Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-09

and Syracuse
 Baseball and Sporting Notes.
 Rumors are now prevalent concerning new base ball deal
 Both New York teams bettered their condition last week.
 Joe Gerhardt has succeeded Mccarthy as captain of the St. Louis club.
 Lebanon again this afternoon. Doran and-Cahill will be in the points.
 Jones of the Lebanons made three singles out of four times at bat in yesterdays game.
 well if not better than any man in the business.
 The Cincinnati Times-Star says that Williamson wants to return to Anson, and that Anson wants Williamson.
 Lally is beginning to get accustomed to his new position at first base and will soon rank with the best of them in that posi- tion.
 Fridays thirteen inning game between Newark and New Haven stands out as the closest and one of the best contested of 1890.
 In his nine years playing in the National league, Dennis Brouthers, now of the Bos- ton Players club, made 1, ,402 base hits and S96 runs.
 The attendance at the grounds on How ard avenue does not seem to increase any. The public have evidently lost all interest in the game.
 Next Sunday may find any one of the three present leading clubs, Boston, New York or Brooklyn, in first place in the Players league.
 It is said that Manager Randall of Leba- non sent telegram of forty words to Sec retary Braden recently, protesting against Kelley's umpiring.
 Manager Barnie of Baltimore is after Doran and Horner, but the local manage ment want $1 900 for each of them and the deal is of for the present. Kelley is as good an umpire as can be l found in any association or league. Of course they all make mistakes at times, but I as rule their decisions are correct. One fact is prominent in base ball this | year. In all the vituperation indulged in | on both sides of the big war, no charge of crooked work has been preferred. There is no doubt that the game has been pure. In fact, but one man has been suspected and he was released at onca--Boston | Globe
 It is probable that the three games the New Haven team played with the Newarks last week will go on record as the shortest games of the year. The morning game oi Monday was played in one hour and ter | minutes. Thursday afternoon's game ir l one hour and nine minutes and the actual playing time for the full nine innings oi the thirteen-inning game of last Friday was only one hour and ten minutes.
 The Boston Brotherhood club has played before more people in the last seventeen weeks than any club in either league. Al home they have drawn 150, 105 people ant abroad 122, ,719 have greeted them, maxim, in all 272, ,8A. Next them as an attraction comes Comiskey's Chicagos, who have hai 253, 425 people at their games at home an6 abroad. Kelly's men are slightly second tt Wards wonders in the size of their crowG for Ward to 122, ,719 for Boston. l The young ladies' base ball nine of Chi cago played match game last Saturday
 with the Stars on the latter's club grounds at Long Island City. The girls won. Sev eral thousand people were present. Wher the game was at an end the crowd closed around the young lady base ballists, and i took six policemen to clear passagewa, from the diamond to the carriages waiting for the players. The crowd continued te follow the girls after they had left tho grounds, and it was found necessary tt place an officer alongside of the driver o each coach.
 A special dispatch from this city to tn. Meriden Journal is authority for the fol lowing statement: Manager Burnham sayl all the New Haven players are on the mar ket and can be bought at less than fanc, prices. He, talked as though the present management of the New Haven team wal throuph with basa hall and womb rot;ra oI the end of the season. Taking eyerythinc into consideration it seems to be the gene ral opinion that there will be no team rep resenting the Elm city next year, as noth ing but cheap team could be run and that would not take. The New Haven amateu, league, the teams of which play a game . week, have had much larger attendance al twenty-five cents apiece than the profes 1 sional team"