Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-07
Baseball Notes.

ANsoN's team is putting up great game.
SECRETARY ScANDRKrT's brother is very i'll,
BERGER may catch in the Cleveland game to-
day.
Tom BROWN is not doing much batting for the
Bostons.
1T was evidently not old GaIvin's day yesterday.
He IL get there.
EASTERN baseball cranks are urging Buck
! Ewing to brace up.
THERE is letter at this Office for Manager Long
| of the Our Boys club.
RAIN is the great knocker-out; 1t can knock all
the teams out in q day.
SECRETARY TENER may have better luck to-day
than Calvin had yesterday.
FRED CARROLL is a long time about getting
down TO his old-time slugging form.
PAUL HINES is a little indignant at his being
given rest. Paul is an earnest.player.
THE Standards will play the Tarentum team on
Saturday. LOhner will pitch and Dodds will catch
for the Standards.
THEJ. Beckleys have organized and want to
play the I'd Hanlons or j. Galvins. Address John
Sweeny, Boyd street.
In ten games the New Y ork League team has
made 70 base hits and 30 errors. The Brotherhood
team has made ss hits and As errors.
JOYCE is becoming one of the sluggers of the
travels fast Then he is capital base runner. @ ~
THE Curry University nine defeated the HOLY
Ghost College team yesterday at Cycle Park BY
Is to 5. The victors want TO play any local college
nine.
PRESIDENT DAY says that the League has not
called meeting for any purpose, and. that so far
the League schedule.
RADBoURN had the suks yesterday to an alarm
ing extent To give the spectators an impression
that he disgusted he simply tossed the ball
over the plate.-Nel0 York Sun.
THE Primary and Secondary mines of the West
inghouse L Electric g Company played very inter
airy. Z: Secondary. 81; The features of the game
ere the fielding and batting of Ritter.
1T is rumored in Pittsburg that the main cause
of the reduction In rates was the anxiety of the
Pttsburg Players club to lift the mortgage on Its
grand stand, which, it is sid, is held by New
i ork parties. 1t was thought the quarter reduc-
tion would boom the attendance to such an extent
that the debt would soon be extinguished.- .-Neto
York Star.
NEW point has been raised for the PLAYERS,
League magnates to decide. Under the rules the
visiting club receives half OF the gate and grand
stand receipts. One of the games last week at
Eastern Park between the Brooklyn and New
York clubs was stopped by rain after the first in
ming. Rain checks were given out 10 the specta-
tors for admission to the grounds another day,
but grand stand checks we're distributed.
There were about SIG In receipts in the grand
staLd. and the New Yorks claimed the half OF that
referred TO the League for a decision.-hew York
Sun.
DISPATCH from Baltimore saws: Left Fielder
Sommer. of the Cleveland League club, has been
released and arrived homo tonight. sommer
stated that he was badly treated In Cleveland by
Manager Schmelz, who released him last Thurs
day, soon after the game with the Cincinnatis.
The only excuse he gave him was that he had
PLAYED indifferentlv. Sommer, on the other hand,
says he is positive that his release caused to
reduce expenses and to make room for Gilks, who
has q three-year contract. He says the club is