The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-19
BASE BALL GOSSIP.

The celebrated kid Madden" phe-
nomenal pitcher, signed with tne Boston
brotherhood team on the IN orning the New
York aud Boston clubs sailed for Savannah.
1t is expected that Savannah will be
rendezvous for the next two weeks, with
games by the following brotherhood teams:
Philadelphia, Chicago, Brooklyn, New
York and Boston.
The common pleas court of Philadelphia
has decided that the reserve rule in base
ball contracts does not hold, and refused
the injunction against Hallman. This settles
the movement Of the league against the
brotherhood, 50 far as Pennsylvania courts
are concerned.
The press is represented among the tour
ing base ballists by Jacob c. Morse, who is
red-hot brotherhood man. He will report
for the Boston Herald and New York Sun,
and Tim Murnane is here representing the
Boston Globe and New York World His
wife and child accompany him. Tim played
ball here in 1871 in the crack games Of that
day.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, which is de-
cidedly against the Players League says of
Ward, the great brotherhood leader, that
1T is rather strange that John Montgomery
Ward, the head and front of the brother
hood movement, should suffer more than
any one else by reason of desertions. Yet
such is the case. The Brooklyn PAYERS
Club, of which Monte is president, has been
literally riddled by the attacks of the league.
No less than nine players as igned to the
team to represent the City of Churches have
returned to the protecting wings of the
national agreement. Denny, Glasscock,
Sommers, Buckley and Boyle left at the
start. Then Bassett followed suit. Next
Jack OConnor decided that Columbus was
good enough for him, and he kissed Johnnie
good-by. Now that Cyclone Duryea has
quit the brotherhood, King Johnnie should
get cages for the rest Of his men, as he is
liable to wake up any morning and find
nothing left of his brotherhood team but a
few bats and its name.
In his last annual report the postmaster
general pays a high tribute to the ''inteli-
gence and pluck" of the more than 5000
men who handle the mails in the travelling
postal cars, and declares that ''the railway
mail is the spinal column Of the service
The following figures which that official
saws 'sdo not adequately convey an idea of
the extensive operations of the railway
mail service" are at least very interesting
and impressive: Sat the close of the last
fiscal year mail service had been authorized
upon $50, 3S1 80 miles of railroad, upon 1885,
110.43 Of which postal clerks were employed
There are as inland steam boat lines, aggre-
eating 5,543 70 miles, on which postal clerks
rendered service. The total number of
clerks ON railroad lines was 4,947, and on
steamboat routes 81; a grand total of 4,99S
who travelled l24. 02i ,032 miles on railroads
and .S49, 703 miles on steamboats, in the
performance of their duties They distrib-
uted 7,026, S37, 1870 pieces of ordinary mail
ana handled 100000 registered pouches,
and over 100000 through registered
pouches and inner registered sacks. The
increase in the number of pieces of ordinary
mail matter distributed over the preceding
year was 1,l92 146,255. The number of
postal clerks on railroads increased by 800
and the number of miles in distance by
6,602 In the annual miles OF service per-
formed there was an increase of S2,054. or
1osrly . per centum.n