Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-09-08
Charley Foley Makes Few Remarks
About the Two AggregatiOns
of Pittsburg.
BIG CROWDS AT BOSTON GAMES.
Director J. P. 0'Neil Resolves to Transfer
His Closing Games From Rere
to Brooklyn.
THE OUR BOYS BALL CLUB DISBANDs.
Mcclelland Offers to Run Peter Priddy a Three-Mle
Race for $500 a Side.
rconREsroNpENcE OF THE p1srArcH.1


BOSTON, September 6.-The eventful season
OF 1890 is drawing to close, and one more week
will wind up the fun in this city. Our popula-
tiOn is less than half million, but still lead
the country a baseball center. Think OF
over . 600 people paying their little half dollar
to see baseball on Labor Day with boat racing,
trades union picnIcs etc., as counter attrac-
tions. IGevery city could support two baseball
clubs as Boston has done this season. with IS
conflicting dates, what graft it would be for
the future generation of ball players! We have
had both Pittsburg clubs here lately, and more
demoralized teams it would be hard TO find.
don't mean to say that the players are not
happy; / simply mean that neither club has
any confidence when opposed to the
strong Eastern teams. Several OF Hanlons
best men are on the hospital list, and the team
is very weak in batteries. Staley is doing e1-
Cellent work, but big Tener has been llland IN
condition to do himself justice. He did
good work for Anson and he can do it again If
he will Just play ball and let the finances and
correspondence alone. Pitcher Maui gets
manled all over the lot at times, but he has
pitched some very good games. dis chief
weakness is wildness. Becklev and Han!on,
when in condition, have played great ball, and
young Corcoran has shown himself to be tip
topper, who will improve with experience. l
am rather surprised that Robinson does not
smash the lively bail much better than he is
dong He is naturally hard hitter, but be
doesn't seem 10 connect with the deluslye
for. Hanlon's men dropped three out OF four
games here and they were actually surprised
10 win game, as the team they presented was
very weak. They bucked against CINCINNATI
IN this city but they did good business for
Team So low in the race.
A GOOD DRAWING CARD.
Comiskey's men have been the best drawing
cards in this CITY having drawn no less than
IS 600 people in nine playing days. They had
no holiday and only two Saturdays. Wards
BTooklyn team drew the most people here, but
it must be borne in mind that they opened the
Season and had holiday-Bunker Hill Day.
The Pittsburg Leaguers failed to create any
enthusiasm here, and from a Boston standpoint
the attendance was very small About 2.00O
people attended the series of four games, only
500 being present at the double game attrac-
tion. guess Palmer O'Nen must be sick of
running up against Chicago opposition,
for it must have cost him hundreds of dollars !
in Boston and Brooklyn. Comiskey's men drew |
10000 people here IN their last SERIES and the |
ChicagOs were all smiles when they |
looked at the schedule and found that |
they would daily again with O'Neirs |
Byme's League team has things its way. |
Not so when Palmer's men reached the town, |
for Wards Wonders had nearly 5000 spec |
tatOrs on Labor Day, while O'Neil's men had |
TO put up three games before 1000 spectators. |
The Pittsburg players not to blame for this |
sad turn of affairs; thew are just as God made |
horn ball players There few men on the |
team who can PLAY ball. but am sizing them /
up as whole club. L was sorry to hear that Mr.. |
o. Neil caught cold while cunning for robbers; |
now let HIM go cunning for ball players, and |
he NAV meet with more success.
Al. johnson, owner of the Cleveland club Up. |
L J, is feeling happy just now, as he pulled of |
about $1,000 as his share of the receipts or |
Labor Day. This is really the first streak of |
luck that the plucky Clevelander has been |
against this season, and he would have been |
hammer still if ADSOn's had OnOOSad /
him at the League park. Anson's team was /
really the best attraction by good odds, but |
the worklngmen patronlzed the Brotherhood IN |
grand style. The two Chicago games drew /
over II 900 people, and Johnsons team drew |
within 200 of Anson's men. What picnic |
johnson would have if he had the Pittsburg |
League club as opposiuon!
PLAYING GREAT BALL.
The Boston Brotherhood club are now wind |
ing up the season here without opposition, and |
it looks as if Ewing's men will draw good |
crowds in the last three games of the season. |
Eelly's men fear the Giants more than Brook |
lyn, and the Workers will be more formidable |
than ever when Keefe returns to the fold |
O'Rourke is ali right again, and his batting |
has been immense since he returned to the |
team. The Boston men are playing ball to per-
fection and they never quit until the last man |
has been disposed Of Kelly has been doing |
magnificent stick work against the Western |
clubs and his timely hits have won several /
games. His gally Friends are now thinking
seriously Of presenting him with a fighting |
dog a pair of gaily caparisoned black horses,
and seventeenth century barouche. "Old |
Huss" Radbourn, who is a great sportsman
and monarch Of all he surveys, is pitching ball |
that Is really surprising the Boston natives
He fields his position in wonderful style
and on several occasions he has as
sisted a half dozen times to field men
out. In the third Cleveland game he
stopped two terrific hits and saved two runs by
fielding the men out at the home plate This
was glory enough for '-Old Hossn but he
added more TO his laurels by making three hits
including two two-baggers. Joe Quinn is play-
ing great ball; in fact no second baseman in
the country has shown such Improvement
And how Josie is batting! He is away above
the 300 per cent mark, and the best sacrifice
hitter in he team. Arthur Irwin seems to be
improving since his return, but he is a sickly
man who cannot be depended upon. Nash is
now playing fine ball, and 1t is reported that he
Will wed Frisco belle after the season is over
Tie girl who knuckles TO Nash won't have
to grab for 'cold vittes" after the HONEYMOON
Is over. for the great third baseman has an
able bodied bank account.
1t looks now as if our League team mad but
little chance for the coveted pennant The
CmcinnatlS won two out of three on their last
visit. and AnsOn's men got away with two games
on Labor Day. The club is again crippled and
at present Brooklyn has good lead which will
be hard to overcome. Long anG Sullivan are
the sick list. and Bennett is suffering from a |
lame foot. '.Iinkie' Lowe is playing short and
doing well. He still leads the country in bat.
ting, hut his average is beginning to tumble
ClarksOn pitched a wonderful game against
Cincinnati, but he shot his bolt and is now a
lame duck. AnSon's men slaughtered him on
Labor Day, when they hammered out Il hits
with total Of S CHARLES J. FOLEY.