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 SS5 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 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 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 $50, and 1t 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
called at 4 o'clock. Again the Rosarys
won. the score standing 8 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 In which Capt. Anson's misnamed
Colts used the Giants last week. Those
are painful memories. when one gazes
retrospectively at the two games played
Saturday. Our much-lauded Giants
couldn't even win one game. Well, a
tie in the second game was little bit
better than to lose 1t. To-day begins
another series of three games with Chi
cage, and 1t Ia written on the rocky
walls of Coogan's Heights in Polotown
that the Giants must get away with all
three games, They need them In their
need them badly. After the chicagos
come the Louisvilles, and IL they haven't
experienced a vast and luminous change
OF form and heart the Giants ought to
snap of their heads thrice in succession.
But the nicer You arrange your plans
for the Giants the more completely are
they upset, and along comes club of
buffers and drub them mercilessly. But
kindly bear In mind that Anson's aggre-
CATION are not buffers. They are a
long. drawn out, physically, speaking.
lot of fellows. who can bat the hide off
number Of pinches last week.
dad" Clarke did uncommonly well
Saturday against the Chicagos. He
acted like a man who had grudse
against that team, and the way he put
them over IN and out and up and down
was fearfully puzzlng to the lengthy
leather-chascrs 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 comfort
as well, and get those heart-snapping
finishes which the Giants make in before
darkness falls. Why not begin the
games at $50 nowadays? There will be
but few chances left for the Polo
| Grounds patrons to see games. as the
| season closes in the East Sept. 6. II
the games be finished at $50 1t will not
be a bit too soon.
| A writer to this paper suggests a
change in the rules whereby c.ose deci-
| sions and spking and collisions on
second and third bases might be
avoided, by permitting runners to run
| beyond second and third. as at first. As
| the ball players themselves are consulted
that the present arrangement is regarded
as the best.
Although week distant, the police.
mems great game in aid of the Sicl
Babies Fund, at the Polo Grounds, Il
attracting widespread attention. The
| competing teams will be drawn from
the West Thirtyseventh street and the
East Eighty-eighth street stations. anes
commence at $50 A. NJ. and ought to b.
| really worth seeing. Anyhow, the tickets
are but 25 cents. admitting a gentleman
and ladies'. and the fact alone that 1t /!
in aid of that beautiful charity, the Sicl
Babies Fund, ought to call out splendid
attendance. The tickets are selling Ike
hot cakes, and the cops are enthusi
astic.
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