St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-02
OUT OF DOOR SPORTS.
The st. Paul Base Ball Club-The New
Grounds of the Chicago
Club.
List of the League Players-Where All the
Players are Going-What Nashville
is Doing.
The Boxers Arranging Their Programs
Glove Contests-The Bicycle and
Roller Kinks.
Base Ba.t.

There is no change in the situation in st.
Paul in regard to base ball matters. Man
ager Thompson is signing, players, and, with
one or two exceptions, the members of the
club are already secured. The prices paid
this year are considerably less than those
paid last year, and it is intended to hold the
players to regulations with rigidity. 1t is
probable that the club will be very much bet
ter than the one we had last year.
Joe Battin is to captain and play third base
for the nine now being got together to rep
resent Cleveland in the Western league. 7.
Lawrence, the superintendent of the old
Cleveland ground, is financially interested
in the project.
The services of professional pitchers have
been secured by several college teams; Rad
bourn coaching Brown; Lynch, Princeton
Clarkson, Dartmouth; Calvin, Hamilton
and Jones, Yale.
! S. E. Winslow has been elected captain of
the Harvard college nine, taking the place of
Phillips, resigned. Tilden will probably take
Phillips place at second base.
! Manager Schmelz of the Atlanta club has
added Sullivan and Clark to his team. This
gives Atlanta four pitchers, Bauer, Sullivan,
Glenn and Dundon, and three catchers, Nc
Vey, Clark and Lang.
| The season in Newark, N. j., will be
opened April Is, Manager Farrow's local pro-
fessionals then playing the Bostons.
The request that the rival st. Louis clubs
be allowed to play Sunday games together
has been denied by the National league.
Hackett of the Bostons has happily re-
covered from very long, tedious and de-
biitating illness. He is rapidly picking up,
and will be able to be in trim when the
| trumpet sounds.
McKeever of The Boston Unions has re-
ceived several offers for next season.
Jackson of the New York league has been
corresponding with most of the Boston
Unions of 1884, with view to get them for
his Rochester nine.
The married members of the new Brooklyn
team are Cassidy, Hotaling, Swartwood,
Krieg, Harkins and Porter. OF the whole
team Krieg, Swartwood aud Smith are of
German parentage; Cassidy, Hays and Hark-
ins of Irish parents, and Terry, Phillips,
Pinckney. Mcclellan and Robinson 'native
and TO the manner born," while Porter is of
French-Canadian birth: Cassidy will cap
tain the team, and Terry will be the assist
duI. anu hIlSS Will plbCu anu SatCu
in the majority of the April games.
Sunday games will be played at all the sub
urban grounds on Long Island which are not
in the vicinity of churches, as the supreme
court has decided it is legal unless the Sab
bath repose of the community" is disturbed.
This will of course allow of Sabbath games at
Coney Island. as ''Sabbath repose' is some
thing unknown in that region.
A team of professionals, headed by Frank
Flint, are now playing a series OF Sunday
games with the four leading clubs of Havana,
Cuba. They are billed as the Chicagos and
are under the management of Leon De Leon,
well-known circus director of Havana. The
Chicagos played their initial game Feb. s,
defeating the Ultimatum club by a score of 5
to l.
At recent meeting the Southern league
was reorgauized by the consolidation with it
of the Southeastern league. The association
now consists Of the Clinch club and Browns
of Augusta, Atlanta, Chattanooga, Columbus,
Macon. Nashville and either the Birmiug-
ham or Montgomery clubs. The champion
ship season commences April 10 and ends
Oct. l.
President Spaldng goes East this week and
during the Inauguration will be. guest of
President Nick Young, at Washington, after
which both will proceed to New York to at
tend the National league meeting in that
city, the principal work of which will be to
arrange the schedule of games for the com
ing season.
1t is reported in baseball circles that
Grand Rapids enthusiasts are making an eff
fort TO organize base ball club for this sea-
son, and will make application to the West
ern league.