Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-23
Causes That Tend to Lead to the
Generalization of the LEGAL
Baseball Team.
WHATENCOURAGING WORDscANDO
The Absurd Notion Of Transferring the
League Club From Pittsburg to
Indianapolis,
REGATTA OF THE AMATEUR oARSMEN.
Gossip and Opinions About the Latest Events Among the
Leading fugilists

Probably the most important seT1es OF tn e
season between the local and Eastern teams
will begin tomorrow. The series will be
important because it may so long way in
determining what team shall have the pen
nant The Bostons will be the first to ap-
pear, and at this stage defeat to them
meaus very much, indeed. But whether or
not the home players will be able to admin
lister any defeats at all is another matter.
As we all know, the career of the local
players has been so full of disappointments
this wear that few of us have nerve enough
to make any predictions of victory regard
ing them. The censure, the ridicule and
the ieers that have been heaped upon the
local players have been numerous, and, of
course, this does not make things any better.
True, all of us who are anxious to see Pitts
burg have winning team say many strong
things when defeat after defeat is recorded;
but if we examine closely well find that
these strong things very often do no good
Besides, when baseball team are losing al
most every day, almost everybody else knows
better how to mend matters than the man
ager. Consequently, he is inundated with
all kinds of advice, pointers, suggestions,
etc, gratis. This, too, only augments the
difficulties of the situation, and instead of
making the prospects better, they are as a
rule made worse. Then again, we have
another class of cranks who are daily
condemning the team as worthless, yet
every effort made to make the team stronger
is by these very cranks condemned. True
this is inconsistent, but bless your hearts,
dear readers, inconsistency among baseball
crankS is as natural as sunlight. Still
again there are others who make it their
business to stir up the bitterest of feelings
among the players, and as a grand result
everything and everybody is at skies and
sevens Now l do not for one moment con-
tend that patrons of the club have no right
TO grumble and complain about the team,
and also talk as much about the players as
they choose. l know of no authority to
prevent that, but L most emphatically con-
tend that when our grumblings, complain
ings, censures, etc, prove to be disturbing
element and tend to make matters worse,
instead of better, we should not find fault
about bad results of the team. In other
words while we are condemning the team as
q bad team we should not be helping to
make it worse, that is if our desire is to see
q good team in the city. think this is fair
enough.
The Releasing of Players.
There is always more or less dissatisfac-
ton caused by the releasing of players, and
il is quite safe 10 say that many patrons of
the local club would have been pleased if
Carroll had not been released. But the fact
is | would not be surprised if almost every
PLAYER in the team were released, because
hardly one of them has escaped public GEN.
sure and ridicule at one time or another.
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cater to the public, and when the latter,
either through the press or otherwise, make
wholesale condemnations we must certainly
not be surprised at, nor must we object to
the releasing of any man on the team. L
have argued steadily that the bad playing
of the team was not the result of bad man
agement. I strongly maintained this point
when Mr. HanlOn was in charge, and / am
now more than ever convinced of the fact
The players have more or less been failures
and doubtless they have gotten so far down
the scale that discouragement has knocked
much of the fire and ambition out of them.
And let me say that when matters get to
that stage we can depend upon it
that harsh words, jeering terms, abuse
and censure do no good If ever words
of encouragement are useful; if ever
thev have a noble mission to fulfill, and if
ever they can be productive of the greatest
good to the giver and the receiver, it is
when they are spoken to others who are
struggling in distress; who are down in
difficulties. And, after all, as far as l have
observed, kindly words will go much further
with baseball players than harsh or abusive
ones. just excuse this little divergence.
Well, I was going to say that when it is
found that the poor success of the team is
the result of the inferior work of the
PLAYERS and that the inferior work is not
the result of bad management, there is
hardly anything left for the management to
do but get new players. When this is done
the old ones must be released, and GER
tainlv none of US need be surprised at that
1t is not fair to charge Manager McGunni-
gle with having bad players and to find
fault with him when he tries to secure bet
ter ones
The Important Series.
A minute or two ago remarked that the
series of games which the Eastern teams
begin here tomorrow will in all likelihood
be an important one, and it may be that
during the games our local team will get
down TO good work. trust they will, not
only because of themselves, but because of
the stockholders of the club. If the team
can pull themselves together during the
next two weeks and win few games the
club will come out all right financially on
the season. Amid all the failings and dis
appointments of the team l still believe
they can play as good game as any team I
know of, and if ever it was the duty of ball
players to do their best it is the duty of the
local players TO do their best this week.
They ought to Danish all personal feeling;
indeed they must act like men and place
themselves above personalities of all kinds.
They are working for employers who have
hor wi to- 41ar1
hand. Most certainly it is the duty of
these players to at least try their very best
TO reimburse their employers. The most
ordinary sense of gratitude should prompt
the players to do that, and if they put aside
all personal chickering's and resolve to do
their work in their best pos
sible form we may have lots
of pleasure even vet. The real excitement
of the season will just commence now as the
end Of the race is getting nearer. The
worth of each victory will be seen now at
its full value, and every possible effort will
be put forth by Boston, New York and Chi
cago TO score victories And there is this
very unique feature about baseball, that al
though the PittsbGrg team are tailenders
they will fight just as determinedly against
the leaders and try as much to knock
them out of position as if they. the Pitts
burgs would step into it. This fact shows
g contest at the end of the season between
tailend team and a team fighting for first
place can be just as exciting as contest be-
tween any other two teams. If the weather
keeps fine L anticipate quite an interesting
week
Baseball Rowdyism.
During the week we have had quite dis
graceful proceeding on the ball field, and on
the League ball field at that Ordinarily q
few ''hot" words between players on the
ball field might pass unnoticed, and even q