Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-21
THE DAY FOR CRANKS
Everything Ready to Open
the Local Ball Sea-
son To-Day,
VONANDHIS BROWNS HERE
Rain Once More Prevents Our Slug
gers From Winning.
PROMISING LOCAL TR0TTERS.
The Baltimore and New York Game Ends
in a Dispute.
NANDHIS BROWNS HERE
PROMISING LOCAL TROTTERS.
The Baltimore and New York Game Ends
in Dispute.
GENERAL SPORTING NEWS OF TIE DAY

It's several years since Der Poss man
Ager, now and again called 'Von der Abe, :"
was in Pittsburg, and last evening when he
and his Browns arrived in the city from st.
Louis there we're many local cranks to meet
him at the Seventh Avenue. But things
have changed considerably since the halcyon
days of Chris when he used to come here
with long Dave Foutz, the lively Latham,
Partisan Bob Caruthers, the redoubtable
Comiskey and other celebrities of baseball
history. This trip Der Poss has few IA
miliar faces with him, and none of his men,
excepting probably Pinckney, Glasscock,
Buckley and Gleason, are very well known
here. Glasscock stopped at Wheeling and
will arrive this morning.
But Christopher has lot of good men
with him. The world would likely go out
of joint if he hadn't, because when ordinary
mortais search for months for good player
and fail to get one, there is something of
divinity that aids Der Poss to get dozens of
them.
Still the Same vondy.
Although many things have changed
since 1856, the proprietor of the Browns is
the same kind of citizen that he was then.
His mission is not to get the "worst of it,"
and be is still fulfilling that mission with
remarkable success all round.
His team come to open the local champion
ship season at Exposition Park this after
noon, and if the weather is fine it is safe to
say that there will be an immense crowd
present to see the inaugural contest To be
sure the ST. Louis chiettan is certain of vic
tory. He never anticipated defeat in his
life, and during a conversation last evening
he spoke as confidently of the glorious
future of the Browns as he ever did in his
life
The home players will arrive in the city
this morning, and both teams will meet at
the Seventh Avenue Hotel at 1:30 and join
in the parade. The game will be an interest
ing one if for nothing more than the first
appearance in the box in this city of the
latest ST. Louis wonder, Breitenstein.
He Is Quite Terror.
While this young man is not built like an
Adonis, he has already proved himself to
be terror in the pitchers box, and he
moved our sluggers down at St. Louis the
other day as if they were snow men. The
young man with the long name will likely
be opposed in the box by Pittsburg's specl-
men of perennial youth, Jimmy Calvin.
Baldwin landed home yesterday to get a
rest in order to pitch to-day, but as there
was no game at Cincinnati yesterday Man
ager Buckenberger resolved last evening to
put Calvin in to-day. The local heroes will
return this morning with three victories to
their credit and two defeats so that they
come back from their first trip with bal
ance on the right side. The game will COM
mence at 3:45, and will be preceded by
promenade concert by the Great Western
Band. The teams will likely be made up
as follows: