The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-03

The record of the past week IN the strug-
gle for the pennants has upset many calcu-
lations and made a number OF baseball
managers perspire pretty freely Manager
McGunnigle, of the Brooklyn National
leaguers, has been one of them. Mac had
# all figured out just what his men would
do, and had also, as he thought, clear
idea as TO what some Of the other fellows
would do. But "the best laid schemes o.
mice and men gang aft a-gley," as Burns
put it, and McGunnigles experience has
only been similar to that of some other men
who have backed ''sure things" That
Philadelphia trip tore his heart strings.
To lose one game to the Phillies he had
thought possible but three straight was
awful. Meanwhile Mac consoled himself
with the fact that the BOstons were getting
beaten by the New Yorl1s. But it was
poor consolation, for the Chicagos were
coming along at a furious pace, winning
two games a day, with "Old Man Arson"
shouting from the house tops: I'm after
you. Look out for me"
Surely it is a great race, and easily pos
sible for any one OF the first five clubs to
finish first. 1t would be hard to pick
winner but it is safe to say that Brook
lyn, Chicago and Boston will finish in the
three first places, unless the Phillies should
develop greater form on their western trip
than they have shown in previous visits
away from home, in which event they
might get place The exact order at the
finish no man can tell now. am inclined
to think that Brooklyn may have TO take
a back seat for either Boston or Chicago.
What a triumph it would be for your
Uncle Arson if be were to take the pen
nant with a comparatively patched up
team, while Comiskey, alleged To be his
superior as handler Of men, with a team
of stars, is lucky to finish Gfthin the Play
ers' league.
The Bostons hold pretty fair lead IN
the Players pennant race, and there really
seems to be but one team at all likely to
stop them, the Brooklyn brothers. But
even they are not in position to worry
Kelly if his men play the game they are
capable of for the closing two weeks of
the season. The Giants may be in it and
they may not. Without any pitchers they
met with disaster at Boston that it will
be hard to overcome. If Ewing's pitchers
make great brace on the western trip
Buck may get the bunting, but the chances
are very much against it. Baseball menin
New York are betting five to three that
Buck will not finish first.
And so the great and only Comiskey is
TO descend next year on the Quakers.
Well, Commy is a great PLAYER, bat | have
grave doubts if ne will be able 10 do any
more with the Philadelphia brothers than
he did with the Chicago stars. Still lac
may find a set Of men IN Philadelphia who
will try to help him rather than bSlk him.
If so success may be his. This season has
shown that Comiskey is a very much over
rated man. for if he were the general and
manager re mas been represented as being
he would never have allowed the spirit Of
characterization and contempt Of discipline
that was early shown i'm 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 TO re-
lease men. He has other ways of making
them come TO time, and his weakness and
vacillation prove him to be no better as a
manager than a score of other men who
might be mentioned. Take Bufinton, for
instance. With "A team like the Chicago
brothers Buhinton would have come pref
" close to the peRnant; at any rate he
would have got place, something that
Comiskeys men do not seem likely TO do.
There are so many yarns started every
day about what certain clubs will DO n0Xt
season that it requires a close reader to
track of them. We were told that Al
johnson would have world bcaters" next
season, and since then there have been
daily rumors about this player aud that
player being booked for Cleveland. John
Ward was the first man. After Johnnie
had fully and explicitly denied it, and re
ceived all the advertising thatcould be cot
out of the matter deal number two is
sprung on an UnsUspectiug public. 1t is
TO the effect that Mike Kelly is to take
charge Of JOhnsol's innoCents in 1891 and
pilot them 10 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 a
horse and buggy thrown in and a twenty
five hundred dollar mortgage attached
Will Boston submit without a murmurg
Well. should say not.
If Comiskcy GOES TO Philadelphia Farrar
is to be transferred to another city. OF
course Farrar will like that. 1t may sug-
gest itself to Farrar that the Philadelphia
league club is badly in need of n first base
man, and Sid may on the expiration of his
one years contract be just obstinate enough
Go refuse to be transferred from philadel-
phia.
we are tOld tDAb the brotherhood Is
signing National league players right and
left, and that some of the magnateS will
be very tired when they undertake to sign
their men for 1891. Isn't this - little queer?
We have been told all the season that the
National league clubs were n 10 good and that
the Players league had all the players.
If the brotherhood people were truthful
what on earth DO they want of the League
players?
1t took the Brooklyn and Boston Broth
erhood teams exactly two hours and thir-
ty-three minutes TO play seven innings Of
game last Friday. and only fifteen runs
were scored in the contest. On the same
day the Chicago and Cleveland N L.
teams played seventeen innings in three
hours and twenty minutes thirty-four
runs being scored in the two games.
THINGS THAT ARE SAID
That Mike Kelly knows nothing about
that transfer 10 Cleveland.
That had Manager Ewing made il a lit
tie more expensivefor Crane and O'Day to
pose as "freemen' in certain Harlem re-
sorts that Crane and ODay would today
be In condition TO pitch the Giants into the
championship.
That the absence Of Ward. WEIGH and
Herman from the Giants old make a differ
ence, after all.
That all hands agree that Pitcher Nichols,
of the Boston team, has been approached by
the Philadelphia Brot herhood club. but 10
one has told US shat Nichols had TO say