Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-09-08

GEORGE W. TURNER
 ical the phrase Is as common as the crow ing of a rooster. Some coacher should vary the cry ny shouting: Don't get discour- aged. You have another chance left Or. That's only two. Take your third triall" Watch 1t close. You1n hit the ball next time 1t comes over" or a dozen different expressions meaning the same us ''it only takes one to hit it '"
 It Is astonishing to sec what little orig inality thcrc Is among baseball coachers- Arlic Latham, however Is n bright exocp- tion. He is n man with n remarkable gift of gab, " and he never lacks for some thing to say nprOpos to the circumstance or the occasion. What Is better, he seldom "rcpeats," and 1t is all the moro wonder full that he does not because he Is continu- ally chattering from the time a game be- gins till 1t ends. Latham Is a natural wit, and whenever he Is in the game the audi encc (an audience indeed on such occa- sions) Is constantly on the qui viye for Arlio's funny comments and remarks have seen the clown, " as he is sometimes called, make his own comrades laugh un- til the game was interrupted thereby.
 Noisy coaching during the season has grown among the League teams. The Tucker Clarke Piggy" ward method of making n noise by bowling and shriek- ing from tho coaching lines, in order to rattle tho opposing pitcher, has been taken up by the older League men until in part the science of the game Is ob- scurcd, owing to the frantic attempts of the players to confuse one another. Cap tain Anson recently complained very hit terly to mo about this growing nuisance. ''It ism t respectable ball playing" he de clarcd, and neither will I adopt that method or let any of my players use 1t. If VIC can't win by legitimate means, then we don't want the game. So far as is necessary to direct my men in making bases, that far will go in coaching but no further. The League will have to put a stop to the evil. it Is growing to such shameful extent"
 Anson is devoted son. Recently when he received news of his fathers illness at tho latter's home in Marshalltown, Ia., he left his team in the east and hastened to the old mans bedside, which he refused to leave while Anson pore was in danger. He worked like q Trojan (though don know exactly how hard the Trojans worked) to secure the postmastership of Marshalltown for his father, and in the end the appoint ment went to the elder Anson's most hated enemy.
 During Anson's absence from tho team his Colts did not do we'll. A good illus tration is thereby furnished to show the great influence he has over ball players and the worth of his counsel and leadership to his team. But, then, one of his players ac- complished a feat while "uncle" was in Iowa which brought moro or less fame to the Chicago club. Catcher Schrivcr, it is alleged. caught a ball dropped from the top of the Washington monument. The specifications do not say what kind of ball 1t was. Tho inference is that it was n reg ulation baseball, but it may have been ball stuffed with cotton or hollow rub Der ball
 This feat Has been talked about for years. and several ball players have at tempted 1t, among them being Snyder and Hines. It has been pretty generally agreed that the attempt would never sue ceed on account of the great velocity of the ball in the latter part of its descent. It would drop so rapidly that to accurately gauge its track through the air with view to catching it would be impossible. The ball, it Vas claimed by those who | had tried the experiment, would be as | likely to hit the, players head, face or | body as his hands, and If 1t should strike | him anywhere Its force would Dc so great | as to make the result almost an assured | injury. If Schrivcr actually caught a ball dropped from the top of Washington mon | ument, if tho ball was of the ordinary kind used in playing baseball, and If his hands were not injured in the effort, he | has done that which will attract not only | the attention of every ball player, but the wonder of scientists as well. As the playing season closes evidence of the success of the national game in 1894 increases. Tho Eastern league fulfilled | its promise of extending its playing sea | son O week, the reyersc of the usunl GUS Il tom of shortening the schedule. The | Providence club announced a net profit on | Aug 20 of $4OOO Tho Western league has se5, 900 In its treasury. Every pro- fcssional minor league and association will finish its season. Finally a new league hns just been formed and has applied for | national agreement protection under class B to operate in 1895. Tho organization was made thus carly to protect rights of territory" That denotes competition. The newcomer Is tho Atlantic league, which will embrace eight clubs, located in Jersey City, Newark, Trenton, Wilmington, Pat erson and thrcc other cities in New Jersey or Delaware. The California league Is also prcparing to organize for the coming win ter. Meanwhile tho large attendance on tho eastern National league games keeps up to tho very end. and the promise of q still morc prosperous season for 1895 1: excellent.
 Thcrc will be Q grcat scramble about October among tho National league man
 agurs to sccurr, under tho drifting condi
 tions of tho national agreement. the bcs' of tho newly developed playing material ir tho minor league clubs There Is scarcely National league toam which does mol
 need strengthening This Is particularly
 true Of tho Cleveland. Cincinnati. Pitts
 burg, Louisville, Philadelphia and Brook
 lyn clubs. Dozens of tho professional
 who have made records in the mino
 leagues this year will Dc tried oy she ana
 jor league next spring, and, as usual, two
 thirds of them will Do found wanting fl
 abilities to fill expectations and keep up iI
 the faster companies
 Out of about every eight or ten player
 which National league clubs try is founs