Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-06-11
PHETSPUT OUT
Early Baseball Predictions
Have All Gone Wrong.
ABOUT ANsoN. KING OF CAPTAINS

the Greatest General That Ever Lived
or Ever win Draw the Breath of Life
ON the Diamond
The early predictions about the League
clubs have been knocked upside down and
ripped fore and aft by the fierce winds OF
baseball hard luck. and laid low on the
rocks of adversely. Everybody is more or
less astonished, and in many cases bitterly
disappointed. But baseball is baseball,
and this general wreck of newspaper teams
and calculations merely serves to show
the peculiarities and uncertainties attend
ant upon our national game, and to Illus
trate the utter futility of making up cham
pion teams on little pieces of paper
Look at the great array and the bold
! front made by the gallant New York
| Giants in the early springtime, when
ranged upon the paper field, and look at
them again on the actual field of battle,
struggling away TO keep out of eighth
place The gallant champions from Brook
| Ign who won last years pennant are bare
ly in the first division. while Chicago, al
ways strong, but never thought this year
70 be as formidable as usual, is basking in
the front row of carriages
The element Of luck has entered largely
into all these calculations and assisted 10
smashing the combinations The Brooklyn
club released it, great shortstop, George
Smith, to make room for John NJ. Ward.
In the very first game Ward, who has not
had an accident in years that kept him
from playing very long, managed in IA col
lision at second base 70 dislocate and BRICK
his thumb lie is travelling with the team
aud directing il from the bench bat he has
not been able to play since the season
opened. which has been n terrible handicap
to the champions Despite these facts the
team IS now playing winning ball
There is something about Adrian c. An
son that conipels the admiration OF every
man who knows rae least thing about
baseball ..The old man" always turns up
when the bell rings with a ratrling good
team-with "A few strangers, mayhap, upon
IL, but bali players all You seldom hear
Of Anson's pitchers having sore arms or
glass legs or anything Of that kind. II "A
man has got a sore arm he has to prove it
to the captain. and tiie way he proves il is
by going in the box where be generally
pitches the game Of his life If he really
has bal arm. anl is iinable TO pitc. from
natural canses-and ''the old man" gen
ertlly knows wnere his mel are al the
ti.ne--he finds ia Auson a good nurse, and
is allowed the proper time to recover.
If within reasonable time the pitchers
arm fails to mend, and it appears that the
player has lost his grip. he is released
Oddly enough, too. the weather does not
seem TO affect Anson's pitchers He has
no need to swathe them in cotton batting.
as Director Billings, of the Boston club.
once suggested should be done to Rad
bourn. The great captain-and he is the
greatest the game has ever known or ever
will know-tells pitcher TO 90 in the box,
and If he does not do good work the cap
tain nearly always has another pitcher to
take his place. They have not seen his |
team this year in the east as yet, but he |
will be among them within month, and |
he may be expected to show some surprises. |
Arson has only one sick player, Tom |
Burns, remarkably valuable man to the |
team. But ''the old man" found a kid named |
Dahlen, who has filed the bill so far at third |
base in n most satisfactory manner. An
son win take VITA him all the confidence |
o. a conquer0r He say, nothing can stop |
his team, and that this is Chicago's year to |
win the pernant
The Boston team, which keeps alternat-
ing with Chicago in the lead. is putting up
a very strong game, AS it always does in the
springtime. The Bostons have had some
hard luck with their pitchers being i'll, but
when they get back to their own bailiwick
they are liable 70 win a great many games
There are still something Ikea hundred
and twenty games for each team to play
and within ten days the situation, so far
as the pennant is concerned, may be en-,
tirely changed Indeed. this is very likely
Luck may change for some teams which
are now in dead calm.
The enthusiasm in the game, outside OF
Cleveland. has not been so marked as it
was in the east but still the general re.
rival OF interest has been very strong, and
here is no doubt that the game will soon
reach its old footing in the west Hence
here will be something for all the western
;lubs when the balance is struck at the
md of the year. The eastern clubs should
make pot of money.
The American association fight goes
nerrily on, TO small crowds in some cities
md fair ones in others The final evening
up cannot, it seems 70 me, show finan-
.ial profit for any club save those with low
alaried teams. The Boston Reds have got
good lead and it looks as if they would
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Baltimore, while the Orioles have abe at
he same advantage over St. Louis. al
hough the Browns have won one more
,ame. These are the teams that are max.
ng and will make the running. and one Of
hem will win the flag My choice is Ehs
on or Baltimore with the chances in favor
4 Boston. The loss of Harde Richardson
oes not seem TO have crippled the team, as
continues to win with about the same
egularity as before
THINGS THAT ARE SAID.
That Buck Ewing has proved himself a
oor manager
That Tim keefes arm is gone
That the ramors aholt heeie are entirely ,
ntrue
That "Old Hoss' Radbourn is still very
luch in the ring, and will win great
lany games for Cincinnati
That John Ward will be able to play very
Don, and when he does the fur win fly
Therever the champions appear
That no one knows when Buck Ewing
ill play, and that pretty soon no one viii
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