Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1888 — BASE-BALL. [ARTICLE]

BASE-BALL.

A Hot Fight for the Champion Flap Between the Two Giants of the League. What the Other Teams Are DoingGossip About Ciubs and Players. [CHIC AGO CORRESPONDENCE.] The first week of July finds Anson’s team of ball players still in the lead in the league pennant race. Detroit is a good second, and placing a great grine of ball, but C. icago is putting up just as stiff a game, and the prospects fo.' a grand race between these two crack teams seems in every way probab'.o. Aew York and boston, however, are by no means out of the race. Boston is having a little trouble with her men just at present, which has resulted in th 6 leleaso of Burdock and Sutton, but that their placeswill bo filled with capable men goes without saying. Down in Detroit they have got their hearts set upon winning the pennant, and naturally they will feel sorely disappointed if their club should fail to capture the trophy. One Detroit writer says: “Some superficial writer says the Detroits have no show with the strong clubs, but win by beating the weak - ones. Let’s see. Up to date, Detroit has won three from Chicago and lost three; won four from New York and lost four; won four from Philadelphia and lost two ; wou three from Boston and lost four, the latter club being the only one to win a majority of the games to date. It can be depended on that Boston won’t have a majority when the series is finished. Well, to sum up, we have won just as many from the strong clubs as we have lost. Now, then, if we can hold the strong clubs even and beat the life out of the weak clubs, what on earth is to prevent us winning the pennant? As a matter of fact, Detroit not only beats the weak clubs but the strong clubs also, as witness the result of last season’s play. Chicago was tho only club to win the series from us, and that by 10 to 8. The series with the other clubs resulted as follows : Detroit 10, Philade.phia 8; Detroit 10, New York 8; Detroit 11, Boston 7; Detroit 13, Pittsburg 4; Detroit 13, Washington 4; Detroit 14, Indianapolis 4. We shall come close,to those figures the present season.”

Another Detroit -writer says : “When wo got Charley Ganzel from Philadelphia wo thought we were getting a catcher, and were not disappointed. But we wero totally unaware that in the tall back-stop we also had one of tho best all-round players in the country. Such is the fact, and once more we are called upon to express our sincere thanks to the City of Brotherly Love. Ganzel has been playing third base for some days now, and the game he puts up is simply remarkable. Jerry Denny is doubtless the greatest infielder that stands, but Ganzel’s work at third is not a whit behind that of the great Hoosier. He scoops the hardest hits as though the ball was made of cotton, and throws to first with unerring accuracy. Verily, we have a jewel In Ganzel. Deacon White, who was injured by a pitched ball at Buffalo, will not be able to play for some days. He was severely bruised about the ribs, and it hurts him to make a sudden move.” Notwithstanding New York’s losses Manager Jim Mutrie is as confident as ever of the team’s success. Ih9 Philadelphias are gradually getting into shape, and if Mulvey was back the team would now be in condition to present its full strength against all comers. NOTES. Washington has released Irwin. Bums and Williamson are playing a great game for Chicago. • Farrell, of the Chicagos, is proving himself a great catcher and outfielder. Pitcher Baldwin, of the Chicagos, is still incapacitated to work with his team. Clarkson and Kelly are not winning the penmint for Boston. Commencing with this week the Eastern League teams will play the Western teams upon Western soil. Anson says Chicago will have a hard race, but will surely win the pennant. Every prominent ball-player in tho country has expressed a wish to go to Australia with the Spalding combination this fall. It will be a great trip. Dalryntple was deprived of a home run Monday last at Indianapolis by the peculiar circumstance of the ball hitting a telegraph wire just outside of the center-field fence and bounding back into the lot. it must have been a tremendous drive. Manager Mutrie says that Capt. Ewing has absolute control of the New York team on the field and Is not hampered in any way, he (Mutrie) preferring not even to sit on the players’ bench, in order to let Ewing do the work according to his own best judgment.