The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-17

That the Orioles Will Again Take TIN
Lead--Bostons are Not Waterfall.
Strengthened and the Outlook is Alto
gether Favorable for the Giants of New
York--Anson as Usual Thinks He vii
Come Out as OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES vii
Try to Get up.
Chicago, April 16.-Next Tuesday the
National baseball season begins, the
various teams OF the National league
locking horns on that day. Who Will
win the penant?
Chicago hasn't had a league pennant
since Captain Arson was a colt, and
that's a good many years ago-as far
back, indeed, as 1856. But it will doubt
less please a great many people TO know
that the aforesaid Captain Arson be-
lieves the present team to be for strong
er than any other that has worn the
Chisago uniform since the last that
captured a league championship. The
raptain is generally not pessimistic in
his estimation of his players before the
season begins, but the showing the
men have made in practice in the south
proves the team to have many ele-
ments of strength il did not possess
last year. Except for Schriver Parrot
and McGill, il has all the old men, and
the four or five new players who re-
place those three are said to be of far
more value in all respects. Last sea-
son the club lost forty games by one
run. The finest baseball mathema-
ticians have figured it out that the new
strength that the team has gained will
be sufficient to win those forty games
and place the Chicagos in the hottest
of the fray for the championship en-
blem- There is every reason to expect
the team to start off in the lead, for
the reason that it will play the weak
1ings, while the strong mines of the east
are fighting among themselves and
keeping one another down Up to the
time the Chicagos go east-May q
they ought to be at the top of the list,
and il once they get there the conf
dence that comes with being ahead
may be sufficient to keep them well in
the race.
ABOUT THE BALTIMORES.
IT is hardly to be expected that the
Baltin1ores will finish first again-ex-
cept Of course in Baltimore. That team
has no new strength and in the pitch
Ing department it is materially weak
ened. Carey. the first baseman is the
Oriole aggregation and he does not
really add any strength. because OF the
Tact that when he plays BrOutbers will
not and Brouthers is probably the bet
ter of the two. He fielded his position
ecceptdbly all last season and hit the
ball much harder than Carey Will do
for some time to come. McMahon the
best pitcher the team had last year.
gave out toward the end OF the season
In his pitching arm and will probably
have TO be shelved. The fact of their
being the champions, too, will be a dis
advantage to the Baltimores, because
1t will make them the target of all the
other teams in the league. Luck was
a large element in their success last
season, too, and that is too uncertain
q quantity to be counted upon in adj
vance
The New Workers are looked upon by
great many as the likely flag winners
this season but they do not seem to pos
Eess the champion qualifications with
all their boosted strength. The team
has the hest pair Of pitchers in the
they last the Giants chances are good,
but if they should fail, the Giants
greatest strength would fail with them
In one way the team is already weak
ened, and that is the absence of Ward
They have found no one yet who prom
Uses to he able 10 completely fill his
place. Young George Davis is an ex-
ceilent third baseman, but as captain
and manager he does not possess
Wards judgment and experience. His
new duties Al the head of the team
probably will tell a good deal, too. on
his lpayiHg. The team has acquired no
new men of value since the end of last
season unless, perhaps in Schriver, VINO
was not fast enough for Chicago.
OF BOSTON'S PITCHERS.
Down in Boston they all say the team
from the Hub Will fly the flag again.
The BeaneaterS have no new men of
particular strength unless perhaps in
some of the many unknown pitchers
that have been added to the string.
The Boston manager have secured the
country for pitching talent. which in
itself is an acknowledgment of weak |
ness in the box. The Bostons will prob |
ably show UP weak at both ends of the |
baGteg-y. The infield and outfield are
good, but if the pitchers fail it will |
have a bad effect on the rest. Good
pitching. such as the BoStOnS have
been used to. makes good fielding. and |
poor pitching weakens any team |
Nichols. who was the mainstay in the |
hex last year, fell off considerably at /
the end of the season and StivettS was |
hit a good deal harder than the team |
could well sta nd
The Cleveland team. which has stood |!
we'll up on the list for three years. will |
be materially weakened by the new
rule which stops loud talk and bull
DOING on the coacher's line. When |
the spiders win now they will have |
on their merits and not by rafting"
pitchers or soaring the umpire out of |
doing the fair thing. Such a rule as
that detTacts a great deal from the
value of such men as Tebeau. O'Connor.
Mexican Eurkett and McGarT. who |
were accounted the best in the Cleve-
land aggregation The team has played |
some enappy baseball but il will be in |
luck this year TO get into the first
division
St. Louis has a crowd of lively play
el1S this season. who will be exceedingly
hard II beat if Won der Abe will only
keep his hands off and allowthem to
play bah. in Breitenstein the Browns
have good pitcher as any in the |
league outside Of the tar pair in New
York. He is left-hsnded. but does not
rely on that popularity alone. He IS /
a winner, with good support. as all /
league clubs have had time To realize.
Ebert has bone 10 ST. Louis also. and |
II he and Arthur ClaTkS0n do the work
they are capable Of doing. the Browns
Will he exceptionally strong in the box
III f>'S-Si N-pAtAFN4. Rftil4i. Ely &flG Lyons
The team has remarkably good field
Ing and strong hitting infield. In Tom
Brown, Cooley and Dowd they have
three outfieldets who can cover as much
ground as anybody and beat any other
three FEEDERS in getting to first base.
Buckenberger signed 10 mana ged the |
team after being reinstaited by the |
league, and Will proba bly, get good work
out of the men. On form the club
ought to so up among the leaders
TEAM OF HEAVY HITTERS.