St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-15
BASE BALL BRIEFS.
Notes Gathered Here and There
About Prominent Players.


Chicago will not give Goldsmith an
! other trial.
Des Moines still expects to secure
| Hutchinson.
Ten of the Milwaukee team are total
| abstainers.
Jimmy Brouthers, Dams brother, has
been signed by Toledo.
| 1.-The New York club claims that it's
| salary list amounts to 100000.
Manager Mutrie thinks Crane the
| speediest pitcher in the league.
Chicago has no catcher that can hold
Krock's terrific straight delivery.
Shindle, of Baltimore, did not make
an error in the Philadelphia series.
Every National league team has now
been defeated in exhibition games.
| OSylvester, of last seasons Milwau-
KEGS, has signed with the Lincoln,
| Neb., club.
Brooklyn has trio of the tallest and
| thinnest pitchers in the country, Foutz,
| Caruthers and Terry.
Crothers and Cross, of last years Eau
| Claire team, are the latest additions to
the Dallas, Tex, nine.
A base ball opera, with the umpire as
| the villain and the pitcher as the hero,
will shortly be produced.
| Roseman is practicing pitching. The
| "Chief'' pitched for the old AtlanticS, OF
| Brooklyn, thirteen years ago.
| Campana, Omaha's third baseman, has
| been released to Manchester for $500
and Doran re-engaged to play third.
The st. Louis Republican refers to
the Detroits as the Squealers from
Squealville, on the Canadian border.
The Philadelphia club and Fogarty
| have settled their differences, and Fog
arty is on his way East to join the club.
Hoover, the Chicago catcher, is the
| first unfortunate. He had thumb
broken by a pitched ball the other day.
Cleveland is placing $1,000 worth of
season tickets. That will insure an at
tendance of 200 spectators at each game.
President Nimick, of the Pittsburg
| club, denies the rumOr that trade Of
| Mccormick for Radbourn is cOntempla-
| ted.
The members of the Junior Base Ball
| team are called to be at their grounds
| on University avenue at 2 o'clock sharp
to-day.
Brown, the New York catcher, is still
in California. He is holding out for
$4,000 and will not come East unless he
gets it.
1t is generally understood that Weld
man is to pitch for New York this sea-
son, but his contract has not yet been
reported.
1t has been suggested that McGeachy
would be good man for St. Paul to
secure. indianapolis seems to have no
use for him.
Sutcliffe is improving in his throwing
to bases, and in Tuesdays Detroit-Cin-
cinnati, caught Nichol, McPhee, Tebeau
and Carpenter at second.
Harry Mitchell, who played in the
Chicago Reserves in 1884, was the big
gest man that ever played ball. He
was six feet seven inches.
Denny has. been fined 500 and sus-
pended by Manager Spence for drunk
enness. He has been drinking heavily
ever since arriving from California.
Harvard does not lack heavyweights.
When Henshaw faces the pitcher he
of vigor, Willard 200 and Quackenboss
100.
Umpire Gaffney has been presented
with the gold medal which came with
the Dauvray cup, which was won by the
Detroits as an emblem of the worlds
championship.
Don't get fooled on the story about
the st. Louis Browns being weak. They
will be somewhere in the vicinity of the
tOp-nOtcherS when the season Closes
Louisville Post.
1t Is asserted that Radbourn's last let
ter to the Boston club says: "When you
make good what you took out of my sal
airy last year will come on and nego-
tate with YOU"
Sam Thompson played every game
last season and feels quite worried to
think he missed the first one this year
through an unfortunate detention by
railroad washouts.
Stratton, Louisville's promising
pitcher, is the youngest base ball player
under contract in the American asso-
citation. He was but eighteen years of
age few months ago.
Bulge has knocked out another excel
lent catcher. Washington has released
Gilligan, at one time most desirable
backstop. Whisky will win where foul
tips fail.-Detroit Free Press.
land with New York, Grant with Buff
| falo, Hayes with Rochester, johnson
with Boston. There is also a player
named Lincoln.-Pit tsburg Chronicle.
Tie Yale freshmen have challenged
Harvard to two-mile race and eight
| cared race, to take place in New Lon
don within week of the Harvard Yale
'VerSity race. The graduate advisory
committee on rowing will probably not
allow the race to be rowed at all.
Booze and the International league
umpires will have to be strangers this
| season. Any umpire in the employ of
| this organization who is caught drink
| ing malt or spirituOus liquors will be
summarily discharged. The Interna-
| tiOnal association has no use for barrel
house clowns.
The Des Moines team this year will
| not be team of s'giants" in literal
| sense. Alvord is the only large man in
it outside of the batteries. The. men
are, however, all of trim and supple
build and will present lively appear
ance on the field.-Des Moines Register.
Nashville turfmen are Sin a state of
mind" over the numerous fine two-year-
! Odds in training there. Kee-vie-na, by
| Enquirer; Fairy. by Aristides; Gypsy,
| by Great Tom; Brontes, by Brlgadier,
and Marchburn, by Luke Blackburn
are each claimants to be world-beaters.
The championship season will open a,
week from next Saturday by game be-
tween the Omahas and Minneapolis
| nine. The latter team is spoken Of very
| highly by the Minneapolis papers, and
they are coming here with the intention
of winning two out of the series of three
games. They will if they are In luck
Omaha Herald.
Ed. Williamson, according to his