in the Boston
PLAYERS commenced it, / must say that our men
acted as gentlemen, until Tucker-who. of course
everybody knows. on account Of his heavy voice
and Long and Sullivan started the racket, when
they saw they were being defeated They howled
surprised: they Will be here aui you can see and
hear for yourself. Why, it was a worse exhibition
than was ever known in the palmiest days of the
American Association. Then it was that Captain
O'Brien started in. That is ALL
THE Athletics are weak in pitchers. Seward has
not yet got in form. and Mcmahon is the only
twirler who has SO far done good work. Esper
and Green are improving, and in a little willie
may do first-class work, 6ut just now they cannot
nings. Manager Sharsg is looking around for
pitchers Yesterday he signed Billy Price, for
League. He is spoken of as a youngster Of great
promise. The Philadelphia IN. L. club was ne
gotiating with Cincinnati for the release of Hick
Carpenter. and the veteran third baseman would
have been a member OF Harry Wright's team had
not Meyer shown up so strong in the preliminary
games Manager Sharsig said yesterday that he
was sorry that Tommy Esterbrook had signed
with New York. He had his eye on the ''Dnde''
TO play shortstop for the Athletics COnroy, the
every day. He makes plays of the Bastian order
and promises to become a great player.