The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-29

What has silenced the new magnates is the
attendance in the east. Here are the figures
for five days, July I'll:
Players. National.
New York 5,917 22S1
| Boston Observation-Disclosures. 4,542 12,Gi9
| Philadelphia ......-..-...... 4,753 Il 024
| Brooklyn. Observation-Disclosures. 1851 9174
Totals ..I7s63 3S05s
Saturdays figures have not at hand,
but the proportion between the two leagues
was very nearly maintained.
Now, it is asked, why this revulsion of
feeling in the east? My friend Frank
Hough remarked recently that Ewing
claims to have the old Leaguers Oh the run,
and Day claims that the Players are on the
run, but in the meanwhile the public
seems to have both on the run This was
q witty way to put it, and when Frank per-
! petratei the mot it was true enough, and
generally speaking is true now, although
off the mark for last week. These three
/ opinions represent the two extremes and a
| humorous medium. Seriously, conserve
tive critics assign good reasons for the
| slump in the attendance at the PLAYERS
| League games, and | quote one of them
mainly because it seems to me that he
IeA1EAo oClAoCs lAl1 SCH1ON IlttU DGCdtiS6 HIS
views are in accord with all the arguments
| advanced by me during the battle as to
the final point on which the question of
patronage would be decided
There is nobody on the run Just at
present" asserted my conservative friend.
but there may be if the conditions pre-
vailing this last week could be continued
l admire baseball for itself To me the
Tla--ar.c g,a--sOr1a1i+vr $780,
little moment. OF course such men as
Ewing, Kelly and Latham are exceptions
to my rule but / insist that even they
must play ball to get my money Ihave
hustled back and forth from one ground
to the other here, going where I expected
to see the best ball The winning or los
ing of the home teams has largely infu-
enced my. choice. The reasons for the Ma
tional league preponderance last week We
easily found"
In Brooklyn Wards team have seldom
been in it anyway, and with Cincinnati and
Brooklyn struggling for the lead in the
league, while Deacon Whites alleged team
were chasing base hits at Eastern park.
Wards team were out Of ii altogether.
Take Boston. The National leaguers started
in TO play ball about June u, and since
then have won q out Of % games. Mean
while the Boston Players team have lost
their long lead have barely divided honors
with opposing teams and nave through it
all played poor ball Critical Boston
wouldn't stand it, and hence the turn over.
In Philadelphia the mismanagement and
low position of the Players team in the
race as compared with the fine showing of
Harry WEight'S team has increased the
Ia1C7e Tendencies of fhot n;tv
In New York the Players team has won
two games to one for Mutrie's men, and
this with the general impression that the
latter are not in the pennant race has in
tensified the Brotherhood tendencies in
New York and enabled the PLAYERS |
league team to retain its average of over |
two for one. These are the reasons stated |
briefly, and summed up they mean that |
the best playing and best attractions will |
in most of the cities, and eventually in all |
save Brooklyn, where peculiar permanent
conditions exist, get the crowds"
The latest stories sprung by the indus
trious baseball falirs are, first that the |
players of Mr.. Byrne's team have agreed !
to join the Players league in 1891, and
second that the players of the Cincinnati |
team have already signed contracts to that
effect. / doubt if there is a word of truth
in either story, but it is very possible that
the players have been approached.
They are well paid, they are getting their
salaries, and there is nothing so far in the
course Of the Players league to show that
they stand any chance TO get anything more
than their salaries in that organization
Brunell's famous 1910, 900 of profits have not
accrued and are not likelyto There is an
other story that Mr. Stern will jump his
team into the Players league So far as l
can discover there is not the least founda-
ton to the statement.
The fight for the Players league pennant
is getting wgrm indeed. Four clubs are
still in it, and the way they shift about
worries their admirers until no one can
make up his mind TO pick winner l still
hang out for kelly's team in spite of their
weakness in the box. New York and Chi
cago are playing good ball, and will push
the leaders close for while at least The
Brooklyn men are still pegging away, and
It's said feel confident Of success. That is
q great deal toward getting it, but unless
Ward and Ewing find some pitchers they
will have tough time trying to beat out
Boston and Chicago and small chances of
success
The Boston, Brooklyn, Philadelphia and
Cincinnati teams have been making a
famous fight in the National league.
Brooklyn has got on top and Cincinnati
has relinquished the lead l think the
Reds viii hardly be able to regain it on
this trip, and viii do well to keep well up
in the swim until they return home The
present conditions indicate a big fight
between Boston, Philadelphia and Brook
yn, with the percentage of chances in
favor of the former. If Boston ever gets
n front IN their present brace they VIII
come near holding 1t. The Phillies have
greater staying power than / thought and
have golden opportunity to win. 1t is
10 10 that they viii finish one, two, three.
The great superiority OF New Haven and
Baltimore over their opponents in the At
antlc association bids fair TO wreck the
organization as the preponderance OF Jer-
ley City and Newark in playing ability
wrecked the Central league Baltimore
mo New Haven might save things by an
quEl division Of safe receipts
Ball players will be very reasonable in $
demands for salary next season. Getting a {
ob will be Of more Importance than the
ize OF tho salary. Put spike in this pre- c
lctlon. W. L HARRIS