Life — June 3, 1886 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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HERE does not appear to be any sufficient reason for plunging into a dark sea of despair on account of the present standing of the New York Baseball Club in the con- test for the championship. They did remarkably good work in the West, considering their crippled condition. When they have recovered their form—that is, when the broken-up men are mended—they will do good work again and make trouble for teams that visit them on the Polo Grounds. They do better at home than anywhere else, thus showing that prophets are not always without honor in their own country. * . . HE college baseball championship will go to Yale, Princeton or Amherst. The Yale team is a remark- | ably strong batting nine for college men. That was shown by their handling of Welch’s delivery when they played the New Yorks on the Polo Grounds. They made five clean hits and only three of them struck out. They hit the ball and hit ithard. Princeton has four good batters. The other five are weak. The nine, however, is very strong in the field. Bick- ham is about the swiftest pitcher in the country, no profes- sional excepted, and Brownlee, the big catcher, will supply a long-felt want at Princeton. Ambherst has a good nine, as was proved by the defeat of Yale on May 22d. It is hardly probable that they will be able to do it again. They may, however, for baseball is full of beautiful chances. . . * HE Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club has been com- pelled to haul its colors down to half mast. In other words, it has amended its constitution so that professional crews will be carried hereafter on the larger cutters, sloops - LIFE: and yawls, as well as schooners. Mr. Robert Centre, who presented the amendment drawn up by L. P. Bayard, said that it was impossible to get entries in the larger classes as long as the Club demanded that the boats should be handled by Corinthian crews. Owners would not take their boats around the lightship with a crew of amateurs. It is a pity— but it is a fact—that hereafter the Seawanhaka people will have a little less Corinthianism and a little more racing. ENDELL BAKER, of the class of '86, Harvard, and the Manhattan Athletic Club, is the successor of Myers as a sprint runner. He has already broken the am- ateur records at 110, 130 and 220 yards. He is good ata quarter also, Every man has his Successor. Tricotrin. FTER “Gerome” the interest of horsemen will turn to the Coney Island Jockey Club’s first meeting, where a great many of the cracks from the principal stables of the West will meet for the first time this year the best of our Eastern representatives. Great interest is already shown in “The Suburban,” to be run the opening day, and the nominations are so plentiful that it is difficult to foresee a winner. People have not forgotten Pontiac's splendid per- formance of last year, but there seems to be a sneaking sus- picion that the West will gobble up their share of the richer stakes this year, . . . ACING in the West is on the boom, Fancy one man expending at one private sale $95,120! In the East there is very little spirit in comparison. The Rancocas stable has disbanded, and the Dwyers are about the only ones left who can stand a fair comparison with such stables as the Messrs. Corrigan, Haggin, Baldwin, etc., etc. The lack of good jockeys has had something to do with this result, but the chief cause is the ridiculous law prohibiting betting of all kinds on race tracks. Racing will not last a half dozen years unless some evasion is made of this law. ey) “ Hey, Bitt, 1GoT THER TAIL FIXED ALL RIGHT, SO WHEN I say ‘GO! You GIT “Gol” UP AN’ pusT!" comicbooks.com