Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-28
STIVETTS.
NICHOLS.


 ity to hold out-thcir cndurancc-dcpcnds largely the Bcan Eaters chances to keep their lead. Young pitchers, however arc always unreliable during their first year in major company. They arc apt to begin we'll and weaken aS the weather gets warm, while the veteran usually does his weak work in the spring. but warns up to win ming form during the hot period.
 Stivrtts. tu this date, has pitched better than he did last year. He has his old trc mcnduus speed again and splendid control Nichols iS \ichols all the time He is not aS strong under the present pitching dis tancr he was when the pitcher stood nCarrr tn the lrtSman, vet he maintains his right tu the title of one of class A His great distinction has always b,Cn an cNtraor- dinary control of the hall and q courage to put ii over the plate whenever necessity demands IL. A good pitcher will always make the hatSman hit the hall rather than risk giving a hasa on balls by COaXing with wide delivery Dad Clarke of the
 New Works is fond of saving in this con
 nCctinn, "Thrrr arc eight other men bC sides myself in this game, and what cant do they must" presume fewer mon gut
 hiSrS on halls from Nichols on tho average than from any other pitcher in the Ma tiunal league.
 The BoStuns have grg.t team, but the | BaltimurcS have grratcr, barring pitch | CTS If Nichols and StiN ctts pitched for the Orioles, the latter would be consistent | even money favuritc Tho Baltimorcs as
 fleldcrs, battcrs and base runners have no | equals, but they arc weak in the box. am inclined to believe tho New Works | will bc dangerous CIS b to other pcnnant aspirants provided their trcmcndOus run | uf i'll luck has run Itself out. The team has
 made such q splendid fight with its stars | all disabled that its work should be rc-
 markablc when the crippled big four gut l hack into harness. GrCat uncasiness, how | ever. exists aS tO tho real condition of Mcc-
 kin's arm. Fear Is freely expressed that | the injury to the nerve in tho fOruarm will | give him trouble most of tho summer if l 1t dnCs not keep him out of tho game on
 tircly. But should Mevkln rcgnin the use | fulncSS of tl!at arm the team would have
 the finest pitching corps by 10 pCr cent | ever puSS,'Sscd by one club. Rusic and Nee l kin led all the other pitchers last season, | and now Clarke has shown that he Is n gi-
 ant in his way and has proved by his work
 during the ahsrncc uf the two star pitch
 CTS from the ninc that his great success
 with the Erie club in 1899 was not a flukc.
 With thrrr such pitchers alternating on
 ly medium hatting and fielding would lo
 r,pluir,d to win two thirds nf the clubs
 games. That is why I luuk up"n New
 Works chances aS still grbd in the pen
 nant race,
 | A m,plrratr team of hattcrs and fcldrrS
 without full stock of first class pitchers
 has n" chance tn win n high place in the
 National laTur race. Early in the sCHSun
 I hrrHmr very unpopular in Cincinnati for | VNIrl~. iu.g tie opinion that Captain Ew
 in. had team which had little ur no | chance [" rruAiu in the first division. l | ha~,I my opinion on a conviction that of | all his pitchers pwyrr alone could in the
 long run ho depended on. Then, as the
 team was neither strong in hattinS nuS in
 fielding l could not figure out how 1t
 would cut much of flguro in tho race.
 Just after 1 went on record with that
 prophecy the CincinnatiS won thoSo ten straight games and occupied second place. , One day-May 23-I received telegram , from Cincinnati newspaper something , | like this: What do you now honestly think of our weak tcamY Your Cincinnati , friends havo the laugh on you. Answer for publication. did answer and reiterated , my bolief In tho teams weakness, again
 explaining 1t, and rCmindiug my Cincin- s nati friend that tho season was quito young B and that hc laughs best who laughs last. Now for the sequel Beginning on that day when received tho telegram, the Gin. , cinnatis began to lose, and of tho next 20 $ games played they lost 16 and thereby fell l from second place to ninth. Just 25 days I | from tho date of that telegram informing 8 mo that my Cincinnati friends had tho q | laugh on me the same newspaper, under . | tho lead of Let Us Weep" concluded all t | articlo on the unfortunate teams return t from their eastern trip thus:
 : Ut is learned from private source thnt 0 tho Reds have resolved to win u majority t of tho games played with amateur teams - after the close of the regular season. Le n every patriotic citizen turn out and show 6 his appreciation for the Red Legs grand @ @ showing during the past few weeks k Half mast flags do not go while the Red
 are in the city"
 Sentiment in baseball has no more shov - against sound reason than a pitchcrles \ team has against tho Bostons.
 II Meanwhile let me say to young mel ' that all of them who can learn to becom l. good pitchers need not worry for thei is future. Anson, Hanlon, Reach, Robinson m Byrne and Ewing arc looking for then A | with telescopes. O. F. CATLoR.