The Washington critic., 1890-04-18
GOSSIP OF THE SPORTS.
NEWS OF THE BALL FIELD, RACE
TRACK AND PRlzE RING.

hood-Fights T sad.
Despite the drlzzling rain yesterday
afternoon the Washingtons and Phila-
delphia Club played six innings of
game to an audience of nearly 600 peo-
pie, who witnessed as pretty game as
has been played here this season. The
local club demonstrated that 1t belonged
TO League company, for it put up an
excellent game Of ball and succeeded
in making it tic with one OF the
strongest and most formidable capdi-
dates in the League championship race.
Maloney was pitied against Glelson,
and both did well, the Lacquer having
little the best of 1t. o. Brien made u
couple of bad errors and Bird made one
which were responsible for the two runs
scored. by the visitors, but these were
evened up by errors by McCauey and
Allen which gave the same number of
runs TO the local team.
The fielding of both teams, consider.
ing the wet grounds and the wet ball.
was far above the average, and some
very creditable work was done by
Gleason and Myers. The latter PLAYER
received quite an ovation, when he
stepped TO the plate in the first inning,
and responded by driving the ball to
right for single A beautiful catch
by Bird in right, which resulted in
double play, was one of the features Of
the game.
To-day the Gorhams will meet the
local team in the last exhibition game
of the season. II will present its new
battery, Simpson and Bluer, and, as
this is a crack battery, an excellent
game may be expected.
The championship season commences
tomorrow, and the local team Is in
tending TO celebrate it in STYLE There
will be q parade of the two teams
through the principal streets, accom-.
panied by band of music. A number
OF invitations have been sent to prom
inent officials and business mon, and it
is expected that the audience will be a
most distinguished one. The Hart
fords will be the opposing tenn, and is
said to be q first class team. Yester-
days game with the Phillies insure the
lovers of baseball that the local club Is
as coed ss any club In the new associa-
tion, and fully able to sustain Itself.
morrow the League and Brother
hood will enter on its final struggle for
supremacy and existence. 1t will be a
fight 10 the death, and both sides will
fight hard for victory. The League at
the present time has the best of the
fight. Instead of disorganizing and dis
TuptiDg it, as many believed the revolt
of the players would, 1t has shown the
League its weak spots and enabled them
to meet every emergency, so that it
enters the season with eight first class
clubs, and what is more, the sympathy
of the major part of the patrons of the
game. On the other hand, the Brother
hood is just about to commence what is
its first practical experience in this line.
1t may draw, and it may not, and the
chances are decidedly against it. By
the time its first payday shall have
rolled around, instead of being con-
Quering league it will probably begin
to experience the first steps toward its
ultimate dissolution, and by the time
the season closes In October the Play
eTs' League will be thing of the past.
Stick whole paper of pins in that
prophesy.
The championship season of the
American Association began yesterday.
TIL ST. Louis Louisville game was
pos loned on account of rain. Syracuse
def tied Brooklyn, Athletic beat Roch.
ester and Columbus beat Toledo.
The results of the exhibition games
yesterday was as follows: New York
IN. L. IS; Jersey City CA. L.),2 2. Phila-
delpbia (Msson's team), o; New York
lP. L.). 10. Brooklyn (N. L.), 12;
Newark CA. L), 6. Brooklyn (P. L.),
19; Crescents. q Baltimore Ca. L.), 4;
Richmond, 3.
Umpire Larry Corcoran has been as.
signed to this city for the opening
games.
Next week the lovers Of the art pugi-
lisiic will have their hands full, for
there are two fights down for decision
and Thrill one on the Monday follow
ing. On Tuesday morning the two col
ored middle-weights, the Black Pearl
and Murphy, will settle their differences
in the ring, and ON Thursday morning
the celebrated Mcmillan Northedge
fight will come off. On Monday of the
week following Jack Hopper and Billy
Myers will meet in ten-round go with
small gloves. The Mcmillan fight is
attracting more attention than any
other event by reason Of the local inter
est which attaches to the result. II will
be a game fight, and probably one Of
the best that has ever occuI red in this
vicinity. Mcmillan will firlt at about
144 and Northedge will weigh in about
ten pounds heavier.
The Washington Jockey Club fin
ished the transaction of Its business for
the spring meeting last night, and the
final accounting showed 1t to have been
highly successful The trotting meet
ing will begin on the Goth and con
tinue four days There will be ten
races, two each on two days and three
ON each of the other two days. The
entries close on next Monday night.
The club has become member of the
Southeastern Trotting Association, in
which there are six tracks, located at
Baltimore, Philadelphia and Paterson,
N. J. There are already twenty five
trotteIs and PAGERS in the stables and
more are expected within few days.
Larkin of last years Athletics has
been appointed to captain the Cleveland
Brotherhood Club.
AT the Memphis meeting yesterday
Jockey Fox was suspended for the sus
picious manner in which he rode Joe
Walton.
The IentIies, weights and pools fol
to-day at Memphis are as follows;
First race, mile-Tory, l01, SO; Julia
Maggie, 10l, 81; Jasper, 1903, $5; Vieng,
Dor, l06, $25; Oklahoma Kid, l0G, 50
John Sherman, 106, S25.
Second race did not fill.
Third race, Turf Exchange Stakes,
mile--Liberty Bell, 1l5, sly; Dundee, 115
$50; National, ll5, $50; Ascot, ll5, $50; Jo'