Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-27

st. Louis today.
Milwaukee tomorrow.
George Shock will appear at third for the
| visitors.
DaSis felt the presence Of Won der Abe.
| Griffin has an abcess In his ear and can't
play.
Foreman has recovered and may pitch today
| for Washington.
Sam Wise and Bakely have been released BY
| Baltimore ut last.
ington ani Baltimore, played with Brooklyn
| yesterday.
McAleer Of Cleveland made a record yester-
day. He made four hits, three runs, stole four
bases and caught four flies, one Of them with
! the aid of double somersault.
Washington has lost both Inks and Ely and
/ has let Freeman go.
Nick Young's latest bulletin contains the Off
eial announcement Of Kelly's contract with the
Boston league club This il the formal an
! prevail of the steal
The Eastern League has gone to the wall, and
al meeting of the directors last night at Al
! bany 1t was decided to wind up the season this
week. dropping Rochester and Syracuse and
awarding the pennant to Buffalo.
Davis was clearly in the wrong yesterday in
calling the game when he did 1t was not any
darker than at the beginning of the inning and
there was plenty Of chance to have played the
game out. He owes his appointment to Won
der Abe and feels grateful. His work on balls
| and strikes and on base plays WAS far below the
standard that he set when he began work an
| umpire.
The West End Stars have disbandei for the
/ season, but they have decided to organize next
year with one Of the strongest teams on tine
District local diamond.
game az schednled on the 25th between the
| Ariels and the Young Cornish eys but the former
team did not appear ct the appointed time and
as result the Young Comiskeys claim the score
Ivan Leayey is manager OF the Young Comic
Keys and he would be pleased to receive chai-
lenges AT $40 9th street from sll clubs composed
| OF bcys under fifteen.
Curtis, the new outfielder, is destined to be
fay0rlte. lie hit a safe one Yesterday and took
one of his two chances in the field. The error
was quite exeusable He ran bases swiftly and
seems TO have caught the spirit of team play
that Is the surest sign of a ball player.
The Rosedales would like to hear from teams
composed OF boys of fourteen and Under
Challenges should be addressed to Robert f.
Doyle, 440 9Th street southwest
HE STAR receives many interesting eontri-
buttons to its base ball columns from volunteer
sources but few have ever come that contain
! so much earnest hnmOr the following note
that arrived yesterday too late for insertion in
| that issue:
| MARSHALL HALL ND,
August 26, 1891, pm.
| To the Editor of The Evening Star:
| A very interesting game Of base ball was
\ played here today between the Pioneers and
: Nalkaways. with the assistance of the kid
! pitcher" rs the Walkaways called him. Before
the game the Pioneers succeeded in walking
away with the game, not before having n hard
tussle with a verv rank umpire. Score, to 8.
Battery for Pioneers, kRUG and Cassidy; for
Walkaways.
Pitchers: Catchers:
| Gleason, Neitzy
Hoffman, Brown.
| Stanley
| N B.-Will The STAR kindly insert this no
fls.at ,,St "A ia hx,n
! The Atianties defeated the Y. NJ. c. A. team
! Yesterday in All exciting game; score, 6 to j.
Batteries. Stewart and Jones for the winners
against Boucher, Lewis and Catiin. Hits
Atlantics, 10; y. VI. G. A, 4. Errors-Atlan-
| ties. 8; Y. N. C. A., 8. The same teams play a
second game tomorrow at Atlantic Park. For
! games with the Atlantics address Y. A. Bent
| ley 1916 18th street.
| The Woodward & Lcthrop ard G. p. O.
mines will play match game at Capitol Park
\ Saturday, August 30. for the benefit of the
Boston House Relief Association.
The Peace Conference.
| The meeting of the association yesterday lasted
three hours. and the only palpable and visible
suit is an answer 10 the manifesto of the league
Bota letters have been made public and are
quite valuable showing the exact nature OF
/ the mutual demands made at the conference OF
Tuesday night The meeting was called to
| order at noon with Mr.. Edwin Sutherland the
attorney for the Washington club. in the chair.
There were present Won der Abe for st. Louis,
holding the proxies of Louisville and Mil
! waukee Bennett. Scanlon and Miller for Wash
| ingfon. Bernis for Baltimore. Sehmeiz for
Columbus. Hart for Boston. Wagner for PhIla =
| deipEia. The resignation of Ay. Kramer as
president of the association was accepted, to
| take effect at once. Mr.. Zach Phelps the at
| torHey for the association. unanimously
elected to ill the unexpired term. He re-
ported to tne meeting the facts of tho confer
| eBce with the delegates of the league and his
statements were received with approval. Sec
| Rotary Hart was directed to prepare a letter in
reply to that received during the day from
Messrs. Byrne. Brush and Hart OF the league
and this was givet out for publication at $500
| Mr.. Phelps was directed to write to Mr.. Kramer
| thanking him for his services and expressing
| regret at his retirement. The details of the
| project OF putting clubs in Brooklyn and
| Chicago were discussed and several lists of
| possible players were prepared,
| The letter from the association to the league
which was sent at 10 O'Clock yesterday morn
| ing, Is as follows:
| WASHINGTON, d. c., August g. 1891.
Messrs. Brush, Byrne and Hart. addressed
| GENTLENEN: We in good faith accepted your
! proposition for peace conference, and at
tended with the intention and disposition to
makean earnest effort to settle all existing diff
| ferences in some manner which would be hon
Orable beth to your people ard ours alike.
| Nnlle we were mus engaged with Won a
conference looking to fair and honorabl. set
! tiement we were appraised of the fact that one
| of Your clubs had I'VE trust without your knowl-
edge, consent or permission entered our ranks
amt induced one of our players to Jump" his
contract.
| Ycu will Of course. agree that in view Of this
| conference, which was well known to all your
| club members who had authorized YOU TO rep
resent them, any such action was not in good
faith. but was "a positive violation of the letter
and spirit of the negotiations which ha,i passed
between Us.
| In view of this We feel that we cannot prop
erly continue our negotiations until your people
have shown disposition to meet and treat
fairly. Unless, therefore, you can guarantee to
us the return of the player mentioned and good
| faith IN our negotiations and dealings We shall
be compelled to withdraw entirely from the
conference. Very truly yours
| LOUIS KRAMER,
Chairman Association Committee
| The following is the reply OF the league
representatives,:
| The ARLINGTON.
| WASHINGTON. d. c.. August rs. 1891
Messrs Kramer Won der Abe and Phelps COM
| mlttee representing the American Associa-
| ton.
I GENTLEMEN: We are in receipt Of your COM
municatiOn of this date. BY mutual coDse ut
| and in good faith the National League ap-
pointed committee of three to meet like
| committee from the American Association for
| the purpose CT harmoniziug any differences
| existing between the two organiZa tiOns We