The evening world., 1894-08-20
BASEBALL CHAT.

The two games Of baseball played at
Oak Point yesterday, between the Holy
Rosary team and the st. Mary team of
Hoboken, and the Holy Rosarys and the
st. James Union team. netted $S5 for
the Sick Babies Fund. The games
were arranged by Mr.. Tony Burke, the
hustling manager of the Holy Rosarys.
Mr.. Burke's offer some weeks ago to
pit the Holy Rosarys against any teams
that wished to meet them for the Sick
Babies Fund resulted in Mr.. Burke
receiving a large number Of offers from
the different clubs throughout the city.
The games yesterday were fine con-
tests. The st. Mary and st. James
teams are composed of a fine lot of
ball players, but the Holy Rosary team
managed to win both games. The first
game, between the Rosarys and the st.
Marys, was called at 2.30, and II was
agreed to play only five innings. The
Rosarys won, to 3.
The second game, between the Ros-
arys and the ST. James Union Club, was
won, the score standing to 4 at the end
OF the seventh inning, when darkness
fell and the game was called.
Maybe Capt. John Ward won't do his
prettiest to-day to get even for the saucy
way III winch capt. AnSOn ffllSnalneu
Colts used the Giants last week. Those
are painful memories. when one gazes
retrospectively at the two games played
Saturday. Our much-lauded Giants
t co. even n,n win one game. We'll II,
better than to lose 1t. To-day begins
another series Of three games with Chi
cago, and II Is written on the rocky
that the Giants must get away with all
three games, They need them In their
business of racing pennant-work, and
need them badly. After the Chicagos
experienced a vast and luminous change
or form and heart the Giants ought to
snap off their heads thrice in succession.
But the nicer you arrange your plans
they upset, and along comes a club OF
buffers and drub them mercilessly. But
kindly bear in mind that Anson's aggre-
cation are not buffers; They are
lot Of fellows. who can bat the hide of
the ball on a pinch. And they took a
number Of pinches last week.
Dad" Clarke did uncommonly well
Saturday against the Chicagos. He
against that team. and the way he. put
| them over, in and out and up and dowr
was fearfully puzzling to the lengthy
leather-chasors from Chicago. Dad
appears to be quite all right.
Come, Messrs. Talcott and Ward kind
| ly consider the convenience of many Of
your patrons and study their comfor
| as well, and get those heart-snappint
finishes which the Giants make in befor,
games at $50 nowadays? There will b.
but few chances left for the Poll
| Grounds patrons to see games, as tn,
season closes in the East Sept. g.
the games be finished at $50 1t will no
be a bit too soon.
A writer to this paper suggests
change in the rules whereby close deci
| sions and spiking and collisions OF
| second and third bases might b.
avoided, by permitting runners to ruI
| beyond second and third. as at first. Al
the ball players themselves are consulted
In the making Of the rules. 1t Is obviou
| that the present arrangement Is REGARDED
as the best.
| Although a week distant, the police
| mems great game in aid of the Sicl
Babies Fund, at the Polo Grounds,
attracting widespread attention. Tn
competing teams will be drawn from
the West Thirty-seventh street and tn
East Eighty-eighth street stations, an
they are in daily practice. The game wi
really worth seeing, ANYHOW. the ticket
are but Is cents, admitting gent.ema
and ladies, and the fact alone that It
in aid OF that beautiful charity, the Sic
Babies Fund, ought to cali out a splendi
attendance. The tickets are selling lik
hot cakes, and the cops" are enthus
astic.