St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-08

evening, said that there was one insti-
tuition in this city which the people of
st. Paul had learned to respect some
time ago, and that was the DeS MOineS
Base Ball club.-Des Moines Register.
Van Dyke has thrown up his position
as boot and shoe clerk and started in
with the boys.
The Cincinnati players cleared be-
tween SIS and 500 apiece on their
Southern trip.
Seward thinks that Stemmyer, Bos-
toms castOff, will pitch good ball for
Cleveland this season.
The Clevelands will wear indigo-col-
ored pants and shirts, and navy-blue
belts, stockings and caps.
Ehret, of Austin, Fudger, of Fort
Worth, and Flood, of Houston, seem to
I be pitc hers of unusual promise.
Brynan, besides being good pitcher.
hard hitter and good base runner, is
clever notwithstanding News.
Syracuse is said to be the highest sal
aried team in the international associa-
ton, running over $4,000 per month.
The st. Louis Whites are to be clad in
navy blue uniforms, trimmed with
white, with white hose, belts and caps.
Manager Murtie thinks that Elmer
Foster, his new fielder, is one of the best
base runners in the profession.-New
York Times.
Arson says he will perhaps play Will
hanson at third base and Van Haltren
at short. Perhaps Tommy Burns will
be released.
Pittsburg has released Second Base
man Sam Barley to the Kansas City
| Americans for $4,000. His salary will
be about $500.
Cleveland and Hatfield are both play
| ing good ball, and it will be difficult
| matter to decide Oh New York'S third
baseman.-New York Times.
Jim White is only forty-one years old.
! He has been before the public so long
that it is the popular belief that he is
bordering on his ninetieth year.
Kid Baldwin said the other day: 81
| like the threestrike rule. A man that
can't hit the ball in three fair trials
ought to go and sit on the bench"
The st. Louis Whites beat the strong
Prickly Ash amateur team Sunday by a
score or II to l.. Staley struck out fiji
| teen men and is evidently strong
| player.
| Viau, the Northwestern wonder, will
|
| He is the kind of a worker that takes
| well in the Queen City.-Cincinnati En-
| quirer.
Secretary Morton, of the Western as
| ISOLATION, has requested all the club
managers to send him at once the name
and address of the party to whom the
visiting club must furnish the batting
| order.
Joe Murphy, sprinter -editor-pitcher,
and Won der Abe have come to an I'M
derstanding. Joe is to pitch for the
Browns the coming season without
signing contract, and is 10 play under
the name OF Ashland.
| Fowler, the well-known colored sec
ond baseman, was secured recently by
the Lafayette, Ind, club. A few days
ago he arrived from Utica, N. Y, and
found that the management was not
aware of his color. He was released.
The members of the city league of
| Chicago have declared a boycott against
| A. G. Spalding, Esq, because he and
| his employees have put Western league
team into Chicago to divide the Sunday
patronage with the city league clubs.
1t has just come out that weile White
was holding out from signing with the
| Detroit club, large number of Wall
| street base ball lovers sent a petition to
| President Day, of the New York club,
| asking him to buy Whites release
| New York Sun.
| Hoy, Washington's deaf mute fielder,
! made eight hits in three games at New
| Orleans. Being unable to chin the UNI
| pire, he stands up to the plate and at
tends to business. The asylums will be
! ransacked for players next seasOn.-De-
| troit Free Press.
Duryea, the St. Paul's crack pitcher,
| has requested the management of the
Stockton, CAL, club to reserve place
| for him on the team for 1885, Many of
| the Eastern players evidently entertain
a sneaking fondness for the Pacific
Slope.-Chicago Times.