The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-08-30


President Kramer received lots of attenti On
from the locals.
The Nationals deserve credit for their re-
cent good work.
White winged peace was rudely shattered
by "hel's" desertion.
President Young deeply regretted the Kelly
EPISODE and so expressed himself.
The Philadelphias have signed Bowman, the
crack pitcher OF the Cape May team.
Umpire Kerins is giving better exhibition
OF umpirfng than he did here last time.
Inks and Ely go hand in hand. The two
worthless kept their advance money.
The Pittsburgs are surprising the baseball
world by the grand rally they are making.
Freeman has been released. 1t was a mis-
take, as he is as good as Eiteljorg or Duke.
Only six weeks more to the close of the
season. Will the Nationals escape the tail
end?
Anson is getting further ahead in the
League race every day and looks like sure
winner.
Dowd will not be released, as there was a
big howl made over the move as soon as it be-
came known.
hing Kelly is now a full-fedged League
player, but he has lowered his standing con-
The Nationals and the Orioles will not
quarrel over Ely. He cut the Gordian knot
by jumping to the League.
SO the Western Association was to be thrown
down. Well, no wonder baseball magnates
are afraid to trust one another.
Paul Hines is still without an engagement
and this is strange indeed, as he would be a
pig man for any club outside of Washington.
The new material of the National Club have
added new life to the club, and the impression
is that they will in a week or so play great
ball.
Joe Walsh, shortstop of the Omaha Club.
has been signed by Manager Barnie, of the
Baltimore Club. Walsh will report here for
work on Monday.
The price paid Kelly for his treachery is ILL
spent money for the triumvirs. 1t is also ex-
travagant, for men of his calibre can be pur-
chased for much less. The blacklist needs
resurrecting.
Washington deserved Wednesdays game.
and would have secured it had Davis not been
so prejudiced. 1t was robbery, pure and
simple, TO call the game back to the eighth
inning and declare it tie
1t is dollars to doughnuts that a truce will
be patched up before the season closes. There
is too much money in the exhibition games to
De lost by clubbing over player whose SER
wees are more of a detriment than a helm to
his club.
The Association representatives to the con-
ference did wise and dignifed thing in with
drawing. The League magnates could not re-
strain their penchant for double dealing on
the eve OF satisfactory adjustment of the ex-
isting trouble.
Ihe conference of the League and American
Association here last week was perhaps the
bringing together of the brainest ball mapapers
this country has ever seen. 1t was too bad
.neir work was hampered by the Kelly break
almost at the start.
Baltimore and Barnie claims the services of
Ely, the player secured by the Nationals from
the Duluths. Barnie claims that Ely aoreed
TO play in Baltimore, but at the last moment
gave up the idea and came to this CITY. But
Baltimore will not get him, that is certain.
So JAY" of the New York Recorder. de-
voted half column to fulsome praise of
Kelly about week ago, as the one particular
star In the Brotherhood armament who had re-
mained steadfast to his pledges. "P. Jaw
should have talked with the "King' before he
penned that screed
The League, and especially the Boston end
OF the string, showed an utter lack of decency
during the conference for peace That they
~ SOulC means, undermine
and steal away the star player of the Asso-
citation, Kelly, while their agents were here in
this city talking peace, was like the assassin
who pats you on the back and then sneaks up
behind to stab.
Quite an interesting game was witnessed by
q large crowd at Capitol Park on Thursday
last between the Olympics, OF Georgetown,
and the Lafayettes, of Baltimore, which was
won by the former club Score to 3. Cham
berlain and Kleinschmitt, by timely hitting
and good base running, won the game for the
olympics. The Olympics are particularly
anxious to meet the G. A. C's.
The new corners in the Association ranks
play as sharp game OF ball as any of the
older teams, and moreover seem to be fully
alive to every point in the game. Many OF the
players are well-known here and two of
them, shoch and Carney, have been asso-
ciated with clubs representing this city, and
gained an enyiabie reputation Dalrymple is
well remembered as an old League player
and as one OF Anson's stand-bys, while the
oothers are young players who have pushed to
the lore within the past two seasons
Altogether the new team is creditable ac-
QUESTION TO the ranks of the Association. and
before the season closes will undoubtedly
prove it.
Halligan, the raw-boned Omaha player, who
agreed TO play here. then iumDed ia fhe