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CKITICIS>I.The award of pitcher Petty to the Cincinnati

Club by the Board of Arbitration was not well received in Hamilton. This was to ba expected, of course, but disappointment offers no excuse for the following comment by the Hamilton Spectator:

"The Board of Arbitration la a farce. When ther« lii a Ulsjialo between & major aud a minor leagne club over » player it is dollar* to cents that thu lattor will jt»t the worot of it, no matter liow good a caê it may have ."

There is neither sense nor truth in this pctu Hnt howl. The Spectator, for instance, either forgot all about or never heard of the famous Des Moine3-St. Louis contest over fielder Halli- day, in which the St. Louis Club was worsted, nor could the sapient base ball editor of our Hamilton contemporary have read the very clear opinion of the Board which accompanied the Petty decision, and which was printed in full in our last issue. There has not in recent years been a single decision given or award made by the Board of Arbitration which was not amply justi fied by the law and the facts in oaeh and every cage, and the rank or status of the contesting clubs or individuals cut no figure whatever before the Board nor influenced its judgment in thte least. The best proof of this exists in the fact that the evidence and opinions in all the cases the Board has been called upon to adju dicate, hove been published in THB SPORTING LIFE, and thus sent broadcast over the country and brought to the attention of all who chose to read.

Such breaks as that of the Spectator quoted above are not infrequent among papers giving more or less space to base ball, due to the fact that owing to the many phases of base ball which mates its treatment in newspapers quite a specialty, the ordinary base ball reporters are given entirely too much rein, and are not subjected by their chiefs to the same strict supervision that is rigidly applied to ali other departments of a paper. In fact, in most newspapers base ball reporters are per mitted to usurp editorial prerogatives, and so far from being confined to statements of facts they are allowed to ventilate their often ill-considered and crude opinions at any and all times upon every conceivable phase of base ball. While it 3s desirable to have all possible space ia the in fiuential press given to the sayings and doings of the base ball people, it cannot be denied that this undoubted benefit is often far too often, in fact more than off?et by this incessant opinion manufacture, which is not only sure to ulti mately mislead the writers into false positions and amazing blunders, but too often docs an incalculable amount of harm to the game, the clubs, and more particularly to helpless individ uals. The ignorant but fresh reporter ia by no means the least of the evils from which base ball suffers.

Is TASK BALL the distinction between the effete East and the wild and woolly West is sharply drawn. In this favored and civilized eection, of course the people love championships, but they love the game .itself far more, and if the Eastern clubs eive patrons a fairly good expo sition of the national game they are assured of good support, and consequently of existence. In the younger, eager, impatient, and somewhat barbaric land of the setting sun the quality of a ball club is judged by its winning capacity, no matter what manner of ball it plays or what the ealibre of its opponents is. And moreover, sue- ce£3 must be continuous. As long as a team plays winning ball it is all right, and there is not a better outfit in the land. The stands are crowded and standing room only, and but little of that, is to be had. When a few reverses are bad the ball park is deserted and the team con signed to Gehenna by the former patron?, as they pursue their daily avocations and avoid the game. All this will, however, correct itself in time, when our Western enthusiasts learn, by long contact with and experience in base ball, as we in the East have had, to love the game for itself and to support it without extreme lucat considerations.

MANAGER PHILLIJS, of the Pittsburg Club, is the first base ball man, to the best of our recol lection, who has succumbed to that dread dis ease, paresis, or consumption of the brain, which, as a rule has hitherto sought its victims among the more intellectual professions. Blr. Phillips was a c'ever, companionable man, a manager of exceptional skill, vast and varied experience, widely known and generally popu lar, and his many friends in and out of the pro fession will regret to learn of his affliction the most grievous in the category of ills that flesh is heir to. It is to be hoped that he may re cover, but instances of recovery from that fell disease paresis are rare, and Mr. Phillips will, in all probability, never again figure in ba-e ball history or in human affairs of any kind.

IF THE Boston team should win the League championship, it will be despite the daily press of the Hub, which acts in a manner calculated to break rather than build up ft pennant- winning team. Such incessant scolding and lecturing, ill-considered advice, flabby criticism, unwarranted suspicion and unmerited abuse, were never before heaped upon a team holding

the position in the race that the Boston team has held ever since the campaign started. That it does hold this place is due to tho fact that the seasoned players composing the team are im pervious to newspaper criticism and that the Boston sheet.", in their mad competition to fill space, have overshot the mark.

Tn« MIDDLE STATES LBAOUE is proving to be a much stronger organization than was expected even by its promoters at the beginning of tlie season, and the game which its clubs are put ting up is surprising all base ball people. If tho Leagne finishes the season in good shape, as now seems most probable, its loading men pro pose to do some experimenting with TKK SPORT ixo LIFE Millennium Plan for next season. Un fortunately, however, the League neglected to secure reservation privileges, and can do but little in the lines of the Plan for another season. Besides, to enable any and every minor league to inaugurate the reforms advocated by the Mil lennium Plan some changes will have to be made in the Supplementary Articles to tho Na- tiunal Agreement relative to tho power of transferring players from city to city, which means "reservation by league instead of club;" unless, indeed, the minor leagues should organ ize aa independent confederation, in which event they could go ahead without the National Agreement or the advice and assistance of the major leagues.

o FOLLOWING CLOSS upon the St. Louis-Wash

ington fake eoines another wild and lurid tale from the untamed West of a contemplated deal for the transposition of the St. Louis and Balti more teams, which is actually given out as a fact by the enterprising St. Louis newsgatherer. The story, published in another column, reads well, but need excite no alarm or anticipations, as President Von der Ahe, while in Philadel phia the past week, informed us in most em phatic terms that there was not the slightest foundations for or truth in these or any similar stories involving a transfer of th« Brown Stock ings. St. Louis is not the best base ball town in the country, but nevertheless the St. Louis Club will continue to do business at the old stand and with the old customers for some considerable time yet. "Nuff ced."

THE TWO HEAL pitching phenomenons of the season are the two F's Fersou and 1'orcman. O'Brien, of the Clevelands, served apprentice ship in the Ameriein Association last season, but the two F's were altogether new to the dreaded major league batsmen at the beginning of the current season, and yet, singularly, both have more than held their own and now rank among the most successful twirlers by reason of their steadily etfective work. As both were regarded before the season began as rather unpromising experiments, their success is doubly remarkable, and lends point to the oft-repeated assertion that in the matter of developing players, base ball is truly a lottery.

e THANKS to the efforts of Mr. A. G. Mills, who

seems to have become as great a figure in ath letics as he formerly was in base ball, the ath letic war is at an end. His efforts on behalf of reconciliation have borne rich fruit, and the hatchet has been buried and once more the ath letes will dwell together in harmony. The fa mous Travers Island resolution, which almost a year ago divided the athletes into two distinct classes, has been rescinded; the old National Association of Amateur Athletes has gone out of existence and its principal club members have become identified with the Amateur Athletic Union, and everything is lovely, for the present, at least.

TDK AVERAGE AMERICAN boy, when he is hit with a base ball, howls with anguish; but it is just for a moment, and then the expression of his face changes to one of pride. He remembers that he has been struck with a ball and not with a olub, and already thinks proudly of showing his bruises in school the next day. It is an in- controvertable fact that if a boy gets a broken finger or a stone-bruise in a ball game he is as proud of it as a girl would be of a new bonnet, while, if the same finger was hurt splitting kindlings the pain would be almost unbearable.Perhaps somebody can explain why this is.

IT is pretty nearly time the American Asso-

ci.itiom took the rain check matter in hand and regulated it in some manner satisfactory to both clubs and patrons, as such scenes as were wit nessed on the Athletic grounds Thursday, for the second time this season, are calculated to injure not only that club, which seems destitute of in stincts of generosity and fairness and utterly destitute of business sense, but will redound to the future injury of visiting clubs by reason of decreased attendance, which such management must surely entail, and thus hurt the Association in a general way.

«, THEBE is MUCH COMPLAINT both in Leagne and

Association circles over the lax methods of con ducting the umpire business. The men are shipped about at the command or request of dissatisfied clubs; they report for duty or not, apparently just as they feel inclined, and the substitution of local umpires and players for the regular offi cials is of daily occurrence, to the mutual dis satisfaction of clubs and spectators. Aside from any question of the substitution of the double umpire system better methods of handling theumpire corps are evidently very m ucb. needed.

o IK ACCORDANCE with Section 36 of the consti

tution of the International Association, Secre tary White has asked for a statement or pay roll of each International club for ttya month of July. How many will make absolutely true statements it would be interesting to know. That "just a little" perjury must creep in some where is undoubted, in view of the fact that evi dences multiply that more than one club is vio lating the salary limit rulo.

STRAXQE to say nearly all of the old players who have turned to umpiring have proved fail ures. Why this should be so is a mystery, as long practice should have made them well versed in the rules and up to all the tricks of the trade.

FIELD MARSHAL Axsox says his Chicago team is still out for tho pennant. Judging from the recent work of the Chicagos, the great cap tain's confidence may not be misplaced, at least so far as hurtling the ultimata winner it con cerned.

HARTFORD, Worcester and New Haven are the only Atlantic Association clubs which have as yet shown no financial weakness. In this respect the New England contingent of the As sociation carries off tho palm.

THE PHILLIES have of recent years always been the strongest finishers in the League. If this faculty hasn't deserted them it will have an important bearing on the final disposition of theLeague pennant.

WE HKAB no complaints about Mr. Barnie's "poor judgment »nd bad methods" this season. What a difference a successful team makes inthe public's estimate of managerial ability.

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Loso AND LOUD are the cries that go up every where for the inevitable double umpire system. 'Diana ye hear the slogan," Messrs. Magnates?

NOTES AND COMMENTS.BOB OIL K.I Is a happy father.

DAVE OUWELD fa mill ID tbe rold.FKHSOS ie evidently New York's terror.!>ENNT *till leads the League In borne run*.COM WIT is now Kansas City's wincing pitcher.CHICAGO now carries fifteen men on the pay roll.VMTIRE HOOVER'S suspension has been removed.TORONTO ha* fûr Mc p s all Scotch, we presume.DAVK Oatt leads the Association In two base hit*.FARHKLL ia duing heavy stick work for Chicago.ANSON la said to consider Tener as his star pltehar.ANBON'IS pitchers seem to be just getting >ntu form.KANSAS CITY was among the scramblers after Krock.TUB Oriole are playing with remarkable anap and

vim.BILL GLIASON claims that Louisville still owes him

saliiry.CT.KVELAND waa always lucky in It* short field

players.GAMBLE Is doing some remarkable pitching for Ilar-

rlabnrg.CHAUBERIAIN'S arm troublea him moat during damp

Ci RVELAND really seems to have about made its running.

^KiTHERTIm Keefe nor Welch haa stolen a baae this year.

\VmtE38ABREiAX8 are disgruntled over the sale of Johfi Irwln.

TUB Toronto Clnb has secured Bob Pettit from

TUCKER, of Baltimore, haa been caned; St'a a silver-h* aiii.nl affair.

HAMILTON considers Kd Sales tbe beat short stop in the business.

Con-MBUS haa received the most whitewasheg, namely td^ht.

PICKETT is just gottinc ovor a frightful abscess utiutr hit cbin.

"fco TRVE friend of mine will «ay 'Frisco to me." Jack Chapman.

PITCH en FRANK GILMOKE ia in Washington without an eu B'a,{enipQr.

THE Sinnx City Glob baa signed short stop BubberJ, of Mt. C'emwns.

SHORT STOP LANO, late of Jersey City, haa algned with Woicester,

FOUTZ ha* taken to the box for Brooklyn, and David ia himst-tf ag*in.

CL-RHMAN'S phenom, Vickery, has shut Hamilton out

THE G i*nts weaken too easily in the face of unex pected misfortune.

ALL of Cleveland's pitchers appear a01 icted with wildi;e*8 nova>!ajs.

NOBODY 3»eni3 to know what Kid Baldwin, of Cin cinnati, is laid off for.

NEW YORK. Boston aad Flttsburg are absolutely down on Umpire Curry.

NEW TORKESS now graciously accord Cleveland aixtii place «t the finish.

Now that he is eone the PitUburg fans begin to ap preciate Pup Smith's value.

STEVB BBADY has been fined S20 aud suspended by Captain Burdock for ''saes."

V/ILMINGIOX is aaid to be LOW anxious for admission to the Middle Slate, lvalue.

THE Pittebitrga are accused of quitting just as soon aa ihe oilier side gets a lead.

MARK BALDWIN Fays be finds the Association every whit as speedy as the League.

IT H A pretty race for tbe batting lead between Tucker, o'Noil and Halliday.

BILLY SUNDAY la but slowly getting over the recent surgical oi«ra!ion on bis lex.

CH-mRLDER SUM>AY, of Houston, is the Latham of tbe Texas Lea en e iu coaching.

"THK MI-D CATS" ia the beautiful nickname be stowed upon the Houston Club.

So TAR it ia estimated th»t Cleveland is about S7500 ahead of the season's expenses.

Lew DICKERS*^ has asaln been suspended by the London Club. Same old thing.

IT MUST havs been a bitter doê for O'Day to lose bis first game against Washington.

ArooRDiSfl to reptrt Chris Fulmer has decided to lay off lor the balance of tbs season.

FITCH KB TBERT, of Brooklyn, to working up quite a record on his play at first base.

FOUR home runs in one cnnie last week were made off left-handed Devlln by Omaha.

TOM BUBXS, of Chicago, is trying to imitate Latham aa a cottcher. lie can never do it.

WHEN the Cincinnati* finish their series in Balti more they will ha?e five opon dates.

CONNOR has a very bad finger, and would gladly lay o for a while if he could be spared.

UMPIRE GOLDSMITH is by no means lacking in that prime requisite nerve and firmness.

JOHN MORRILL say* Washington would be a splendid city, financially, with a winning team.

JOHN MOHRH.L last week underwent a painful aur- gical operation upon his damaged hand.

IT is surm'sed that Boston paid about J30QO for Smith, of which "Pup" got ju*t nothing.

OFFICIAL notice of Joreey City's diflhandment, July 27, hosbeen issued by Secretary JJrrvlen.

As CHART.ET SMITH is a renl Yankee, he ought to mightily suit the Boston newspaper clan.

PEOBIA may become a member of the Western Asso ciation next season in place of Slonx City.

ATKISSOS is to have a benefit at Toronto, August 10 , The Toronto Club has donated the ground.

MR. M. H. BEROUNDEH, a director of the Wllkes- barre Club, is at present managing the team.

THB most impartial baê ball audiences in this coun try attend the game at Chicago and St. Louis.

JOHN B. DAY ia now credited with designing the new grand stand at the New Polo I/rounds himself.

INTERNATIONAL umpires do not obey Secretary White's instructions to remain behind the bat.

EVERT dog meat have his day. Eight straight victories is Boeriesters recent unlocked for achievement.

THE Middle States Le*?ue haa adopte 1 the Keefe & Becaniion ball ad the official Latl of the Leagne.

CHARLEY BASTIAS has taken to loft-handed batting, and "Pop" Smith haa also returned to th*t style.

IT is understood that O'Dav received 8200 of the re lease money New York paid Washington for him.

BEDDY MACK is doing sjrh-ndid work for a second base man with a very sore hand and a lame wrist

KID MADDEN an>1 Kilroy are about tha only left handers holding their own in the major leagues.

SHOUT STOP BRADLEY, of the Worce^tc-rs, has so lame an arm that he cannot throw across the diamond.

THE Brooklyn Clnb fg sail to be aftor pitcher Nairle, of Omaha. Up goes tho price, we suppose.

MANAGER MUTBIE sava New York will surely press the protest against the Boston-Indianapolis game.

JIMMY GALYIN has been presented with a new left hind rabbit's toot. Now look out for the old man.

JOHN Ewixa would probably become a great pitcher had he hia brother "Buck" to c:\tch and coach him.

OARSMAN NED HANLOV says Mae ball la booming In Melbourne, where five chits aro playing regularly.

BUFFALOXIANS think Detroit will win the Interna tional pennant, bar accidents to one of the infieUlers.

IN SECURING an engagement with New York Hank O'Day secured the object of his long cherished ambi tion.

PITTSBUBG made a reach for Garget, of Boston, but had no earthly show. Ganzel ia a Jiin dandy in the Hub.

Ma. PARSONS, the new president of the Louisville Club, ia the locat freight agent of the Air Line Bail- road.

THE contracts of A. F. Donaghua, John M. Barke and L. A. Giililaud with Loweil have been promul gated.

FIRST BASEMAN McGuiRK, late of Toronto, baa re turned to hlu home In New York, and is still disen gaged.

TED STTLLIVAN haa been with tbe Browns during the past week, assisting Von der Ahe with some business matters.

OLD Walk-the-Straight-Path Pinckney Is looking an in his batting aâiu and hitting profitably for Brooklyn.

DARBY O'BRIEN originally cost the Cleveland Club $1800. which was.tne amount paid the Lima Club for his release.

CHICAGO ia the only League and Brooklyn the only Association club to eecape the whitewash brush BO far ihia *?ason.

BOSTON aeems to be the Philllea1 stumbling block once more, as she was when the Phi Hies firat entered tbe League.

DESPITE Ned 'Willlnmson's absence from Chicago's short Bold, that infield to dato leads the League in double plays.

A COLORED gentleman the other day mistakenly, but aptly, termed the Washington team the "Senatorial Aggravation,"

WASHINGTON now is quite a Detroit agjrregatlnn ao far M left-handed batsmen are concerned; It hae seven such batsmen.

IT IB aaid that under hfc contract with Buffalo Jim Whitney cannot be reserved, and ii to pi!oh but two games per week.

TUB Kansas City men complain bitterly of GfifTnoy's umpiring in Brooklyn and charge him with the loaa of two games there.

MB. H. E. LEONARD baa teen made International Association director for Rochester m place of John T. Roberts resigned.

FBANK CAMPBRLL, the crack Harvard ahort atop, claims to have an offer from Hamilton, of tbe Interna tional Association.

COLUMBUS, Kansas Olty and Washington were hot after third baaeman Know lea, but the Ho cheater deal knocked them out.

MANAGER Mirrnis ia quoted now as expressing re gret at Elmer Toster'a re tease. Tbe latter baa struck a fast gait out West.

ELMEH SMITH used to ba most effective agalnit Brooklyn. This aea*>n that team haa hit him harder than any other pitcher.

COMTEK* ia quoted as saying that in time Stlvetta will prove another King. Ted Sullivan a good judge

-endorses tbat opinion.TIM KKE; E made his first three-bagger of tbe sea

son la£t Monday. He lias made two double-baggen in its twenty-three games.

IT IB A singular fact that the homo-run record io hw AjHQtiatiou to date itiuuUi be held by two yuuug-

ter», Halliday and Duffte at precent being tied for that bo nor.

n<,STos frienda have pres»ntod Kid Madden with an alligator pocb«tb>-tik containing &iO ia g >ld, and a haiic'sjniB traveling bag.

TUB Brawns are no longer terror* to the Orio'ea. and have to pUy «i hard now against them a* against Ihe Brook!}'113 auj Athletics.

THS Senator* apparently h&vpn't much respect for the deUvery of thtir ex-pitcher O'Day. In fact they eeem to know ali about It.

THB Cincinnati Club hadn't a game scheduled on the home grounds fluri'ig S^ptember, one of the bedt months in the base ball season,

DIicKCY WALSH, tha *'3t- Buffalo atar pitcher, Is pilch- injr indiiTsreut ball for a Watsrbnry, Conu., amateur leum. Hiaarni seems incurable.

PjTTBDrna writers have originated more fairy tales about 5iH>rtlog peo;,la and sporting evento than any other clais of wr.u-rj in America.

KAV would have bf*n retained at Bostou'i ahort fieid but Fur his unreliability io the matter of thrown balla. He seems to fight the ball.

EX-ATLANTIC UMPIRE MAHONBT la wanted for the International As-twUatiun, but m*y not accept, as he has entered into bn»m»tB in IA>M'»H.

THOSE old stagors, Bttfflnton, Koefe and Galvin, ap pear to l>ave tcmixjrarily lost their cunning, as neither is pitching np to bis standard lately.

PRESIDENT PAH?OXS, of Louisville, !a EOW to tbe As- sociati'):), but nnd^r Zich Pbelpa' wing he cannot go far astray or commit many blunders.

THAT lltt'e decision at Baltim ire which cost the Oriole-4 a game wo |>rediima will Ht>out Bottle Go'd- s:tilth's chiuce for an increase of salary.

THB Boston trumvfrate deuy the report that they emiiioy ailetactire ti_< sltadow the Boston team. Wonder if that wasn't one of Mike Kellv's gaga?

CKSTRK FIELDBII BCHK.B, of Toronto, is accused of throning a bat a( soma boys who wem guying him for striking cut, at Hamilton, last Saturday.

THE York Club h»3 r^leAStx! pitcher Baker, formerly wltti the JttetropoliUna of New York, and centre fielder Lawrence, formeriy with Beading.

SAM WIPE, wb,iim the Boston triumvirate were afrsid to trust on second base, is playing a game equal to Um best second baseman in tbe League.

THK K:\n*aa City Club, which in dolne: so much ex- porimeiitm.j, mver seems to realize that the team's reiil iveakncss Is in its battery department.

As "PoptT SMITH'S home is near Boston his release to the B.?st->n Clnb should, and no doubt dees, p!eaae him greatly, aside from the increase in salary.

PRESIDENT Torso eays that the fine imposed by Gal vin on C«i>tnin Vttatz, of the Clev^lands, will £o; Cleveland, however, saya no, and wi^l fiifht.

Ex-pt.AYERS of the defunct Southern League all think that Petty ran hold his own in tbe A?M -elation. Speed and change of pace are hia strong points.

McKRAN's liiy-off sterna to have beau a matter of jrreat concern to aume St. Louis papers, which never turned a day criticizing Manager Loftna for bis act.

FRKD DUSLAP is tbe be-st sacrifice hitter in the country t >-d-»y and haa brought in more runs for the Pittfibarg team than any otiier two players on the nine.

IT is said thnt D.'.rhy O'Brien received valuable in struction in his yonnstr days from Keefe, wh^n tbo latter was a pitcher iu Troy, from which city O'Brieu canio.

IT is said tbat Smith receives a lar?e inereise in salary iu Bottin. Let's st-e, isn't Smith a classified player? And if so, can bia salary be increased this

IT o said there H Icalomy b^twAen cortnin mem bers of th.o New York team, and tint that circum- s'ance has had a lot to do with the way the bjj a have piayed.

ALTHOVOH the lady patrons of Washinitton Park wonder why Tom B-irna talsa so much, he g-ês riarlit ahead coaching as though there was not a girl on tho grounds.

A HATHKR novel slcht waa wftoe^wJ July 23 at Springfield, 111., when Man*tê;s Hengle and Fisher, of tbe contend ng clubs, officiated in tbe dual aystem aa umpired.

THE Boston Herald denounces Tabeau, MoKefin, Fnaizand Strlcker a^ the *'dirttest" ball piayers irrthe League. The Boston sheet is especially vindictive against Faatz.

DIC& CON WAY, whose release from Boston coat the Worcester-* Si000 last pprin.^, waa unconditionally re leased last Monday, lie has been of very little value all tbe season.

PITCHER GEISS, of London, In a game with Ko- ohcsier, July 2i>, went beliind the bat for an entire game and demonstrated that he ia as good a catcher as h« is a pitcher.

BUCK Ewtxo says that he doea not care for fines, and does not have to pay them, but he does care when he i* ordered off the field. That ia giving umpires a very strong tip.

A r\CBTioiT8 exchange averts that Yon der Ahe will have nothing to do with Washington until a Democratic administration gets another tour years' lease of the city.

THE New York pitchers have not been ao successful In winning games as was hoped, but If there in any coDBi lutton in Leading the League twirlers in strike outs the club has it.

GEOEQE SMITH, of the Brooklyn Club, is surpassing himself this reason. Scarcely a day paês but tftat he scores ac>nie aort of dare-devil play, thtit makes him a new hero eveiy time.

Bua HALLIDAY ia not brilliant by fits and starts. He opened with the Beds in a business like way and haa kept up his fine work ever fcince. He is tbe king-pin youngster of the season.

THB St. Louis Sayings sarcastically remarks: "It's mighty strange that wntn Association teams cannot win tbe pennant in the Association, they immediately want to enter the League."

THB WasMnstoDs have of late sprung a (rood many surprises. In fret, all tho clubs at tbe bottom of the list havfl been doing work that haa spoiled the best calculations of the leaders.

CAPTAIN EWING has now twice be'en suspended from games, and si>-culatlon is rife as to when that will happen to Captains C ?m!akey and Anson and who will bo the umpire that will do it.

THE LoniBvllle Clnbla said to be negotiating with pitcher Holacher, of the Norristown Club. Holaclier is An excellent general player, ond haa tad consid erable experience in minor leagues.

KD WILLTAMSOS expects to spend the beat Dart of next winter ia Philadelphia. He has many friends here who will be glad to have him with them once more for more than a few days at a time.

JACK GOBMAN, a well-known player of St. Louie, is reported to he in a dying condition in that city from a tumor in his Bide, tbe result of an injury while steal ing second a couplo of reasons ago at Omaha.

THE following cities have been represented in the National League in the past: Kansas City, St. Louis, Milwaukee. Cincinnati, Linigvllle, Syracuse, Troy, Worcester, Provld&nce, Hartford and Buffalo.

THE question is, how long will Clnrkson be able to keep up his present work and pitch every other game? So long as Clarkson holds out Boston is all right, but if he should weaken or break down, what then?

THE Chicanes have a new Diascot in tbe person of the offipiing of a wealthy Chicago meat merchant. This youth is dead stuck on tbe Chicago players and spend a his money, time and affection npoii them.

Or THB errorless games played this season in the As sociation, the St. Louis, Athletics, Brtltlmorea and Cin- cinnatis have five each, tbe Kansas Citys and Lonis- villea four, the Brooklyus Ihree and Columbus two.

EWING doesn't seem to learn by experience. He haa now twice run against the umpire sna^ in Wash ington, and csch time he got the worst of it. But then what matter, so long as his clnb pays tho fines?

Is ST. Louis, according to a Mound City excbnii i;e,they say that "if Baltimore had a couple more good hittera in the outfield instead of the present men, tbe Associa tion race would afford a cute little surprise for the talent."

THE Zanesville Clnb graduated two players that are Leagne lavoritea. Twitchell, of tho Cleveiands, and Gumberr, of the Chicago?, got their first Idt-a of the diamond while with teams representing that thriving Ohio city.

E.OI.KY pitched for the first time for the Browns in the exhibition game at Newark, last Sunday, iu which the Browns were beaten by 3 to 2. Tbe Newarka got nine hits oft Kamsey while the Browns got but six hits off Dooms.

"Pop" CORKHII-L is in the seventh heaven when he strikes centre field, and hftacta wbil« in that vicinity as though he were supplied with wings and strung witb wire*. Hia play lug at present is away beyond remarkable.

How many players travel in ft circle and fetch np where they started from? Al Myers began his Leagne career with the Phil!i«rf and is once more back on that team. Knowlea placed in Rochester in 1886 and la now repurchased.

"As A CATCHER Lave Cross has no peer in the Asso ciation." Philadelphia Iwfiiirer. Cross may have DO superior, but he h*s some peers, tv», for instance, Quinn, of Baltimore; Boyle, of St, Louis; Keenan and Bald win, of Cincinnati!.

SIOBETAHY WHITE seems to think that some of hia umpires are "soldiering," and he intends In future, when they plead sickness for their non-appearance on the field, to floe them 550. He thinks thia itep will make his staff a healthy lot.

"Ix RUNNING the bases tho Brooklyna do not begin to take tbe chancee the St. Louis do. Hencs, frw«r runs in proportion to men on bases." New York Worhl. The other Association clubs are in the same boat with Brooklyn in thia particular.

"TiiEHBfsa rumor that a club ia to be organized in Jerdfy City. The rlxht kiu<) of a man could mako a club pay over theie." New York fc'im. From this are we to infer that, notwithstanding all your fulsome praiae, P»t Powers was not the "right kind of a man?"

A BALL FLAYKE had a hard time securing a bat that in shape and weight suits his fancy, and nnca se cured tney have about aa hard a time to keep it, aa the members of opposing teams are on ti;e constant look out for "good sticks/' aud are not particular how they get them;

COMMAND of the ball IH the one essential feature ne cessary above all others to a aucce^ful pitcher thie season. A pitcher who "can put 'am uv«r" it a winner nine out of ten time?. How many tiuiei bus a game been turned by ft alugle base on balls or hit by a pitched ball?

CATCHES ANDY SUMMERS, late of Chicago, had made arrangement* to siyn with the Burlington Club, of tho Central luterstate Lefijiue, but at the last moment, ja»t before the tea days' limit expired, Indianapolis laid claim to him. und 00 he had to can:el his iiurllng- tun engagement.

WHO ii nnnir-tL the Washington fe'am, anyhow? Ytuy uicejudgtuvat, icu't U, to ex^«rimeat at third !

base with John Irwin and I&t s»ch ba*emen as Shrehand £!» i«;ht~eithflr >it whom could have fit led tho bill withalMlB practice go, and keep Clark for catcher's duty onl>?

W« nAvr loiter-, which will be forwarded upon re ceipt of iddress or stamps) mvilopc. f--r W. H. fhai>- maD, Ed Fcx. Hradicy, U;e of Philadelphia. Giants; Oeorve A. Stone, Jol.n fluxion. W^nn^r Jim PoweiJ, nmnagerti t-f Wvnntwood aad Highland ciuba. C. U. Welter and Kd HaKan.

A GOOD ball player never haa to spend a cent for Ms liquor, a^ t!;ero are so mnuy empty-headed foola who would give their a!l jnat for the privil*jta of having tlici pUverd accept their invitation to drink. It I* iu tiii* wny that so many pia>ers, pitctier8 especially, make wrecks of themselves.

A PITT*BURG player explains the uneven work of the Allies as follows: "The trouble wiih the Pirs- bur* Ciub i* that It has t-.>o many good men, and that there are s> few fixture fn the innsld and out that few of the men have any fleuurttnee obe day that they will b» playing the next.'*

IN PKOKHtTioN to the number of en mo* play«d. Brown, of iiustou, has struck rut more times than any Lenxne pUyer who bus jdnyed ia more tfean fifty games. At th*» same ti-iie there i* no Le-icue fl'iyt-r who haa m.j.£e a^ many runs, reached firat ba.se aa many times or stolen as many based.

AND still thl* moth-eaten chestnut is making Its weary rounds: "J<,ha 8. Barren, the manager of tt;e St. Paul Club, who recently fell heir to an r-tate in Ireland worth £3<;o,0f>0, has promised his men that be aill uke them to Kns!an»! if they win the cbampiou- Bhip." It's a very safe offer uow, anyhow.

ACCORDING to the Syracuse Cc-irfer: President Miller is not satisfied with the way things are going and talks of calling A meeting of tbe Leagua to st-e if tho clubn are kôpiu/ within the ea!a:y Umlt. It Is paid that Detroit, Toronto and otiier clul>s are paving tig auinriefl regivdie-s of the taUry limit."

A FEMALE BASS BALL TRAM which 13 touring TVticbi- pau was very properly arrK^te-1 ut ManMê the other il-iy for playing a gamo of 1-a'l on Sunday. GoixJ for &l*nist*-e. That town saya it can stand <1oi< fights and prize fijchta, but when it oonifs to letting girla i>:ay ball on the SabbutU they just won't have it.

THE St. Louis Saying* sarcastically remarks. "Talk about a race between Spokane aiid ilacfland, why it would be a cart )i- rue affair compared to the one down the homestretch thia fall between tbe Bosto:! .and New York scorers In liieir efforts to Ini.d Brouthers acd Connor first nuder the batting arerage wire."

ANDY Ct'sicn hss been playinsr with tho West Point, Nob., Club, recently. This week ha id going to Hut Spiing*, Dakota, 10 boll out and recover the full strength of Iiia right arm, w)<k-h was afTecled with rheumatism while playing with the I'hiilies. While at Hot Springs he will stop at Hotel Minnokahla.

McKxA^'s long lay-'-ff ma? not have hurt the Cl-veUnd team's chances lua'eria'Iy, bin it is sure that it drl m-t help ih« Spiders ono whit. Although Gilk*, who was substituted for McKeac, played u phenomenal Ciune at short and bit tiio ball hard, yet the Spiders started downward the moment McKeau was laid oft'.

ACCOHDIXO t> tbe \PW York Sun which, by Ihe wny, a?p:.r*M to be the N-w York Clnb'aaub-^rsan "it tnrns out that the new prand at*nd at the PoJo Ground* is bti»g cocstmcted by diiy'a work, and tot on a contract," If t'tit be BO, it would uot b 1* fiir- pri-ing If It should take until next spring to finish it.

THE manager of the Shenaudnnh team, a Mr. Menu- ghan, Jeg^rttd the tenm in York, !a?t Wediipsdny, leaving thren diiys' board Mil urspuld. Manager Fnr- rlngtou, of Harrhburg, with whom the Slionaudoabs were scheduled for tho next four days, advance*! suf ficient cntdt to square the board bill and got tbe team to Ilarriaburg.

THE preachers of Indianapolis, with the exception of Rev. l>r. Cleveland, have united in an addrt>«j to the pnbiic, denouncing Sunday ball jdayin/ HS domoraliz- iuer, and protesting agniust church members given tho sport encouragement. They also appeal to the nâce oMJc^rs of :ho city to rigidly enforce the laws against Sunday ball playing.

THE players of the Pittsbnr* tfiani were deey-ly grieved to hear of Horace F'billi;t3' mental malady, and without an exception they spoke in praise of him. Si*id Captiiij Duulap: "Thoro V.AH never a better manager to his men or a better monay-nmKer for a club than Horace Phillips, and his losa to the club will bt» one not «oou overcome "

THE recently or<rani7t-d Elkhart, Inrt., Club had bnt short life, the team disbtndin-; July 27, en account of internal dirseiiei mn. The d:iy before disbandmt-nt pitcher Smith ase^tu ted right ri<?ider O'Leaiy, for which he w*s fined in court. Sh- itly after Manager Cnipen- ter and pitcher Weddlge had a hand-to-hand fight, in which Carpenter was somewhat injured.

CATCHER NAQLE, of the Ooiaba Club, during the Oma!ia-Des Sloines giinie of July 20, was bit in the face by a foul, shattering the mask and cutnna; his face in a frightful manner. Tke wire which waa crashed in by the ball struck jnst above the left eye, and did not miss tne pupil more than a half inch. It required three stltchea to sew up the wound.

TED SULLIVAN was the victim of a cowardly awanlt In Baltimore, l*et Saturday. He was returning froaa tbe grounds In the Browns' coach when eome <-amin hurled a piece of rock at Com is key which missed him and struck Sullivan. The rim of Ted's hat broke the force of the blow, but his head was nevertheless cut ! an1 hia eye blackened. HaJ it hit Conmkey, as in tended, it might have crushed his face in.

To MANAGERS of baa? l>all clubs in the East: During tho recent fio->d our eiitire ball park was wnshed nway and we intend making a trip to try nnfl re-biiiM as 3"on as we can. Pltaê addrpss me, giving mo your open dates and best terms tbat you can give; also tbe be-t hotel ra'e^ yon cau pet and obllg*. Heepectfnlly youi-s, K. M. Uerrin^toD, Mannger Johnstown Base Ball Club, 65 Singer street, Jubnatown, Pa.

COLCMBCB' new catcher, Keaimlt-r, has of late been playing with the Butler Bros. Club, nn amateur or ganization of Chicago. Las ; S;itu>day that team won tbe amateur championship of Illinois and a puree of SI00, against the Au.'ora, 111., Clnb. Nat Hudson pitched with Kemmler. By the way, what sort of an " amateur" contest c"u!<i that bare been witb such noted professional* as Keuimler and Huds-jQ amoug the con te§tanta?

SECRETARY Rrsn. of tbe Department of Aerirultnre, is a frequent attendant at the pamca in Wa3hii;gt'..n, and is also, by the way, a regular mascot, as he bad uot np to tlii^ week seen tbe Senators bnnten. He is usually accompanied by his private secretary, and both gentlemen ktep score of tbe game and occa sionally indulge In the inevitable disputes as to the m*rit<4 of a base hit or error, and the Secretary ia gen- ernlly right in his conclusion**.

A BEPORT came from Pitt&burg lust week to the ef fect that Pitteburg tried to sell Duulap to Boston be fore th« Smith deal was made. Thia was denied, but the Hoston Globe in speaking of the matter ea;d: "Manager PhiHipa askeJ tbe Bosfon directors what they would give for Dnnlap's release-. 'I wouldn't give 5500 for him, and 82000 is more salary than I would pay him,' said President Soden."

" 'THB Cleveland people malte mo weary,1 eaid a member of thf team. 'Here h cluee C nine ubotit 518,000 ahead of tlie season alrendy that i», with all tlie expt-nsfs accounted f>r. and yet when tbe nine lo«es a game they yell "Murder!" ' " Exchange. The player's complaint about t'.ie kicking public ia nil right, but h'9 estimates of the profits is on a {ar with the usual estimates of plavers. They size up the crowds and figure out the Income in douMo ratio, always.

THE Cuban Giants aud Gorhams have combined and will be known hereafter as tbe Colored All-American. Grant, the well-known second basenian, captains the t<>nin, which is now a very strong one abd made up as follows: Collins, catcher; Storey, pitcher; Holmes, first b*Ke; Grant, second bftse; Harrison, short stop; Malone, third base. The outfield will bo made up from tbe fol lowing players: Fttean, Shocak, Peterson a&d Fisber. Ked, white aud blue uniforms have been tecured.

THK Delaware State Leairuo came to an end Satur day with the disbandmeut of the champion Dover Club. Of the players pitchers Hodson and Hern, second baseman Hutchins, third baseman Armstrong and ont- flelder Hoverter signed with tho York Club; catcher Magea signed with Harrisburg. Manager Iliciiardr;o'j banquettcd the entire nine la>»t Saturday and bad thorn photographed in a croup on tho ball field. A large delegation of citizens gave them a royal send-off at the depot.

THK Kansas City Club waa after catcher Burke, of Jersey City, and could have secured him for S500. Manager Watkins wired tbe terms to President Speaa, who wired back to cl >so tb«* deal. Tbe meassg* was not delivered to Watkina in Brooklyn for HOIMO roftson, and Mr. Speus repeated his meaâga to Manager \Vnt- kins at Philadelphia au:l aUo wired tbe Jersey City Club that their terms fur Burke h*d been accepted. It was theu too late, however, as the Rochester deal was then iu progress.

IT is a singular fact that every new man Kansas Olty secures becomes almost immediately disabled. A cold hits settled iu Pickttt'a ahouluer and lamed him to that be Isn't likely to play again this Beacon; he can't throw twenty yaids. Alvord had the infox finger of his right hand so badly ma-died at Brooklyn that he waa utterly unable to handle a ball without great pain, and Imd to have the nail put lea off. If Watkins hadn't forced him to play In lost Saturday's game the Athletics would have been aurely beaten.

BOSTON fa evidently determined to win the pennant. The signing of Daley will strengthen the team in the pitching department, and Pop S:nlih will be a strong acquisition to the Hub team. Short st p waa Boston's weak point, and Smith is Just the man they have been looking for to till up that hole. It is true, Smith is not aa extraordinary batter, but the team In already strong enough in that restect and cau well afford to carry him. As a fielder he Is about aa good a short atop fia any of them, and tbat Ia what Boston needed

f N THB Toronto-London game of July 27 Esterbrook was bit on bis left arm by a very swiftly pitched ball. Ifor a moment he seemed to be ID terrible pain, but suddenly he lifted his tat m the air and then hurled it at Vickery. It waa thrown In jnst about tbe s.';me wny as a hundred dollar bill wouM be by the dude. The bit =eemed to have a string on it. After this woe ful exhibition of temper tho dude,- seating himself oa the home players' bench, requested thiit someone be allowed to run for him. He wa% however, finally persuaded to run for himself.

AKOTHSB defect at the New Polo Ground has re vealed itself. When the grousds were constructed tbe north side of the field waa left almost on a levo! witb the meadow beyond. 7h» drainage of the new ar«!iud wa§ nude as oetrly period as possible, but Pretiileat Day has made tha dt»co*ery that all tho aewen or tllud ditchca that be could pnt iu the new ball grounds wouM r.ot carry off tbe great body of walcr that flows down the hi^h bluff back of the gror.udri aud ovetflows tbe low !;m<)9. A* soon as the water ac-ttles ecmewbat an embaukmeat is to be thrown up along tbe west foaee of tbe grouuds to keep out the overflow, after which the so'-vers will bo able to kei?p the ground* aud tbo did a; and tree from water i all times.

HUB HAPPENINGS.The Diacaâlon Over Thompson's Hit Tha

Affair Kxplained A Chat With H;*rry Wrigbt MorriU'* Future Trip Specula tions Smith's Acquisition, Ktc.POSTON, Aug. 2. Kditor SPORTING LIFE: We liara

teen having s>mt» sizzling hot weather here, but it lias bean cothlu^ side of Ihe discuMkm and §'ew that has boiled and steamed ov*-r an innocent drive that big, loag-le^-gB-l Sam Thompson made in Mund;ty'« gHme against the Phil lie*.

Over the fence, or not over the funce; that Is the prublom whis h hits k*jit ail tb»* cruukii, and many who are !)ot crauka, in hot Water, much hotter than the weather. *

It wa* tbfc way. There were two men on bases when big Thumpsoii hooketl a Clark sun rircp with his PbilHuelj'hia fish-pole, and tried to laud the f;»ur- pouuder over tbe right field fence. It was un* of tlmsa bi'a which allows LO particular eptmi, but send* tha ball tailing uj>, up, up, slowly aud prettily, and looks to b* ii.O':-d lor ft trip beyond ihe coufiuea uf any ball fleld that was ever laid out. As tbe bitll tailed Rrice- fu!!y over tbe fc?o;,th End ground*, headed for tha ht.t- bor, every cue of liiw five thousand spectators at ihe game would have tnkeu an uath ttiut it was goiug to bs a h^nie run. Thai certainly was tlm iuipreSiion uf everybody at the fif*:iie. The two Phiiadflphia players who were on the buses ih^nght so, »nd jo^C'-d lowly along;. IhoiiipBou was of tht» samo imjire^sion, aud did nut luirrj t»uy, lakmg his time iu m->kit)g tha circuit as batsmen alwuvs do on home rim hit* ovsr the fûce. As Jltke Kelly saw the bail start on it* journey hs dashed towar-s tbe ri^ht tield fence, an I th«?n atrtick an aititude which clearly ii.dk-ated that he expected the bill to «o over. He st-od tlioro fur a secon 1 or iwu, gazing up where the Imll aliutild take it* tiigfet aiiddi-a; p»*r from the tieM, but suadeu'y turned and scooted fifteen or twenty ie^t into tho iielil, then arrauibled nround on the jiruuud, jstmj-ed to hia ft-et a:td thix-w n bail into the diamoud. Hn!;nmn bid evoked tlie plate, but Mycrs*, as ho tnrneii tnird, vr&t. thunders'ruck to se« a ball sSuot home, nuJ stup;.<*i" the I Kg while Thompson had taken iu ail hia saii at s^coiid. .

Then there was a howl aa was a howl.FAKUATt'S CLAIM.

Captiln Sid Fitvrar ru»hed at Phil Powers, t around him until y.m would huvc tncin^ht a duzfo uien, insleaJ of oue, and wared bin ar:n« tlif rttius ol' a windmill, while he i&sK-ie'l that Thomp son had mtulu a IK-me run tnd th*t Kvlly bad thrown in a tali wMrJu he h.^d in his pocket. Powt-rr! eaid ti:at was impossible, but Cuptain Fttrrar .stuck to it thdt he bad ai-tru tb« bull hit by Thorny m go uyer tlie liiifh s!at -creeu above the tenê, and how could it have got lack ngaiu? "Kelly must have had a ball C'tic'caJel on his person, which he tlnew in after a little monkty bus-.ifsa while rulling ou tlie ground," but Umpire Powers cuusidtrod that such a claim waa ab;urd aud said ihut the bull which tamo back waa certaiuly iho ball which th-*y bad been playing with. And then he iusisted th^t the ball could not have gut:* over tli* high sluts, i>e&uue it would bava bc«n nn im- po>sit<itiiy lor it to liavo come buck into the field as q-iirLly ha it renily .tppt-artwl wlieu it waa picked up by Kfelly. £o ihe hit weut only as a t we.-bagger, aud une run was scored instead of turop, as would have bseu tlie Cuiee bad it been a home run.

PHILADELPHIA WITNESSES.

All the rest of the afternoon, all tha evening, .ind ali tlie next dtiy you could hear base ball eiuhiiaiaqta anywhere abont town discussing that hit. I met Harry \Vriglt! t-arly Tuesday niuruiug loo Si tig for witnesses who bad beeo on tho blwachtug 1-oards down beyond firat base, very near where the ball went, lie found a lot of tiic'tii. Some of them backed up bis theory that tbe ball went over the t?laM and 8«-.-mehow came over the fiwhl again. Wore declared they saw the ball hit the slc.ts two feet Iwlow the top, and bound back into the- fie!d. Harry scorned the iJe*» that Kelly came any iricfc&ry with the b^H ho had hidden,bnt he could h:i7e wtigered all he is worth that tho b-ill had t:one over the fence, and ht.w to reconcile hia belief with what be heard from those who eat near the disputed scene, bothered blm.

One man declared that a small boy standing on the root" uf tbe honae had caught the ball aa H came Mail- irg uver the fence, aod tl.rew it tack to Kt-lly.

AuotbtT oae said that the ball hit the chimney and bounded back.

A third one was sure that ft had strnck the house, gone to Ih'.1 ground, and ro ! led bask under tii» fence. Ar,d 30 they went; but Mauagtr Wrigbt was finally aatirfed that tho ball did not go over tbe fence ai all, but hit the boards and dropped into the field. Sid FfiTr&r, however, will go through life with tbe firm belief thr.t the Philadelphia u!ub was cheated out oi» home run.

A CHAT WITH HARRY WRIOHT.While Harcy \Vright was calling on me I asked him

what he thought about the pennant, and found that he WAS uot so decided in hid opinion that the Phil lien would win it as I expected to find him, from what I had read.

One of us three will surely get It I mean Boston, New Yoik or Philadelphia said Harry; but to oauie the winner now Is more thau I can do.

"Between N'ew Turk and Boston which club will give you the hardest puli? 1 '

"1 hoy will b.th tother ua about eqnally. I did think we Wi-uM have the most trouble \v;th the New Yorlta, but I think now thut your team here stands exactly as good a chance of winning the championship as the New Yorks do, 1'or two reasons: Wflcb is not I.itchk'Z as well as be ought to make the G/anfs sure of tho pennant. And then the Bun toil s have fltrentftti ened their ttam by the addition o! CLiirllo rimitti.

"You ittiuk well of our uew ebort stop, theu?'*' He is a gre>\t bull player and wiil make a bfg

change lit Buston'd lnn*ld. He will give the other men much confidence that they have not had before. but short stop is not his best position, fie is a much creator second baaeman. Duulap? H» cannot com pare-' with, iimith at second base. I don't mean that ha id uot a sood man at short, for he is, and Boston «IH find him a valuable addition just at thia time. Yea, I think we shall make rather a better showing on toe Western trip than Hie Batons. We generally do away from home bettor than yuor Bo^tun team. Hut I muat leave you. -Of coius^you will be up to see ua btat your nine this afteruoju?"

TUe score of tbat game was: Boston 13, Philadel phia 0.

JIORRILL'S FUTURE.In about two weeks John ilorrill wi 1 be in condi

tion to go outo the ball field again, should he decide not to go into business.

"This is the first time In my base ball experieoce, said John, as he sat in my cfiBce yeaenJay, "that I Lave been laid up during the season for uooro tlua three or four days. It is harder fur mo to loaf around home in the summer aud be ducturcd than to play a tough g«me every day." ,,..,,

John's finger rfUH 1-jyka badly, and his whole hand is puffed up. Hs !;as carried biatirm in a sMngao long that be finds it stiff; but he telU me tbat the injured fiiiger has iijipreve-i rapidly iu tlie last week.

"Will it be ba*e ball or business?" I asked him."1 have not quits decided yet," be replied. "I hava

Bonn* buaicets ohanceo, and if I go Into business now it will be for good unless I make a rank faihire of it. I can tell you one thing. If I return to ba?e bull it will never be in adouule capacity. I will either play ball and do nothing else or manage without pUying. I havy o-'iiie to tlie conclusion tttat a manager ougut not to be on the nine. He can see n,ncb more and judge mucli better from the bench of the flaytna of bis men tiiau from any position ou tlie team. A tirst tasemau, who ia a minister, in in about the worfat po sition on the nine. The miiiute a ball la bit it ii hia play to run to the bax, and if an error is going tu ba made it will frqueutly bo made bff-^re he cau tr.ru and e^t his wye on the player who is making it. The result is tho ball i^ p^t tlie fleWor and the tntHS has beea made before the managing fin* bnst-nmn i;aj seen it.

"Whotioyou think will win the pennant, John?""I ralher think it will ho Boston. From DOW out

the infield will be very strong with Charlie Smith, aiid that has bt,-a tbo tfam'a greatest woakceas so far. Stuiih is a great man for team work. He inakej very fast double play a, aud thiowa clean all the time."

THIS COMING WESTERS TRIP.

"Wes'ern trips have b.?en the glumbling blocks Ia the pith of Eostm's ball nine for tho i'»*t few yoars. For that reason the wanderings of our team iu tha next two weeks will be watched \vi;h unusual atten tion. Tlie trip through the four Western citiea in the League will be of great Impoitaticw i:i the hut fuht now OD. If Jim Hart's men make as good a record iu the next two weeks as tho champions and Phil lies da I shall Btt them down as "pennant pullenj."

If they win 50 por cent, of their games bef-.»ra they strike their home stamping ground again everybody ought to be gatUBed. Chicago and Indianapolis are ceriajuly pla>ing a stronger game than when the Bos tons went W'eat before, and Kully's men had more than their banda full in these two cities then. Siuca the Eastern cluba bought their Western tlckelfl for tha first trip the Giants and Quitkera have gaiued a littla and the Cleveland have dropped with a rush.

We ceitainly hrtve a great borne team. Of the 4-4 games that the Bostons bav? plaje-3 here this eeasou they have won 34. They ttavb p:ay*d 31 games away from homu, winning 15 and lo->iug 16. TbU include* all gamoe played away, b»tb in th» Eaal and West. In ihe contests with the Eastern clubs B ston hag won 23 and loat 11, nnd with Lbo Wostr-rn clubs has won 26 aud lost 14. Boatyn baa five postpone.! g.-nuea at home. MUOWUUP.

TOKONTO TIPS.

Bob Fettit's Acqulaitioii Commended The New Man's Record, Etc.

oaen nufitiiMit in IUB wuuitu uu»tioi otj iw »v* strongtheu the team, and yesterday signed lloburt Pettit, formerly or the Chicago and Wilkeabarre clubs and one ot tbe players who made tho circuit of tlieglobe witb the Spslding tourists. Wilkeatarre was paid $400 for his releaai and he was given S200 ad vance money. In 1887 Fettit waa transferred from tho Wattrburya, of the Eastern League, to the Wilkes-

a b was goldt, ,

barres, and in Sept. of tho same year bd was goldto Chicngo for $500. Ho was ono of tha fnmouj

i uicagO oulilPiuyrti vtuii me perueuwgi: ui ,y.3J, ana8to ; <d twtuty-savcnth along the oue hnudred and thirty batsmen of the League, hia average b-îug .234. The ea-ragemeut of PeUitt probably nvîDa tha ducap- Itatica of an lufield^r, but jtat wharo tUe nx« will fall LI a matter of conjecture tu the fuaa. TAttYO.

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