Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-05

Brown Stockings Two years ago and does
not relish another dose of the kind.-Sport-
ing Life.
with Cincinnati in 1888 and Columbus last
season, has signed with Sioux City. He IS q
good man, and will add inmeasurably to the
Corn Huskers batting force.
The local management is determined that
a different system of things shall exist at
the grounds the coming season-that they
shall be kept scrupulously clean, and that
tue grand stand shall be swept and busted
daily.
Ezra Sutton wants to get back on the
Milwaukee team, bur it is doubtful whether
Milwaukee can find O place for him. There
Is no mistake about it, but Sutton played
for a record all last season. He seemed to
think that he was way out here in the woolly
west, where the baseball public were jays
and they would never get onto him. But
they fooled the old man here in Omaha and
roundly Kissed him, too, for some OF his
make believe breaks for hard-hit grounders.
1t is quite likely that both Sandy McDer-
mott and Tim Hurst will be found ON the
Western association umpire staff again next
season, as there is going to be abundant
timber for the league, American association
and the players league, il the latter ma
terializes. They are both competent men,
however, and the association might go far.
Their and do a good deal worse. Sandy Me-
Dermott is really a first class man, and the
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his voice. winch is weak and indistinc..
1t has been at last decided by the Omaha
management to play Jack Messitt in right
field next season. and this probably means
the release of Joe Stranss. Messitt Is q
hard-working, conscientious, all-round
player, and If kept regularly at work will
keep company with the best of them. The
difficulty with Scrappy last year was that he
was played so seldom and changed about SO
often, that before he got his hand in the sea,
son was over, One thing can be truly SAID
in jacks favor-he always plays hard for
his side and is very popular with the local
fans, and if kept at work next season good
things may be expected OF him.
President Speas Of the Kansas City club
announces that he has withdrawn the offer
he made to the negotiation OF the
National league for the sale Of certain of the
Cowboy players. In tho future tae league
clubs must go TO Specs II they wish to buy
any of his players, as he declares that they
to see what the outcome d. the brotherhood is
going 10 be, knowing. u that goes under,
they can get all the players they want at
their own figures. President Speas also
says, since he has noticed Omaha, MiDneap-
oils and Sioux City's strong teams. that his
Western association team must be almost II
not fully as strong as IL was IN the American
association, il he hopes to win the %pennant,
and he Is not nearly SO anxious to sell as no
was.
IHc WElbtT IUOho IOT iuit SlcNcluuu W
develop into a great ball player the coming
season. When he made his DEBUT two years
ago, he was looked upon as a coming wonder,
but sickness overlook him and through lack
of practice he refrigerated. HIS play on the
Omaha team the greater portion Of last sum
mer clearly demonstrated That the stuff
that stars are manufactured out of, is still in
him. Some Of his stops of hard hit ground
ers, his picK-ups. clean and faultless, were
of the phenomenal order, while tine way he
lined them across to first, was something
that no player in the country could beat.
Then again, when Elmer has his good eyer
on, his hitting il Of the Tip O'Neil style, as
his great record Of long hits last season we'll
attests. There Ia no denying II, Cleveland is
one Of the very best Of all the young blood
stock In the country.
There are but few ball players wintering
la Omaha, but those who are here take but
little stock IN tina prospective success Of the
brotherhood. Russ McKelvy, an old time
player, and as gentlemhnly and intelligent
q player as ever wore a Uniform, does not
side with the mas Of old veterans. He docs
not consider that the ball player has any
kick coming, and fails to see how a LOT OF
incompetents are going TO make a success
out OF such an extensive undertaking as the
brotherhood evidently is. McKelyey knows
all the old time men, and realizes the difi-
Guilty that viii be experienced in ~effecting