Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-02-28
SPORTS IN GENERAL.
What is Going On in Turf, Base
Ball and Pugilistio Circles.
THE HOWL OF THE PLAYERS"

THE "HOWL OF THE PLAfERs."
y.olipe at the General Cut in Base Bali
salaries From a New Point of View.
..The Washington club has offered the princely
salary Of e., 200 to Jim ORourke. The orator
q exceeding wroth and threatens to retire from
the diamond
II The mutterings Of discomfort from the
plavers are any indication the coming season
will not witness the utmost harmony between
PLAYER and management. The sport is bound
to suffer in consequence: a result the attend
ance viii fall off, and a further result the
arrangements will lose money. Base ball mag
mates may make cheap bali mines, but they can
not make the public go to see them.
In this wholesale combine against the
base ball players me magnates do not
appear to have thought of the contingency of
the people becoming Disguised and staying
away IN other words. people will not pay
Sl5O to see 25-cent company. either thestTi-
cal or base ball. The magnates have the power
TO squeeze" the PLAYERS. They NAV think
that every dollar cut of the salary will be clear
gain. They are Liable to makea great big error
right there Washington people Will not go out
to see nine of cheap players. They want
nine good as the rest. The same feeling
probably exists IN every other league city
What the Disguised patrons will do here viii be
done elsewhere. IL the word given ont
that the local management was intending TO
give the city the best team possible, and instead
of selling and exchanging its best players was
looking for other good ones such an announce
ment would sur up greater base ball enthusi-
asm than has been known here in years. A
similar course pursued in other cities would
have the same effect.
But contrary policy is being followed
Everywhere base ball managers are proceeding
under orders to beat down" the PLAYER TO the
lowest limit. and when necessary to take minor
league PLAYERS. In Boston for instance the
best base ball city in the country, it is SAID by
the Globe: The magnates are determined
to stand by their ultlnatum if they have to
pIck up lot of minor league players to fill in
Perhaps the most striking illustration of
the changes mapped out by the hackers will
occur in this city.
in cutting the team down to twelve men
the idea il to let Nike Kelly and Charley Ben
nett go and keep Charley CANCEL, engaging a
rising young player to help him out.
The Globe goes on to say of the general dis
content: Not one III every FIVE of the frst-class
league players have signed for next season. and
ii looks as If the managers would have anything
but pleasant duty to perform in getting the
men into line by April 1. That the men will
make an awful howl when cut from % to 40 per
cent will be no surprise to those who know the
disposition of the average ball player
The person who wouldn't make an 'awful
howl on having his salary cut % to 40 per cent
would be n prize specimen for a curio.
Now what kind of work will player give who
has been held up in this manner? How much
heart will he put in his playing?
If there Is any decadence of public interest
in base ball il is not caused by detective rules.
but because the managers in their short
sightedness have Disguised both public and
players. There is vet time to remedy mistakes,
but it is doubtful if the wise course is taken.
Bowling at the Carroll Institute.
1t was intended on Saturday night to select
the team that is to represent the Carroll
Institute in the friendly bowling games with
the team of the Columbia Athletic Club, by
having two teams play against each other, five
side made of the best bowlers in the
institute but this was prevented on account of
the unavoidable absence of Bauby and Rice
The five making the highest scores on either
side would have been the team according to the
plan suggested by The STAR
team which made good averages on a re-
cent evening had Albert Shulteis, Doughertv
Hickey, Clark and Armstrong. This team will
meet another one team tonight and from among
the men making the highest scores will be Sc
lected the men who are to do battle for the in
stitute in the coming tourney, and regular
practice nights will be settled upon at once
On Saturday night kane bowled remarkably
we'll He made ls7 in his first game. followed
up by POI in the next. and he broke the record
of the alleys by bowling ais in his third and
last game. This places him in the foremost
rank of bowlers here and still further
strengthens the belief that the institute will
have a very strong team to meet the c. A. c.
will make good showing, and, of course. their
friends hope they will win at least one series.
Pugilism Dead at San Francisco.
The California, the Pacific. the Palo Alto
and other professional athletic clubs Of San
Francisco have closed their doors and declared
all pending contests of. Boxing is now GER
tainly dead in San Francisco all that remains
to completely stamp il out being the governors
signature, which il is expected will be attached
to the anti-Prize-hghting bill at any moment
Won by "sullivan the Second,
The twenty-round glove contest last night at
the Gaiety Thester. under the auspieces of the
Eclipse Athletic Club Of Buffalo, between John
l. Sullivan of the southside Athletic Club and
Tim o'Day of Bradford, Pa. for a purse of
$500 and an outside stake of $500, was won in
the second round by sullivan by a knockout
blow in O'Day's stomach.
Crack Marksmen at Chicago.
Eight Of the best men from Philadelphia and
New York gun clubs shot for a silver cham
pionship cup valued at $3.50 at Washington
Park, Chicago, yesterday. Opposed to them
were eleven members of the Washington Park
Club B. V. Jackson of Chicago killed twenty
Dc ].
s. Thompson and Fred Hoey Of New York killed
twenty birds each. E. G. Moore of Phil.
sdelphia and Capt Mooney were close up with
twenty-five birds each.
MeAuline Accepts Abbott's Challenge
Richard K. Fox today sent a cable to the
sporting Life, London. England. to Stanton
Abbott informing him that Jack McAuliffe, the
lightweight champion. had accepted the chal
lerge he recently cabled to America, and thai
on Abbotts arrival McAuliffe or his backe,
would arrange a match Abbott is the light
weight champion of England since Dick Burgt
has left that class, being unable to fight at tn,
lightweight limit
The Chicago Navy Regatta.
The international regatta to be held unde,
the auspices Of the Chicago navy will be de
eided at Lake Geneva. Wis. The course is foul
miles long. The association races will be rowec
over course three-fourths Of a miles lon:
with . turn The regatta will be held after III,
national regatta at Detroit, August and 10. III,
Chicago navy claiming the dates from Angus
II 10 %.
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