The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-09
PLAYERS LEAGUE.
Notes and Gossip.

Smiling Bill Purcell is as active as Ken
lucky 3-year-old.
Leve Shreve has signed to play with the
Minneapolis team.
Al Johnson's Cleveland team is beginning
to show its real strength.
McQuaid is the most active Of the
National League umpires-
Buck Ewing, like Mike Kelly. is playing
sne game of his life this season
The Buffalo International League club
has been transferred to Montreal
According to report Elmer Foster is
playing center field for Minneapolis tout of
sight"
Sutcliffe is doing the bulk of the catching
for the Cleveland Players League team, and
doing it well, too.
There is no stage of any game that Wards
Wonders consider themselves beaten. They
are great uphill players.
The Players League is fortunate in its
hackers. No organization ever had men
with more sand behind it.
Manager Charley Morton of the Toledos
was elected from the Toledo grounds last
Saturday for abusing Umpire Sherman.
The Brooklyn club during the week was
without the services of pitcher Weighing,
who was called to Louisville by his mothers
death.
Joyce of the Brooklyn Players Leagu
club got thirty-three bases on balls in
twenty-five games. This is the record for
the country.
In the eighth inning of the New York
Boston game Wednesday Keefe performed
very difficult feat by striking out Nash,
Brouthers and Murphy in succession. All
suggers, too.
Ramsey pitched two successive games
against Louisville at his request and offered
TO forfeit $50 each game if ne should fail to
beat them. He saved his money and got
sweet revenge.
Fuller of the st. Louis Browns is without
doubt playing the best ball of any short
stop in the country. Besides his wonderful
fielding the little gentleman is showing up
better with the stick.
Ed Andrews sprained his ankle last Friday
and the accident lost Brooklyn game. He
will not be able to play for several weeks,
and his club will greatly miss him, as it
neceSsitates alternating Van Haltren with
Sunday in center field.
Delhanty at Chicago Monday made six
hits-two doubles, triple and three singles
off Mark Baldwin's pitching Twitehell
was only one behind him, making five hits,
four singles and triple. Eleven hits for
two men in one game makes record for the
season.
Dunlap did not sign with New York, not
outstanding reports to that effect.
Dummy wanted more money than the New
York club was inclined to pay, and also
wanted two years contract. This was
refused. He only played in one game to
help Ewing out.
The great Chicago team is a long while
finding that winning streak, which may be
explained by Comiskey's remarks that if
there are any soft snaps in the Players
league he hasn't yet discovered them, and
he has faced all the teams. It's hard work
to win in every game from start to finish.
Ewing said some time ago that Wards
team would not get better than fifth place
at the end Of the season. Ward is sore
about it, and says that the Giants won't
finish ahead of the Brooklyns nor win the
championship if their doing so depends upon
the results of the Brooklyn-New York
series.
Dicky Johnston is at last a giant Tom
Brown is playing a fine center field for
Boston, and as Johnston has for four years
wanted to play in the metropolis he was
released by Manager Kelly and at once
signed by e. b. Talcot for the New York
club. The transfer is not altogether relished
by Boston patrons.
The number of O'Briens in the base ball
ranks this season is noteworthy. There is
pitcher O'Brien of the Cleveiands second
baseman OBrien of the Chicagos, first base
man OBrien of the Brooklyn Association
team, and first baseman o. Brien of The Ath-
letics, besides the O'Briens of the Washing
ton, Rochester and Wheeling teams, and
ex-Umpire O'Brien.
President O'Neil of the Pittsburg National
League club says that during its absence
the other league clubs will be importuned
to permit the Pittsburgs to reducethe price
of admission. Should they consent to its
being done, visiting clubs will be paid 10
cents for every admission, and the public,
If necessary, be admitted free to knock the
Players League club out.
A correspondent writing t. the Sooq.tiao
Life says: poor John Clar{soni His arm
is gone, and there are, seveal other de-
serters in the same catalogue 1t does seem
as though providence vas on tie side of the
men who had the courage to stnd up and
assert their manhood. And with the
assistance of generous nature aese brave
fellows will this season win theyrandest of
victories"
The Players League contain a larger
number OF well-to-do players tan all the
other leagues put together, parry because
the men have been in the busiAss ever SO
much longer, and have therefor had the
opportunity to save from big saries, and
partly because they are a supepr set of
men, with the ability to take Sre of, as
well as earn, money. Among the2en who
have money and property maye cited
Comiskey, Keefe, Ward Irwin, Quinn,
Brouthers, White, Rowe, Dan Ric,rdson,
Whitney, Pfeffer, Bufiinton, tanlon
O'Rourke, Ewing, Kelly, Stovey, lardie
Richardson and many others
old Fort D.