The evening world., 1894-05-04
|VAs WEsTERVELT RATIFIED?
The Pitcher Says He Was All
Right in the UnluCky Ninth.
declarations for the Kentucky Derby
Sporting Notes.

,,,,vler westervelt, the young pitcher
ham Treasurer Talcott persuaded to
.rsoke the amateur ranks for his pro-
,ossional league team, would have given
.,orlds TO have had the New Yorks win
,ssterday. 1t was W~estervelt's first full
confessional game in his W town, and
= big crowd of his old friends o the
street" (Huyler having been employed
II beacon Whites ofice) sat on the
h,sacberies roofing in dead earnest for
him, The young pitcher was dis
consulate, and assured a friend who
accompanied him downtown that he
wasn't ratified in that fatal ninth
,rnlng. However that may be. he was
..,tsd with exasperating frequency. and
70 Ss NAV have been a bit dizzy when he
sov Burke pirouette all around Aliens
long grounder, and Davis do a song n
SSance with Hallman's musty hit. All
,%sntailzing Inability of the New Workers
"a hat the ball in the good old way that
PRODUCES runs. Not a rooter on the
Sisachers yesterday but Will agree that
up to that nightmare of a ninth Inning:
Only five hits were made up to that
lime. II his comrades could only have,
welted weighing the way they should
and cam but apparently won't, WY t me
0uakers. 1t doesn't. serve any good
purpose to throw rocks at Westerveit at
His stage IF the game. The boy has
speed, plenty of 1t, and he is a puzzler
extremely ambitious. and If Manager
Ward said, 'Huyler, ] want you to pitch
against Boston tomorrow" the young
ei.stock broker would hear 1t with de-
light.
ton is interesting, to know, ,Meekin,s
arm is very troublesome to him.. 1t is
mighty sore, and the last game he
worked in it was all in all a rare piece
from Baltimore.
Roger Conner had the game we'll in
hand for New York when his peach Of a
bit for three hillocks sent two runs In.
Mr.. Ward will not shift the bulky Con-
nor just yet.
In the opinion of a great majority Of
men who pose as critics Of pugilistic
Young Critic. the Australian,
has bitten off a bigger chunk than he
New York at Madison Square Garden,
one week from tomorrow night. He
been doing a great dea Of train
ing lately, but Jerry Barnett. Johnny
and Eddie Loeber. of Brook.
Ign, who are to try not to be outpointed
by him in four rounds each, are working
hard every day preparing themselves:
Loeber has been coming on very well
Of late. The showing he made recently
In this city against George Dixon, quick
~ followed by his easy defeat of George
Siddons, gave his Brooklyn friends
30 much confidence in his boxing abil-
ty, that they are willing now to back
him against the remarkable colored lad
or a good-sized sum. Should he make
! favorable impression in his bout with
Critic there Is no doubt but that efforts
will be made to match him against the
of the Dixon-Grtfo encounter,
which takes place in Boston. June ~.
The students OF the University of
Pennsylvania are indignant at the at
of Manager Artaur Irwin, Of the
Club, to secure the services
4 Goeckle. their fnc first baseman.
hey say Irwin was actuated by selfish
and might at least have had the
,ood taste to wait until the end Of the
yollegs season. The feeling against IT.
vim Is all the more intense. because Of
he heretofore friendly relations be-
ween the professionals n the collie
Goeckle. by the way, is said to
e one of the best first basemen that
'ver covered that bag. He Is a splendid
and can go up. down. and side
ways for balls and come back with
hem.
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