The evening times., 1895-10-04
MAKE IT THREE STRAIGHT
That Is What the Spiders Will Do
Against the Champions.
Claimed at Cleveland That the Nerve
of Baltimore Is Gone and They
VIII BE Easy Tomorrow.
ispecial to The Times. /

creased the frenzy of the Cleveland bali
| crank.
Never in the history of the game of base
ball has SO much interest been shown.
| This is not only true aArcgards those who
| usually become enthuscd over baseball
events, brt it applies to people i'll every
station and calling. Men, women and
| children who have heretofore paid no ut
tentioD to the game and have had no in
tcrcst whatever in il. are now wound up 10
a high pitch OF excitement and Tcbcau and
his cluD are the heroes Of the hour
From "A critics standpoint the game of
yesterday was not up to the standard of
| that of the day before. hut IL was q great
game even at that. Like the game OF Wed
hesdhy. IL WIS largely a pitchers irattlc,
/ in which the Cleveland man, Cuppy, had .
long way the better of the argument over
his opponent. llofrcr, as Young had oN cE Nc
| Mabon.
Cuppy's superiority. however, was more
| marked than was Young's. While the
! Baltimore team got but five hits off OF
him, the Cleveland men made ten off Of
Hoffer, and they made good use OF them
! as tue score will show.
Although there is no game to-day, there
is no let up to baseball talk and the pros
| poets for tomorrow. The Cleveland men
| and the ball enthusiasts generally seem TO
| think that they have got the nerve OF
the Baltimoreans. and that they will MAKE
the home series three straight. The HIlti
more men, however will make Il determined
| effort for to-norrow's game. They know
that going home without victory would
insure them less hearty reception than
| they would otherwise receive
IL is stated to-day that the pitchers for the
first game here will be Yonng and Espcr
Young is in magnificent form He shows
no signs of The hard ordeal Of Wednesday,
and feels confident that he can duplca te his
| performance of that day
| 1t is said in some qua rters that Mcmahon
| would like to have another chance before
| leaving here, but those who should know
predict that Hanlon will present Espcr. 1t
is the opinion of many baseball men that
IN a tight place Mcmahon is Il gutter They
say he was unstrung throughout the game
on Wednesday. The steady work or Young
and the Cleveland men ratified him
The Orioles quit the season with the scalps
ofall OF the other League clubs in tn cir belts
but they quit it with the biggest run of con-
secutive victories to their credit They
won fourteen games straight.
the New York team seems to have been
| without foundation. He will be a Giant
again in 90: at least o. =. Caylor saws he
will, and Caylor knows
The summing up of the work done by the
players in the big League during the season
shows some Interesting facts. For instance
| Cartwright once had 8 put-outs and as
sist. with no errors, once 9 put-outs and
assists, and once II put-outs. all without
errors. Crooks once had 9 assists and twice
<, without an error. Selbach pla yed in 90
games before he failed to have a fielding
chance Twice he had put-outs three
times 8, and six times 8.
Big Sam mThOmpsOnduring thcsea son made
45 hits in 16 games, for a total of 81
These Included 3 singles, doubles and
home runs. In three consecutive games he
made hits. and in two consecutive games
hits. These streaks of batting como
within games. In the last 81 games of
the season he batted safely in all but two.
making 63 hits. In these were Included
doubles, triples and home runs. -Four
times in these games he made 4 hits in a
game and once he made 8. In another run
of 8 games he made 9 hits for 32 bases.
The least amount OF money received
during the year by club was that paid To
Pittsburg by Louisville, $21 20.
Pop Anson can we'll afford to stand the
screenings he gets once in a while He has
not only won something like $4,000 i'm bets
j.
club has cleared 81 900 for its owners
1t is said that Latham wants to be a
| manager.
Jennings, of the Baltimore team, made a
great fielding record during the pennant
race. He accepted all but / of 135
chances offered him in his last % games
OF the season-a percentage OF .992. He
had as many as 10 put-outs in one game:
in another game had 8 and twice hadS His
best showing was in the game when he
put out men and assisted times with
no errors. In the very first game OF the sea-
son he accepted chances and in nthesecond
more. In the first Z games he accepted6 61
| chances without making msplay. He av-
eraged chances per game in his first 10
games. In 90 games he accepted l cha noes
or more in a game. July he accepted IA
out of 16 chances. In another game he
accepted all of 1 } chances, in another a IL of
12.
Hoy, formerly OF the Washington team.
struck out but six times during the sea-
son just closed.
In thirteen games during the season
Charley Abbey made twenty-eight hits
Tom Brown put out nine men in one game,
seven in each of three other games, six in
each of two games, and five in each of five
games.
Donovan. OF the Pittsburg club. made
but one error in sixty games, and in forty
seven games he did not make any.
If the Baltimores papers keep on spread
ing the notion that the life of every player.
in their club is in jeopardy at Cleveland
they will have killing or two sure enough
when the Tebeau men get to Baltimore. To
read some of TIE reports being sent from
Cleveland by Baltimore correspondents
is to become imbued with the belief that
every man in Cleveland is a murderous
tough with gun looking for an OrioIe
A Boston paper informs its readers that
one OF the Western clubs should be watched
next year, that 1t is getting ready TO make
desperate effort to win the pennant. 1t
st rkes some people that one OF the
Western clubs made an effort this year
that came pretty close to landing the
pennant and Boston had no part in keep
ing it from doing it.
Keeler, of the Baltimore team, is young
ster who during the season did some tall
work with the stick. He hit safely consec-
ntively In stretches of thirteen, fourteen,
and sixteen games. His best perform
ance was eighteen hits in six games In
each of five games out of six he cracked out
three hits. Again he made fifteen hits in
four games. In scoring he made thirteen
runs in four games. In his first seventy
seven games of the season he made hits in
allbut eight. In three of the games in which
he failed to bat safely he was up but three
times, and in one game but twice.
Clark of the Louisville team, batted
safely in twenty three straight games. In
forfy-fiyp pameS he failed hut twice tO