The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-05-15
D. BOONE At THE BAT.
Kentucky Gone Mad Over LOU
isville's Baseball Players.
Rem MILFORD, JR.'S. GOSSIP

ern Advorsaries-College men IN teh'
National Game.
Father Knickerbocker has often been
pictured TO the good people OF the metroP
oils wearing the garments Of a green ul@
mond monarch Uncle Sam at bat Is an
other subject that sportive artists nave
pictorially treated. but for the first time
on record Kentuckians have idealiZed Dan
lei Boone, the frontier hero, with a base
ball club in his hand Dan'l. In his ola
coonskin cap, is shown poised ready LOT
curve or inshoot. That is a symptom OF
Louisville's baseball madness at the pres
ent moment The balloon has persstently
refused 10 burst, and the Falls City is In
toxicated with enthusiasm born Of mex
pected success When Farmer" Weaver
broke bis finger every individual crank IN
the old commonwealth felt a pang Of pain.
for with Weaver disabled there was fear
that the sweet spell Of victory might be
broken. Still the Colonies have Grim left
with Tom Dowse in reserve.
Talking Of catchers, two Of the old line
were called home lately-Ned Bligh and
Charley Briody-making the 1892 list OF
deaths appalhngly large.
When the fasteners took sleepers for
the boroughs beyond the Alleghanies there
were at least two Of the assorted six that
expected 70 have a regular May Day outing
with cream pie attachments and all that
sort of thing. The exuberance Of the com
ing champions was immense. ltisamatter
of record that some of these gentlemen had
summed up more victories to store away
in their trunks than they had games
scheduled 10 play on the trip
For the first time in years the west Is
strong enough all around 10 successfully
cone with the east. and the duels between
the sectional rivals give promise Of an eH-
citing race. Every game lost now cuts
biz figure in the fight There can be no
more long pulls and strong pulls TO regain
lost ground. and the club that drops far
behind may just As well abandon all hope
and WOO Fortune for her fayors IN the sec
ond division.
Clarence Bayne bas gone to the front this
wear az a college wonder. Yale Harvard
and Princeton have all lowered their colors
TO the University Of Pennsylvania, and the
name Of Bayne Is now coupled with that
of William Penn And yet the proud l. P.'s
iournevcd ON 20 Bethlehem after over
ybelminp the greatest college mines in the
land and were beaten by Dehighl The
Senators have line out for Bayne.
MANAGER Pat Powers, of the New Yorks,
gave me a cue on the professionalism THAI
has invaded the colleges tie SAID:
Last year when Bayne pitched for Leb-
anon i'm the Eastern association he was not
considered an extraordinarily good man.
The Bunalos had no trouble in Furnishing
his delivery"
Pittsburg and Louisville will soon be re-
enforced by college twirlers. Fred Wood
cock Of Brown university, and Ben san
ders. of Vanderbilt university, Will join
their respective clubs in June just before
the windup Of the first scrimmage. Wood
cock has given Harvard fall this season,
and he is likely 10 prove a valuable recruit
70 the company of college pitchers in pro
fessional harness-a list that includes
Hutchinson, formerly of Yale, and Niau,
Of Dartmouth.
Is base running 10 become a lost arti
The danger signals are out, and In the ma.
iOr league these days with the spry knights
of the mask and NIT behind the bat ready
TO assist in executions on the lines the
stolen base accounts look as lean as DR..
Tanner after his forty days fast. Thus
far this season there has been no re
markable surplus Of steals 10 record. and
the larcenies seem 10 have given way TO
sacrifice hits The team work OK the mo
ment drifts more toward safe play than
reckless daring, and base runners, as
class, seem to depend upon the batsmen
who follow them 10 move them along
rather than take the chance of self ad-
vancement by sprints down the path.
Neither Tom Brown, Arlie Latham, Billy
Hamilton, Curt WEIGH nor any Of the
other feet footed sons of the diamond
have been attracting extraordinary atten-
tion TO that department of the game.
In Cincinnati visiting teams have curbed
their ambitions in that line while Morgan
Murphy was behind the rubber There
are none who can dispute with him the
right TO the title Of the King OF Back
stops" He is the peer today of any catcher
In the land, and there is only one man who
ever played in Porkopolis who ranked in
the same class with him, and that was
Charley Snyder Fouls Of the impossible
to get" sort are Murphy's delight, and be
is the terror of base runners. II is almost
sure suicide TO attempt to 90 TO second on
him, and there are victims in Pittsburg,
Cleveland St. Louis and Chicago who
would make excellent witnesses for the
prosecution Of such an argument. In Nor
gan Murphy's case is eXemplified a doc
trine-Old in baseball-that many club
lets good thing slide. Little Murphy
was once on the Boston Leagues roll, but
he was dropped, drifted to Lowell, and,
dug up by the Brotherhood he went 20 the
front as the cleverest star in the armament
of catchers. The work OF such receivers
as Murphy has curtailed the credit marks
in the IS. b." column.
The fad of the day seems TO be sacrifice
hitting, and Arlie Latham, Duffy, Van
Haltren, Pfeher Burkett, Dahlen, Ward,
Thompson, Bierbauer, Carroll, Ewing and
Donavan, who have been following the
leading batsmen in the twelve clubs, have
all been called upon 10 perish in the cool
cause more times than a few since the
campaign opened. In the interest of team
work an earnest player will take his medi-
cine and sacrifice, although it Is nonsense
to contend that safe hits are not meat and
drink 10 30 per cent. of the men in uniform
today, and the same rule held good in the
past
Many game is lost for the sake OF one
little sacrifice. Such drive would add
naught 10 the record Of conscientious
batsman, bat in the manufacture Of runs
sacrifices play just as important part rs
The clean drives that delight the soul of