Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-10
GETTING MAD AGAIN,
Our Singers Not Feeling Very Gay
Because of a Few Difficulties
That Meet Them.
AFEW WORDS ABOUT M'GUNNIGLE.
Manager Mayer, of the Bridgeville County
League Team, Makes Statement
About His Club.
RYAN EASILY DEFEATS MMILLLN.
A AOne-Sded Battle for the welter-weight Champion
ship-General Sporting News
RYAN EASILY DEFEATS MMILLAN.
A One-Sided Battle for the weter-weight Champion
ship-General Sporting News
Yesterdays ASSOCIATION GAMES.


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NEW YORK, Aug. 9.--The Pittsburg ball
team left this morning for Boston, and, to
saw the least, the boys were not in the best
of humor Manager McGunnigle is not
getting along on the best of terms with
some of the players, and the team are not
one whit better than they were when here
on their first trip. If the Giants had been
in ANYTHING like their best form the Pitts
burgers would not have won game here.
Niller's fine on Saturday was a little too
severe as the coachers were more to blame
than he was. AS a result the feeling in the
team will probably be worse than it ever
was Manager McGunnigle does not hest
tate to state, or at least imply, that the
team have not been managed in the past,
and he saws he will place them up the list.
Yesterday he said to a reporter that he had
good pitchers, good felders and good hit
tiers, but that nobody had so far gotten the
team down to systematic playing. He
means 10 do this but so far he has not been
very successful. Hanlon is playing a great
game, and there is far more respect among
the players for him than for the present
manager.
SHAKE UP IN THE RACE.
As was to be expected, the coming of the
Western teams to the East has resulted in
shake up in the League race. The Bostons
and New Yorks are so near each other that
the difference of a game lost or won either
way causes them to change places. For the
last ten days they have been vibrating
serenely between second and third places,
and under the present condition Of affairs it
seems likely that they will continue to so
vihrate.
There have been three other swappings
about Of position. The Brooklyns. by dint
Of a little good luck and the encouragement
Of their soulful admirers, have been enabled
to thrust the aspiring Cleveland Dumplings
into the sixth hole, and at the same time the
PittShwgS, by reason of the unusual circum-
stance OF winning two games in one short,
fieeting week, have mounted once more to
the seventh rung of the ladder, in which
process they have relegated the ill-starred
Clncinnatis to the south end of the list.
The Philadelphias, also, have been play
ing an excellent game-so excellent, in fact,
that they compelled proud Anson TO sue
cumh on three separate and distinct occa-
sicns. thereby comforting great favor on
the citizens of this neigh borhood, and like
wise advancing themselves from fifth to
fourth position. The Philadelphians are by
no means out of the race, and If the gait at
which they are at present playing is contin-
ned for any length of time, it will not be
long before they will cause cold chills to
creep UP the respective spines of Managers
AnSon, Mutr1e ana Selee.
A COMFORTABLE MARGIN.
But in spite OF the three games dropped at
Philadelphia the Chicsgos still occupy front
place by comfortable margin. II, as had
been anticipated, the Bostons had been able
TO win two out of three from them. they
would now be within easy reach of the
Giants. As it is, the heavy responsibility
devolves upon the local play of defeat
ing Capt. Anson three straight games.
For the achievement of this end Rusfe's
strength has been boarded, and he will be
pitted in two out of three games with the
leaders.
Up TO this morning the New Yorks had
Won four games and lost one since beginn-
ming the series with the Western clubs at
tic Polo Grounds One of the Cleveland
games has been protested and will unques-
tionably have TO be played over again.
The decision of Umpires Battin and
Powers in the ninth inning of the last game
with the Giants was plainly an unfounded
one. and was the result of an ignorance of
the rules combined with a sudden attack of
the rGttles. Scanners Of the percentage
IN bles will therefore carefully bear in mind
that the standing of the New 1orks is not
what ii is cracked up to be, and that they
have in reality won one game less than the
number credited to them.
Unpleasant as this reflection is, every
air-minded crank, If there is such one,
must acknowledge that the game in Ques-
uion was unrighteously awarded to the
Giants at a time when the Clevelands were
in a fair way OF winning 1t.
1t is reported that Manager Mutrie has en-
gagged two new pitchers.
They are supposed to be Coughlin, of the
Syracuse club, and Barr, of the Buffalos.
Coughlin has been angled for by the League
fishermen for some months, and he was only
restrained from joining one of the major
clubs by reason of the sad-irOn cinch which
the Svracuse officials had placed on his ser
vices.
ABOUT PITCHER CoUGHLIN.
pitcher in the Eastern League, but there are
some Manager McGunningle, for instance,
who believe that the League confraternity
viii be too speedy for him. Pitcher Bob
Barr of the Buffalos, is Il veteran, and his
abilities are well known. The only wonder is
that he has not been engaged in some major
organization before.
It is to be hoped that in case these pitchers,
or either one of them, are engaged by Man
aver Mutrie they will come up to expects-
tions The pennant cannot fly from the pin
nacles of this capital unless Rusie receives
some assistance other than that afford ed by
MeSsrs Mickey Welch and Long John
Ewing.
1t had been hoped that our pitching de-
partment had had its share of suffering, but
TO cap the climax of all that has gone before
comes the intelligence that Welch has met
family. 1t is the eleventh interesting event
OF the kind Welch has experienced. Such
occurrences in fact, have been so frequent
ia the Welch family that the interest
therein, to the veteran twiTler at least, has
worn on somewhat at the corners.
SATURDAYS BALL GAMES.