Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-12

A'N .hAAs
Schoeneck, the eighty-one tonner. What the
classic burg has signed him for fails TO ap.
pear, but 1t is probable that he will be used
in the foundation of their now city hall.
Charlie Reilly made thirty homo runs IN
the western association last season, and he's
quite liable to knock out as many more in
the American next season. There is no limit
to the ability of these occidental ball-tossers
President Mccormick says now he don't
know whether he will sign either Jack
Messttt or Joe Strauss for next season. as
he hopes to get better men than either OF
them. If he does take them, however, IL
will be at his price and not theirs.
And now Des Moiues has gone and signed
a pitcher yclept Dan Glare, Trust the Pro
hibitionists in the corralling of pbenoms.
They garner a NOW full of them every win
ter, but somehow or other they all ooze be-
fore the season opens.
The Boston club wants Jack Crooks, and
wants him bad. Selee wired Columbus to
name her pile, and Columbus wired back
that Silver Tongue wasn't for sale at any
price, And think of It'll Selee once wanted
TO sell Crooks TO Canton, o., for S40O.
Director Harry Mccormick left for Frisco
Thursday, ana he took along with him u
contract which he expects Knell to sign,
However, il he fails to get the young mans
autograph, it will be no great loss probably,
for they Just knocked the tar out OF him
out on the Pacific this winter.
The Cowboys rave signed Slater, the
Amherst college shortstop. He is said to be
n conner and 1t Is to be hoped 80, for Omaha
intends to knock about a ton OF conceit out
oil the Missourians when they collide next
spring, and they'll need all the ''comers',
they can secure in the meantime.
Milwaukee is trying to secure Ebright,
with the Washington league team during the
latter part OF last season. 1t might not be
improper to state that Milwaukee is also en-
deavorinR TO secure about every other player
laying around loose. They have again put q
collar on poor old Tommy Poorman.
One of Jack Chapman's first breaks as
manager of the Louis villes was to release
Dan shannon, who was by long odds the
best of the poor aggregation that repre-
sent2d Louisville in the American associa-
ton last season. Wonder IL there was a
little combine in the "Colouel's' ranks that
brought about his Dismissal Lit vile
Courier Journal,
Fatty Briody, one of the Western associa-
TONS last years umpires, wants to break
INTO the playing ranks again. But Fatty's
day is evidently passed. 1t was all he could
do while umpiring here last year to toss a ball
from his position behind the bat to the pitch
er's box, ana yet one time he was one of the
swittest anu most accurate thrower in the
profession.
Poor old forsaken ST. Joe-thc home of the
Aztec-is making a last despairing effort,
with Charlie Lord as the chief spirit, to or
ganize a little league for u cent. Just now
she is exercising her Establishments upon
Lincoln, Topeka, Leavenworth, Hastings,
Hutchinson, Sedalia, Wichita and other
frontier military posts. Oh, Lordl
The milwaukee, Sentinel says that mana
ger Cushman has signed Peter Flanagan,
Sioux City's crack last seasons BIRDS nest,
or pitcher. 1t also says that Flanagan struck
out two hundred batters last season with
seven errors. Now if Peter can strike out
two hundred batters with seven errors. in
the name of high heaven how many batters
could he strike out with two hunured orrorsi
Peter you are certainly an old hollyhock!
Manager Selee of the Beaneaters has
called II halt on the signing of raw material.
He says the club must now put its super
1uous shekels in seasoned timber. Just be
patient, Frank, a little while longer, and YOU
can have the pick of all Boston's old men
IN TACT 1t wouldn't surprise THE BEE much to
see the hundredth of a million beauty, the
only kell, back at his old post by the time
the roses bloom again.
Won't Jack Lynch of Boston, Con Daily
OF New York and the balance of the gam
blers who work baseball as q specially in the
summer be in high feather the coming sea.
son If the brotherhood proves a 90! Com
binatlon pool players will have to keep a
snarp eye on all brotherhood ordinations
because they will be frequent, startling and
wonderfully made up. With the PLAYERS
boss of themselves look out for a return of
the crooked days OF the seventies.
Tom Mansell, he of the inhammatory curls.
gives out the frozen fact that he will be
ecu tiHs upUH tuc jail Uclu again next
spring. Can 1t be that he has signed with the
Buffalo brotherhood aggregation of posterior
numbers. For the past year or so Mansell
has been fondling the salary of a gripman on
kansas Cit5 cable car, and 1t may be that
ms car Will be signed with him. Some of
the Bison players could get over more
ground in that way than in any other.
Cleveland is rejoicing over its capture OF
Peek-a-boo Veach, an old time Western
Lacquer, to play first for them next season.
Ihn Gnu h 10 IN ~rAnS I,NN4. -I -.
IS a fact, but [ know of nothing he can hit
as often and with as much eclat AS he can a
big, fultrigged, foaming schooner. Let EN-
come his way and he'll blow EN- off so fast
Peek has reformed; they all do it at this
stage OF the game. Anyway, here's to Cleve-
lands luck with him. With the writer. 1t IS
anything to beat the brotherhood.
The New York Sporting Times-en PEASANT
the newslest!, most interesting and the most
ably edited baseball journal in the country
says that The Omaha team for next season
will make the res t of the Western associa-
ton teams hustle for dear life. Speak
ing of the Times, have you observed
the tropical manner In which il is handling
the brotherhood wreckers. That man Cayler
Is a cuckoo, The writer knew him back
in his Cincinnati days and always considered
MIN the best baseball authority in the
country, as well as the games most brilliant
historian. He Yields a pen that is even
mightier than Mouthy Wards famous guar
antee fund.
John Hardin writes to the baseball editor
OF The BEE that on the slope no stock is
taken in the brotherhood, aud that they are
betting even that never a ball is pitched I'M
der the wrecker's auspices. He saws further
that the old league players out there who
have signed with this outfit are as leary as
owls, and follow each other around like 80
many poodle dogs, as if each was apprehen-
sive that the other would desert first. He
says likewise that 1t is a well known fact
that many of them are praying that
the league will win its injunction suit
against Johnny Ward. in order that they
may have an excuse for jumping back into
the bondage of the old National league, It's
funny when you come to think about it, how
these ducks are stuck on slavery.
President Mccormick informs The BEE
that travelling men and others who saw
Catcher Moran play last season say that
Omaha has u treasure in the big fellow, and
that they look for him 10 develop into q
Bennett, a Bushong or q Ewing. McCor-
mick also intimated that a certain young
gentleman who has signed for next season
must change his mode of living or he'll
wake up some morning to find himself fired
incoaulnently. Mccormick says he'll sup
port 10 lushers or bummers # he never wins
q game, all Of which is very commendable in
Mccormick.
Sandy G. Y, Griswold Of TnE BEE is rep