St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-16
Notes

The new schedule of the Northwestern league
will go into effect next Tuesday.
Dunn, formerly of the Milwaukees played
with the st. Paul team yesterday.
Teemer and Ross are matched for five mile
race September %, Ross receiving five seconds
start.
Dwight, who has played few games with the
St. Paul team, has been released, and Hudson
has been engaged to pitch.
Grand Rapids Democrat: Manager Tuthill, of
the Minneapolis club. has the credit of engineer
ing the scheme at Chicago to down Grand
Rapids.
Arrangements have been made for six days
| female walking match at Pittsburg. Madame
Tobias, May Howard and other well known walk
ers are expected to compete.
The Detroit Times heads its sporting column
with this hard shot at the home club ''They
can't run; that's what ails the Detroits they also
| all otherwise; they can't bat.
| Eli George and Buck Gehrhart fought prize
| fight at Lawrenceville, Pa, Wednesday night, for
S70O. Gehrhart won in twenty-seven rounds,
| George being SO badly punished that he was un-
| able to leave the room.
| The Peoria players accepted 80 cents on the
| dollar in settlement Of unpaid salaries. Until
they did SO they could not get their releases.
| After they were forced into compromise the
club disbanded.
! The Cleveland club has signed John Hofford,
| pitcher of the disbanded Iron and Oil league
team of Franklin, Pa He was phenomenon in
| his league. His club won fifty victories out Of
| sixty games, and he pitched in forty, averaging
ten and one-ffth strike-outs per game, with
| fielding average of over 900. He joins the team
at Philadelphia Monday.
| 1f,nooor Tr+b;I ~ +bo lJ;nnoono1;, to.-. -.
dates arranged for playing until Sept. CO. The
/ club will play-at Milwaukee Saturday, Sunday
and Monday, Berlin, Wis, 18th, Milwaukee 10Th,
and Goth, Eau Claire 21st, Winona, 22d and 23d
| six days following at home and st. Paul, Omaha
six days following at home again four games
with Milwaukee, four games with Union. Pacifcs
| of Omaha, and then six games with St. Paul.
| This arrangement was made prior to the reorgan-
izaton Of the league, and may be changed
| thereby.
| The Saginaw Courier gets off the following on
"Tricky Nick" 1t belongs to the ancient and
respected order of 'chestnuts, but is so apropos
that we give it: ''Nichols, of the Minneapolis
club, was in Billy Dobson's restaurant last even
ing, and feeling at home on Saginaw soil, amused
| himself by ordering around the walters. just as
| the head waiter walked up he suddenly raped
| on his glass with a vigor and four tined fork.
Waiter he CRIED there is fly in my butter ;
| That's all right said the head waiter, don't
mind it. There is no danger Of you catching it.
The remainder of the meal was finished in
| silence
The New York Clipper has the following
sound remarks on the umpire: at is the height
of folly for base ball umpire to be chosen from
among the members Of either competing club.
Such selection is certain to sharpen partisan
ship. He,who accepts the position Of umpire
when his clubs engaged is sure to be impeached
| by the multitude. II he decides against his club
the accusation will be that he is straining point
in order to evince On impartiary with which he
| is conscious he will not be credited. On the
other hand, if he decides in favor OF his club, the
fact that he naturally should have the success of
his confreres at heart will suffice to condemn
| him in the minds of many. Either way is this
umpires loss. No man, bound to either club
should be asked to place himself in position to
which the uncertainty of impeachment attaches
No man valuing his reputation should consciously
place himself within range Of fire. from either
flank. There is yet another view. 1t may never
have struck managers, but it has of course sug-
gested itself to those outsiders who are always
keenly suspicious. Cannot managers guess it: