The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-10-19
BASEBALL NOTES.

BASEBALL NOTES.
Mike Kelly will spend the winter in Europe.
Manager Powell expects TO leave for the East
Louisville is well satisfied with Fitzgerald's
pitching.
The American Association is talking of II.
club circuit for next season.
Pittsburg, which finished last in the National
League race, had salary list of $5e, 900.
The Boston League team won eighteen
straight games at the finish of the season.
Joe Quinn, the second bsseman Of the Boston
League team was born in New south Wales.
There was not single tic game In the Pacific
Northwest Leagne during the season of 1891
Curved balls were used less during the past
season than at any time since their discovery.
Catcher Land, of the Portands of 1891, is
working in lithographing establishment it st.
Louis.
There is talk of the two champion Boston
clubs coming together in San Francisco this
winter.
Arlie Latham, the clown third baseman of the
Cincinnatis, joins Dockstaeder's minstrels for
the winter.
The American Association magnates claim
that they are sure to have club in Chicago
next season.
pennantwinning teams in one season--both of
them of Boston.
Eugene Curry, the groundkeeper at the Madi-
son street park this season, has gone to his
home in Galveston, Tex.
Definite arrangements have been made for the
Boston Reds and the st. Louis Browns to visit
the Pacific coast this winter.
John Sharpe, second baseman OF the San Frsn-
cisco club, is said TO have been a member of the
Salvation Army at one time.
Harry Simpson, the baseball player who W ent
TO Australia with the spaulding tourists and
remained there to build up the game, died re-
Gently at Sydney.
Larry Corcoran, the d-time League pitcher,
who died recently of Brights disease, was be-
fore his death presented with 500 out of the
Brotherhood fund.
Lord Hawk, the English cricketer, does not
see that there is very much in baseball Per-
haps my lord would If he had to pay the salaries
of some of the league teams.
The championship race of the National League
for 1891 was the most remarkable in its history.
The difference between the percentage of the
champions and the tail-enders was but .223
All of the professional experience of Hernon,
Camp, Irwin and LANCE has been with the Sc
attic club. Camp and Hernon have played two
years for pay, and Irwin and LANCE but single
season.
who played in every game of the were:
Hernon, Irwin and Schoeneck, OF Seattle; Motz
and Lytle, OF Portland; Stencil and Mannassau,
of Spokane.
crank has found out that in 100 League
games $50 fly ball went to center field, 1870 to
right and 1856 to left; in 100 Association games
DAT to center, 219 to left and 1s9 to right.-Phu-
delphaa Press.
Pacific Northwest talent is finding favor in
California. Joe Shea, of the Seattles, and George
Borchers, of the Spokanes, are playing with
Oakland, and Tom PARROT, of the Portlands, will
join Sacramento.
thinner, of Cleveland, again leads the League
in the number OF games caught He caught in
116 games, whereas Clements, his nearest COM
petitor, caught in 10Y. Last season thinner
caught in lbs games.
The official scorer of the San Jose club is
named Derrick, which would suggest hosting
OF individual averages.-SportiRg Life. Mr..
Derrick could undoubtedly take lessons of some
scorers in the Pacific Northwest, whose names
are not so suggestive.
Breitenstein, the young ST. Louis pitcher, who
recently pitched Louisville out without hit, ia
but 20 years of age. A baseball writer describes
him as having "carmine hair, good natured
face that is sicklied over with rusty polka-dots,
and a strong left arm
At Northwood, Iowa, recently, catcher
named George Owens had his jawbone broken
by a foul tip in the seventh inning, but kept on
playing till the ninth, when he mad his hand
split and thumb broken in the same way. He
was then ready TO go to the hospital.
The city of New York brought suit against
the League club to compel it to obey mandate
OF the board OF aldermen that the "bleachers"
at the bali park should be covered over. The
matter has been taken under advisement by
Judge Fallon, of the Harlem civil court.
Four of the Spokane team will spend the
ripta en- hn nif IN .0fDPr n
mountains. Mark Polhemus is working on the
city surveying corps. Tom Turner is tending
bar and Gus Klopf will work at his trade of
plumbing. kid" Baldwin will open butcher
shop and supply the people of Spokane with
steaks and chops
The team to be called the champion Port
lands" which will invade California, will prob
ably be made up a. follows: McNabb, Camp,
Tanning and wadsworth, pitchers: Graft and
Wilson, catchers; MotZ. first base; Glenalvin,
second base; Darrah, third base; "Jiggs" Par
rott, shortstop; Patton, left field; Abbey, center
field; Lytle, right field.
AS proof that baseball has not lost its hold on
the public, the New York Herald publishes COM
parative attendance tables of this year and last.
These tables show that the League attendance
for 1891 exceeded the combined League and
Brotherhood attendance of last year by so per
cent, in spite of the exaggerated figures given
out by both sides during the late war.
"Billy" Hamilton. the brilliant young out
fielder of the Philadelphia club, carries off the
honors in the National League records this
season. He has the best batting average with
SSS, leads in run getting, has stolen twenty more
bases than any other player and has taken first
base on balls oftener than any other batsman.
He also stands near the top in the fielding aver
age of the outfelders. Three years ago Hamil-
ton was almost unknown and was playing with
Worcester, in the New England League He was
brought 10 light by the A Ssoeiatiop team of
Kansas City. where he finished the season
Now he ranks among the most valuable players
in the country and commands large salary.
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Daily and Haggin Want st. Biaise.
NEW WORK, Oct 1S.-When wonder wore
away at Reeds daring acquisition of ST. Blaise
both DAILY and Haggin had regrets. They had