Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-20

tut blblufi uffft - vi hllilpi Ati-ut NtaI ,
the brotherhood has secured . and the
League 81 OF new men the Brotherhood
has 4 and tae League 3 Here is the sum
mary:
1870 Brotherhood. League.
League men s...s.s..s....,.. -
American association. -.....,.-.. 81 81
Minor leaglr men. .............. rs
New and Unknown mea.... ...., I 30
lotn DO. ...t4.,... l3
OF cuUrse, these figures may vary. but are
substantially correct. Both leagues will sign
more men, but they will he mostly minors
ana youngsters. Tire Brotherhood will re-
quire about rs men for eight clubs aud the
League will need about 100 for ten clubs. The
latter will no doubt sign an unusual number
of untriel men and endeavor to develop some
extra players.
Now, on the face OF things, it really doesn't
look as II the claims of MeSsrs. Ward. keefe,
Pfeffer, Ewing, Brouthers and Hanluu that
the Brotherhood have all the great and best
players, and must therefore draw the public
and dumpthe League, We're true. Aud when
you look into the matter carefully YOU find
that while the Brotherhood has the adyan.
tage it is not an advantage that win wipe out
the League in any such short order as the
PLAYERS claim. Indeed, | 10 not think that
they believe 50 II they told their real senti-
ments.
1t cannot lac denied that all the League
playersof lss9 were not stars. In the Brother
hood list Of sew, ntyeight we find these
names: Seery, McGeachy, Willard Brown,
Hatfield, HallmaI, Wood, Farrar, Bastian,
Dwyer, Darling, lint, Teusr. Norris, Maui,
Fields, lialdock Beecher, Clark, J. Irwin,
George Keefe, Gus Krock, Tom Brown,
Daley, Joe Gu an, Nike Madden, Arthur
Irwinv Gruber McAleer. Sutcliifs Snyder
and Tebeau, 'lese thirty one men are only
average ball ayers. Not one OF them is a
star player t day, and only five of them,
Charley SnyCtr, Gus Krock, Arthur Irwin,
Frank Flint and George Wood. ever were
star ball players in the sense the word is gem
orally used, and while they are all good men,
the entire 1T could have been dropped out Of
the League this year aud their places filled
with other men in minor leagues without dis
turbing 10 any very appreciable extent the
quality Of League ball playing.
The places of these men have been filed by
men who are none the less good ball players
because most Of them are not well known TO
League patrons Kittredge, Magic, Hardie,
~ShellhaSse, Berger and Ivory, new men Of
the League, will make good the six catchers
n the thirty-one non-stars II % the Broth
e-hood. The places of the nine pitchers are
filed by Burkett, Eiteljorg, Inks, Nichols,
Nieckery, Parsons, Schmidt, Coughliu and
Grey. The eight infielders are surely equal
lied by Cooney, Earl, Long, McGarr, Veach,
Smalley, Stockwell and Weckbecker. The
eight fiellers will not be missed except by
their particular personal friends when the
playing ability of ]. II. Murphy, Dooley.
Lowe, Probe, Donovan, Burke, Davis and
Miller has been sized up.
/ DO not contend that the 81 new men |
have namel are superior 10 the 81 tried play
ers that ! have set against them. But | do
cngtend that the difference between the two
lists is not u very material one, and that
when comparisons are made the public will
find that one set will give them quite as good
ball rs the other.
Now, then, a. against the 81 real star play
ers, the League has the men who have de.
cided 10 remain with them and four old
timers who nave returned from retirement,
uullNSi lAA - lleIt ~ lht ANb ISIS.
~cArcHERs.
National League-Murphy. Camel, Decker,
thinner, Buckley, DAILY, Lauer, Clements. Schri.
yer, Miller, Slmers,
Players Lelrus-Daily, Farrell, visner. Kelly,
Mack. Ewing, Carroll, Quinn, Bennett
PITCHERS.
National League-welch. Garrison, Gleason,
Beatin, Boyle, Rusie, Hutchinson, Anderson. Day,
Sow ders. Fee, Grtzcin, Conway.
Players L~eague-Keefe, o'Day, Sanders, Gal
win. Radbourne, O'Brien. Crane, Bufinton. Staley,
Person, Bakely. Gumbert
National L~eague-Farrell, Arson. Smith, My.
ers. Mexican, Basse;t, Glasscock, Crane, Burns,
Mulyey. Delrhauty. Beckley, Denny, Hines.
Players Ielgue-whitney, Richardson, Hat
field, Williamson, Kuehne, Rowe, Wise, Faatz,
Conner, Ward, dunlap, Pfefer, Carney, White,
Brouthers, Stricken.
oCTFELDERs.
National L~eague-Tierpan, Thompson, Sunday,
WilmOt Glks, George.
Players L-aguc-Audrews, Slattery, Fogarty,
Duffy, Hanlou, Richardson. Twitchell. O'Rourke,
Gore, Ryan, Van ~llaltren, johnson, Hoy.
1t will he seen that the brotherhood has
not a very decided superiority over the
League. although they have forty-seven stars
against r~Hirrysix, for while | include them
as a partial Offset, Messrs. Decker, Lauer,
Somers, Gleason, Anderson, Day, Sowders,
Fee, Farrell and Crane are not really star
player. although they arc high grade men
like toe tlirty-Jne previously named. The
League has "A tribe the best Of il Ia Associa-
ton player, in numbers, and as they are
mostly in two complete teams, in this respect
IL is u stand OF.
Taken collectively an unprejudiced judge
Of playing strength would, | think, admit
that the League ave pretty near ms good
men as the brotherhood and that the coming
fight will not be a bed Of roses for either side.
That the League viii get some stars out Of its
three dozen new men for use In 1891 is Ger
tain, and that these new men will, many OF
THIN, count in 1880 is equally sure. II is
true that the League teams are disorganized
TO the extent Of being new TO each others
style Of play, but IL IL also true that the
changes made In at least half the clubs put
The Brotherhood teams on about the sams
basis. w. /. HARRIsL