Show I 1 I 1 0 P COMMENT I 1 I 1 he tells why anson will ir remain in chicago ALL HIS INTERESTS ARE THERE now george core made a ifo homo o run on conr called ball balls the bostone show no signs alfi of surrendering tommy burns at the hat bat the latest baseball sensation of mag magnitude i A fixed its base of operations upon tha tile tall all broad person parson of captain A a anson i of chicago tho the report was wag circulated that he had bad practically arranged with the new now york dab club to leave chicago after this 11 year and take up his kicking station in the metropolis as the manager and captain of the more or less unfortunate giants this tory struck al p chill of horror to the hearts of the chicago cranks thrilled the new york rooters with a wave of pleasurable hope and threw the other baseball centers into a perspiration of uncertainty of course captain anson pronounced the story to be a baseless fabrication those who know the captains peculiar relationship lation ship to the chicago club rejected the tale without vili bout seeking tor for proofs of its falsity A few words dropped by anson a month ngo ago to a chicago reporter by way of bitter complaint over ills his treatment at the hands of the chicago baseball patrons led to the rumor which was bent sent forth as a fact when I 1 think how little my efforts to give chicago a winning club at homo home are appreciated by the people here I 1 sometimes feel a desire to go and play where my work would receive recognition said he be such may have been his inclinations many times but his big financial interests would prohibit the change lie ile Is a largo stockholder in tha the chicago club and so long AS OS he continues to take active part in the game it will bo be as the head of a chicago team the chicago baseball patrons are peculiar when their team wins they take I 1 it as a matter of course which deserves I 1 nothing more than a quiet recognition of what la is due from a representative club but when their team loses a dog with a tin pan attachment to its tail has a happy experience in comparison it if the chicago people do not greet their G Q 0 AL on his big return from the east with a demonstration of respect due to the splendid work he has accomplished the rest of the baseball world will view their ingratitude with great disgust the show no signs of surrendering their lead in the race to any of the clubs which are thundering along at their heels but thero there is still along a long dash ahead bead before the midsummer goal shall be reached a and a few unfortunate stumbles dangerous lang would b be dangerous erous to the boston clubs chances of final success if anybody had a mistaken idea that baseball is losing its hold on the hearts of an american sport loving people ho had no further use for it after memorial day nearly people in attendance at tha six league grounds that day in spite of threatening weather bespoke a healthy interest in the game very pleasing to the men who are backing it with their capit capital at thare them was cumulative evidence to back up this proof of baseballs popularity in tho crowds which on the same day attended the games of the western and eastern leagues nearly people saw the eight western clubs play then too the harvard and yale game at cambridge drew out spectators on that day which is a forcible rem reminder inder that among all the college sports n none 0 n e not even football maintains the int interest e r est that baseball does A remarkable play occurred at the polo A ground in new now york during the chica Chi cagos gos recent visit it was a home run on four balls ball sand and in seventeen years yeam observation I 1 have never heard of a similar occurrence on the diamond gore was at bat luby pitching and schriver catching r at ching three bad balls were pitched in succession schriver concluded not to go up behind the bat and luby pitched the fourth one umpire gaffney called four balls and gore started to hla his base meanwhile as the ball bounded toward schriver he be put out hla his upholstered left hand to knock it down but by a slight geometrical miscalculation the ball hit the glove on the upper edge and car romed into the grand stand thereupon followed a scene hard to describe everybody began to shout gore was urged by the entire new york nine to do his best sprinting Seb schriver river made a jump toward scaling the palisades in front of the grand stand but being somewhat rich in flesh he failed to catch on anson and the other chicago players united in a chorus of howls as though sound would boost their catcher in his mad endeavors to get up after that ball meanwhile a meek eyed mild maun mannered ered old gentleman with fringy whiskers sitting in the front row picked up tho the ball and in the goodness of bia big heart would woula have tossed it over into the ground had not tha the entire multitude of spectators belled jelled Tel led drop it iio ile did under the apparent impression that it was an infernal machine TL then en as w 4 he be observed tho the bulging I 1 ng eyes of Soh schriver river who after three attempts had bad fastened his big digital grapnels grannels grap nels upon the battlement and was lifting himself up by main strength the old man arose and ran possessed with the belief that schriver was gasn wasn a madman bent on nothing short of murder by this time gore was approaching third bw and luby stood at the home plate dancing a favorite jig anson knowing know ing the ball to iw be blocked had gone to the pitchers box and was trying try ing to make luby understand tho tile situation but luby hear anything but the conglomeration of a thousand voices just as he be received the ball from schriver Seb river anson grabbed him by the arm and began dragging him back to tho box to put the ball into play but gore had bad turned third and before luby reached his position the lome run on tour four balls went upon record it was the funniest thirty second scena scene I 1 ever saw on a ball field it seems strange that a city like st paul cannot support a professional baseball club and that another city tho the size of fort wayne should volunteer to relieve the former of its membership in the western league it always the largest city however that gives tho the best baseball patronage any more than it la Js the largest girl that gives you t the he sweetest kiss ansons able lieutenant during the last twelve years tommy burns laa isa busy man these days lie ile Is trying to rig up a win tibia team out of the pittsburg timber As captain cuttle used to say he ile kin if anybody kin ho be kin 11 0 P |