THECOPYRIGHT, 1886, BY THE SpoaTiN^ Lift I'i ttusmWfl Co. SPORTING LIFEEBID AT PHILA. POST OFFICE AB SECOND ci,&&$ HATTER. VOLUME 7, NO. 20. PHILADELPHIA, PA., AUGUST 25, 1886. PRICE, FIVK CENTS. FKOM THE SMOKY CITT. THHEKTEES' MEDITATIONS. BEHI.AP'S LETTER. A BIG BOW. Oft* on » Trip—The Metropolitan Games- LUCAS QUITS. Having Fan with the Athletic*—Hopeless ON SATURDAY. NOTTS Notes from < hieajo-A Ch»t With Glean Released, Etc. for tho Rest of the Season—Tbe Outlook Manager Scl.iHtlz— l>unl«p Was Stuck to Aug. 19.—Editor SPORTING Lir»: for Next Year. Play With Detroit—The Finixh May Ye* —The Pittsburg Club at the present time are on BALTIMORE, Aug. 20.—Editor Sponriyo LIFE: be Ititv.fon Nev.- York anil Chicago— Savannah Refuses to Play their last Western trip. They will have a hard He Turns His Back Upon —Since the return of the club they have been Results of the Champion­ Dmny anil Glasscock Said to Have lleen row to hoe, but I believe the boys will be equal getting lots of fun with the crippled and de­ Signed by Captain Anson. to the occasion, and I confidently hope that they Base Ball. moralized Athletics. Neither team is playing a ship Games Played. CHICAGO, August 19.— Editor SPORTINC LITH: in Atlanta, will win a majority of the games to be played very strong game, but the Orioles have the best —The attendance at White Stocking Park hu with their Western brethren. Ope thing sure— of whatever little merit there is. The attend­ b?en ft lit lighter than usunl sin.-e the team's St. Lonis and Louisville will find Cincinnati and The Future of His Club—Prob• ance is extremely light. The Baltimore team New York and Chicago Beaten return from the Kast, owing, I presume, to the Part of the Club Arrested — Pittsburg thorns in their sides and will find ont has painted the town blue. known inferiority of the clubs no have played that the fight for second place is by no means Farroll is no more a success as an ontfielder with, nnd partly to the fact that our boys To be Sued for Heavy ended. As for the East, I think fifth place is as ability of Disbandment than an inSelder, and his clumsy and awkward —The Phillies and Athlet­ seemed inclined to play only hard enough to good as any club will get. The men in the movements do not add to the beauty of the win and no harder. St. Louis caught us nap­ Damages. Pittsburg Club are all in first-class shape, flal- This Week. game. When he makes a muff or a fumble he ics Win—Other Results. ping in one of the scries and came very nearly vin and Morris especially. Manager Phillips does it in such an awfully awful manner that it mopping the ground with us. I rather think, intends to pitch Mountain in one game each wilts the spectator to an idiotic languor that is GAMES. however, that the defeat had a good effect, for Special to SPOHTTXQ Lxn. agaiost St. Louis, Louisville and Cincinnati, in The affairs of the St. Louis League Club are almost fatal. although it did not seem to spur our boys on to ATLANTA, Ga., August 21.—Sarannah'» refusal to spite of the bad showing he made in Tuesday's still in an unsettled state, and it would puzzle a Macullar's record for this season, in both field­ New York, Chicago, Washington and Kan­ any more brilliant style of play, it certainly re­ play «ut the series of championship games m this city game against the Mets. The club will be minus Philadelphia lawyer to ascertain the exact facts ing and batting, will be a vast improvement sas City Beaten. minded them of the fact that this is no time to ha* called down upon her head the disgust of every the services of ''Pop" Smith, who stays at home concerning it. All sorts of rumors were circu­ over last. The little chap is playing abort for It proved to be a shrewd move upon the part lose games if they want to see the pennant flat­ loTer of the game in the South save perhaps a few to attend to a sick child, that is not expected to lated during the past week about the intentions all possible good results. of Manager Wright to pnt Daily in against the ter to the breezes of Luke Michigan again this eranks ia Savannah. They came hevs Icinlly boasting recover, and bis wife, who ia also very sick. Barkley of the owners of the clnb, which have finally Grcer was hit by a pitched ball and now has New York Club on Saturday, the 21st inst., for year, and caused them to play more carefully in that they would do up Atlanta four straight. The will play second and Carroll and Milltir alternate in settled down to the probability that the club a lay-off. There is some wonder as to whether his really skillful delivery, aided by some bril­ the remaining games with the Maroons, as well first time they tackled the champions they failed even left field The work of the team will be eagerly must go to the wall, and that final disposi­ the feminine attraction at Westminster does liant fielding, won another suktuntul victory. as in those with Kansas City, j-o far ai I could watched by their friends at home. to get » hit, and, being shut out, they have since been tion will be made of it this week, when the not cause him to magnify such accidents. Ed­ The visitors made but six hit-, but they would see, the St. Louis lads were not em­ playing a high old baby act. We Quad e refused to nm JIMMY BOSESAS'S ISDIASS. Eastern clubs go West. Lu:as, however, is out barrassed to any groat extent by We have had War Whoop and all the rest of the die is a darling masher—there now! have proven to be of no account had the fielding pire the games here,and, on Wednesday, Gunson, At- Stateu Island braved with, tuaince last Saturday morn­ of the club, and is at last done with base ball, Sominer has been doing much better with the been perfect. The Philliea led oft' with three Dunlap's absence froui among them. lanta'a catcher, judged the game, favoring the visitors ing. They had a game scheduled with Pittsburg, and after having, according to his own statement, stick and seems to have atout recovered his runs, due chiefly to a miss of Richard­ Qainn plays second base in good stylo, and with to every cleee decision. Thursday morning Secretary when the rain postponed it they i^f'n-< f "^- tnd lost $70.000 in his Union Association and Na­ grip. Joe is a daisy when he is all right. son and a wild pitch. A base on balls a degree of earnestness ftron»!y indicative of Brown received official notice from President ProudSt play it off on Wednesday, bur i it tional League ventures. The club franchise, Say; you know Henderson did not do so bad and Wood's two-base hit added another run iu tbe sec­ his do'ire to make a record for himself in the that Lie; had appointed George Whitlock, of Marietta, they stay aud play it, and atcr ;^ grounds and all the other property of the Lucas for Broo'klyn last Thursday. He seems to have ond inning, and Findley's fearfully mi-judged hall at pn&;:ion while he has the opportunity to do so. they stayed, a message from Pu .,.. ui ,, ln <-, i.u.iiug centre, with a pass and a wild tfcr-w by O'Rourke Ga., a League umpire aui assigned him to duty here. the quietus to them. They wanted to go hoiue and association were mortgaged Aug. 14 by Mr. pitched a game that would win nine times out of gave the Philliea an extra and their la-t run. A fum­ 1 met Manager S-.'hmeiz nn-J two or three of his pl*y- J.G. Haas, secretary of the Savannah Club, was here Lucas and his brother-in-law, F. Espenschied, to eleven—bnt it's just his luck. Hardie will come e-rs in Sloasun's billiard hall Saturday morning, and phi? a postponed game with Brooklyn. around all right one of thes? days. ble of Brian's and a long fly t> Andrew* gave tlie wliilj Aneon was knockiug the ivoiiosab nt o\er the and assumed management of the club. He refused to On Monday Morris and Mays did the twirling ia L. A. Coquard, a broker, in consideration of We may have Dob Barr to pitch some of the home New Yorks their first run, and a base on bill*, with green i-l>th, much to th« delight of a l.itlu knot of ad- recognize Whitlock'a appointment, and won LI not per­ one of the most exciting games of the season. Both notes amounting to $20,000. Mr. Lucas then games—woi.der if that will do any gocd? If he can't wild throws of Daily aid Cusick gave them two addi­ mirers Hint had gat'iond nbnnt— for Anson if very mit hUclub to play unless one of his men could um­ were equally effective, bnt Mays got rithev wild in the withdrew from the presidency, and the control tional runs in the sixth inning.