The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-01-11
BASE BALL.

After this week the various clubs will COM
mence thc process of signing players.
1t is still hoped President Young will appoint
Charley Snyder, of this city, one Of the official
League umpires.
Let it be distinctly understood the club
in Washington next season is the National Base
Ball Club, not Washington.
The League holds all the old Washington
Buffalo players under the National Agreement.
Will they give many of them to the National
Club, of this city?
TOLEDO, OHIO, Jan. 1O-That Toledo intends
to remain in the American Association, and not
to be euchred out of her franchise, is SHOWN by
the fact that Hon. Frank III. Hurd has been re-
tanned by President Ketcham to represent the
club at the New York meeting next week.
Whistler seems to have pull with the New
York reporters, some of whom are trying to
force him on the New York team.-Philddelphid
Item. What rot this is. Whistler is as good as
any Of the old Leaguers. He is young, ambi-
tious, and coming, while the old fellows are
getting played out.
Walter Wimot is trying to get his release
from Capt. Anson's Chicago team, as he has
been offered the management of the st. Paul
Club, OF the Western League, with Duffy aud
Ryan to make up his outfeld. Capt Anson
will most likely allow the ambitious player to
GO Philadelphia Item. 1t is dollars to cents
Old Anse will keep Wilmot in preference to
some of the old hulks.
President Thurman, a worthy scion of the
"Old Roman,' was in the city on Thursday
last in the interest of the American Association.
He says the Washingtons will take Rochester's
place in the ranks, and that the circuit will
consist of clubs in Boston, Washington, Balti-
more, Brooklyn, Columbus, Chicago, st. Louis,
and Louisville. This is about as strong a list
of cities as can be fixed up in the country.
The present week will be crowded with impor-
tant events relating to base ball, among them
perhaps the most noteworthy meeting held since
c.fo lnlI lI,N1r
this country, Both the League and American
Association meet in annual conclave in New
York to fix up their states for the year. There
is something else at stake of vital Importance
to Washington. The American Association,
through its president, MIR. Allen w. Thurman,
has notified the Toledo Club to be present at the
Fifth-aVenue Hotel on the 18th instant to show
cause why that club should not be dropped from
membership in said Association, and when it is
dropped, as it surely will be, then Washington
and st. Louis will be formally admitted into the
ranks. The Toledo people have kicked against
their expulsion, have refused all money offers,
and it remains to be seen what the club will do
il ignominiously fired. This it will be seen, is
important business, too, but even more so will
be the settling of the affairs of the old Players
League, for not only has each of the defunct
cities got to be pacified but the allotment of
the one hundred players will be job not so
easily accomplished. Altogether it will be
lively week for baseball enthusiasts. No mat
ter how it goes, it will be for the benefit of
Washington.
Portrait OF the Late Joseph KeyWorth
The Mount Vernon Baseball Club, through
a committee consisting of Messrs. Behrens,
McCloskey, and Blank, yesterday waited on Mr..
and Mrs. John Keyworth and presented them
with magnificent crayon portrait of their son,
the late Joseph KeYworth, who was for a time
the star pitcher of that organization. The gift
was appropriately received by the parents of
the deceased and the donors were asked to con-
yey their expression of thanks TO the club.
Congressional Annex.
Senator Vest, from the Committee on Public
Buildings and Grounds, reported for passage a
bill providing for the purchase of the Maltby
House, at the corner Of CaDitOl Park and New