Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1886 — THE NATIONAL GAME. [ARTICLE]

THE NATIONAL GAME.

The Struggle for the Base-Ball Championship Drawing to a Close. The Chicago and St. Louis Clubs the Winners in Their Respective. Leagues. [Chicago correspondence.] The Chicagos still hold the lead in the race for the League pennant, and that they will be the champions of 1886 is an assured fact. The New Yorks and Phliadelphias are making just as close a race for the third place as the two leaders did for first place. The Bostons and St. Louis are also engaged in a lively contest for fifth position, with chances in favor of Boston, who now holds that place. Following we give the schedule of the League and American Association, and some interesting records of League games: NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Games Clubs— won. lost. i Chicago 84 29 Detroit 79 33 New York 67 41 Philadelphia 63 41 Boston 49 58 St. Louis 41 70 Kansas City 29 79 Washington 22 83 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Clubs— Won. Lost. St. Louis 84 41 Pittsburg 7.1 54 Brooklyn 69 58 Louisville 65 81 Cineiuuati 58 66 Athletic 55 66 Metropolitan 48 72 Baltimore 43 75 WHITEWASHES. The record of ihe games wherein the opponents made nothing are as follows: At Chicago. Chicago, 11; Kansas City, 0. At Detroit. Detroit, 10; New York, 0. Detroit, 1; Philadelphia, 0. Detroit, 2; Philadelphia, 0. Detroit, 2; Philadelphia, 0. Detroit, 2; Philadelphia, 0. Chicago, 4; Detroit, 0. At St. Louis. Kansas City, 2; St. Louis, 0. St. Louis, 5; Boston, 0. St. Louis, 6; Kansas C.tv, 0. Washington, 2; St. Louis, 0. Philadelphia, 1; St. Louis, 0. Chicago, 1; St. Louis, 0. _ St. Louis, 5; Kansas City, 0. St. Louis, 5; Kansas City, 0. At Kansas Citg. Philadelphia, 1; Kansas, City, 0. Kansas City, 7; Washington, 0. Philadelphia, 3; Kansas City, 0. At Philadelphia. Philadelphia, 3; Chicago, 0. Detroit, 3; Philadelphia, 0. Philadelphia, 3; St. Louis, 0. Philadelphia, 8; Washington, 0. Philadelphia, 7; Washington,©. Philadelphia, 5; Chicago, 0. At New York. Chicago, 4; New York, 0. New York, 3; Boston, 0. Philadelphia, 4; New York, 0. New York, 8; St. Louis, 0. Washington, 5; New York, 0. At Boston. Chicago, 9; Boston, 0. Boston, 2; New York, 0. Boston, 15; Washington, 0. At Washington. New York, 6; Washington, 0. Washington, 7; Chicago, 0. Chicago, 20; Washington, 0. Detioit, 9; Washington, 0. Kansas City, 2; Washington, 0. Chicago, 6; Washington, 0. Chicago, 11; Washington, 0. Notes of tlie Game. In Pittsburgh President Spalding is called the “Helmholder of the League.” The St. Louis Browns and Maroons will play a full series next month, the winner to take 60 per cent, and the loser 40 per cent, of the gate receipts. The Chicagos won every game at homo with the Eastern clubs, the last series, which is a remarkable achievement, equaled only by the St. Louis Browns, last season. Glasscock’s success with the St. Louis Club makes Duulap’s reputation as a captain sink into obscurity. Glasscock seems to have one faculty that Dunlap lacks—personal magnetism.

There is ono thing no one can deny, however much a column of figures may dazzle his eyes, and that is that when the Chicago Club enters the field they do so as a club and not as nine individual players. After the regular season is over a series will be played between the St. Louis Browns, champions of the American Association and the Chicagos, champions of the National League, for the championship of the world. The games are to be played in Chicago and St. Louis.

Roger Connor, the big first-baseman of the New Yorks, recently achieved the task he had set himself for three years past, of knocking a ball over the twentyfoot high right field fence at New' York. He landed it in the lot across One Hundred and Eleventh street, 450 feet fiom the home plate. This is the first time the feat has ever been accomplished, and it may not be repeated for a long time to come. It was undoubtedly the longest hit ever made in New York, and was made oil: of Eadbouru, of the Bostons.