Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11

team fields misefably and does little or
no batting. ID -
Charlie Sprague, the old western associa.
ton south-paw tWirler, recently with the
Clevelands, will finish the season with To-
ledo.
back IN his old position. Without Maggie the
team loses confidence, and fail to put up their
customary game.
A. G. Flournoy, Of st. Paul, is stuck. on
Kid Nichols pitching. He says that Omaha
has no twirler that can begin to pitch with
the boy, and he is quito right.
Despite sore-head Quin, prize-fighter
Barnes, clustering Dave Rowe, and puny
little Macullar, Sam Morton still holds the
fort. And what is more he is worth an army
OF these knockers"
The Prohibitionists have made two lucky
pilckups this season In signing the cast-off
players, Whitley and Klusman. Both these
men are playing superb ball
II is said that Milwaukee made an offer to
buy the entire Columbus, o., American as
ISOLATION team, but the offer was declined.
Milwaukee has the American association bee
in her bonnet bad.
Des Moines, to curtail expenses, has re-
leased its best men, in Smith, Whiteley and
Klusman. Des Moines should be cut out of
the Western association another season. AS
q ball town she's no good.
Cyclone Jim Duryea, who pitched last sea-
son for the st. Pauls, is very sensitive re-
garding newspaper criticism. He grows
particularly wrathy at the Cincinnati scribes
when they dare intimate that he has a semi
dead arm.
The warm weather wonder, McNabb, for
whom Denver planked down one Thousand
sesterces, is panning out badly in this asso-
citation. He has been q berry for the Oma-
has, and in fact all the other teams exper-
fence little difficulty in finding him.
Sam Morton has struck aylmine with the
Minneapolis team. That town up there is a
great one on base ball. The attendance at
thirty-three games played on the home
grounds numbered so $50 souls. This means
a plethoric purse for the long-beaded Samuel
when the melancholy days have come.
Jack German, who played in Omaha q
short while toward the close of last season, Is
reported to be dying in st. Louis from a
tumor In his side, the result of an injury re-
ceived in this city while stealing second base
in the last game he played here.
A ball player has a 5hard time securing a
bat that in shape and weight suits his fancy,
and once secured they have as hard a time to
keep it, as the members of good teams are
on the constant lookout for "good sticks"
and are not particular how they get them.
Andy Cusick, the old National league
player and Western association umpire, has
been playing bail for the past two months
with the West Point, Neb., team. He IS
now at Hot Springs, Dak., where he expects
W Ooocio hho i6hb aifht WhASh Aho oSSh
dead" for a year or more.
The board of directors are already talking
over the question of strengthening the team
for next season, as there seems TO be evidence
of an intention 10 put in stronger teams in
all the Western association cities for 1890.
Lines are already being laid TO secure two or
three promising young players for the home
team.
A good ball player never has to spend u
cent for his liquor, as there are so many
empty -headed fools who who would give
their all just for the sake of having the
players accept their invitation to drink. IL
Is in this way that so many players, pitchers
especially, make wrecksfof themselves.
And still this mouldy old chestnut keeps
going the rounds: "John S. Barnes, the
manage Of the St. Paul club, who recently
fell heir To an estate In Ireland worth $780,
900, has promised his men that he will take
them to England If they win the champion
ship.n Barnes hasn't fallen heir to
800, 900 mills, and he stands US much chance
of taking a ball team TO the moon as he does
to England.
Tho following team of ex-Western associ-
alton players, who are now in the association,
would be able TO mold their own with any Of
them; Conway, Duryea, Srtartzel and Low
EFT, pitchers; Reynolds, Gunson and Earle,
catchers; Stearns, first base; Long, second
base; Pickett, shortstop; Alyord, third base;
Burns, left field; Holiday, center field, and
Manning, right field.
The Columbus. o., American association
club is making q big effort 10 secure another
hrst class twirier. A well seasoned man IL