The record-union., 1891-02-26
SHORT STOPS.
Two Men Signed to Do the Catching
for the Sacramentos.
What Manager Harris Thinks CT the
Senators-Sheridan VIII be Ono
of the Umpires.

Interest in baseball circles is increasing
as the day on which the opening game of
the season takes place draws nearer.
McCloskey expects to have his entire
team here by the first week in March,
and the number of left-handed 'sstickers,
in the club will certainly make it con-
spicuous. 1t is thought McCloskey's aim
is to secure just SO many players, who bat
left-handed, that he can arrange the bat
ting order in such form that the right and
left-handcd batters viii alternate, and
thus bother the ordinary pitcher.
McGuirk, of the Spokane Club last
year, has been signed to play first base for
the Sacramentos. Manager McCloskey
endeavored to secure the services of Al.
McCauley, of the Philadelphia Club last
season, but he signed with Omaha.
Charles Hoover, of the Kansas City
team, which is a member of the Ameri-
can Association, will do bacl1stop work
for the Senators. The change catcher
will be Henry Spies, of the International
League. Spies was the catcher OF the
Hamilton, Ont, club last season.
Armstrong has been released from the
Sacramento team, and it is not probable
that McHale will be signed. McCloskey
says he made him an offer, but McHale
refused it, and stated that he could do
better driving a sprinkling-cart.
Manager Harris, of the San Francisco
baseball club, was in this city Tuesday
in consultation with Manager Ginsberg
regarding the schedule of games. An
agreement was effected between the two
and the schedule will be submitted TO the
Board of Directors at the meeting to be
held in San Francisco next Sunday
II tell You the people in the league
towns are going to sec some good base
ball this year." said Mr.. Harris to q
REcoRD-UNI MON reporter. what do /
judging from the make-up of the vari-
Gus clubs, think it will be between
San Francisco and Sacramento. Pm not
boasting, now, but l actually believe I
have the strongest team in the league, and
the next one to mine is the Sacramento
team. You may have the best of the two
time alone will tell.
''What about the others? Well.
neither Oakland nor San Jose are, in my
judgment, as strong as they might be. I
may be wrong, but that is my opinion.
Finn and Robinson are 'shustlers''
though, and if they find that their teams
are tagging they are the kind of man
ayers who will make changes and plenty
of them"
now in this State are: Catchers, SWEET
and Clark; pitcher, Cobb; first-baseman,
Cartwright; second -baseman, Sharp;
short-stop, Hassamer; and outfielders,
Rube Levy and Danny Sweeney. Will
lam Clark and James Sharp arrived from
st. Louis last Sunday night, and William
HaSSamer, with his wife and child has
arrived from Portland.
Manager Harris says that the claim of
the Pacific Northwest League, on Van
Zant, of the San Franciscos, and Peoples
and Hustin, of the Sacramentos, amounts
to nothing. He states that the league
could not force the reserved men to play
at lower salaries than were first offered.
Those who take all interest in the ma
tional game viii be pleased to hear that
Jack Sheridan will be one of the umpires
of the California League during the COM
ing season. He has decided to remain
in this State, and negotiations were at
once opened with him. There are yet a
few details to be arranged, bat it is safe
to say that Sheridan will be one of the
referees.