The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-03-27
MANAGER ROCKWELL
he Is Here to Take the Seattle
Baseball Team.
ms PROFESSIONAL CAREER.
Ter Ten Tears He Has Bsen N Active
Player Grounds % Bs Pre-
pared ss Once.

Mr.. W. E. Rockwell. 10 whom the man.
seement Of the Seattle baseball club VA
rendered, arrived in The city late Tuesday
night from Omaha, Neh, and Is now quar-
tered ct the Snoqualmie hotei He was
seen yesterday by . Posr-IxrKLLrGENcEs
reporter. but was not disposed 70 say much
Of anything:
II am not prepared to say anything as
yet. he explained II have not met any
of the gentlemen interested in the league
except w. r Thornelf and w. A. Hardy.
and have consequently come TO no under
standing with them. OF the makeup OF
the team can say nothing as yet. but
when reach an understanding
with the directors l will open
correspondence with several young
/ Western league players whom / have in
mind, and you shall have their names at
the proper time. The salary limit fixed by
the directors OF the Seattle team is satisfAc-
tory for the first year. and am sure .
good club can Be secured for it. think
the prospects for lively season are good !"
Mr.. Rockwell will meet the directors OF
the Seattle Baseball Club today, when al
matters pertaining to his connection with
the team viii be settled.
and is every inch ball player. He was on
played first base and change pitcher. In
81 and 80 he played with the Colorado
state champions. and in IS. "a, 50 and So
was with the Omaha team, and was star
pitcher good part of the time. In 1857,
1855 and 1850 he was . scorer and umpire
in the Western league and did not play
regularly. He has had an intimate &C
quaintance with professional baseball play
ers all his life, and knows the game and its
points thoroughly. He Is man Of splen-
did physique, and genial fellow. withaL
He is . good man to handle players, and
Seattle is fortunate in securing him.
The capital stock OF $4,000 Of the Seattle
Baseball club, incorporated Monday last.
has ali been subscribed and the work Of
fixing up the grounds will undoubtedly
begin. The site chose for the baseball park
is on the north side Of Madison street, one
half mile this side Of Lake Washington 1t
is . superb site for . baseball
grounds. 1t is A. level rs floor and not
tree would have to be chopped down or
root pulled up to render it tenable. The
grounds will be fenced in shortly and work
on the grand stand and bleachers begun.
The stand and bleaching board viii seat
5000 people.
Architects Saunders and Steinmann are
both engaged in preparing plans for the
grand stand. In design il will be similar
to all stands of the kind. In it will be pri-
vate boxes for ladies. while on the ground
floor will be the scorers stand and
press stand. It has not yet been
decided which way the diamond viii be
laid of, but viii be shortly. The grounds
will be ready by the first week in May.
The officers Of the Northwestern League
meet ct Tacoma . week from Saturday.
when = schedule for the season will be
adopted and the organization of the league
finally perfected.
Robert Daniels, . colored employe Of the
Rainier hotel, was arrested by Of6cer Cave
Ia ufuhk Tor ~nal>A ~r~>~~r.