Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-06-22

w. I. Harris Writes About the
Western Baseball League.
GOOD PLAYERS AND DIG CROWDS.

Aggregation, ard New Capital win soon
Add strength There-sonir Queer Nick
names-The Fight of the big Leagues.
Ten thousand people attended the two
ball games ut Minneapolis on Decoration
day, 1909 one game at Omaha and 5000
two games at Denver. In all, 1900. Had
il not rained Mt Kansas City the total
would have hoen increased 10 5000, And
these games were played by the Western
association. n minor league, 81 called, but
surely n good one To draw within a couple
Of Thousand rs many people To five games
as the American association did TO seven.
One Of the causes of this good attendance
was the closeness Of the fight for the pen
nant.
The teams appear 10 he about rs evenly
balanced Ms it is possible to have them.
The circuit consists of Denver, Colo; Dies
Moines, Ia: Kansas City, Mo-: Milwaukee,
Wis: Minneapolis, Mimi; Omaha, Neb.;
Sioux City, Ia, and st. Paul, MINI. Here
are eight teams representing five states,
and not one has won less than ten games
or more than twenty at this writing.
BY the way, they have queer nicknames
for the western clubs. The Dies Moinps
team are spoken Of as the Hawkeyes: the
Sioux City. are designated Corn Huskers:
the Minneapolis men ARE dubbed the Mil
lers; the Milwaukees are called the Brew
ers; the It. pauls are rather appropriately
termed the Apostles; they call the Omaha
team the Omahogs, and the Denvers are
styled the SiOuntlinrers. The ouly team
which has no set name is the Kansas Citys.
One bright young writer has styled them
the hot weather players. When they were
in the National l.ague they were called the
Cowboys in the east. From my r~ecollec-
lions of them at that time and the usual
luck of visiting teams 10 Kansas City |
suggest Ia my western brethren, If they
really need a name, 10 designate them as
the petrels, for they have a strong resem-
blance To those stormy hipels. inlsmuch
as rainy weather has always followed in
their wake.
The Minneapolis team has Hyu, Hcngle,
Miller and O'Day for an intiell, with Car
roll, Foster and Minnehan for I'm outiield.
Myers is their best catcher. with Dugdale
10 help him ont. The pitchers are lark
hess. Mitchell. Shreve, Duke aud Hudson.
some Of these men nrp noted In baseball
circles-for instance, George Myers. the
great catcher NJ the :, louis and Indian.
anolis ,eams. Elmer Foster once a Giant
and narb,u. M graa, an out 6ald.r az CIR
nIoyad 4, ~. Ieagne. o,Dov ~ To-, 900.
son,s Jove1s. UsngIe nnca nm nmn;r..
Uudsor las, of lin. Rrn,vns ~ :, Ja,is
and Shrsya If fundamentals and ne, r,i,
Mitchell I tbinL IL the youny man who
had /. brinC trial with the pbiIlios mi.
team il unlar IN. m,n.g.mcnt ~ sa,,
Melton as sbreyyI ami abIa a man ,s,b.
yes, h,s In the minor Ie,yue baseball Lnsi-
nos Tho. who ara strong. On aas,ar,
naonl. are all class.d az GOOD man
Tbare are many GOOD men on tho o,h.r
,eams Among tbosa who's. n,m.. mr..
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