, 1890-07-23

Totals. IL S69 3S.05S
Saturdays figures I have not at hand,
but the proportion between the two leagues
was very nearly maintained.
Now, it is asked, why this revulsion of
feeling in the eastt My friend Frank
Hough remarked recently that Ewing
claims to have the old Leaguers on the run,
and Day claims that the Players are on the
run, but in the meanwhile the public
seems to have both on the run. This WINS
a witty way to put 1t, and when Frank per-
petrated the mot 1t was true enough, and
generally speaking Is true now, although
off the mark for last week. These three
opinions represent the two extremes and n
humorous medium. Seriously, conserva-
tive critics assign good reasons for the
slump In the attendance at the Players
League games, and / quote one OF them
mainly because 1t seems to me tina he
talks sense, and somewhat because his
views are in accord with all the
advanced by me during the battle as to
the final point on which the question of
patronage would be decided.
There is nobody on the run just at
present" asserted my conservative friend,
but there may be IL the conditions pre-
~vailing this last week could be continued.
l admire baseball for itself. To me the
players personality or his league is of very
little moment. OF course such men as
Ewing, DtIJ anu ldlnhIu arc exceptions
to my rule, but / insist hat even they
must play ball to get my money. Ihave
hustled back and forth from one ground
to the other here, going where / expected
to see the best ball. The winning or los
ing of the home teams has largely inhu-
enced M choice. The reasons for the Ma
tional league pre%ponderance last week we
easily found"
In Brooklyn Wards team nave seldom
been in 1t anyway, and with Cincinnati and
Brooklyn struggling for the lead in the
league, while Deacon Whites alleged team
were chasing base hits at Eastern park.
Wards team were out of it altogether.
Take Boston. The National leaguers started
In to play ball about June 12, and since
then have won % out of "a games. Mean
while the Boston Players team nave lost
their long lead. have barely divided honors
with opposing teams and have through it
all played poor ball. Critical Boston
wouldn't stand 1t, and hence the turn over.
In Philadelphia the mismanagement and
low position of the Players team in the
race as compared with the fine showing OF
Harry Wright's team has increased the
League tendencies of that city.
In New York the Players team has won
two games TO one for Mutrie's men, and
this with the general impression that the
latter are not in the pennant race has in
tensiled the brotherhood tendencies in
New York and enables the Players
league team to retain Its average of over
two for one. These are the reasons stated
briefly, and summed up they mean that
the best playing and best attractions will
In most of the cities, and eventually in all
save Brooklyn, where peculiar permanent
conditions exist, get the crowds"
The latest stories sprung by the indus
trious baseball fakirs are, first that the
players of Mr., Byrne's team have agreed
to Join the Players league in 1891, and
second that the players of the Cincinnati
team have already signed contracts to that
effect. 1 doubt IL there is a word of truth
in either story, but It is very possible that
the players have been approached.
They are well paid, they are getting their
salaries, and there is nothing so far in the
course of the Players league to show that
they stand any chance to get anything more
than their salaries in that organization.
Brunell's famous s24o, 900 of profits have not
accrued and are not likely to. There is an
other story that Mr.. Stern will jump his
team into the Players league. So far as 1
can discover there is not the least founda-
ton to the statement.
The fight for the Players league pennant
is getting warm indeed. Four clubs are
still in it, and the way they shift about
worries their admirers until no one can
make up his mind to pick a winner. 1 still
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weakness in the box. New York and Chi
cago are playing good ball, and will push
the leaders close for a while at least. The
Brooklyn men are still pegging away, and
tits said feel confident of success. That is
a great deal toward getting it, but unless
Ward and Ewing find some pitchers they
will have a tough time trying to beat out
Boston and Chicago and small chances of
success.
The Boston, Brooklyn, Philadelphia and
Cincinnati teams have been making Il
famous fight in the National league.
Brooklyn has got on top and Cincinnati
has relinquished the lead. / think the
Reds will hardly be able to regain 1t on
this trip, and will do well to keep we'll up
in the swim until they return home. The
present conditions indicate n big light
between Boston, Philadelphia and Brook
Ign, with the percentage OF chances In
favor of the former. II Boston ever gets
In front in their present brace they will
come near holding it. The Phillies have
greater staying power than l thought and
have a golden opportunity to win. 1t is
10 to 8 that they will finish one, two, three.
The great superiority of New Haven and
Baltimore over their opponents in the At
lantic association bids fair to wreck the
organization as the prepopderance of Jer-
sey City and Newark in playing ability
wrecked the Central league. baltimore
and New Haven might save things by an
equal division OF gate receipts.
Ball players will be very reasonable in
demands for salary next season. Getting a
job will be of more importance than the
nize of the salary. Put a spike In this pre-
diction- w. l. HARRIS
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