The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-04-22
A Dissertation By the Baz00
Crank on Base Ball, Cycling,
Etc.
Opening of the League and Asso-
citation SeasOnS-COrbett and
McCaffrey.


to any captains or members of any
local base ball club who will furnish
items, either send ar bring them to
the office. There will be a regular De.
partment devoted to local sports dur
ing the season and space given it in
every Sundays issue. To bicyclists
the same request or invitation is ex-
tended and all such ma ter will be
gladly used.
The initial game of base ball for
the season that WAS played On We'd
nesday between the Chicsgo's and
the "Katy's, has had the efftct of
giving the in !erest in the noble sport,
a wonderful impetus locally. AL
over the city, at noon time and in
the evening can be seen gr ups OF
boys and young men. and in cases
some older ones, passing the magic
pig skin or welding the willow.
From now on until the frosts of No
vember begin to chap the digits, look
out for a continuance. and watch If the
conversation Of the lads particularly.
is not, about, "welI the Blues ought to
best the .Katy's,' or if Jimmy had just
done the slide act on second, or that
was q rotten mutt of Bob's. out in the
center, he 'ort to held that ball and
we'd a had the game Young
America has the craze this yesr as
bad as ever, aud it is, if snything
more prevalent, than ever before, all
over the country.
Some old fogies, or some Of of the
too puritanic Find of people may and
do decry the sport, but withal, the
majority of The male population of
these United States and very large
portion of tie younger female
portion pronounce l. a genuine
good thing, and it is. There
is nothing, no nothing in the way
of harmless outdoor amusement that
affords a greater degree of excitement
and does more to relieve the mind
and renew the body Of The person who
is cooped up all week in an Office,
ShHp or store, than to witness a good
game or base hail. 1t is a safety
waive, as it were, whereby to exhaust
sn worn out energy, to build up the
enervated system. The most cold
biooded and prosaic individual alive
can't help having his or her interest
made manifest and the blood started
TO circulating more freely. when
watching a closely contested game
of this great national sport.
While maybe We may be considered
a crank on the subject, the assertion
Is ventured that if a couple OF good
amateur cubs were encouraged TO
have weekly games here, it would do
more toward furthering the moral and
physical welfare of the youth of the
city than anything that could be at
tempted.
The American Association season
opened on Thursday and the result of
the games played was Columbus beat
Toledo IA to s, Athletics beat Roches-
ter IL to 8, Syracuse beat Brooklyn 3
10 2. rain preventing the game be-
tween St. Louis and Louisville. Tne
Columbus and Syracuse lines are
showing up in remarkably good
shape.
The national league and players
league season commenced yesterday.
Between these two great organizations
comprising the very best material ex'
tant, there is going to be the warmest
fight ever recorded in base ball
history. They have been fighting
each other, the former to prevent the
existence of the latter and the players
are now going in for blood. Look
cut for it "the fur is bound to fly,
The fold league, of course, is better
able, financially, to stand the struggle
but the brotherhood is starting out
with strong feeling of popular SYM
psthy, and will doubtless draw by far,
the best paying crowd.
The newly found California
sparriDg wonder, Jim Corbett has
again won a great victory. 1t will be
remembered that he bested the e1-
champion, Jake Kilrain, in a six
round glove fight at New Orleans a
short while ago. On Tuesday night
at the Brooklyn, New York Casino,
he met the redoubtsble Dominick
Mccartney, the only man who has
ever stood up six rounds before John
L. Sullivan. Corbett. with seemingly
but little effort, done up Dom, in -four
short rounds and that completely too
A match between him and the cham
piou is now talked of and will prob
ably be arranged. Many of thu
knowing ones consider tbst COrbett i,