Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1887 — IN SPORTING CIRCLES. [ARTICLE]

IN SPORTING CIRCLES.

Base-Ball—The League Season Closes with Detroit Leading the String. The Outlook for the Winter Season— Chicago Securing Young Talent for Next Year. [CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.] The last games of the Base-Ball League championship season of 1887 have come and gone, and the questions that have been asked again and again by lovers of the national game in every city and hamlet in the country have been finally and irrevocably decided. Detroit now looks with pride and gratification at the silken championship emblem which will wave from the top of the tall flagstaff upon its League grounds, while the plucky and determined team which Harry Wright has commanded through the season’s campaign is fairly swelled with satisfaction and gratified pride as its players glanoe back over the season’s record, which gives them such honorable mention, and places them in so enviable a position in the race at the finish. In Pittsburgh’s nine the Chicago team has met its stumblingblock this year, and in the record of the last week of the season, which shows Chicago’s portion to have been four defeats and one tie game at the hands of the Smoky City lads, rests the secret of Chicago’s displacement from second position in the pennant race. However, Chicagoans are satisfied with the record of their team. With nines composed almost wholly of new talent, the White Stockings have given the oldest and most thoroughly organized teams in the race a great battle, and only retired to third place after it had fought a long, hard and determined fight against each and every one of the teams pitted against it. THE WINTER SEASON. Now that the race of 1887 is over and the question of club standing settled, the approaching winter season of base-ball will, doubtless, open up with legislation of a character 60 important as to make the coming fall a memorable one in the history of the game. The troubles between the league and the Ball-players’ Brotherhood, which have been seething and boiling ever since J ohnny Ward started the ball with the organization of the Brotherhood, will doubtless be at once brought forward, and if the players who form the backbone of the new organization adhere firmly to the policy they have so distinctly outlined, it is difficult to see how a bitter fight between clubs and players can be averted. HOW THEY STAND. The following table will show the complete record of all championship games won and lost by League clubs for the season of 1887, their standing in the race being determined by the percentages of games each club has won to the number of games played: THE LEAGUE, I.i s|Jtf Clubs. = I! g x 11! I § A 04 O 'A K a, 0 Detroit 110 810 11 13|13 14 79 Philadelphia 8| . 16 10 9 11113 17 75 Chicago 10 12 .. 11 9 511 13 71 New York 8 7 6. 10,H10;15 68 Boston 7 9 6 7 .. |ll 10 11 61 Pittsburgh 4 612 6 71.. 911155 Washington 4. 3 7 8 7 9 . 745 Indianapolis 4| ll 5 3 7| 7 1 ... 37 Games lost 45i4 -i 150155 |g0{gg 7b|Bß .. HERE AND THERE IN SPORTING CIRCLES GENERALLY. The season of duck-shooting, to which so many sportsmen in all sections of the country have looked forward for some weeks past, has now fairly arrived, and huntsmen only await the advent of a bit of cold weather to follow the generally rainy season that has prevailed throughout the country to enter upon a season that promises to be prolific of much fine sport. Ducks are reported in unusually large numbers in the far northern waters, and two or at least three weeks more must bring them southward to the feeding grounds in the marsh and lake districts of Wisconsin, lowa. Illiuois and Michigan. Squirrel are rep: rted in greater numbers this year than ever before, and fortunately for the bushytails, the fancy of the squirrel-hunter has this season turned to the small caliber rifle as a means of bringing down their game, instead of the shot-gun. “I don’t want any better fun.” said a squirrel shooter the other day, “than to spend an afternoon in a good squirrel district with a 32-caliber rifle and plenty of ammunition. I tried a smaller bore for a while—22-caliber—but prefer the 32. The bigger gun generally makes two holes in your squirrel—one where it enteis and one where it comes out —but your game drops every time he is hit. It beats shot-gun practice all to pieces.” Mr. Charles Willard, a prominent member of two or three of Chicago’s oldest shooting clubs, predicts an unusually good season for all kinds of game. “Ducks will be plenty,” he says, “while chicken, geese, and squirrel—judging from the advices I have received during the past week—are very numerous throughout lowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois. The demand for guns and sportsmen’s wear is heavier than I have known it to be at this time lor five years past. Our company has just mailed its fall catalogue of firearms and sportsmen’s goods, embracing about two car-loads of printed matter. If each one of these catalogues should supply one sportsman for a day’s hunt for ducks, and these sportsmen should bag the usual quantity of game, the supply of ducks would be just about exhausted.” Con Cregan.

An old grandma with a small boy boarded a Gratiot avenue car the other day, and the collector rang the register twice. “What’s that for?” she asked. “That’s two o’clock,” answered the boy. In a minute or two another passenger got on, and again the register rang. “Three o’clock!” exclaimed the >ld lady as she bobbed around on her ieat. “My stars! but how the time does fly in a city !”—Detroit Free Press.