Baseball Notes

Welch is doing the best work foi the New Yorks just ïiow. Still, Keefe is holding his own. With Gaffney, Powers, Connell and Doescher the league would have a fine staff of umpires. President Von der Ahe is in hopes the New York League team will win the league pennant. Keenan is playing a good game of ball for Cincinnati, but he would make a mueh better umpire than a ball player. Tommy Corcoran, brother of the once great Larry, slid 17 feet 6 inches for second base during a game at Ridgewood recently. Rainey, the new third baseman of the New Yorks, had a record of 3 put outs, IS assists, 0 errors, July 27, 1885, when playing third base for the Torontos. Captain Anson says: "If the St. Louis Browns were in the league they would come in about fourth. The Browns are a pretty good club. There is no question about it." Manager Caylor is working too mueh western blood into the Metropolitans. So far the two western men, Jones and Hogan, have shown themselves inferior to Nelson and Roseman. Mike Lehane, who leads the International league in batting and fielding, made his first appearance with the Ridgewood club in 1885. He played in Poughkeepsie in 188fi, and is now with Buffalo. Of Van Haltren Anson says: "He is anything but an 'exploded phenomenon,' or a failure. I pronounce him a success, both as a ball player and a pitcher. He is f ully up to my expectations, and a desirable man." Among the new rules required is one making the hitting of a batsman by a pitched ball equivalent to a base hit. The rulu will probably bo made by the joint committee on rules this f all. It certainly should be if the phantom hit is to stay. Tiernan is one of the most remarkable outfield catchers on the diamond. When a fly comes bis way he starts for it with a long easy stride. and one is willing to bet that he will not gt near the ball; butwhenit comes down he is right there every time. "The Baltimore club is a provoking organization," said an old baseball lover the other day. "It fluctuates like watered stock in the financial exchanges. Up and down it goes like a seesaw. You are praising it today and kicking it to-morrow. It is the most uncertain club in the association." President Stern, of Cincinnati, is so anxious te get another battery that he has informei the Louisville management that he would not regard $10,000 as too much for Ramsey and Kerins. To a gentleman of New York he said he regarded them as the greatest battery on the diamond, and that they were well worth $15,000. He said he would also like to get Browning and Werrick. There will be quite a hegira of baseball talent to the Pacific eoast this winter. While tho Browns and Detroits are battling at the Alameda grounds, the Chicagos, under the management of Jim Hart, will be playiug at Central park, San Francisco, and the New Yerks will be at the Haight street grounds, meeting the clubs of the California league. George Munson will go west with the world's champions and will arrange games for them in Kansas City, possibly Wichita, Kan. ; Denver and Salt Lake City, which they will play on the way west. Third Baseman Latham, of the St. Louis club, says: "I'd like to play in the league flrst rate. There'a no fun for a club like the Browns to play a lot of easy ones like they have in the association. It gets to be a trille tiresomo after a while. You see if we were in the league we would have to play hard ball, nnd play it all the time, instead of onoe a month, liko we do now. There is no opposition at all in the association, and no excitcment. I know all of us players would like it better for being in the league." " Would you ifln the pennant if you were in the league?" "Well, we'd be up where we could see the flag pole, anyhow." The last issue of El Guia del Viafero, a newspaper published in the City of Mexico, bas this to say on the subject of baseball : "The sport known as baseball in the United States has been introduced here, two clubs having been formed among the American residents in this city. We do not believe the experiment will prove a success, because the sport or amusement consista principally in the players hitting each other heavy blows. "We have read in American papera that o wing to these blows some persons have been killed. This amusement, if it can be called such, has already degenerated enough, but quien sabe, it may succeed in Mexico owing to its novelty. President Stern, of the Cincinnati club, declares that he is not personally in favor of the percentage plan, but will vote for it if the supporters of the system will join him in fighting the league in connection with the Beatin-Kinslow wrangle. He affirms the Cincinnati club possesses overwhelming evidence that it has the prior right to these players over the Detroit team. Said Mr. Stem the other day: "I will, as I said before, sell my vote for percentage for other votes for my way, and I propose to begin it as soon as the season is closed. Then there will be lensations enough. If the league thiiiks it can fight, I am willing that it shall try ils hand with us. We've got the money to go out and buy the best players in the league. Not buy them, exactly, but offer thcm talarles that will make the league men sick. Just about ono month of this sort of war and the league will wish that Beatin and Kinslow nevar existed."