Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-07-21
1t Has a Great Cash Value Just
at Present.
HARD TIMES BOOHS THE GAME.
Men Rush to the TheaterS and baseball
Grounds to Forget Their Business Cars
CayIor Thinks the Bostons or the Phila-
delphIas WIN Win This Year.

money market makes no manner OF differ |
ence in the buying and selling of this article
of everyday summer use. The mHEnate> Of
the National league are of that select few
who have plenty of money AT their com
mand this year. Their collections are all
right aud their business booming. II l.
not the money end Of the deal that botherS |
them. but rather the scarcity Of the com
mercial article, There i probably only one
club out of twelve which doesn't want one
or more new players. The BOstOns could
use another pitcher.
The New Works would like to L,rt two
pitchers and an Outfieldrr. or a thiri ha>e-
man who could relieve George Davis and
let him return TO his Old position in center
field. The BrOoklyns want only one new
player-another pitcher-bUt they want |
him rs bad the Indiana man wanted |
Quinine every spring. The Phillies are the |
single exception of cOnteutment- Harry |
Wright seems to have genuine happy |
family. with (which, as a whole, he Is quite |
satisfied. The Baltimores would take an |
other good outfielder il they could find ONE. |
The WashIngtons need pitchers the Pitts |
burgS a pitcher, the Clevelands an out |
fielder, the Cincinnatis an outtielder and a
pitcher, the Louisvilles a pitcher and a
catcher the Chicagos a second haseman, a
pitcher and an out fielder, and the ST. LUui,
club anything that is in the market
Most of the activity in this trade lies in
the territory of the Southern league. Ev-
cry club down there has one or more good
young players whose possession Is coveted
by some one or more Of the strong, rich
northern clubs. 4 few choice players have
already been purchased by the National
league clubs from their southern cuutcm-
poraries. The ChcaEOs got Mauck, the
CiucinnatiS Parrott, the BAltimorrS Long
and Reitz the New Works stafford. Ger
| mon and Wilson and the PhiladrlphjaS
Nickery. just now a dozen applications
| are pending from National league clubs
| which want to draft southern league stars
and pay for their releases under the proyi-
sions Of the national agreement.
The first western trip OF the eastern clubs
of the National league has ended. and
| with the trip the season OF 1875 Is just half
| finished Two OF the eastern clubs return
| leaders in the race, and the advantage they
| now have will be very hard to take away
/ The two clubs are the Philadelphia and
| the Bostons. 1t is an even chance that one
| of the two will win the pennant. Their
only competitors who seem to have any
chance at all are the Brooklyns, Pittsburgs
and Clevelands. The BrOoklyns' collapse
on the western trip was heavy diSappoint
ment to their many friends The dump
came when their two erstwhile reliable
pitchers, Kennedy and Stein, were over
worked and weakened.
The surprises in the League 80 far have
been the unexpected strong showing made
by the Philadelphias, the sorruwful weak
ness of the New Works and the great squirt
. | of the Brooklyns when they raced neck and
| neck with the leaders 50 long. The PhillIvS
are an eccentric team and have never
| passed season without great rally
| Heretofore they have made il sort of
| roller coaster performance rapid ascent
followed by an equally quick descent, Last
season they broke the winning record witt
| 10 successive victories and then lost the ad-
vantage by n sudden rapid slide down the
. tobogGan chute. This year their playing
seems to be more evenly balanced, and they
work together after the manuerC winners
They will have the hardest Kind Of work
however. to beat out the Bustons- That
team doesn't squirt. but it Is running a
good. steady pace, which will he very hAri
l to checkmate.
, Another late surprise has been the ex
traordinary good work OF the Loui>villc>
on their home grounds against the eastern
clubs. They have won over a. per cent al
the series. Such are some OF the b,.IUt IiU.
uncertainties OF the great national game.
The fact that the Southern league clubs
| for the most part are willing to sell the ~
leases of their best players to the northern
magnates is not assuring sign that thrIr
seasons schedule of games will be played
letting well enough alone AT the end " last
season, when their eight members finished
the race without a single dishandmrut,
The league circuit should not have been
increased TO IL cities \ - club circuit has
never worked 50 we'll as one Of eight clubs
The increase in batting under the five
feet additional distance j. aptly shown Ky
the announcement that Thompson OF the
Philadelphias was the first National league
player to make 100 base hits This feat l,s
accomplished during the second week il
July. The 100 base hit mark heretofore has
been reached about the last Of August ol
the first of September.
The most disappointed man in htsebal
today is John Montgomery Wand Adri
annapolis ConstAntinople Arson Is not ia IT
with John Montgomery in a measurement
OF individual gall cups. Uncle i us,~l I,
it. His soul is callous with Years of Ji>ap
pointment and blasted hopes But Wan
set out this year under the most PROMISING
circumstances OF his professional life I,
win fame and tlattery a. a baseball general
His failure has so far been Of colossal pro
u portions He has not lacked for players
a but il has ls-en a sort of Dead sea fruit >es.
u son to hun. He sings the ancient song o
u hard luck and robbery by the umpire. bu
l. it falls as dat on the tympanums Of hi
=! would be worshipers a. those other musiCzI
"a Chestuuts, ''Ta-ra-ra Boom and 'Dadd
Wouldn't Buy Me a Bowwow."
/ mentioned the fact few weeks a.,
that the harder the times in q commercia
sense the better has always been the base
ball patronage. And now comes one OF tn
most extensive theatrical managers in tn
world, Charles FrohmAn, and makes IL
same statement relative to the patronage
of the stage. Who can explain it, i i
because when men begin TO worry over ha,
business they seek sOlace and tempOrar!
forgetfulness at the ball grounds Or Is j
merely because more people have more tim
. to give to sports and Amusements'
l heard a philosopher say last week tina
4 there are just two conditions of men nov
who need not worry. One is a governmen
u clerk, and the other is a good baseball
player. ~ = CA1LoE
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