Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-08

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would be no trouble If there was a fail
SHOW of discipline. The Brooklyn club
mas shown how a club ought to be con-
Quoted to be successful. If teams are
to be cut down so that the standard Of
play will be affected, as will surely be
the case If not enough first-class men
are carried to properly play the game.
the attendance will dwindle more than
1t has this season.
The public has become disguised with
the >rule-or-ruin policy of the magnates
and would welcome any change from the
present baseball domination.
Chicago is already giving Comiskey's
team far more hearty support than it
Is according to Jim Harris team. This
talk that 25-cent ball cannot be sup
ported at present salaries is not sup
ported by facts. Philadelphia is a 25-
cent city, and has been generous in it's
support of the game for years. With a
club properly conducted the attendance
for the season. Besides, Philadelphia
supports the finest ball team and the
most expensive in the country.
Every city ought to have a first-class
ball field. The least that players and
the public can expect is to a a ground
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felders are no constinually picking up
gravel and on which the fences are on
the incline, If not on the decline. Any
investment to improve the surroundings
of the interested is sure to reap rich
fruit.
The rules of the game are all right. IF
the magnates had let the poor old home
base alone. and done something to stop
the roWdyism on the field, better results
would have followed. Now they talk OF
reducing the number Of balls and strikes.
as if that could help the sport any. If
the players would hurry a bit in their
work a game would be played quickly
enough.
The abolishing Of the double umpire
system was anything but economical.
for 1t was an incentive to more kicking,
and consequent rows and delays, which
completely nauseated the baseball pub
lie. Yet only one magnate voted for the
restoration of the double umpire system.
Sam Lever recently broke the seasons
record for strike-outs, striking out 10
Cincinnati batsmen. Yet the game was
lost by the small margin of one run, the
Reds winning by a score of 3 to 2, Lee
VerS feat was not the best ever made
in the league by a long shot, nor was it
the best ever made in Pittsburg. In 1888
Tim keefe, h pitching for the New
York team, which won the pennan that
season, struck out II Pittsburg batsmen
on May Is, and repeated the feat on May
II, thus getting % strike-outs in two sue
cessive games. These games were played
in old Union Park, and christened Rec
reation' Park by Horace Phillips. In
1887 John Clarkson, pitching for the Bos-
tons. struck out II Pittsburg batters. 1t
was a ~ten-inning game and was won by
Boston by a score of l to O. The follow
ing season, 1888, also in a ten-inning
game, Boyan and Nichols, pitching for
RnSfnn q dnvan piffChyyrr hotcV,nr
found the air thrice in succession. The
record in the league is 10 -strike-Outs,
made BY Charley Sweeney, of the Provi-
dence club, in 1884. against the Bostons
at Boston. Tom Ramsey in his day,
struck out II men. He made the record
in 1887 against Cleveland. The feat is
unsurpassed in the history of baseball
from the fact that in that season four
strikes prevailed.
In the same year the late Jim Whitney,
styled the Grasshoppec, AMI Tim Keefe
pitched a remarkable game at Washing
and Keefe for New York. Each struck
out 10 men ton the four-strike rule, re-
member), making a total of % for the
game.
The Phillies now have seven pitchers
Dunn, Donahue, Fraser, Orth, Bernhard,
Plat. and Conn. AS they will hardly
carry more h four or five at least two
of them may upon an early release.
Before we go into rapturous ecstasy
over Dunn and shout hat at last the
Phillies have secured a winning pitcher,
don't let us forget that two years ago
Col. Rogers purchased a twirler from the
Louisville club nan'"l Migcs. and in his
first game the newcomer made the
Brooklyns look like an amateur team.
coming within one run of shutting out
, the Champions, and that run the result
of an error. That was the only good
game Magee ever pitched for the Phillies.
Let us hope that there will not be a repe-
tition in Dunn's case, and that he will do
as we'll in every game and last for many
years as he did yesterday. In the mean
time, while extending Dunn a cordial
! welcome to Philadelphia, with the assur-
ance that good work on his part Will be
| greatly appreciated in this city. let us
refrain from growing over his acquisition
to the team until after he has at least
pitched several more such good games
like Observation-Disclosures Publ
Ledger.
Harry Pulliam, the erstwhile Red Bird
| statesman of the old commonwealth, is
deserving of the new title of the Ken
lucky poet. Speaking of the Pittsburg
situation he says: There's not a cloud
in the sky. The season has been to us a
continuous sunburst, n If 1t rained
from now until time to close the gates we
! wouldn't need an umbrella. We are out
of the wet .'-Cincinnati Post.
The last time the Reds were in Boston
John Morrill, remarked: 1T would be
rather late in life for Herman Long to
make a change, but I believe if he were
switched to second base he would break
all records at that bag. There is no posi-
ton on the field hat requires as much
brains as that bag 1t is the easiest
position for a player of quick perception
to occupy.'-BostOn Post.