Omaha daily bee., 1888-11-04
Base Ball Affairs.

Inc Omana base Dali management nave
completed negotiations with Brooklyn for
the sale of Pitcher Lovett for 81, 500. Yes
terday they received a letter from this over
rated twirler demanding one-half of the pur-
chase money. He was promptly and properly
notified that he would not get a nickle, and
that he could arrange terms with Brooklyn
or make up his mind to play in Omaha next
season, and for the salary limit of $1,000 and
not a cent more.
Pitcher Duryea and Catcher Earle, of the
ST. Pauls, and Bug Holiday, of the Des
Moines, nave signed with Cincinnati for
1889. Earle goes to Australia with the
Spalding combination.
Jim Manning, Of the Kansas City Western
association, has signed with the Cowboy
American team for next season. He also
goes to the antipodes with Spalding.
Jack Sneed will winter in this city. There
is nothing in the report, however, that he has
been offered the management of the Omaha
club next season.
Manager Frank Selee claims to have offers
from indianapolis and Brooklyn for next
season, and he wants to know what Omaha
will give to retain him. Not within a good
many hundred dollars of what he received
the past season, it is safe to say.
Patsy Oliver Tebeau has signed with the
Clevelands.
McGarr kicks against being reserved by
Omaha, but no clamor after his services by
anyone else has been heard as yet,
Jack Crooks wants to know what his re-
lease by the Omahas can be bought for.
That ought to be an easy question to answer.
A few hundred dollars should certainly settle
the matter.
Oshkosh wants to come into the Western
association bad. The exhibition games there
this fall between the OmahaS and Milwuu-
KEGS attracted but a handful of cranks. En-
PEASANT, the series above alluded to was won
| by Milwaukee. Omaha won the first two
games, then dropped three straight.
Orator George Shaffer-the Oldest man in
the world-may catch on with Cleveland
next year.
Jimmy Tyler, the promising city league
player, has been sold to Sedalia, Mo-, for a
double barrelled shot gun, muzzle loader.
He played with the Hardins the past season.
Burdick pitched twenty games for Indian,
apolis, winning ten and losing ten, which
gives him a percentage of 800.
The Milwaukee public is stuck on Joe
Walsh. The papers up there claim that
Arson wanted him bad but wouldn't pay the
price.
The Kansas City base ball question was
again fast assuming a complicated form, but
at last everything has been satisfactorily
Strengthened out, and all obstacles to clear
sailing removed by the consolidation of thu
two teams down there. The Americans have
purchased the Western franchise and all the
players left, and will furnish the only pro
fessional team to represent the Cowboy City
the coming year.
Manager Frank Selee 1t is now pretty def
nitely settled will put a team in at Oskost
next season, that is IL they succeed in get
ting a franchise in the Western association
He wrote to know whether Omaha wanted
hun, but they didn't, and he now announce,
that he will be found on his old stamping
ground in the Badger State near year.
McGarr, the chippey, writes the base bal
man of The BEE that he will probably sigl
with the Kansas Citys for next season. II,
says he would have been we'll satisfied to pla,
in this city another year, but would listen Il
no reduction of salary.
E.. J. Hengle, of last seasons Chicago Ma
rooms, was in the city yesterday, the CUES
of Jim Mclaughlin.
Out Of a choice batch Of left fielders to Sc
lect from, the Kansas City management hav'
settled on Jimmy Burns, the poet, to guar
that garden next season. He will be trie,
at least at the opening Of the season, and i
he maintains the gait he struck this fall, will
play regularly there.
Jim ID. McLaughton has had an offer fror
the Ohio State league for next season.
Dave Rowe, the brawler, wants to manag
Denver next season.
The affairs of the Western association sti
remain in statu quo and nothing is likely I
be developed until the annual meeting. Tha
there will be many material changes goe
without saying, but Just what they will be
other than a new circuit and modified sal
aries, cannot be stated now,