Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-02

cause there are So many varied proofs of it occurring all the time. One month aCOthc
 New York Giants were playing the most
 unsuccessful ball in the National league
 and had succeeded in dropping down into eighth position. Then suddenly came a change.
 The teams work during this time was
 such as it's friends predicted of it in the early spring. and the sweet consolation comes a
 little late for this Year and a little early for next, it k true. that the Giants should surely win the pcnuaut lu lS4, inasnuCh l as Captain Warl ann0uuCcs his intention 10 keep the present team intact for next | year But il k not wise to put any de pcudenCe on next ycHr
 Other surprising rt.vcrsalS of form in the baseball world wrr, the sudden halt of the | Philadelphia and Brooklyn teams in their | tohoggan aCJ and their great successive VIC | tories over the Clcvclauds and PittsburEs | respectively.
 saw Uncle Au>uu and his Colts play three games in New York on their last trip | east, and the result w:~ that l was greatly | surprised-almu~t ~hnChvd l. didn't seem | the Anson of other days. llv was aS mCvk | as a modern Moses. and hundreds hn paid their money of admission tn get in the grounds and see hlm kick wrr,. di~appoiut-
 ed. Though he had cause very frequently | to rear up and paw he dust near whcre the | umpire stood, he didn't do il. On the con | trary, he was painfully polite to that ofii | cial when he was not iR q >rmitranCr All | kinds of Cue>Srs were made why the old | man had so suddenly changed his dispo>i- | tion. Some suggested that he had his | money locked up in suspended bank: | others that he had seen the dance du vCutrc
 in the Midway plai>ancc, and growing jcal | ous of the people whom he believed had | stolen his methods of iCkiuS y.aS Sulkiug. | But the real reason of Au>e'S tamcutss k | probably the lack of an incentive. He
 couldn't kick his club into respectable | position in the race if he kept at it couIlnu- | ally from this date tn Oct. l.
 In spite of all the reputation -Nu~un ever | had as n kicker, believe he never wa~ | justly accused uf dirty" ball playing or | conduct on the fvid which WAS uusru | tlemanly. Nor has he ever allowed auy | member of his team t0 indulge in any arl
 which would reflect upon the honor of the | game.
 In strong contrast to this lifelong rrpu l tation of the veteran are the actions of other | captains and players Ward very frequently | goes too far in his hadErriuE of umpirv~
 and lets his men interfere where the rules | forbid Not long ago Doyle ran up t, | Umpire HornUnE. caught him by the | coat and shook him like dog would ~hakr | a rat, simply because HornunS had given a
 decision to which Doyle objected. l In one of the Clrvrland- New York game | on the Polo ground, Captain Tebcau of the | former team was fined S5I and put out of | the game by Umpire GAflucy. No player | who ever wore National league uniform has probably been guilty of the conduct of Tebeau on that occasion. GafTury called | two strikes on him which, To say the best | of them. were scarcely over the edge of the l plate. Tebvau became infuratcd and iu | his rage struck out on n straight ball pitched squarrly over the plate.
 | Wild with anger, he threw down his bat | walked up to GntIucy, shook his fist in the | lattcr'S face for several minutes and all | that time hcapyd such vile cpithctS upon | the official that some of the other playerN. | who Stoud near by when he h,Ean, turned | and walked away. Jmpirc GAtluCy told
 me that in all hl~ life he had never hcarl a | human heinz called such \iIr names a- | Tchcau addressed [" him
 | It k not improbable that the National | lcAguc hndui Ut directors, at thCtr annual
 meeting in N">cmh,r. will take mp some of | these serious eases ut insults tu their uIn prrs and severely dj~cip)ru, the offenders. | In no prrvi,u~ year durin; the existence oi | that hody has there been ~n much open | handed ahlsC 0t umpIrr~ 1~ thrrr k this | season. The "Nn k grow ing and already | there are steps heIuG taken to apply tho | remedy at th, urNi ur,ln- of th. mag | mates
 Among the aunouucemeut< recently | made III the news columns of trade de7re>- | slUn Has uue tL..t JLv pottery Lands lu Al
 EaS Liverpool yard had their wages rc-
 duccd to Sl T1 a day uf lo huur~. Among
 these lahorvrS who thus suffered was Curtis l Welsh, the once famous uUttrldrr of the | equally famous St. Louis BruwuS Only Q | few years ago he was aCkunw l,,l-,,el tu bc he
 greatest out fielder play ing ball, and he held
 his club Ia his own terms every year. The | St. Louis officials were Elad Ia pay him as
 much an hour for his work then aS he earns | now in a week.
 But, like many other brilliant players
 who have wrecked their own lives, Welsh | took to drink .uud his downfall was rapid.
 Now he is laboring for the means to keep life in his body.
 | It was Welsh who CauSevl the rule 10 he
 passed which gives hatsmau base for
 being hit by pitched ball only when il
 does not hit him on the forearm. Welsh
 could rake" the ball with his forearm
 with perfect r.l>r and immunity from in l juries and got hls base ~o often by the
 trick that the exception was tackled onto
 the rule for his t'~pr,Ial benefit.
 | Of the new men from the Suut hvru ltague
 who have made their calling and election
 sure, SuGden and Stvuzel oi the Pittshurgs, I -hC1 AFAuN or ltlt lllClli4Itl-, T fAllk bt tue | St. Louis team, stafford, German and Will
 son of the New Works and pauh of the
 BroOklyns are the most prominent.
 | Pitcher Colcolough, who's, name proved
 so troublesome i'll it's proper pronunciation | when he first joined the PittshuryS, has uu | further use for the name on the score card.
 Pitchers may come and -o. but the prince
 of them ull is Amos Ru~ie. l believe he is | acknowledged Ia be peerless in his prufrs- I ain R9t i. hoy | all do when they have been stars for a year l CT two. Several years ago he wanted to
 pitch every other game and often asked to | go in two days in succession. Now he al
 most rebels If asked tn do more than take
 his turn with three other pitchers. | The attendance on EameS Iu the League I continues to be unusually large. Seventeen | thousand people saw the three Cleveland ! New York games in New York Aug 10 % | 22, and over 3U, ,U,n attended the four Boston | Philadelphia games ill Philadelphia Aug
 l4, l5. lG and r. c. I. CAYLOR.