The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-29

WILLIE HUTCHINSON. tho officers of the
Louisville club, to whom baseball profits
for some years hnvc been as strange and
unknown quantities, announce that they
hhvc money to burn rs an offering to tho
gods II good winning pitcher DO sent to
them. Brooklyn'S magnatcs stand ready
with a hank roll In hnnd to pay for the
needed article, and Baltimorc's champions
would mortgage their entire team to secure
man capable of filling John McMahons
shoes.
But tho market Is almost barren Not
one Of the 80 or more youngsters drafted
from the minor leagues by tho National
league has UP to this date shown an abil-
ity to go to tho front and stay there Con-
stunt indulgence and plenty of opportuni-
ties mny send d few OF them to the goal.
but while they are being whipped into
winning form their respective clubs arc
suffering rcvcrscS, and it is the seasoned.
assured article for which tho clubs are
looking. Right in the facc of this dcarth
of good pitchers comes tho lnmcntable
news that John Taylor's arm is so badly
injured that nc may never pitch again If
1t bo true, and no, rs well as Mcmahon.
goes upon tho permanent disabled list,
baseball will have suffered another disas-
trous blow, for he was just coming into
the rarr clnss with Rusic, Mcckip Hawlcy
and Nichols.
Where then, may the major clubs look
for new pitching talent if the minor
leagues fail thcin2 Perhaps tho colleges
may turn out the required article in small
proportions. Some fine pitchers have como
from the university clubs. Men like Stage,
Cartor, Hutchinson and Avery have shown
their abilities to stand in the first rank
Hutchinson of the present Chicago team is
the only college pitcher of prominence
who ever tried to earn place with the
leading professionals and succeeded, but l
have no doubt that Stagg, Avery and Car
ter wonld have been just as successful had
they consented to enter the professional
ranks Hutchinson in his time took off his
cap to mono OF them, and even now he is
not back number. His work for Arson
this season has been much improved over
his rather poor showing in 1894.
l was ono of the first who cndcavorcd to
get Hutchinson into the professional ranks.
In the eighties he WIS clcrking for rail
road company ut Cedar Rapids, In, and
there I sought him for the purpose of pcr-
suading him to pitch for the Cincinnatis,
but no resisted tho tempting offer. Arson
later on succeeded where fnilcd and Will
lie Joined the Chicagos, where he has ever
since been tho star of the Colts In the pitch.
ing department.
Two moro university pitchers will be
tried by the National league this SEASON.
Sexton of Brown by the Bostons and Bos-
well Of the University of PENNSYLVANIA by
the New Yorks. Tho latter has already
made his maiden efforts and has done
we'll After Meclsin was knocked out of
the box ut Louisville Boswell relieved hi1n
and in six innings held tho Colonies down
to two hits and gave only two bases on
balls In that little time he showed mar
Vicious courage, good control and tho pos
session Of q dump" ball which is q rare
article In trade for any pitcher His work
against the heavy battcrs of the PittsburR
team on May II was also very creditable.
Eleven hits were made off his delivery, but
the New Yorks got IS off Killcn and Col.
colough and won the game.
Boswell, Like most college pitchers, uses
extraordinary motions while delivering the
ball Carter's unique delivery is very COM
monplace in comparison. When the Penn
sylyanian delivers tho ball, the entire right
leg from the knee to the toe lies on the
ground, and his two long neither limbs are
almost continuous straight lines parallel
with the course of the ball
While Fanny Davenport was in Cincin-
natl she created some Juror in baseball
circles by making public comparison of
baseball playing and stage acting She
called tho Inter "noblc art and classcd
bail playing as Splendid sport" The
cause that drew this classification from
Gismondo's pen was n misundcrstand-
ing which arose between members of her
company and some Of the Cincinnati clubs
players. The Davenport artists had asked
for recognition at the gates of the Cincin-
natl ball park and got it, but when the
splendid sports" applied ut the doors of
Fanny's theatcr the following night they
were turned down and cast out-in other
words, were referred to the box office The
sporting editors took up the ball players
side Of the affair, which action called forth
Miss Davcnport's card She denied that
there Is comfy bctwixt the two professions
and declared that members of her company
had no right to ask for favors from q ball
club nor TO promise an exchange after re-
ceiving them.
The divine Fanny pays her way into ball
grounds, and she goes to see the splendid
sport" quite oftcn.' But she has dealt a
worse blow to tho theory by which base
ball stars classify themselves with ,Jcffcr
son, Booth, Mansfield, Hopper, Crane and
Fanny than she gives to the william of her
play when she clcaves his head in twain
with an AK. But fear the talented actress
hns not heard the last Of this controversy
between the stage and the ballfleld
Several accidents which happened ON
the Pittsburg ground this spring have led
40 a charge against one of the Pittsburg
players that he attempts to injurc his op-
poncnts. The indictment is returned
against Becklcy, who, it is claimed gives
base runners 1.-THE hip and throws them
SO hard that several have been dangerous
~ injured. Tho accident ~ to Foreman
of the Cincinnatis, which laid him up sew
eral weeks. brought all kinds OF charges