Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-21
Our SluggerS Return After a Most
Successful Trip Among the
Eastern Teams.
MANAGER M'GUNNIGLE CONTENT.
A Great Struggle Will Begin To-Day With
the Clevelands for the
Fifth Position.
EFFORTS TO HAVE THE RUNNERS HERE.
New Hop Step and Jump Record Claimed-Gen.
eral Sporting News Of the Day.

Our slugCers are home again after one of
the most successful trips they have had for
avery long time. Manager McGunnigle
set out for the East with the wish that his
team would win six games. They have
won eight, lost five and tied one. That is
quite record against such teams as there
are in the East.
The work done has been so good that if
the weather is fine to-day there ought to be
quite large crowd present to greet the
boys They deserve a good reception, and
particularly at this stage do they need en-
couragement. To-day they will tackle the
Clevelands and the two teams will play
three games at Exposition Park. The
series really ought to be the most exciting
of the season as it is fight between the
two teams for position. One of them may
likely get fifth place, as the Brooklyns
have an extremely hard row TO hoe in the
East for the balance of the season. Mama
ger McGunnigle is very confident that his
team
WILL BEAT THE CLEvELANDS OUT,
and the series which begins to-day will 60
long way toward determining the result.
That both teams will make every possible
effort to win is certain, and this fact shows
that the series will be one of the most inter
eSting there has been here this year.
1t is needless TO say that Manager Nc
Gunnigle is well satisfied with the results of
the trip; but he claims that the fates were
dead against them at Boston. He points
out that they met one of those unlucky
streakS that fall to the lot of every team
now and again. He states tha: the team are
still playing great ball, and that Miller will
probably be able to play to-day. Calvin
viii likely be the home pitcher, and as
Jimmy is in form lust now he NAV score a |
victory. The trip East was also a financial |
success There is no desire to make any |
changes on the team at present. although q |
new man or two may be tried before the |
season ends. Arrangements will at once be |
made for exhibition games, when Maui and /
Berger will be given a thorough testing.
THE OTHER FELLOWS CONFIDENT.
The Clevelands are also in the city. and
are just as confident of finishing in fifth
place as either the Brooklvns or the Pitts
burgS. Manager Tebeau points ont that his
men have been in the worst kind of luck,
but that they will be able TO put up good
game to-day. 1t is likely that Farmer"
Young will pitch, aud that means the Cleve-
lands are determined to win to-day if they
can.
President J. Palmer O'Neil, of the local
Club, has also returned from the East, where
he went to attend the meeting to trv and
settle matters between the League and As
soclation. During a conversation he said:
Certainly we want to have everything
smooth and pleasant, but great scott, the As
soclatlon leaders want everything we have
before they will rejoin the National agree
ment We are not yet reduced to such
straits as will compel US to give up our all
10 anybody. We have done no harm nor in
Justice to the American Association. They
left US abruptly, but they are welcome back
if they viii come back reasonably and with
our making outrageous demands. BY con-
timing in their present foolish course thev
will be the sufferers and not u.s.
The game to-day at Exposition Park will
commence at 1 o'clock