The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-13
THE ASSOCIATION.
w. !. Harris Tells About It's
Three New Clubs.
BROOKLYN. ROCHESTER, SYRACUSE
Deductions Drawn from Their Makeup as
to Row They Are Likely to Rank in the
Race-Gen. Brinker, the Budding Mag

at Rochester and one at Syracuse When it
was first announced that the Association
would be represented in these cities, there
was good deal of fun made of their chances
of getting teams that would make any show
ing Many Of the jokers seemed to imagine
that not one OF the three cities would have
any license TO aspire 20 tire-peDuant or even
to a place in the first division. The jokers
have since then taken to the woods They
underestiInated 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 will be
made up of Reipsfager, Herman PITT, Frank
Bowes and Jimmy Toy for catchers; Jack
Lynch, Steve Toole, j. F. Powers and several
unframed ''zids'' for pitchers. The infield
consists of Billy OBrien, first base; Joe Ger
hardt, second base; PITT or Ochs, third base;
Frank Fenuelly, short-Stop and captain. The
outielders are Daley, Peltz and Simon. With
the exception of Powers and Ochs all of these
men are known nationally, and they are
pretty apt TO give q 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 yet | expect to see
Kennedy and his partners make money, in
spite of the handicaps.
In the first place he has q very good team
and one that viii make fairly good fight.
1t ought not to do worse than sixth, and may
do better if its pitchers turn out well. Sec
ondly, it viii 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 70 fifteen 1t will
be seen that Manager Keunedy's position
with a low tariff is not bad one. There are
a great many people IN Brooklyn who will
not give up fifty cents for ball game; some
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.
way of a team at Rochester, Well, one big
argument is the rnan who doesn't play, p. T.
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 a skill that produces
great results He has, | think, got a better
team than Kennedy, and is pretty sure to
land them in the first division. and possibly
q
are Jimmy McGuire, The ex-leagUer; d. J.
McKeough and d. l. Burke. All these are
good men, Mcclure being Al. Robert Barr
]. J. Fitzgerald and j. Wells will do the
pitching. The latter is an experiment, bnt
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 hast 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 d2y. / can recollect that at
school he Was a terror on speed pitching, and
he has retained the trait. He viii do good
work for Rochester. Fitzgerald is compare
lively unknown nationally, but he made
good showing at WiIzesbarTe, and Powers
thinks him n slayer.
The indeld consists Of Tom O'Brien, Billy
Greenwood, Jim Knowles and Mari Phillips,
II is a good one, and SO is the out4Seid, where
Harry Lyons, SANDY Griffin and Tommy
Shelter viii look after flies aud chase long
hits All of these men are hattsrs Of more
ability than the average.
Rochester this year furnishes a magnste
who will he heard from later If all accounts
are correct He is Gen. Henry Brinker, pres
idens Of the club and the new vice president
Of the American Association Gen. Brinker
has grit, as his career shows A native Of
Mecklenburg, Germany, be erigratcd TO
America when nero boy. He did errands
about the docks and finally became an stezche
of a butoher shop. Then he went into the
prod1lcs business and saved his earnings
Soon he bought stan at the Washington
market and began BUSHES for himself. He
made money, 100. He stiH owns that stall
and drGus an income from it. During tho
war he made fortune as contractor for
army supplies
He served in the state miktie as colonel Of
the Fifty fourth regiment and took part in
active szrvice. At toe close q the var be
commanded an artillery company. be went
TO Rochester and has bScoZre one Of ITS most
substantial citizens He Is director IN the
Rome. Watertoun ana oz3eRsburg railroad !;
Is interested IN several breEeT1es and owns q
distIIary for making spirits from fruit. dis
wealth is estimated az a quarter Of a million
Self made men are TENACIOUS and Gen.
Brinker may ba rehed On to Ssick to baseball
G long time ard Ioss good deal q money
before be cries quits
SvraclSs VIII have team tkas Is n some
respects an Improvement en- szy Il has had
for several ve2rx- The neE UzoEZsr-snaZnate
there IS George K Frszsr, young nan with
sufTicisnt financial backing 70 cATry out RS
plans and az Abundance Of De-voGrs energy
that makes such slow man "a Won DIR Abe
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