The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-16

American c~up-hunting expedition. There
are enough sevcnty-footers In these waters
to make Il an exceedingly lively season II
these two fast foreigners decide to cross
the Atlantic.
Lou Pike. dam Of French Park. has
Mai. ID. g. Thomas OF Dixiana stud has
named Senator Hearst.
The Denver heavyweight, Edward
Smith, who finished Mike Cleary easily
last week, will probably take the place OF
Kilrain In the Muldoon combination. He
is In ST. Louis ut present.
Jockey Barnes, who arrived at New Or
leans last Monday from California, says
L. J. Baldwin has "a horses in training,
including the Emperor OF Norfolk. The
general opinion was that the latter had
broken down year before last.
Manager Barnic will not separate his
| pitchers and catchcrs into pairs as strictly
this year as in the past, but will give each
backstop a chance to handle oil the diff
ferent styles OF delivery. In most Of the
games, however. Baker and Townsend.
| Shaw and Tate, German and Kerins will
face zach other. Staib will pitch to any
catcher who ma be available for the
present.
Compared with the other league mag
mates Stern Of Cincinnati IL In the great
est luck. He practically got "A league
franchise for nothing, and he will have an
opportunity Of playing. 40 home games
without opposition, and his club has good
paying cities to play in on every holiday
during the season. As one OF the Lords
chosen people" il was but natural that he
should have such luck.
In speaking of lon l-distance throwing
Denny Lyons says: ~ don't believe in
this long-listance throwing. Jim Peoples
was one Of the boys with an iron arm. he
..-Al a. naa.ll.aa1xy aIx...x. shn hill a.ttn
Look at him to-day. Harry. Stovcy was
vcry much worried after he made his long
throw In Cincinnati. His arm panied him
for over a week, and he advised every
body else Ia stay out Of such contests in
the future.
Are We To have a ''trust" in cripples?
Are these uncertain t~horoughbreds about
Well, il looks like il from the preliminary
work. Eon, Sir Dixon, Persimmons,
Prince Royal and French Park are all
fiattering their people by the way they are
standing up and taking work. II Sir
Dixon keeps on at his present rate OF
progress, what will beat him at Brooklyn?
Jack Dempsey writes 10 a friend in this
arrives here he will challenge "Tof" Wall
to fight him for $1,000 aside, in this
country, before AN athletic club for a
purse, and that he will personally allow
Wall $3.50 to defray his expenses. IL Is
likely that Dempsey will accept the offer
OF the Puritan club OF : 1880 purse money
to fight the Englishman.
The new Bay City-Saginaw club will APP
peal TO n population that contains lots of
sporting blood. II was Bay City that dis
covered the talents of the renowned John
G. Clarkson. Saginaw was twice cham !
pion of the Northwestern league, and last
year held the State league championship.
Half of the games will be played in one
and half In the other city. Saginaw has
OF the hest grounds in the country, /
while Bay City's will he much improved
this season.
Kansas City had "a little excitement one |
day last week, when the wife of w. B.
Stewart, superintendent of the Kansas |
City ball park, went 10 the park, secured
an axe, entered the superintendent little
and smashed all the furniture in
il so completely that nothing was left that
could he repaired. Mrs. Stewart, who
had separated from her husband, claimed
that the furniture had originally been |
purchased with her money and had been |
turned over by Stewart TO another woman,
his wife, with whom he was living.