Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-20
THEY'LL BE ALL RIGHT
Captain Burns Has Strong Hopes
for His Team. of Ball Players.
SOME GOOD NEW MEN EXPECTED.
The St. Louis Browns Defeat the Colonels
in q Good Game.
GENERAL SPORTING NEWS OF THE DAY

Captain Burns, of the local ball team, ex-
poets to have his players wonderfully
strengthened during the next few days He
isaware that the pitching department is the
weakest and he expects to have that all
right Ehret thinks he will be in form to
| pitch this week and there is still hope of
| Terry coming and pitching = good game.
His effort at Washington the other day hss
been favorably commented on because he
had not pitched for months previous to that
game Smith at present is all right and
Baldwin is expected to be in line again this
week. During a conversation yesterday
Baldwin said: 'tMy arm is all right and
during the last week or SO I have felt in
! first-class trim when have started in the
game But have lacked speed. I am
simply off little and will be all right
shortly. pitched very hard and often for
! a few weeks and that knocked me out a
little"
Genins Reported Good One.
Genins will join the team tomorrow, but
Donovan is not exepected for some time, as
he is playing great game for Washington.
Many people are anxious to have Will
Gumbert signed by the local club. The
the matter yet, and he may pitch one or
two more games for the home team.
The locals and the Cleveland team will
play the last game of their present series to-
day, and then the home team will 20 to
Louisville and play three games returning
here to tackle the Cincinnati Reds Friday
and Saturday. The team are not far behind
yet if they could only get out of their
crippled condition. The team have been
somewhat surprising in their recent work
compared with that in the early part
of the season. But there are always sur
prises in baseball, and on this point an
Eastern baseball writer says:
There have been many surprises in the
baseball arena this week, and if reverses
continue during the coming fortnight the
result of the contest for the championship
Will be very much in doubt until the last
games are played. week ago no one ex-
pected to see the Chicagos suffer such a
series of humiliating defeats as they have
met with at the hands Of the Brooklyns and
PittsburGs. Neither was it thought that the
New forks would take the pride out of the
Brooklyns as easily as they have, or that the
Phiiadelphias would drag the Bostons Off
their high horse. Yet such have been some
Clevelands thought it was time to settle
down to more steady work and they have
been playing in remarkable form within the
past few days.
The Wiseacres All Upset.
These unforeseen events have so unset
the wiseacres that they dare not predict the
result of the contest and are not so ready to
bet
With continuance of such work as the
Ph1ladelphias, the New Yorks and the Gin
cinnatis have been doing of late why should
not one Of these clubs prove to be a dark
horse in the race? They're all in positions
to play more steadily than tine present lead
ers, Tor whom every CLUB is now lying in
wait. Some of them have nothing to gain,
but they are anxious to humiliate their am
bitious rivals. Even the tail enders play
with more than ordinary energy when they
encounter the leaders.
On the other hand the Bostons and Brook
lyns are showing signs of nervousness The
strain is telling on them. Ward never was
more anxious to win than while here and
his playing indicates this. He could not
throw ball at critical points in the game
ana his fielding was remarkably unsteady.
The Giants took advantage of this and won
their games.
But with the defeats sustained by the
leaders the race for the pennant is becom-
ing more exciting, and the chances of sew
eral more clubs making o bid for it are
bright, and are growing brighter daily.