Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-02-24
Sporting Notes.

KANSAS CITY has offered Sam Barkley's
services to Hamilton.
ATLANTA, Ga, has decided to enter a club
in the Southern League.
BROOKLYN is said to have line out for
Nagle, the Omaha catcher.
THE catcher of the famous Yale battery OF
1883, Damn, is now in Buffalo.
HUGH DAILY, the one armed pitcher, is in
Washington trying to catch on.
A ANUMBER of professional ball players are
having outdoor practice at Cincinnati
MANAGER HARRY SPENCE, of the New
Haven team, is making an effort to secure
Damn.
SAM SMITH, who formerly played first base
for the Louisvilles, has signed with the Des
Moines. s.. 49,
GEORGE McG1NNIs. the old st. Louis pitch
er, is being pressed for the vacancy on the As
sociation umpire staff.
ED ANDREWS, of the Philadelphias, has bet
A. ]. Reach hat that he (Andrews) will steal
70 bases the coming season.
CRANE and Murphy will work together next
season as a battery, and take their regular turn
at battery work for the New Yorks.
MORRIS O'NEILL, who managed the Kalama-
act as manager for the Oakland, CAL, team the
coming season.
GUS SCHMELz, of the Cincinnatis. is indius
nant over the report that he Iampered with
Mexican or had any dealing whatever with
that or any other player.
In recent cablegram John M. Ward says
he has not decided to play in Washington the
coming season, and will not state his intentions
until he returns to New York.
FARRELL may not sign with Baltimore this
year. He was afflicted with rheumatism last
year, and unless bis condition improves before
the season opens he will not be signed
OLD JACK LYNCH says the success of a
de fI1a af,t1e
him. Lynch says he would like to play with
the New Haven club If Catcher Halbert was
engaged with him:
s. G. RYDER, MAssILLoN, O.-AIl we can
say is that we expect Mr.. Spalding did not
leave on his trip to lose anything. He may
have made money in Australia, but he knows
best himself about his later success or fortune.
CARUTHERs, of the Brooklyns, frankly
acknowledges that his work last season was
not what it should have been, and he is deter
mined this season not only TO regain the
ground losr, but to outshine, if possible, his
brilliant playing of yore.
MANAGER SHARsIG has not yet secured a
building for the Athletic players to practice in
but he is on the lookout for one. He will order
his men to report for duty about March Is. He
will not confine them to indoor work, but will
play at Gloucester on every favorable day.
MIKE KELLY and Arlie Latham will be men,
bers of the picked nine which is to play against
the Phillies in Florida next month. Kelly says:
IN o one IN Llo business Will WOrK IaTQer IMAM
to get into condition when / start in. and
am in dead earnest to show my friends IN Bos.
ton how to play good ball."
THE hopes of the Columbus management of
getting King and Milligan from st. Louis are
blasted. They come too high. When Won der
Abe was first asked how much would buy King
and Milligan, "der boss president asked cool
$4,000, but this figure he lowered to $4,000, and
then he refused to go further. The directors
were willing to pay 5000, but could not see
their way clear to adding an additional So, 600.
JIMMY PEOPLES thinks Columbus will come
in fifth at least, and adds: I'VE will put few
scars IN the record of the 100000 aggregation
at the other end Of the big bridge. Maybe
Orr. Mays and myself won't try when we run
against the Brooklyns. If they don't drop
few games to us it won't be our fault. Nothing
would give me more pleasure than to knock
the Brooklyns out of game that would cause
them to lose the championship"