Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-05-24


 WILLIE HUTCHISoN the officers of the | Louisville club, to whom baseball profits | for somo years have been strange and | unknown quantities announce that they | have money to burn as an offering to the | gods if good winning pitcher be sent to them. Brooklyn's magnateS stand ready with n bank roll in hand to pay for the needed article, and Baltimore $ champions would mort gage their entire team to secure a man capable of filling John McMahon's shoes But the market Is almost barron. Not one of the 30 or more youngsters drafted from the minor lcagucs by the National league has up 10 this date shown an abil- ity to go to tho front and stay there. Con stant indulgence and plenty of opportuni- ties may send few of them to the goal, but while they arc being whipped into winning form their rnSpCctivc clubs are suffering rrvrrstS, and it Is the seasoned, nSSurcd article for which the clubs are looking Right in the face of this dcarth of good pitchers comes tho lamentahle news that John Iaylor's arm is so badly injured that he may never pitch again. If it be true, and he, as well as McMahon, goes upon the permanent disabled list, baseball will have suffered another diEaS- trouS blow, for he was just coming into tho rarc class with Rusie Meekin, Hawley and Nichols
 Where. then, may tho major clubs look for new pitching talent if the minor leagues fail thcm2 Perhaps the colleges may turn out the requircd article in small prnportions. Somc fine pitchers have como from the university clubs. Men like Stagg, Carter, HutchiSuu and Avery have shown their abilities to stand in tho first rank. Hutchison of the present Chicago team Is the only college pitcher of prominence who ever tried to earn place with the leading professionals and succccded, but I have no doubt that Stagg, Avery and Car 1 ter would have been just as successful had they consented to enter the professional | ranks Hutchinson in his time took Cff his l cap to nouc of them, and even now he is not a back number. His work for AnSOn this season has been much improved over | his rather poor showing in lS9i.
 was one of the first who cndcavurVd to l ,c,t Uutchison into the professional ranks. l In the eighties he was clcrking for n rail ! rood cuml,nnS at Cedar Rapids la, and l there sought him for the purpose of per l suadiug him to pitch for the CincinnatiS, but he resisted the tempting offer. -Anson later uu suvc,vtlcd whoro failed, and Will lie jriucd the Chicas,oS, where he has ever | since been the star uf the Colts in tho pitch | ing department.
 | Two mora university pitchers will be tried hv tho National league this scaSOn- sexton of Brown by the BoStOns and Bos- we'll Vf the Univ crsity of Pennsylvania by ike Now Works Tho latter has already made his maiden efforts and has done we'll After Mrrkin was knocked out of | the box at Louisville Boswell relieved him and in six innings held tho ColonCls down to two hits and gave only two bases on 1 H.,1 JY,t tb hot GytlN tip,ta ho ShO\Sph vrlnu~ Cuuragr gNod control and the pos | session of jump ball which is q rarC article in trade for any pitcher. His work | aa,tinst the heavy hattcrS of the Pittshurg team on May l7 was also very cretiitablc Eleven hi,S were made off his delivery, but the New Works got l3 ofT killen and Col colouyh and won tho game.
 Boswell. like most college pitchers, use: extraordinary motions while delivering tho ball Cartcr's unique delivery is very com monplacc in comparison. When the Pcnn sylvanian delivers the ball, the entire righ l leg from tho hnCc 10 the toe lies on th' ground, and his two long neither limbs ar' almost continuous straight lines parallc with tho course of the ball.
 While Fanny Davenport was in Cincin nai skr created some furor in baseball circles hy making public comparison o baseball playing and stage acting. Sh called the latter a noble art" and claSSe' ball playing as a "splcndid sport. Tn cause that drew this classification iron { Gismonda'S pen was mlSUndcrstand ! ing which arnsr between members of he ! companv and some of the Cincinnati club | players The Davenport artists had aSke for rrCOgnition at the gates uf the Cincir nati hall park and got il, but when tn 1 "splcudid sports applied at tho doors ( Fanny thcatCr the following night the wCrC turned down and cast Out-in othC words wcrc rvfvrrrd to the box office. Tn sporting editors took up tho ball player. side of tho affair. which action called fort Miss Davcnpurt's card. She denied thg there is comity hctwiXt tho two profession and dcclarcd that members of her cOmpan had no right to ask for favorS from ba club nor to promise an exchange after n ceiving them.
 Tho diviu0 Fanny pays her way into ba grounds, and Shc gOCs to see tho 'Splondi sport" quito often. But she has dealt
 worse blow to tho theory by which baS
 hall stars classify themselves with Jcffc
 son, Booth. Mansfield, Hopper, Crane an
 Fanny than she gives to the william of h,
 play when she clcaves his head in twai
 with an ax. But 1 fear the talented actrc s has not heard tho last of this cOntrovers I between the stage and the ballfcld. v Several accidents which happened c f the Pittsburg ground this spring have lt to charge against one of tho Pirtshul t players that he attempts to injure his O l pononts The indictment is returnt B against Bccklcy, who, it Is claimed, giv n base runners tho hip" and throws the 6 so hard that several have been dangerou Y ly injured. Tho accident @ to Foremt
 of the CincinnatiS which laid him up SC
 sral weeks. brought all kinds of charg
 down upon Bcckley by players in oth
 clubs, and 1t has gone so far that ccrta a magnateS threaten to enact law for ne s year which shall compel the offender n such cases to not only pay tho injur
 mans doctor bill but his salary as w
 while he Is incapacitatcd.
 First catch your haro' is good adVit .s It would be hard to provo that Bcckl .o makes the dangerous play intentional If he does he should be suspended. B
 there arc others. Dirty ball playing h
 been practiced for several years to a G
 tain extent in almost every National lcag ~, club by one or moro players, It is dang ot ous and unpopular. and tho magna ot should devise some plan to stop 1t.
 0. F. CAYLoI
 Might Have Lost Her.