Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-05-02

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 ADRIAN CONSTANTINO2LE ANSON. With his upper lip after its hirSutc appcndage had been harvCstcd.l
 | day and generation roofcd! What words of irony and sharp rctort it looked down | upon as they flew out at the lucklrsS vic i tims!
 And now it is gone ThCrc wasn't | much of it, but tho little there waS had prominence because of the place whrrc il grow. No explanation is given why the | innocent looking, dead lcr,l>s Culurrd mus tache was s;irriucrtl. IL may have been pro | nounccd a h0nduu. Possibly lnrlr Adrian thought that without a mu>tarhc he woLld | appear moro buyi>h. Ii thr latter h, the true explanation. I will Dot bc surprised to hear that kr has puttird up the cracks | in his neck and got q n,w st "f teeth. 1 | strongly suspect. however, that the vet cran's glass showed him few white hairs hcrr and there among; the scant hedge on his upper lip, and that .l,c condemnation of the many resulted for the sins of the l few Anyhow it was and is not
 | Tho club at the same time has concluded to star AnSon. That k wise. There k only one of his kind on the diamond. He | stands unique and alone. Of the hundr,'dS ] who hattlctl with and against him in l>16 | not one is left in SCrV ice. Young hluDd k l WCll enough Ill Us NtN, l'tlt l!lt'Et lS 'ltllN one Anson. and he should he cherished. It is right to make him thr star. His club has a thrr' sheet N,'etrr which pictures | him, sans mu~tachc. clad in tn" uniform | which he has hunOrt'd for a score of years. Wherever the team plays this poster, with | out n mustachc. stslrrS at roOtCrS from the fences and hillbuardS The lithographcr | has done his work well ton. l.nuhinS at | tho man in Armour one would think. if one did not know better. that il WAS l "find''->nnr young fellow just out of school who had suddenly jumped into prumincnc, on the diamoud.
 All on account of the missing muStaChc, ] And this sacrifice rrmiudS me Uf the pc l culiar fact that for years no professional baseball player has worn any beard except | upon his upper lip In the sixties and early seventies thcgc wrr, boards seen upon the diamond Grurgr Wright wore short sidcrs when hr played with the famous | Red Stockings. and Harry Wright sportcd a regular English harp, Later on player with any hair on his face except mus tachc would have been hootVd from the field.
 And now is the mustachc to co? Anson Is to the profession what tho Prince of Wales is to the ci.uYri,'S, and lr0k for an immediate general sacrifice of tho mus tache among baseball players Before l leave AnSon l want 10 say that if he wins all the bets he iS making this season his income tax next year will be considerable. In one week he telcgraphcd three 5000 bets to New York. and all were taken. He al ways wagrrS on his Colts against some other club and when his book iS full 1t generally turns out that it is 50 arranged that he cant lose much,
 ] Now that .\nson has cut off his mus tarhc Prince Bismarck will pr,'hlhly do it too With .NnSon and Gladstone sporting barr upper lips, Bis cant afford tO keep | his German twist.
 The National league season opens on C0uraginrly Tho pittShur;rs start off in the lr;ld as they did lasJ year, and tho strong eastern Clul'S bunch together prior to their assault upon tho western circuit. | 1 am inclined to believe that tho eastern clubs arr comparatively stronger than last year, and that the west has not, on the whole, improved any. The most rCmnrk- ahlc change in the whole circuit k the great form "f Rusir Mrrkin, German and
 StivrttS right at ike start Bost"n'> hE pitcher never was in such fire frttlr, and
 Music. German and NJ Nkin clearly show
 the benefit of their month training in the
 south Every other pitcher in th" country
 iS being, on the average, hit hard. l
 should advise pru>prcturS [" n"t undtrvS-
 timatr the work of Music and Mrrkin
 when they begin tn 1iyurr on remnant , chances. To hold the opposing Sidc down
 to from one 10 six runs Is half the battle. That is what l expect to sec Rusic and
 Mcekin do.
 If Nichols rounds up ill his 1893 form, Boston will go to tho front prime favor
 ite But at present, as l predicted few
 weeks ago, it looks as if Nichols !s handi-
 capped by that extra distance.
 The resignation of Lynch from the Ma
 tional lcagucs staff of umpircs removes ) ] the ranking man in that business. He ! has served the League since 1887 and was
 considered by all odds tho best man who
 ever called balls and strikes. Yet he was
 not popular with players on account of | his refusal to associate or become friendly with lh,rm of the field. And while um- | piring tho game hc generally refused tC
 speak to any player except the captain. l Lynch WAS victim to a literal construc 1 ton of the new rules against kicking. T Although President Young in his prclim
 mary instructions advised all the umpire: to be lenient at first until the players be, l came somewhat accustomed to the rigid
 change, Lynch did not heed and took the n 1 very first and most trivial excuse to levy
 the big fines Yet President Young sus g taincd him. But knowing that Davis and
 Doyle would be bitter toward Lynch after n those fines, he very thuuEhtfully ordcrvt
 the umpire to go tn Baltimore for tn, r Brooklyn games, Lynch gut excited an(
 resigned. His succrSsAr, W. II. Long ha: 5 G reputation as u good umpire, made il
 tho New England lca-tI,
 Captain Trbcau has the first hard lucl
 team of the scasnn With Cuppy an,
 Young both ill at the same time, right n
 the start hc certainly was discouraged
 There is great deal of luck in baseball ', you know
 0 With the advent uf May all tho lcaguc
 and associations will get into champion t ship work, and what promises to be th,
 most successful baseball season in tn games history iS fairly on. Tho Collc'
 fight for championship honors has also hc d gun and will h,' wa-7L ilrrccly ill Juno
 Several weeks ayA ;i looked aS if Yal Il would have almost Il walk over but sud
 denly the nino went to pieces like the "On II hoss shay" Cartcr's arm grow sorc an,
 Trudeau was overwOrkcd. Accidents L
 other men made a change necessary in tn d inileld, and the team was fruit" for tn
 weakest Yale may pull together in time I. but just now it looks as if Brown an, Harvard would fight it out unless Prince
 ton shOcld develop an unusual strengtl
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