Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-08-17
THE POSITIONS ARE BEST.
Caylor Thinks They Will Again
 Get the Pennant.
THE NEW RULE A BOOMERANG.
Each Magnate Thought It Would Knock Out Hts Rivals Pitchers, but Was uorrI- fed to See His Own TwIrlcrs Badly Bat. tcd-A prosperOus Season.

managers are when you put them under the maEmtyinG glass! Last winter they met and agreed that the pitcher had too much power and that something must be done to handicap him. The pitchers dom finance in the game must 20. The eiict went forth. The way tO reach the remedy was to move him back in the diamond. So back he went. Then the cute magnates went home and auNiOusly waited for the season of lSgS to open so they could see just what effect the new rule would have on their individual pitchers
 Nuu srr, the rule was intended to kill ol some other clubs pitchers. Every mag nate huSErd a delusive hope that it would affect other clubs more than his own. The effect was somewhat of surprise The new rule knocked some of the star pitchers clean out of the profession and elevated former skates to the peeraGe of the dia- mund, sr to speak. of the ruined twirlers, Haddock, Lovrtt. King, Crane, Staley, Clarksnn. kccfe and Young were hit hard est. Men like Rrcitcustcin, McNabb. Ger man, Stein, CarScy, Rhodes and Ehrctt went to the front and for q time confusion rVlcnVd.
 Then began the widest kind of chase after effective pitchers. It became a reg ulAr drayurt and bush beating affair. Man agers hurried through the land with pock- cts stuffed with wealth, Offering large prices Tor the EtttEiSt tI any IltCASE "uo Cpull pitch well under the new regulation. The new rule worked too well. It worked hardest where il was not expected and wrought least harm where il was aimed.
 In a word. each maSnate assisted in plan ming scheme 10 weaken another \ team by adopting a new rule, and aS soon as they found the plan to be working satisfactorily they spent money lavishly to get players who could aunul the benefits of the new rule.
 It has always been so. Once there was rule against overland pitching, and in less than two months time every club in the country waS offering q premium for over hand pitchers Then the maSnatrS caused a glass or marble plate to br put in front of the pitchers box tO split him uP the mid
 dlr if he stepped beyond the bounds and struck that plate. But tho plate had scarcely got settled into it's place before these same ruleulakCrs were securing the shoe stores for lawn tennis footwear which would let the pitchers step on that plate with impu- nifty. Funny creatures. are they not II is worth the time to compare the pres ent condition of baseball and horse racing It has been shown before that the prcCAr
 ous times have rather helped than harmed the baseball business. can now state at this time, with only six or seven moro weeks left of the championship season, that the season of 1893 ill the National league is going to be the biggest success financially in the history of the game. not | excepting the rcmarkahle seasons of lSSS and lSS9. Not one of the l3 clubs will lose | money unless it be the l.ouiSvilles, Nearly | all the rVst arc far ahead of all seasons eN- | penscs. while the New Works, Pittsburcs. l PhiladelphiaS and Baltimorcs in particu- | lar will have money to scll'' next winter, | as the boys say on the streets.
 In the east particularly tho attendance at League grounds, barring one city-WaSh- | iuGtou-has been phenomenal, while the race track crowds have fallen away to al. most ruinuus uumhVrs Starter Rowe of | the big tracks, in a conversation had with him rrcvntly probably gave an explanation | for both sides uf the situation. He thought that even men who have ready money arr not willing during these uncertain times to
 risk it hacking horses. and so to avoid
 temptation they stay away from the tracks, l Many of them then turn to the hi~rlH,ll
 fields, where for from 25 Ia 15 cents they | pass a very pleasant afternoon.
 But that does not entirely account for l tine great crowds which fluCk tO the ball | grounds The crowds Irr not only thrrr, but | wonderful enthusiasm prrvadCs them The | waNruf interest in the national game l~
 wld,~prrad and powerful In Philadelphia
 where the enthusiasm Prohahly reached | high tide. th,.v have had cushion battles aft | CT -.lmC>. nu a recent pyCa~lCu the oCCu | paut~ ci the 2' cent seats CrO>>vl the field in
 a le,!N and >,urmcd the Garri>ou iu the pa | NllIon. but wrr,. rvpuls,I after a fierce but | L,uud uatuv.d u-l. lu which a thousand | vu>l,u!I> served .,~ ~u uLuy buumvrLuss | Whenever such scenes occur they indicate | an enthusiastic, happy crowd. Those cuSh | ion fights after games were common in lSS, | and lSSl But for A year or moro after tht | unfortunate BrothcrhOOd revolt it was harJ | to even cN,t up an argument between tw,
 spectators. Baseball has had a close call
 but II came out of the ordeal alive and l:
 once more the great American game.
 At last there iS a chance Ia guess at tht
 probable outcome in the National leAEu,
 relative to the peuuaut race The fortnight
 between July - and Aug. 10 had much [,
 do m getting the clubs to their proSpectivt | positions. In that time the BOStons pASSeI
 the Philadrlphias and went 50 far to tn,
 front that il seems impossible for any othe
 club to head thrm IL looks to me like
 tN ? shot now that Boston will win again
 Then there is the club which last spring | asked my readers to keep an eye ou-th | pittShurES. If they do not take SeCout place close behind the Bostons. it will sur
 prise me, The Phillies, according to thei time hOn0rrd custom, made their EreS squirt in July and then fell away like tn s stick of rocket. IL is no sure thing nov that the Clevelauds will not beat them ou
 of third place. New York should get fittl position. and it seems likely that our In cle Anson will bring up the rear division in company with the four American assC ciatiuu clubs and one other.
 IL has been an unhappy year to Captai Auson. The Colts for the most part hay . been giving more scandalous performance than those that shocked so many peopl who visited the Midway plaisance. To ca
 the measure of his hard luck his team wa ; caught in a railroad wreck, and two of hi best players were so badly injured tha they are iucapacitated from play. This aC
 cidcnt tu Ryan and kittridge Is the first O rccord where a League player was injure 2 | in railroad wreck during the Is season . of the organization. In that time the var , | ous teams of the League have probably traN elrd over .5OO, 600 miles. The New Orlean - club also recently had a peculiar eNper encr. They were caught in quarantine O
 account of the yellow fever scare and wer [ | detained in Pullman car five days in th
 wilds af Alabama o. r. CAYLoR.
 JOSEPH |, JACKSON, ARCHITECT A