The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-11

Il don't pose as tipster." said Joe
Walsh. but Just put me on the
tab with the prediction that the fight
for the pennant this. season between
at least five clubs will be fought Ciear
to the finish, and it may lev aipp that
the leader of the big league twelve viii
not be determined until the last LAY Of
the season A constant change IN posi-
ton by the margin of a few FER cent
age points and one~or two games viii
keep the teams Of the first division
dangling in the throes of fever. uncer-
tainty and suspense. which will mean
thankless, rocky road for The Em-
pires. Such teams as the Hanlon Su
perbas and the Tebeau PERI actos be-
lieve, like all winners, that they have
right to expect more license, 1aore
liberty. than the second division teams,
and that will make a barbed- wire time
of 1t for the umpires. Each day they
take the field they will expect to win
and the team that is losing will go out
OF its way to enlist a tenth man in
their cause in the person of an umpire
Pains fireworks will prove a tallow dip
In comparison with the crossfire Of sui
phur-blu criticism that will tizzle and
sputter in a game between Brooklyn
and st. Louis if either Joe Kelley or
Patruccio Tebeau corners ar umpire in
a close, scrappy game
The Matrimonial League staff of UNI
pires should be reorganized at once.
The incapacity of one-third of the APP
pointees of President Young is so mani
fest that their retention calls for Sc
we're censure. Poor umpires make
baseball a roaring farce. however high
the standard of the players who par
tic1pate in the games. Their incompe-
tency is responsible for rowdyism on
the part of the patrons and players.
because it provokes these outbursts
and exhibitions.
Brooklyn had the best and Baltimore
the poorest patronage on Decoration
day. The morning games drew % $40
and the afternoon games 62,420 accord
ing to the Associated Press figures.
total of S4,97o on the day. Brooklyn's
total was 24,400. Philadelphia came
next with 20,0ol. New York being
third with 10000 Pittsburg fans turned
out to the number of 10000 a day The
Cleveland Exiles drew 1900 at Boston,
and the Perfectos' share of the receipts
at Baltimore We're figured on $500 at
the morning and 1869 at the afternoon
game.
Harry r. Vonderhorst said emphati-
cally, at Baltimore, that the Baltimore
club is not for sale. He followed UP the
assertion by saying: If any one buys
it it will be myself" 1t would not be
at all surprising should this be the
ultimate termination of the syndicate
business in the East. Not for several
years has Vonderhorst taken more ac-
tive interest in the welfare of the club
than at present Since Manager Nc
Graw showed the mettle of which he
and his men are made the former sole
owner of the club has stuck to them
faithfully. 1t would not be surprising
if Vonderhost sold out his interest in
the Brooklyn end of the syndicate for
the control of the Baltimore end.
Connie Mack says there is no city in
the Western League that turns out as
large crowds of ladies as Kansas City.
The last time we played there" he
says, there were at least 1.200 mem
bers of the fair sex in. the stands to
give US welcome"
Dan Lally is playing. the same con-
sistent game for st. Paul day after
DAY, taking the very best of care of
himself, and rolling up his string of
base hits with comrnendable regularity.
In only four out of % games has Dan
failed to get hit W.
Place Gus Weighing with team like
the Cincinnatis or. Bostons and he
would be one of the most talked-about
twirlers in the big league. He hasn't
lost game for the Senators this seas
on; the contests he has net won were
solely the fault of his support.
Jack Doyle and Mugsey McGraw are
on friendly terms once more Jack and
Mugsey last winter patched up the
differences that had existed between
them for long time. The overture to-
ward an armistice was made at the
Sharkey-Corbett fight. Jack went down
from Holyhoke, Mass. and Mugsev
from Baltimore to see that scrap. They
spoke, and this spring they shook
hands. Thus another baseball quarrel
IS ended in the usual manner" Nobody
hurt and everybody on good terms.
The Brooklyn batsmen, almost to
man, stand close to the plate. Many
OF the Bostons not only stand back
but draw back when the ball is pitched
Hamilton stands far from the plate.
but he always steps in to meet the ball
1t is said that Dusty Miller asked
the Cincinnati club to lay him off for
"a month at his own expense. Miller is
said to be thoroughly Disguised with
ms batting, and thinks that a iay-off
will do him good.
Casey of Brooklyn and Laioie are
liValins those old timers, Griffin and
Jennings, in the ability to tire a pitcher
out at the plate by moving the foul
tlies this way and that, and always out
OF reach of the fielders.
Delahanty, king of long Substance
hnhters' was passing figure IN a game
at Chicago. He had been nut of the
game for several days on account Of a
pad side He was put in in the seventh
mining to bat for Frazer and he stuck
me ball so fiercely that it went ripht
through Bill EVeritt's appraised har DIS,
and shot out to right field. with 10 dis
cfedit 10 the Chicago first baseinan
Tor not having held il.
Fred +. Raymer. Il member of the
Kansas City club, has ard an an
pointment as plumber for he ,rt
Wlngate military rese 'Vauon, Nan-
agger Manning, who is anxious to Re-
tam the services of Rayme- on Insteam
until the close of the season, wired AS
slstant Secretary Davis. who is a kan
sas Cityan, 10 learn whether. it wiliIa
be possible TO have Ravalnr's appnint-
ment held up until October. score
tary Davis will see what can be done
about il.
Breitenstein, Dwyer. Vaughn. and. of
course, Mcbride, who is disabled pre-
the Reds stay at-homes" this tim.
Frank Bonner's acquisition by Wish
ington is case of third time m I1arIIa