Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-13
Baseball Notes.

AND still our bigs luggers don't slug.
REILLY played a very good game yesterday.
BUCK EWING says that he expects to get into
harness this week.
OUR sluggers will be getting their eye on the ball
jim MUTRIE's big people can play rocky game
well as other folks.
THERE were big odds on the New York team in
local betting circles yesterday.
WE are even with the Giants, and If we win to-
day they cannot beat us this trip.
THE Boston management is trying to secure
Pitcher Horner of the New Havens.
WHEN King gets thoroughly settled down he will
be in line with the best in the country.
THECentral Board has discarded the scoring rule
relating to the scoring Of runs batted in."
MANAGER CHAPMAN is making frantic efforts to
strengthen Louisville. He is after two new men.
BIERBAUER's one-handed catch yesterday was
one of the giit-edged kind. There are no flies on
Tom.
WILLIAM wRIGHT-The player you name never
played for the Pittsburg club and he first played
In Chicago in 1857.
and bonus for Pitcher Thornton, and it turns out
to have been bad deal, as Thornton is, so far,
failure.
PRESIDENT n. E. YOUNG has reduced Mullane's
fine from $50 to IS, and sent letter TO Umpire
Powers telling him he was too hasty and injudi-
cious.
MANAGER HANLoN may change the batting
will be in eighth place. The proposed change
seems to be good one.
THE James H. Portes would like to hear from all
amateur clubs III years of age Grafton pre-
ferred. Send all challenges to W. j. Boyd, Lo-
gan street. Pittsburg, Pa.
"BIG BILL BROWN says: 81 thought last sea-
that Rusie did rot amount to much as pitcher,
but tell you that never in all my life stood
up before such great pitching as he did in Phila-
delphia.n :
THE Oakland Athletics have organized with the
well, j. bunlevy, L. Morrow. H. Trimbur, W.
O'Donnel, G. Ewens and j. MCGEE. They would
like to hear from any IA or 15-year-olds. Address
NJ. Coll, 406 Atwood street.
''No there will be no change made in the team
for some time at least ~ said President Brush last
night. There is no one available that can Sc
for any place that would not be experiment.
feel that we have good team. think the fact
proves this fact conclusively. .''-Ctncinndti En-
Quirer.
JOHN MONTGOMERY WARD, who sat on the
bench during the game, let out an lawful holler''
in the eighth inning. John was badly '.skeered.'
II looked like the Reds had the Brookyns little lead
in their pocket. He protested that Latham
out, when 1t was clear that he had beaten out
Burns throw to first. The trouble lay in the fact
that Burns didn't handle the ball quickly.-Ctncin-
matt Enquirer.
broken up. Weidman and Pete Conway, two of
the greatest advance-money pitchers with no pitch
to them, have dropped out Of sight. Getzein, Ben
Thompson is with the Philiies; TwitcheII is waif
somewhere I'm the West; LADY, Baldwin and
'Deaconn White have turned farmers; Brouthers
is with the Boston Association team; Shindle is
with the Philies; Jack Rowe is playing with the
Western Association; Briody has drffted out of
BASEBALL Dunlap and Richardson are both nursing
broken legs, and, oddly enough, both were victims
burg and the much-abused Manager Watkins is
running team in the Far West.