Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-28

done very bad since the Eastern teams came
West this last trip, and it IL only fair to
! state that there has been some bard luck con
| nected with the team during the last few
days. Ehret's failure against the Brook.
lyns was the point where extremely good
work ceased, and where defeats began to be
more numerous than victories. What hap.
pened to Ehret is liable to happen to any.
body. He has pitched exceedingly well
since that and lost
We cannot shut our eyes to the fact that
| our pitching force is not as strong as many
of us thought it was A week or SO ago it
| looked as if the club had about as powerful
force OF pitchers as any club in the coun.
| try; but before we could we'll turn around
| there was something wrong" again.
| Pitchers are the most unreliable men on
ball team. There is never anything like
certainty about their being in form for two
days in succession. 1 am sure that nobody
will gainsay the assertion that had our
pitchers been in form right along the team
would have been we'll up in the race.
There has been another unfortunate ele-
ment in the team of late that has contri'
buted largely to defeat. viz: weak batting.
| Our players have fallen off wonderfully in
their hitting, and it is needless to say that a
team who cannot get more than four or i've
or six hits day need not expect to win
many games But those of us interested in
| the success of the team can only hope that
the players will get into form again as soon
as possible and make good wind-up of the
season.
The Release Of Mark Baldwin.
Those who have watched local baseball
matters during the past few weeks would
not be surprised at the release of Mark
Baldwin. He and the local cranks have
not been getting along very we'll and this
fact was bound sooner or later to cause a
change.
To be plain on the matter think the
club did perfectly right in releasing Bald
win. He is good pitcher, one OF the best,
but there were circumstances connected
with his pitching that made him a
loser here. The frequency with which he
gave bases on balls was the great source
of trouble and the spectators simply made
matters worse.
don't think that there is pitcher in
the baseball business of the ability OF
Mark Baldwin who has been so unreason-
ably and ungentlemanly treated by the
spectators as Baldwin has been treated by
Pittsburg crowds. Those insulting and dis
couraging remarks that have often been
yelled at him even when he was doing well
were bound to have an effect and q bad eff
feet How can any player do his best or
do we'll when spectators are publicly jeer-
ing him and insulting him? A ball player
has feelings like the rest of us. These in
sulting demonstrations made Baldwin much
worse than he would have been, and tor
this reason the club could not keep him
here.
But those people who make 1t their busi-
ness to yell and shout all kinds of insulting
and discouraging remarks to players should
reflect little. They should remember that
they only make the players worse and
lower themselves to the standard of hood
lums and blackguards Depend upon 1t, the
officials of the club are at all times watching
the work OF every player, and those who do
poor work are marked very soon. No
spectators can be more anxious to win
games than the club officials are, and it is
only fair for the spectators to allow these
officials to deal with those players whose
work is not satisfactory.
1 am fully aware that the local club Off
cials are proud of the way in which Pitts
burgers patronize the national game, and 1
am also aware that these officials are doing
everything possible to give these patrons
one OF the best teams in the country. The
club directors are going the right way to
work to get good team. Young players
of the most promising kind are being secured
Baseball Affairs In General
Generally speaking things continue to be
very quiet in baseball affairs. The pennant
race is still good one snd the winner is
almost as hard to guess as ever. The Cleve-
lands still cling to the top and they are
playing good ball. The other day Manager
Wright, of the Philadelphia team, told me
that the C!evelands were hitting the ball
hard and running the bases well and that
their pitchers were all strong and in good
shape. But ne added that they would take a
tumble when they went East.
OF course the chances are always against
a team when they are awav from home, and
it will be SO with the ClevelaAds, but I
hope they will stick to the top. They have
dangerous opponents in the Brooklyns In
my way of thinking John Ward has the
best team in the country. The best team
be Brooklvn's misfortune to not get the
prize. But they are the strongest team
that have been here this year
The Bostons, Philadelphias and New
Yorks are all fighting hard for positions and
I doubt that there is pennant winner |
among them this time. The Louisville |
team has been putting on little squirt and !
they are still PLAYING good ball, although it |
does not appear that they will finish in the |
first division.
There is nothing new about the other |
teams except that Baltimore has fallen off |
3 little and the .Washingtons have made a |
failure. The latter team has been |
one of the worst managed teams in the |
Arthur Irwin at no time has dis
played anything like good judgment either
in getting players, releasing them or man
aging them. There has been excellent |
in that club. Moreover, q man |
who orders his team off the field simply be- |
cause decision of the umpire does not suit |
him is not fit man to manage ball team. |
This week will finish. the visits of the |
Eastern teams to this city this year and |
those people who want to see the Fasteners |
before next season must visit the ball |
grounds this week. WS have the New |
Yorks and the Baltimores, two very good
teama PRINGIE