Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-22
Sporting Notes.

SULLIVAN states that he has had enough Of
| England.
/ THE Louisvilles of 'S9 have been dubbed the
| "Liables."
TIM KEEFE has gone to Amherst to coach
the college team.
Nor a single Washington player is to be
found in class A.
HARRY SPENCE has been appointed mana
ger of the New Haven club.
NEW ORLEANS claims to have 4S2 letters on
file from players what want jobs.
GEORGE SLossoN has challenged any billiard
| player to play him in New York.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made for fight
! between Joe Lannon and Jack Ashton
DAVE FORCE and T. NJ. McDermott have
been appointed Western Association umpires.
A PETITION is being circulated in Hoboken
asking that the New York Club settle in that
city.
ED ANDREWS pronounces the sand-stuffed
bats failure. They have no spring and the
blow is dead.
MIKE KELLY, he of the Bostonians, says
John Montgomery Ward will play in New
York next season Just the same.
IT is now settled that Easton will fill the va
cancy in the new Atlantic League. 1t is found
impossible TO raise a club in Scranton.
BELLE HAMLIN, 2:l33z. has been transferred
from the farm to Buffalo, and Andrews has
commenced training her for next seasons
work.
THE negotiations between Catcher Holbert
and the Columbus team nave fallen through, as
that PLAYER wanted more money than the club
could afford to give.
THE Hartford club has raised but s., 100 of
the 5000 needed to start club in that city.
Further subscriptions will be sought and
another meeting held next week.
HARRY WRIGHT will take 16 players to
Florida to eat oranges and practice. Mike
Kelly has decided to join the mbination,
which will leave March for Jacksonville.
MANAGER SAM TRoTr, of the Newarks is
after another phenomenal unknown pitcher
from the South. He is said to be a giant, +" be-
ing feet inches in height and weighing 1913
pounds.
"PITTsBURG PHIL" and his brother, with
Frank Horrey and R. E. Aiken, are in San
Francisco looking over Lucky" Baldwins
string of flyers Phil says Haggin's Ransom is
the coming world beater.
DENNY LYONS, the hard-hittlng third base
man of the Athletics, has arrived home from
Mt. Clements, having just finished soaking at
that place. He says the st. Louis Browns will
not win the penrant the coming season.
MANAGER MUTRIE received the following
note yesterday, written on a postal card:
Don't you think the directors of the New York
Club ought to consider first before they move
to Staten Island, as it will cost fellow close TO
a dollar, and that will be tough on the bleach
ing boards?'-Nea0 York SuR.
SAID Arlie Latham, at Philadelphia the
other day: Il am no longer an actor. Fash
ions'was too much for me, and mourn the loss
of S375 back salary. But I'll be all right when
the robins nest again. Mike Kelly wants me
to double up with him to play The Two
Dromlos,' now that Robson and Crane have
split, but 'Ker is bad actor and has No tai
ent."
THE Australians evidently were not able to
fathom Captain Anson and his mysterious
ways of kicking, for one of the papers says edi-
torially: But there is one thing our people do
not understand; that is. why does Anson, of
Chicago, walk in front of the first goal and
shake his finger at one of the catchers So earn
estly and then walk back with his head down
and his face very red?"
GIL HATFIELD still thinks that the New
York Club should give him a chance. He says
that the club is the best in the world to work
for. but he wants chance to play. He says
that if the New York Club will give him trial
for one month, and at the end of that time If
he does not play better short stop. and bat as
well as Ward did last season, he would go out
of the business. "Of course" says Gil, Nsome
players may feel satisfied to sit on the bench
and draw their salary, but that is not my
nature"