Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-03-21
THE BASE BALL SEASON.
The Contest this Year to be of Unusual
interest = The Organization of the
League Clubs.

CLUBS nave as yet joined the league
from New York city or Philadelphia,
but the Hartford Blue Stockings will
probably make their headquarters in
Brooklyn for the coming season. At
Philadelphia it is expected the Athletic
will soon name its players and start on
a firm basis. Among the players men
toned as forming the club are Nc
Bride, Fisher, Reach, Sensenderfer,
Meyerle, Fulmer, Eggler, Coons:
Weaver, Zettlein and Bennett. This
will form remarkably strong combi
nation for fielding and batting. The
price of admission to all championship
games will be the same as last season
fifty cents. The list of league play
ers to constitute the respective clubs,
which are nearly all complete, as fol-
lows.
Boston,. White, catcher; Bond, pitcher, Nor
ril, first base; Wright, second base; Leonard short
stop; Sutton, third base; O'Rourke, left field Muir
nan, centre field; Manning, right field; White and
Brown, substitutes.
Chicago-Mcvey, catcher; Spaulding, pitcher:
Waltz first base; Barnes, second base; Peters, short
stop; Arson, third base; Glenn, left field; Hines,
centre field; Bradley right field and change pitcher
1 H. Smith, substitute.
Cincinnati-Hicks catcher; Matthews, pitcher;
JONES' first base; Halliban, second base Booth short
stop Foley third base Addy left field; Pike centre
field; Kessler, right field.
Hartford-Alhson, catcher; Larkin, pitcher, Start
first base; Burdock, second base Casey, short stop;
Ferguson, third base; York, left field; Wordsworth
centre field; Cassidy right field; W. A. Harbridge,
substitute.
| Louisville-snyder, catcher; Devlin, pitcher La.
| than, first base; G9rhardt; second base; Hague,
third brse; Ryan, left field; Hall, centre field, shafer,
right field.
ST. Louis-Clapp, catcher: Nichols, pitcher; Dehl-
first base Msaeary SECOND base FORGE short
centre field; Blong, right field.
The following men who played in
league clubs last season have not been
engaged in any league club up to the
present time: Meyerle, Knight, Zett-
lein, Coons, Ritterson, Fouser, Malone,
Eggler and FISHER, of the Athletics;
Brady and Whitney, of the Bostons;
Blelaski and Andrus, of the Chicagos;
Fisler, Gould, Sweazy, Pearson, Clack,
Snyder and Williams, of the Cincinna-
tbs; bingham, Mills and Cummings, of
the Hartfords; Sommerville, Fulmer,
Hastings, Allison, Clinton, Holbert,
Bechtel and Carbine of the Louisvilles;
Nichold, Craver, Booth and Treacy of
the Mutuals; Cuthbert, Mack, Pearce
and Mckinley, Of the st. Louis. Of
these players, Meyerle, bingham, An
drus, Eggler and FISHER stood respec-
lively 9th, 9TH, 10th, 18th, 10Th and Goth
In order of the heavy league batters last
season. A large number of these play
ers have been engaged by semi-profes-
sional clubs, and will play with inter-
national league clubs in the coming
A Picturesque Society.
In Washington there is pictur-
sequences to society-a sort of kaleido-
scopic variety-that gives it q special
charm. The men and women you
meet are not all cut off the same
piece. You cannot predict before they
open their mouths just what they are
going to say, and their mental and NOR
al processes are not all regulated by
the same rigid laws of custom, the in
huence of the same surroundings and
the force of the some inherited ideas
They come from all parts of this wide
continent of ours, and mingled with
them is a sprinklng of all foreign
types. Each brings something fresh
and strongly individual to throw into
the oAa podr5da. Almost all are people
of some force of character, for if they
had not been they would never have
cut loose from their local ties and
transported themselves beyond the mar
row limits of their native horizons. The
many-sided American character and
the infinite variety of American physi-
ognomy may be studied here as no
where else. AS to classes and occupa-
tons, the politicians, of course, furnish
| the web and wool of the social fabric.
but they are of every sort of intellectual
hue and texture, and upon this back
ground are embroidered many novel
and striking figures. Scientific explorers
from the Allutian Islands and the can
ons of the Colorado: naturalists who give
their lives to bugs or butterflies in the
red towers of the Smithsonian; inven-
tors just about to revolutionize the me-
chanics of the world; land spectators
who play high stakes for slices of
Uncle Sans farm big enough to make
half a dozen German principalities;
railroad kings with their attendent
trains; weather-beaten naval heroes
just from distant seas, and seeming to
have 81 flavor of the gale and the salt
spray about them decorated diplomats,
always chattering French whatever
their mother tongues may be; fnical
attaches who give their whole time to
flirting and their whole souls to the
hope of capturing a rich wife; book
worms burrowing in the library of Con-
gress; half Indians looking after
the interests of their half-civilized
tribes; bankers and manufacturers with
axes to sharpen on the grindstones of
tariff or financial legislation. They
come and go. Every year new actors
come upon the stage. Many of the old
ones remain, but the permanent sele-
ments of society are not large enough
to give steady flavor to the dish, so
that it has always the piquancy of va
riety.- Washington Cor. Philadelphia
| Times.
THERE was great CONSERVATION in
a fashionable New York boarding
school a few days ago. Madam had
tied her two solitaires, worth $4,000, in
a handkerchief, and was in tears, for
they were missing. The girls are
daughters of Americas richest men,
and they couldn't be accused. So,