New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-13
NEARING THE HOME PLATE.
BASEBALL MEN FINISHING THE SEASON.
NEw-YoRK AND BROOKLYN MAKE SORRY
SHowING-MANY CHANGES EXPECTED
NEXT YEAR

NETWORK AND BROOKLYN MAKE SORRY
sHowING-MANY CHANGES EXPECTED
| NEXT YEAR.
1t now seems reasonably assured that there will he
pennant utterng in this nelghborhood next season.
This will be the first in three years that the metro
| pOlltan district has not had a championship. The
Giants in 1888 and 1889, and the BrOoklyns in
1890. Eighteen nlnetyone is designed TO be an I'M
lucky baseball year for this district. Two mines never
started out with more brilliant prospects than did the
Giants and the BridegroOms, and both have snguarly
failed in fact If the Brdegrooms do not look out they
! will wind UP in last place or very It, As it IS
| now, they only have Pttsburg, Cleveland and Gin
| cinnaH below them but who there not be much
dan ger of the Cincinnati team passing tlem there
| great chance OF Pittsburg and Cleveland doing So
OF course there is tare chance that NewYOrlI might
win, but the chance Is snail it Is rot really
worth considering seriously. The players themselves.
| with one or two exceptions. abandoned all hope
week or two ago. Probably Murie Is the only in
tho city who really believes the team has chance for
the trophy and perhaps Nitric is not serious he
pretends 10 be. There win be great many changes
in both local teams next year. and this will be
especially true in regard to the Brooklyn club There
will also be several hlgh-salarod stars in the New
York club dropped at the end Of the season. Whether
Ewing will be able to play again with his old
time effectiveness seems doubtful. 1t Is safe to
dict that If Captain Ewfg IS me- tS Sonc cn6 F2 p be
severed lie has certainly been Of no to the team
this year either as n player captain or manager, IT,
uniform Ewing Is rreprOachabe out Of uniform ne Is
nothing
The recent visit Of the hardy young amateurs Of the
Boston Athletic Association has opened wide the eyes
Of the local followers OF amateur baseball For the
last year or two the Metropolitan district has looked
upon the Staten Island and New-Jersey Athletic Club
teams as about the best aggregation OF amateur ball
players in tho country They won game after game
with astonishing regularity and played what seemed
to New Workers really hrscl9ss game. Other mines
in the nelglbOrhOOd could not live with Them Some
Of the players of these two teams became so arrogant
that II was difficult for the rest OF the world 10 I've with
them. The visit Of the Boston men has had de-
pressing effect upon our two great local teams. The
New Rnglanders defeated the local mines almost as
silly as an ordinary professional team would beat
scrub picked nine. 1t has long been an undlspued
fact that New England cOnld turn out more frstcass
professional players than almost any other part Of the
country. This seems to apply to amateurs as we'll
Those Boston amateurs really played remarkable
game in all departments. It be that there is
something IN New England dir which helps to develop
The muscles and sincw Brooklyn turns OUT hnndreds
of good amateurs every year, but 1t Is singular met
that there are few Of them that have become really
first class ball players New-Yort CITY never really
turned ont more than one or two frstclass green
diamond knights.
Mutre is nursing little idea and in case the final
struggle for second place between NewYork and Boston
ia close he will spring that idea upon the unsuspectng
Boston League team. Mutrle's knowledge OF the In
trfcate points in baseball is probably we'll developed
as that OF any man in the country. G. H. Byrne' OF
the Brooklyn Club, Is probably Just as clever in
technical points Of baseball Mutre holds that one
OF those two Boston ttsburg games played In Boston
ast week was Illegal. 1t may be remembered that
the first game was started five innings Yero played
and the game was stopped by rain. After short IN
Permission the second game was started Mutre holds
that this first game was not legal. and the Boston
team had no right to start second game until the
full nine innings Of the first had been played. Mutre
quotes case where q game was taken from the New
York club several years ago, out In Detroit In that
game Gore was injured seriously and physician had
to be called The doctor at once recognized that Gore
was in no condition to continue the game and ordered
his immediate removal 30 his hotel Valentine, who
was umpring the game. refused to allow Gore 10 re-
tire valentine also refused TO allow Welsh TO be sub
stituted for Gore saying that he did not know whether
Gore was hurt not Mutrie then offered to play the
fused 10 allow declaring that ID Illegal 10 play
game with either more or less than nine men; Inc
game consequently had TO be gwen 10 DeuOlb py
score Of 8 TO o.
The New-YOrk Club has been singularly un-
fortunate this year in having so many postponed
comes. 1t has more postponed games than other
club in the country. OF course all of these games
could be played off, and the Giants could win about
all Of Them they might have chance for the cham
plonshtp, but a great many Of these games will never
be played OH. FrOOaOly ADSOn Will nob COnoehV W
play them off, although he has two postponed games
with the local team The chances are. however that
one or postponed games will be played OF with the
Fttsburg men and Ike number with the Philar
delphia team The managers of these two teams have
at least promlsed to do this There seems TO be an
element Of injustice in the fact that the local team
should have so many postponed games and Chicago
so few. Still, probably the championship question
could not be settled more equitable basis than 10
IS today. that OF the hest winning percentage 1t
looks, however, IL rule might be made especially
when the championship is close, by which club
could play Off all its postponed games at tie end OF
the season.
Much interest manifested in the probable make up
Of the New York and Brooklyn teams next year.
some people believe that Ewing Is ambitions to be-
come second Arson and first base, captain a1d
manager Of the team. There is q rmor from Brook
Ign that Ward has similar ambition. Wards
shoulder has troubled him great deal this year and
1t is giving him great deal Of pain just It Is that
troublesome which several years ago com
PEELED Ward to abandon the pitchers box aud 10
take up some less laborOus position on tho
field At shorttop he has got 10 DO, Of course great
deal Of throwing and this may have something to do
with his present trouble with his muscles. II is said
that there chance that Ward may also play first
base next year for the Brooklyn team. The only
obstacle 10 this would be In his size and height As
general thing first basemen are tall with great
reach; still Ward is an active lively player and he
might make just good hrstbaseman Tucker,
OF the Boston team. Tucker is only mOderate-sized
man and vet he is the best first baseman In America
to-day Ewing, Of course, could play this position
probably as we'll any man, as he would have little
throwing to do; il probable that he will bound
In Roger Connors shoes next season. Even his friends
believe that Bucks' viii never enable him to
catch successfully as In past seasons Unauthenuc
which cannot be verified lntimates that in case
Ewing cannot play next year the Giants will have
new leader James O'ROurke, the bridgeport orator,
Is mentioned Ewing'S probable successor O'Rourhs
made a great success captain OF tile Buffalo team
few years ago and he may do it again with the New
York.
great deal Of rubbish has been published all over
the country this year about Ans0n's "cOlts." Arson
has received much credit this year for bringing out
young players and for winning the championship |
with green material This is the verlcst rot: he has
done nothing Of the kind There probably fewer
young players the Chicago team to-day |
than almost any other nine IN the |
n..,ntrr In fnrt nnhinn a. thn only real n1,lAp