Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-27
FOLEYS BOSTON LETTER.
BASEBALL SITUATION IN THE CITY OF
BAKED BEANS.

Both Players and National Lengue Mag.
mates Using the Complimentary scheme
TO Secure Good Crowds-Other Gossip OF
the National Game.
BOSTON, July %, 1S9O.-Our two Boston teams
have covered themselves with glory at home,
and if they hold their own in the West on the
present trip. they are sure of big crowds on
their return. The League team is playing a
game that will land them pennant winners il
they can keep it up, and in the pitching de.
partment they are the best-equipped team in
the country. Getzein is the surprise of the
season, and his work is fully up to his 'S7
mark, when he was big facter in
pulling of the worlds championship for
Detroit. Yeung Nichols is a conner, but re.
Gently be has been giving too many bases on
balls. He bats well, and when he bunts ball
he sprints to first like second edition of Billy
Sunday. don't blame Sunday for preaching;
he is in q club that would make any preacher
would be interesting If Evangelist Sunday
would give MS some "reminiscences of Palmer
O,Neill. .Poody" Calvin, stub" Miller,
baseball celebrities. He should be interviewed
with his coat off, as that would have tendency
to warm him up on his subject.
Who Are the Pcoplef
Excuse me for getting tangled up in Pitts
burg affairs. but it is actually necessary for mo
to step on foreign ground every little while, as
Boston is not the only town on earth. All. but
we are great people though. and if you Pitts
burg folk could only see the way we patronized
Comiskey's team and the Cincinnati Leaguers,
you would always think well of the city of
'culchaw" and baked beans. Comiskey's
band of warriors, with the Irrepressible Arlle
Latham in harness again, drew no less than l6-
300 in three games. At the South End grounds
the Cincinnatis had nearly 10,00U people to see
hon olo rrht hxrf fln viz
team.
The Cincinnatis would have been the draw
ing cards of the season If they landed here in
men under LOTUS care were worsted IN Phila-
delphia, Brooklyn and New York. They az
rived here in third place, but Boston stepped
into that position after winning the first game,
and made the grip frmer still by downing the
"Cincies" in all three contests. am afraid
Cincinnati has 'shot her bolt" but they may
climb up when they tackle the weak teams of
Pittsburg and Cleveland. The strong Eastern
clubs will be knocking holes into one another
about that time, and something will drop.
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Kicking the Turnstile.
The Boston Brotherhood Club has been play
ing great ball, and it is hoped they will not get
mixed up in any more monkey transfers.
They won back their old friends during the
Chicago's visit, and they can always depend on
good patronage if they attend to ball playing
and let the turnstile count alone. They can
only do good business during the rest of the
season by playing good ball and keeping to the
front. The League Club has struck winning
pace, and should they keep to the front they
will injure the Brotherhood on conflicting
dates. Nothing succeeds like success, and
should the League Club take drop the attend
ance at the South End grounds would take a
big tumble. Providing the League race con-
tinues as exciting as Iris at the present time,
You will hear of some big crowds when Phila-
delphia and Brooklyn play here
The Brotherhood people are putting on virtu-
Gus airs and point to the League magnates as
the culprits who are flooding the country with
tickets. And yet 1t is well
known fact that lots Of paper was taken at
Park during the recent visit of
Comiskey's men. All liquor dealers and pos
SCISSORS of show windows were given passes for
exhibiting cuts of the Chicago team in their
windows. know big business was DONE but
the Brotherhood organs are trying to make
people believe that no passes are given out for
games. l can't say that it is bad
idea to give away generous amount of
for there is more interest here now
than at any other time during the present sea.
son. CHARLES j. FOLEY,