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Gossip. |
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Cincinnati Commercial Gazette |
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06-01-1891 |
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• This afternoon at the East End Park the
Baltimores and Cincinnatis will play the closing
game of the series. Each club has won a game and
it will be a hard struggle for the rubber. The
Orioles will present their star battery, McMahon
and Robinson, while Captain Kelly and the
"Strong Arm," Ed Crane, will be in the points
for the home team. Kelly won the game on
Saturday with Crane in the points. Can he do it
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• Every one concedes that
there is one weak spot in the Cincinnati
Association team, and it is on the infield. It
would be one of the strongest points in the team
if the player would conduct himself properly and
live up to the rules that Captain Kelly has had
posted in the club house. Kel appreciates the
fact that he has been imposed upon by one or two
players in the club, and he does not intend to
permit it any longer. The members of the
Cincinnati Association Club will find few
managers as kind and considerate as the great
captain. If he was a better disciplinarian he
wouldn't have an equal in the profession as a
player manager. As a field captain he outranks 'em
all. |
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• Sam Wise is the captain of the Baltimore Club,
and it is many seasons since he played the ball
he is putting up this year. His fielding in the
games on Saturday was splendid. A running
one-handed catch of a fly ball far out in right
field was one of the prettiest plays that have
been made on the East End grounds. |
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• "The Association has some great ball players
and the League its stars, but class them all
together and there is not one that can rival
Mike Kell," remarked Charley Jones in the Grand
Hotel a few evenings ago. "I think him the
greatest ball player that ever donned a uniform,
and I know there are thousands who have watched
his playing in seasons past who will agree with
me. He'll devise more tricks in a season than
all the other ball players put together," Kel
gave a fair sample of "heady" ball playing in
the second game on Saturday, for his cleverness
on the bases won the game for the home team. The
Cincinnati patrons of the game are beginning to
appreciate the King more and more each day." |
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• The Cincinnati Association Club drew a prize
in Manager Frank Bancroft. He was worked
faithfully in the interest of the club, and good
results are sure to come from his careful
nursing of the financial end of the concern. |
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• Here after tickets will be on sale at Hawley's
for the games at the East End Park. |
