The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-03
THE ASSOCIATION.
W. l. Harris Tells About Its
Thee New Clubs.
BR0OKLYN.ROCHEsr TER SYRACUSE
Deductions Drawn From Their Makeup as to
How They Are Likely TO Rank
in the Race.

Aiifci-c'in ASSnclaDon-one at Brooklyn, one
r; lsochester and one at Syracuse. When it
Vas FIRST announced that the Association
H"culd he represented in these cities there
was good deal of fun made of their chances
OF getting teans that would make any show
in.-. Many of the jollers seemed to imagine
that not ore of the three cities would have
any license to aspire TO the penuant or even
10 q place in the first division. The jokers
have since then taken to the woods They
underestimate the hustling qualities and the
financial resources Of Messrs. Kennedy, Pow
ers and Frazer, the respective managers for
Brooklyn, Rochester and Syracuse.
Manager Kennedy's Brooklyn team viii be
made up of Reipslager, Herman PITT, Frank
Bo7ves and Jimmy Toy for catchers; Jack
Lynch, Steve Toole, j. f. Powers and several
unframed 'zidsn for pitchers. The inield
consists of Billy O'Brien, first base; Joe Ger
hardt, second base: PITT or Ochs, third base;
Frank Fennelly, short stop and captain. The
outlieiders IRE Daley, Peltz and Simon. With
the exception of Powers and Ochs all Of these
men are known nationally, aud they are
pretty apt to give good account OF them
selves in the field. Their journalistic man
ager, Jim Kennedy, has had experience, not
as a manager OF ball players, but in similar
lines, and is fully equipped with the qualities
that go to make up the successful baseball
manager. The new BROOKLYN club will have
a pretty hard time, because;it viii be placed
between two fires and vet | expect to see
Kennedy and his partners make money, in
spite of the handicaps.
In the first place be has q very good team
and one that will make a fairly good fight.
1t ought not TO do worse than sixth, and may
do better if its pitchers turn out well. Sec.
ondly, it will have a twenty-five cent tariff,
and thirdly, it will have the advantage of
Sunday games At present the Brooklyn
Americans conflict twenty-seven times with
the League and Brotherhood, but Manager
Kennedy is arranging certain changes that
will cut down the number to fifteen. 1t will
be seen that Manager Kennedy's position
with a low tariff is not a bad one. There are
great many people N Brooklyn who will
not give up fifty cents FOR a ball game; soma
of them because they cannot afford, and some
of them because they have been in the habit
of seeing first class ball for quarter and
cannot or will not understand why they
should give any more Kennedy is very apt
TO be a winner if his team plays good average
ball, and doesn't drop down to the tail end at
the very start.
And what has Manager Powers got in the
way of a team at Rochester? Well, one big
argument is the man who doesn't play, P. P.
himself, or, as every one calls him, Pat Pow
ers He is manager whose shrewdnesS and
ability have raised him up from the ranks.
He handles players with skill that produces
great results He has, l think, got better
team than Kennedy, and is pretty sure to
land them in the first division, and possibly
finish as good as third. His three catchers
&C. +nn -laoer rar--0 r
McKeough and D. L. Burke All these are
good men, Mcclure being Al. Robert Barr
J. J. Fitzgerald and ]. Wells will do the
pitching. The latter is an experiment, but
highly recommended. Powers tells me that
he will prove a wonder, which means that
Pat has seen him at work, and that he has
more than ordinary promise.
Bob Barr was with Rochester last year and
was formerly a League pitcher with the
Washington team. Bob and l were boys to
gether in Washington, where we both saw
the light of day. | can recollect that al
school he was a terror on speed pitching, and
he has retained the trait. He will do good
work for Rochester. Fitzgerald is compare
lively unknown nationally, but he mad,
good showing at Wilkesbarre, and Power
thinks him a slayer.
The infield consists of Tom O'Brien, Billy
Greenwood, Jim Knowles and MARI Phillips
1t is good one, and so is the outfeld, wher
Harry Lyons, SANDY" Griffin and Tomm,
Shelter will look after flies and chase lonl
hits All of these men are batters of NOR
ability than the average.
Rochester this year furnishes a magnat
who will be heard from later If all account
are correct. He is Gen. Henry Brinker, pres
ident of the club and the new vice presiden
of the American Association Gen. Brinke
has grit, as his career shows. 4 native O
Mecklenburg, Germany, he emigrated t
America when a mere boy. He did errand
about the docks and finally became attach
of butcher shop. Then he went into tn
produce business and saved his earnings
Soon he bought stall at the Washington
market and began business FOR himself. II
made money, too. He still Owns that sta
and draws an income from it. During tn
war he made fortune as contractor 70
army supplies
He served in the state militia as colonel c
the Fifty fourth regiment and took part i
active service. AT the close of the war b
commanded an artillery company. He wen
TO Rochester and has become one of its nIS
substantial citizens. He is a director in tn
Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg railroad
is interested in several breweries and owns
distillery for making spirits from fruit. II
wealth is estimated at quarter of a million
Self made men are tenacious, and Ger
Brinker may be relied on to stick to baseba
long time and lose good deal of none
before he cries quits.
Syracuse viii have team that is in som
respects an Improvement on any it has ha
for several years The new manager-magnat
there is George K. Frazer, young man wit
sufficient financial backing to carry out h
plans and an abundance of nervous energ
that makes such slow man Won der Al
simply shudder Mr.. Frazer is entirely ne
to baseball. but if hustle and energy will wi
he ought to dc so. He has this team to be-
do it. Grant Briggs and Pat Dealy, catcher
both good men. Briggs made good shoy
ing at Worcester and Dealy ms been n
tionai league catcher who one time W;
classed in A Toby Lyons, j. I. Keefe, Da
Casey, Bud Ramsey and Joe McCabe wi
look after the pitching, and they viii rend'
good account OF themselves. II Casey's arr
is all right he viii be one Of the stars Of IL
Association. Lack OF courage only kille
him as Lacquer. McQnery, h.; Child
2b. Joe Batsin. 3d., and Mclaughlin, S. s
is the iufield, with Fred Ely, w S. Wrigl
and Mike Dorgan in the outfeld.
Taken altogether, New York state is we
REPRESENTED in the Association. This year Il
one OF them can be expected 10 finish bett,
taan fourth or fifth. because il is their fir.
wear. and because Columbus, Louisville ar
the Athletics have well organized clul