Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-22
A REVIEW OF SPORTS,
The Good Work of AnsOn's
Team and the Lessons 1t
Teaches Other Clubs.
PENNANT RACE FEATURES.
Matters Pertaining to the Local Ball
Club and Burns Engagement.
DIR, SHREADY AND ]. L. SULLIVAN,
Fred Johnson's Arrival and the Excellent
Impression Made by Him.
PENNANT RACE FEATURES.
DR.. SHREADY AND ]. L. SULLIVAN.
Fred Johnson's Arrival and the Excellent
Impression Made by Him.
TIE GODDARD AND M'AULIFFR FIGHT

venting games and keeping down the at
tendance, but despite the bad weather th,
patronage bestowed on the games has beer
exceedingly good, particularly in Pitts
burg.
One of the features in the pennan
race during the week has been tn,
form displayed by the Chicago team
Anson and his colts are Just now about a,
good as they will be this season. They are
playing frst-claSs ball and it is not too
much to expect that they will land very
near the top in the race for the first pen.
nant Much credit is due to Anson for the
heroic manner in which he has pulled his
team together. They set out BY meeting de-
feat after defeat and many people under the
circumstances would have been making all
kinds OF changes. He did no such thing,
hut stuck 10 his men and the club owners of
course stuck to him and as a result the
team stepped out of the unfortunate rut
they had gotten into. In this there is a
lesson for the directorate of other clubs
Experience has shown that these changes
arc in the majority of cases not very prof.
table l have often thought that the desire
for changes in the Pittsburg club has been a
little too strong. There is nothing like
giving an honest and capable man a good
try.
The Boston team continue to hold a good
lead in the race and thev are likely to con-
1lnue to win more games than they lose
Some misfortune will have to befall them if
they do not win the pennant, although
tie Brooklyn team are now showing up in
great strength. Ward has fully demonstrated
that he has an excellent team of PLAYERS
and after all there is not much difference
between his team and the Bostons
Ihd Louisville team are out of the con /.
test as Jar as first place or anywhere near it
is concerned. Their flash-in-the-pan vic
tories have sUbsided and now they are COM
1ara,ively weak. Our friend Jones' of
Homestead is no longer terror, judging
from his recent efforts, and altogether the
Colunels are poorly off for pitchers. There
EaS been nothing special among the other
teams. Cleveland continues to play clean
aEG steady game and the New Yorks are i'm
proving. The Phillies are still out of con-
ai1ion and the Batimores are playing much
better than they did.
Local BAH Club Mfsfortun.s,
Like Ireland our local baseball club is
hardly ever clear of trouble and difficulties
just as regular as the season comes, misfor-
tune sooner or later environs the club No
matter how encouraging or how successful
the team may start ont, the evil fates are
always IN waiting for it and catch il lust as
sure as such thing as trouble is in the
world.
This is all very disheartening, par ticu-
lGrly to.those gentlemen who are connected
with the club and who have been at so
much expense and trouble in trying to
make and keep things right. Certainly
there is no disorganization in the club but
a series of defeats of the team have brought
w. lnal- 81 L.
Utlve defeats are what have caused the
trouble. Most assuredly there is hardly
snv1hing that makes us all so dscontented
50 dlsheartened and very often so deaf TO
reason as defeat after defeat ANYBODY
who has the least interest in baseball soon
becomes disgruntled by an over-supplv of
defeats Of his tavorite team; indeed, this
di>coatentment about defeats is the great
proof OF the interest that is taken in the
game. ! wo1ld give little for mans in
tere>r in the game who would never
Erumble, rant and rave when his favorite
team were beaten time alter time. 1t is |
our preroEative to grumble, and, depend |
upon it, these honest grumblings often do |
good, as they result in setting our mind at
rest.
But if we'll only stop at a legitimate |
grumble things will be all right. 1t is |
when We overstep the grumbling line and |
harm, and really there is no necessity tor |
It. During the last few DAYS l have heard |
many people call our baseball players and |
everybody connected with the club some
very nard names, simply because the team
have lost few games in succession. Now,
really, there Is no reason for this particu-
larry, because 1t cannot do any good / ad- |
mlre game losers, and game loser doesn't
deal IN abuse when everybody is irving his /
best to win. But he will investigate the
causes Of defeat and set himself to work to
make remedies when he has found defects.
The All Are in Earnest.
In speaking of our baseball club. there is
one thing which we must not lose sight of.
VIZ, that everybody connected with it is in
earnest Every PLAYER on the team is doing
his utmost to be victorious, and alter an
excellent start they have REACHED a point
where il seems almost impossible for them
10 do anything but make mistakes, in fact.
some Of tie best players on the team have
recently committed some of the most
gorgeous errors. Now, these players can
not for their lives tell you how these mis-
takes were made, and certain it is that
nobody on earth was more surprised |
at the comm ittal of those errors than
these very PLAYERS themselves and these
extremely surprising mistakes have of late
often been made just when our pitchers
wee Al peller form tnan tney nave ever
been Take many of the games that Bald
WIN has pitched for instance. Time and
tine again he has pitched the most wonder
fuI KIND OF ball. and still has been beaten
because OF mistakes being made that nobody
ever dreamt Of. The game Woodcock |
pitched and Wednesdays game were also
instances Of what l mean. Nobody can tell
me that the playing of the team on these |
occasions was their regular standard of play.
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consequence of the players being e1traor-
dinar!ly out Of form
True it is that weak hitting is another
defect that has brought about our trouble
some detects, but l always claim that club
oihclals are no more responsible for the .
poor hitting OF man than they are for his
lnaOIIty 10 sprint faster than Harry ]
HutchIns. Each player will have to cuIti- |
vate ms own hlfting, and, depend upon it, !
selt-lnterest viii prompt him to do the best /
he can on that point.
Well then, let us look at the situation q
fairly and generously. We have seen that I
everybody is doing the best he can. and q
when That IS being done. of what use is it to G
hurl oui abuse" | am sure the officials of I
the club don't deserve il, for if ever men d
worked Ike Troians for success they. are I
doing II now. The players don't deserve u
il, because whatever some of their short | n
sOnllngs may be no team in the baseball | 4
business are more anxious to win than they. f
are. All this being so, would it not be bet | c
ter to give the unfortunates announcement ! G
instead OF adding to their misery and dis n
,oEhturc by administering more kicks? If b