The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-22
THE SPORTING WORLD.
Baseball.

The Albany nine for next year will cost
a trihe over $4,000. Troy's nine is much
more expensive.
1t has been Officially" decided that the
agreement about PLAYERS adopted recently
at Buffalo, N. Y, does not bar outside clubs
from hirin. any chosen players and enter
ing the League.
Clapp named 50, 200 as his seasons salary,
and required 500 in advance before he
would sign with the Albanys, and as the
latter club refused t" accede tn these terms,
he signed instead with the Cincinnatis.
At Oroville, CAL, the girls attending the
public schools have organized a club called
the Oroville Daisies. and the local journal
thus reports their opening game: "Man to
the bat!' screams the umpire. "Now, /
won't play at all if you are going to call
me ham-fat." replied the striker. After
little coaxing she changed her mind and
picked up tile bat. Gimme fair ball!"
was her admoniton to the pitcher. Twen-
ty-three balls were pitched, and she
never hit one. The catcher scooped
them in very gracefully with an
old straw hat. Then the striker held the
bat perfectly still, and the pitcher hit it
with the ball. which rolled about ten
wards on the ground, and then stopped.
Run" Look out foryour shoe-strings!"
Your aprons untiedw Catch It'll" 'Oh,
MY tel" "Put her out!" Don't step on
that hatp' "'Taint far!" "No such
thing!" II won't play!" And they all
rushed pell-mell to the first base where the
striker was nursing one of her feet and
looking at big hole OH one side of her
shoe, caused by stumbling over rock.
The entire nine were so intent - being the
first to put out the striker that they failed
to realize whittier they were going. The
result was the worst mixnp ever witnessed
For few seconds it looked as though an
earthquake had turued q drygoods store
inside ont, and spilled case of shoes on the
pile. When they gol Strengthened out. the
players discovered thata small boy had run
away with the ball, and-just then the
school-bell rang, putting an end to the
sport.
r.. Miscellany. tr.,.
"Spring Dick" Goodwin is expected in
Cincinnati soon. ...... .t .-rl. r..
EHarry Fellows is giving private sparring
lessons at his saloon No. 325 West Sixth
Street. His terms are very reasonable.
Give him call, boys. il fj -'fI
| Several OF the Eastern papers are OF the
| opinion that Courtney will not meet Han
| Ian when the times comes. We think he
will, and wouldn't be surprised if he de-
feated the champion. -.. .. ..
Cleveland has claimed the same dates as
| Youngstown, for their summer trotting
meeting, July 1st-4th. Cleveland will
learn that they have made mistake.-[E Ex-
change Youngstown feels important.
Colonel Wn. Edwards, Of Cleveland, was
lately in Kentucky and while there p,tr-
chased two young horses of high breeding,
and is happy in the belief that one of them
will make mate for his trotting mare,
Fringe.
Hanlan will go to Washington this week
and, in the meantime, be forced to confine
himself almost exclusively to land exercise.
Both he and his friends have lingering
ideas that Courtney will not even now come
up to the scratch, and express willingness
4 to take odds that he will not start. Hanlan
is very anxious to meet Riley and willing
| to row him at Washington nine days aftsi