Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-25

IlIN lEiS JNliN IAl LNlN, trur pitcher of that city, and likc Mayor Caldwell, is n "crank" of tho gcnuino stamp. Mayor Strong had not seen a galno bcfuro tho 18th of April for 20 years and in that timc many improvements have been made in the mode of playing.
 No better illustrations of tho uncertain tics of baseball could Do produced than these opening games of tho season. Tho champion BaltimOrcS at tho end of eight innings had their game won by a score of to ?. But thrro was n ninth, and their foes wcrO thoSc terrific hatSmcn from Phil adclphia. Tho QuakcrS got started and | didn't stop till they had pounded in flvo runs and won tho game. It Is such bitter l ness of the soul which often falls to tho lot of cXultant rootcrs. This Philadelphia team last year did almost tho same thing to the Giants at New York.
 The Pittsburgs were supposed to have l the easy contract for opening day. But tho ! surprise of it! Louisville, II; Pittsburg, ,! Killcn couldn't find the plate, and tho old adagc says that everything comes to him who waits. Acting on this theory the Louisville players waited, and killcn pitched them to victory
 | New York was humiliatcd brCauSc Ru- sic, their pride, their pct, their hero, was punished unmcrifully by tho despisvd foe 1 from Brooklyn. Had tho game been lost | in any other way no one would have felt \ sn sad, but for Kennedy, tho Ohio farmer, I to uutpitch Rusic, the king of them all, l was cause for universal chagrin. Luckily 1 the season Is still young. In Cleveland I they haVo been talking under their breath 1 about pcnnants and things, particularly l tho pcnnant of 1895, yet that twelfth or I better club nt Cincinnati rolls MT. Te- bcaus men in the dust
 Your Cnclc Anson is of. do not use l the word in n mental sense. He beat the l flag and his Colts are doing good work ! There was no chance for tho Chicago crit i ics to got n jab at him with their gall I stepped pens the day after. His men l showed tho effect of n master hands train l ing and good hard month s work in Tex \ aS. Alrvady hall players aro beginning to I whisper, "Look out for Anson!" and the l old man himself Is offering to bet anything | from half dollar to tho house he lives in \ that his team will not fetch up in tho last l division.
 l The National league leads. Minor or l ganiZatiuns will follow and begin their pen 1 nant races soon. Cities containing moro 1 than 10, 600, GOO Inhabitants arc interest cd in thcso clubs. Tho National lcaEuc l cities alone hold 1000, 900 people Thcre 1 wcrr 6, 09l, oil at tho 1890 census. Next in I punt pl IllIlllltlH tb NlhN AIbll N NiIC I Western league. whose cight cities roll up I l,0SS 900 souls, Detroit and Milwaukee l leading with moro than goo, 900 each and 1 Grand Rapids and Toledo alone falling be I low the lO0 GOO mark. The Eastern league 1 lacks some thousands of rcaChing tho mil I lion point in total, with Buffalo alone above 2UU, OOO and four cities Syracuse, l scranton. Springfield and Wilkcsharre- I falling below lOn,Ouu. In the Southern 1 league circuit very little more than 800, 1 OUO inhabitants mako up the eight cities,
 and New Orleans is tho only one of the | eight which iS rltvl ahuVc loo, 600.
 ! There iS r,nm throughout the Union for
 much enthusiasm in the national game. l It is tho only sport which Is permanently and professionally established in America
 and against which the hand of the law \ through prohibitory legislation is not
 stretched at some point or another. Amer 1 jeans have reaSun to feel proud of the sport
 of thcir adoption, for despite intense ri.
 valry and bitter partisan feelings 1t has for
 years kept above suspicion.
 There is every reason to believe that
 noisy, unnccesslry coaching and Objection-
 able kicking" arc practices of the past in
 the National lcaguc, President Young's
 fiat that umpircs must enforce the rules
 and punish offending players or be pun ! ishod themselves has been received in good
 earnest by the staff Players in every city 1 learned from tho very first inning that the
 rules "go" this year, and for tho most | part tho trouble makers of the past have
 wisely bowed tu the inevitable.
 By the death of John McQuade, Presi
 dent Young is deprived of onu of the bes
 umpircs on his staff, and tho nationa l game suffers a severe loss. Good umpire
 are so scarce that the death of one of then
 seems to be a calamity. The men wh'
 have made successful umpires since tn
 day when they first wore masks can b
 counted on the fingers of the hand, ant
 the names of those who during the sam
 time have been tried and found wanting
 would fill tho column with impression
 from cold type.
 Let no one try to judge the Nationa
 league pitchers from the work done in tn
 first few games As has always been tn
 case, tho new candidates will prObabl
 show strong at the start, only to be batte'
 into oblivion or back whence they came
 with a few exceptions, before Memoria
 day. On tho contrary, the veterans vii
 not get warmed down to their work til
 June, notwithstanding their southorl
 training, for tho sudden transition froI
 the senlitropics to tho vernal chill of tn north will for n time handicap them all. And while you are watching these pitch CTS don't take your eyes from John Taylo
 of the PhillieS He is coming fast. Tn
 young man has the necessary physique , | one-half inch less than feet in height an
 175 pounds weight. He is cool headed has great speed, good control and Is Q fin batsman. Thcrc is O future for Taylor. O. P. CAYLoR