Show SPORTING GOSSIP The Effect of the New Rules Upon the Baseball Pitchers Special Correspondenco1 NEW YORK April 1L Now that the baseball season ha begun t open up some Idea may b formed of the effect fet the new rules will have upon the leading pitchers Foutz always a good man will b doubly valuable now Keefe of the New Yorks will also b much more valuable than under th old rules Clarkson of Chicago will share in the advantage t b derived from the fair ball a also will Casey of Philadelphia The strong pitchers lie McCormick Mc-Cormick of last years Chicagos Baldwin of tho Detroits and Ferguson of tie Pb dolphins a well a several others while they will b actually just a valuable a heretofore hereto-fore will nevertheless appear by comparison to have deteriorated owing t the fact that many of tho other twirlers who last year were ta below them will now do nearly i not quite a good service a the best of them I notice a disposstion on the part of many dion p published in league cities to admit t papers publihe lee cte amt t01 the sake of argument the rennneno o Dollys relerife t Boston lor HOO and Ci c to iliHle the absurd action of the Bostoi dmttois ns thoy 8 pleased t denominate it lutas I have always held n nwas Kelly nil nike more than Hut difference of 15 000 to B Moii in a Hiiglo your and they will thei t have the right t him simply for his sclarx tlicnMitter His stipend i now t50 p seasonpretty steep for most stp players bui none too much for Kelly when he plays ii Boston as ho is peculiarly the plAry right man iI i the right place and was nee at the Hub to put some spirit into the players and i them possible to get first + class team work out o Sorting men a very like sheep Harriman Harri-man the walker went to Australia and ha been followed thither by Myers Hutchens Cannon and n dozen others and now E A Skinner the champion roller skater lured on by the glowing accounts of what did not happen there has also set sail for the island continent and that too when most of th mos foreign contingent are thinking of returning to their several homes ll Willie Beckwith the champion swimmer of England and Gus Snn tom the Swedish American champion will shortly swim a rene near this city for 500 side ne thi a sde Barring acci dents Sunditrom i Ire to be the victor acc Jake Kilraiu the 55 Old Reliable wants to stand before the invincible John L Sullivan ten rounds for a percentage of the prcentge to gate receipts gt ceipts John L says that the only way he will meet Jake i winner take everything I do not think this i hardly fair of the champion cham-pion a he has accorded meetings t men not half a good a the Old Reliable for fewer rounds on the same terms the exBostonian demands I look for a meet ing between them before long OCTY COHEN |