The Washington critic., 1890-04-16
GOSSIP OF THE SPORTS.
NEWS OF THE BALL FIELD, RACE
TRACK AND PRIZE RING.

About Sporting and Athletics.
The Washingions had little trouble in
defeating the Ricbmonds yesterday In
very one.sided contest that was not at
all interesting. In fact, at times the
playing of the visiting club bordered on
the amatelrish, and after the second
inning the main efforts of the Washing
tons were directed towards shutting out
the Richmonds, but in this they were
unsuccessful, for the Virginians piled
up six runs on lucky combination of
hitting and bad errors on the part of the
home team. Mace pitched very well,
and received good support. He retired
in the fifth inning in favor of Phillips,
who pitched out the remainder of the
game. Several brilliant plays were
made, notably running catch by Foster
and some clever fielding and batting by
O'Brien.
To-day is Emancipation Day, and
Atlantic Park will have for its princi.
pal attraction the Gorhams, the cele-
brated colored club from New York,
This team has all the old players from
the Cuban Giants and is the crack
colored baseball club of the country.
What does this mean? Barnie's club
walloped the Boston Leaguers again yes
terday.
O'Brien is hitting the ball hard and
promises to be one of the best batters
on the team.
The championship season opens on
Saturday In all the associations.
At recent meeting Of the executive
committee of the Associated Press 1t
was decided to discontinue the practice
of furnishing tabulated scores of ball
games to the newspapers. The expense
is the main cause of the discontinue
ance, and the baseball crank this year
will have to content himself with the
score by innings and a brief summary
Of the game.
The Columbia Athletic Club ball
team will play the Lafayette College
team this afternoon at Capitol Park.
The Columbias will have out strong
team and an excellent game may be ex-
pected.
Boston lost yesterdays game with
Clarkson In the points, the Baltimores
scoring 10 hits, with total of 1S bases.
The Boston twirler never was much of
a cold-weather pitcher.
1t is probable that Tony Mullane will
cover third base for the Cincinnatis in
place of Tebeau.
Nearly q week has passed since
Anson claimed the championship for
Chicago. There must be something
wrong with the old man.
The results of yesterdays games
were as follows: Philadelphia IA, Ath-
letic l. New York IN. H. 8, Brooklyn
"a. Al /; Brooklyn IN. L. 8, Hackett-
Carhurt 3; Brooklyn (P. L.) 81, Kinds
ley Athletic Club 0.
Chamberlin, the ST. Louis pitcher.
who was suspended by Won der Abe
for Indifferent playing, has been vim
dicated by the board of directors of his
club and reinstated.
Old Ezra Sutton will play second for
the Hartford team.
Robert Willis has been signed by the
New Haven Club.
Jack Hopper, the well known New
York pugilist, is in the city training
for his fight with Billy Myers, which
comes off in this vicinity within the
next ten days The mill will be ten
round go, with hard gloves, and is
bound to be good one. The talent in
this city fancy that Hopper will win,
but they seem to forget that Myers has
never yet been defeated and is prob
ably the best lightweight in the couu-
try, with the possible exception of Nc
Aulitfe. His managers are too shrewd
to allow him to run up against better
man until he has met McAuliffe and
settled the question of superiority.
Hopper may give Myers enough to do
to best him, but that he will do it is a
foregone conclusion. The mill though,
will be good one, and ought to at
tract large crowd. The date has been
definitely decided upon for the 2Sth, a
week from Monday.
The California Athletic Club will
offer so, 900 purse for fight between
Jack McAuliffe and Carney for the
light weight championship of the
world.
According to the accounts of the
Corbett- McCatfrey bout the other night,
the Californian had an easy time of 1t,
1t will be interesting to have he and
Sullivan meet in finish fight although
there is but little prospect of their
doing so for some time. A glove fight
for limited number of rounds may be
arranged, however, to take place within
few weeks.
All the arrangements for Billy Nc
Millan's big benefit tomorrow night
have been completed. 1t will be a
rousing good exhibition.
Charles Fitzgerald of st. Louis and
Charles Welsh of Buffalo, light-weights,
who were matched to fight fifteen
rounds, Queensberry rules, for purse
of $500, met at Liederkranz Hall, Louis
vile, KY, last night. Welsh forced
the fighting from the fifth round, when
he scored the first knock down, and
won the match by knocking Fitzgerald
out in the eleventh round,
Jack Smith of Canada easily defeated
| Mike Coburn of England last night In
ten rounds at Buffalo n. Y.
The following incidentactually oc
CURED A tough young man, with
some pretensions as a fighter, went into
certain newspaper office and inquired
for the sporting editor. When hi
found him he declared himself as fol
lows: 81 see der Mouse thinks he car
best me. Seer He can't, donchel
know, and l wants it put in der pape,
| dat I'll scrap him wild iron gloves. Tn
tough. Seer
There will be an interesting little fgh
either tomorrow night or Friday morn
ing between the Black Pearl and Isaac
Murphy, two colored pugilists.
The wrestling match for 800 aside
between Ring and Mcdonald, come
off Tomorrow night. The mNLch will