The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-20
WORKING HARD TO WIN
The Baseball Season Has Start
ed with a Healthy Boom.
EARLY SIGNS OF THE TINES.
The Old Enthusiasm Seems to Be Reviy-
ing with a Red Hot Vengeance-That
Postponed Game Rule-Anse and the
New Reporter.

Jupiter Pluvius seems TO have Joined the
| army of cranks. AT any rate he has been
Quitting in" and breaking up the game all
over the land just as if his dampened mai
esty wanted to keep score. There were
eleven postponed games on the books the
third day of the League season. and five
more were added on the sixth day. Mag
mates have no control over the elements, and
while there is good deal of grumbling
heard about ''beastly weather" it is really
as good as could reasonably be expected:
| Despite the cold wave that swept over the
| The spring casualty list is larger than
usual. but while Mike Herman, Sam
Thompson, Ed DelehanJy, Captain Tebeau,
! Captain Comiskey and Captain Hanlon
were on the hospital roll-numbered with
/ the injured-the case of the latter alone
was deemed serious. Before the season
! was an hour old a practical test of one of
! the new rules-a radical departure from
ancient methods of play-was in progress.
! The trial took place at Cincinnati and oc-
casioned little comment. There were hun
! dreds among the seven thousand odd who
were in blissful ignorance of the fact that
| Captain Ned Hanlon, unable to play, was
in the coacher's box directing operations.
| Singularly enough, Cincinnati was also
| the first city to experience the results OF
the legislation which will make it impos-
sible for Boston or any other club TO stow
away all it's postponed games for lump
| ing purposes if victories are needed at the
| flag end of a campaign. 1t is remarkable
! that the passage of the rule which makes
| it obligatory for clubs to play postponed
! contests on the succeeding day within the
same scheduled series escaped the eyes Of
! all the scribes who were gathered together
at the League conference.
| Captain Arson unearthed it and was
turned down" by President Young when
! he made the point in ST. Louis. The
| Chicagoan would not take mo" for an
answer, and he warmed the wires to
Washington with another message, and
his Interpretation of rule 45'' was finally
pronounced correct-the only decision that
a reading of the paragraph will warrant.
! The discovery of the rule enabled Cincin-
natl to stow away a couple of victories at
Chicagos expense, gained in the presence
of one of the most magnificent midweek
| crowds ever seen within a Queen City
ball park 'The old man" was going
away disconsolate after the double over
| throw of his colts when Manager Ban
croft observed:
"Anse, that's good rule you turned up.
I wish you'd thumb over the old guide
while you're away and maybe you can
! find clause which will enable the Reds
to get at you three times in an afternoon
Manager Bancroft has another amend
ment in the incubator, and he will urge
the Cincinnati club to ask it's edoption at
once by mail vote.
why" said he, should game of ball
that is stopped by ramsay in the third or
fourth inning-be played all over again?
My idea is that the club then in the lead
should retain it's advantage and the next
| day take up the game at the point at
which it had been abandoned. Are there
any objections to such a rule? 1t is only
| fair. When q trot is interrupted by dark
ness the horses are1 not compelled to trot
all the heats once more. l hold that the
same principle applies to baseball"
| Let me say" declared Captain Arson,
who had listened to Bancroft's statement
of the case, that l indorse that plan, and
would vote for it. | do not think any
| lover of the game would object to seeing
the finish of an exciting game before a full
nine innings contest was commenced"
| Old Anse made his mark on the for.
tieth milestone in life's journey the other
day, but he is as buoyant in spirits as
young blood playing his first stan engage
| ment.
Every spring for seventeen years Uncle
| has told the people that Chicago will win
the pennant-that nobody can stop them.
He has fulfilled that prophecy on several
occasions, and there have been but few
struggles in which Chicago has not cut
very large figure in the race. | heard the
| old, old story from Uncle's lips recently,
| but after he had unused upon the certainty
of the glorious victories that were ahead
of him he turned to John T. Brush and
asked:
What players did we get at Indianapo-
| lis?"
There was a layer of sarcasm an inch
| thick on each word.
IF I'd been on that committee there
would have been no peace unless Farrell,
Van Haltren and Duffy resumed their
| places in the ranks at Chicagop
What blessed thing it is for the peace
of mind of the cranks and the good of the
/ game that the old mans finger was not big
enough to reach that Hoosier pie!
In that moment of melancholy for play
! ing treasures lost, Anse gave evidence
| that deep down in his baseball heart he
does not believe Chicago has an air tight
cinch on the flag. The captain had queer
! experience with young scribe while in
! Porkopolis, who posed as dictator for
| brief period.
"Sit down." said he to Anse, "anG write
me out an interview"
| "All right" was the old mans response.
"Give me the salary and I'll do the
work"
well, what will say" queried the nov
! ice.
Say anything you please" replied
Anse.
"Oh, I might write something that
would make you mad" observed the re-
/ porter.
u guess not. The chances are I'll never
see it."
/ Relating the story to me. the old man
said, That shot broke his heart, but he
peppered me in return, and when l told
| him the colts coulds lose because they
were full of Anse's ginger pop he rvtorted,
there's. no use putting that in - you
( wouldn't see it, -
! Governor Mckinley, Of Ohio tossed out
the ball that was put into play when Co
| lumbus and Toledo gave the Western its
| first championship boost. The great author
! of the doctrine of protection TO American
luuuSlIltS was never more iit@oAN44f NFrStta2
| than by that assembled host 81 fans -
/ Governor Francis of Missouri, participated
/ in the St Louis festivities, and Governor
! Russell at Boston Getting down TO the
/ chief officials of the cities, Mayor Mosby
OF Cincinnati, Mayor NoOnan Of =. Louis
Mayor Holmes OF Kansas City and Mayor
/ Karb Of Columbus are all proud TO be en-
Z rolled as members OF the Grand Army Of
/ Cranks RES MULFOED, Jg
/ No Umbrellas