The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-06-08

Home again.
Come now, boys, brace up.
We are now in sixth position.
Ted Sullivan was in misery yesterday.
Daniels proved failure in Baltimore yester-
day.
We've long siege at home. We will again
get to the top.
There will be Sunday games in every Associa-
tion but the League.
Bird has done the best general play on the
trip, both in batting and fielding.
The Atlantic Association is doing better tina
either the old League or Association.
We play sixteen straight games at Atlantic
Park, commencing with this week.
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Charley Snyder, of the Clevelands, (Brother-
hood,) has not played game this season. He
is a bang-up manager.
MalOney has been released by the Washing
tons. In the late games played Maloney showed
considerable improvement.
The League is drawing very small crowds and
some of the cities will have to come down to
twenty-five cent ball or give up the ghost.
Pittsburg as League city is rank failure.
Now the League magnates see the foolishness
of putting Washington out for such place.
The Cincinnati League team has taken the
lead in the pennant race, and as they are play
ing good ball they will keep it for some time.
The New York League team is in bad financial
straits, caused by the small attendance at
games, which, up to date, average less than one
thousand.
Jack Riddle is star player and in the League
would command q great big salary. He has
caught nearly three e-fourths of the Washing IS
games this season and never complains.
The idea of New York. with its 1,5OO,O peo-
pie only contributing 900 to see League games
| There is going to be break somewhere sure,
| as the expensive clubs cannot stand such pa
| tronage.
Underwood, the new pitcher Of the Washing
| tons, seems to have good head on him and by
the record puts up splendid game. He is also
| good sticker, for he has secured hits in every
game played.
The Wilmington Club is weakening, and it
| looks as II the club was going to disband. The
directors and stockholders do not relish paying
out so much money to a losing team. The
men are also suspected Of drinking.
A free tour through England, France, Holland
and Belgium will be given by THE SUNDAY HER
AID to the school teacher of Washington whom
the readers of the paper select as most deserving
of the treat Read the conditions of this move
offer in another column.
HARRISBURG, June fudge Smonton to
day refused an injunction to restrain Grant
the colored baseball player, from playng..wtt
the Harrisburg club or the Interstate League
The plaintiff was with the York club, of tht
| same league, which claimed to have a contrac
with defendant.
RICHMOND, VA, June 7.-One of the larges
and most fashionable audiences gathered on th
ball-tield here this season witnessed the gam
between the Princeton, N. j., and universit,
of Virginia clubs to-day. Score Princetons
9; Universities, 4. Base hits-Princetons, 2
Universities, B. Errors-Princetons, 4; Uni
versties, 8.
This week the famous Baltimores will max
their second appearance here this season, ant
the intense rivalry existing between the two OF
ganizations will no doubt crowd the grounds t.
their utmost capacity. They play here on Tues
day, Wednesday, and Thursday, and as the
are now very near the lead In the pennant rae
it is pretty certain they will battle to keep thei
lead. Base ball is an uncertain commodity, 70
no matter what club or clubs beat us it ha
been the good fortune of this city to alway
beat Baltimore out and Manager Sullivan
confident that his team will follow the prece
dents cut out in former years.
'The Washngtons are in hard luck" S
runs the legend at the head of the daily paper
that morning and afternoon chronicle the dc
feats sustained at the hands of the Norther
clubs. Is it hard luck? Consult the tabulate
scores and if they do not prove otherwise the
we do not know how to analyze regular tabl,
With one or possibly two exceptions the score
show that they have been outbatted and hay
earned less runs than their opponents, Will
their fielding has been superior in every sens
This does not show bad luck, but, on the col
trary, that the other teams are stronger with th
stick than they, and consequently able TO bunc
their hits and make more runs, the most in
portant point in all contests. 1t is not har
luck, but good playing of the other teams.
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