St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-12
and if "Smiling Billy"
nr0VeS a star of the first magni-


proves a star of the first magnl-
tude everything will be forgiven. There
is, however, something of feeling that
this young pitcher is much Overrated;
but think Billy will demonstrate that
he is the equal of any of them, nOtwith-
standing their longer experience in the
league. The return to the three-StrikeS
rule will benefit Sowders possibly more
than any of the younger pitchers, and
with an ''Old leaguer'' facing him he
will, in my opinion, prove the best man
the bean-eaters will have to put in the
box Frank Selee, who purchased
SUwders' release for Boston, has i'm
pressed upon Mr.. SOden the necessity OF
giving the yOungster plenty OF rest. II
they have gumption enough 10 pltcinl
Sowders but once week, at least until
he has secured the confidence necessary
to face such sluggers as BrOuthers, An
son, Hines ct al, Billy will not diSap-
point them. am very anxious to see
what the Old-time leaguers will do with
his famous drop ball. What SOwders
needs most of all is catcher who will
work with him. This he has never had.
Webber, who caught him in Minneapo-
lis in 1886, was not even a third-rate
catcher. Stockwell caught him we'll
enough last year, when he felt like
doing so, but then ''Len" was
not always in the humOr. He
and SOwders were forever Quarreling.
The trouble began as soon as batter
reached first base and became base
runner. Stockwell would always main
tain that SOwders gave the runner too
much leeway off first, the result being
that the man would steal second. /,
however, think the trouble grew out OF
hn artc 10 fn SnyV6prC
pitch drop ball when he was under the
bat. With such man as Kelly at the
receiving end SOwderS should improve
100 per cent, and have no doubt but
that he will. There is
A GROWING DESIRE
among the people of Boston that the
management of the home club will at
once get rid of some of the old players
in the club. They certainly should.
Such men as Sutton, BurdOck, Hornung
and Morrill,, who have been playing
with the club for lifetime, could very
readily be retired, and some young men
secured in their places. The great
three" however, don't seem to take
kindly to the young bloods. The way
they treated young Wheelock is an ex-
ample of this. Wheelock is one of the
best young general players in the cOun-
try. Messrs. S.. b. & C.. are dickering
for ClarksOn, of Chicago; Andrews, of
Philadelphia, and Smith, of Pittsburg. In
my opinion, Clarkson, Notwithstanding
all that has been said and written about
his dissatisfaction with Chicago, will
again play under AnsOn, and Andrews
will again be upon Philadelphia's pay
roll. The case of Smith is different.
Pittsburg now has Dunlap TO cover sec
Ond. and, of course, has no use for
Smith. The latter, know, has been
offered to Boston, and the amount of
purchase money has been agreed upon
by the powers that be. The trouble is
over the amount OF salary. Boston
offers $1,000, and Smith wants $1,000.
Taking everything into consideration, |
think MesSrs. S., b. Il &. would have
pleased the people of Boston much bet
ter if they had not put so much money
into their new grand stand, and applied
little more to the purchase of few
very strong players. | had quite talk
the other day with Frank. Selee. OF
win the new Western association pen
nant, but lie does not expect to accom-
pliSh this without struggle. He looks
upon Des Moines and Kansas City as
very strong aggregatiOns, and thinks
the struggle will be between these three
clubs. He does not belittle jim Hart's
nine in any way. He thinks
the team rather weak individually,
but expects it as a team to put
up very strong game. lie does not
know what to make of st. Paul, nor
does any one else. He thinks Barnes,
by losing Viau and SOwders, has lost
pretty much everything he had. Shan
non will in all probability go with Selee
to Omaha. He had mixed himself up in
some way with Kalamazoo. but that, L
reckon, has been Strengthened out.
Shannon played short, you remember,
for Oshkosh last year. Manager Man
ming, of Kansas City. last week was in
Worcester, and while there made
strong effort to secure Meady, the
pitcher of the Holy Cross college nine.
He was unsuccessful, but it may be that
this promising youngster will be found
with the cowboys" during the vaca-
tions. While in New York the other
day | stumbled across Umpire Quinn.
He showed me letter from Barnes ask
ing the whereabouts of StOvey, the col
ored pitcher. l think Barnes, if he is
really after this man, is making a seri-
GUS mistake. don't think the people
of st. Paul would stand StOvey.
M. !. r..