St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-28
Scraps of Sport.

CThomas Foley, of the Jackson street bill
lard rooms will soon announce a medal for
an amateur championship contest. The
proposition Is to extend the tournament to
Minneapolis, each player in the tourney to
play in both cities during the series. shortly
after, he will give a bowling tournament.
He has six alleys all recently overhauled and
leveled until they are as nearly perfect as it
is possible to place them.
Sharott, the clever New York pitcher who
broke his arm early in the season, says he is
all right now and will be able to pitch as
well as ever next year. He has been playing
an outfield position for one 0I Staten Island S
amateur clubs lately, but has sinsibly re-
Trained from box work.
Perry Werden's Door work in Baltimore of
late is attributed by many to the bleachers,
who made mark of him. He lost his head
entirely ever after the crowd began cheering
him about having once been the driver of a
st. Louis beer wagon.
Fred Pfeffer is now the only Chicago
player who has taken part in every game
played this season by his club. Before An
son missed that game in Brooklyn by over
sleeping he shared the honors with Pfeffer
in this particular.
Time was when the Sullivan family was
most numerous in base ball. To-day the
O'Brien family throws ali others into the
shade, there being more than half dozen
players of that name engaged with first-class
clubs.
Germon, the popular little Maryland
pitcher, won twenty-six of the thirty-three
games he pitched for Buffalo this year. This
league, except Hutchinson, of Chicago.
Mccarthy and SWEETS both deny having
signed with the Boston league team for next
season. They have though, just the same,
says Tim Murnane. Perhaps Cleveland will
have something to say about Stivetts.
This has been the unluckiest season the
Cleveland club ever experienced as regards
weather. All of its holiday dates at home
and abroad were either affected or totally
ruined by bad weather.
Mr.. Radford, father of the brilliant sho 1T
stop of the Boston Reds, says that Boston
should have base ball every day for FIVE
months in the summer, but all should play
for % cents admission.
George Miller is now satisfied that catching
is his forte, and he will never again monkey
with any other position. He also says that
he and Calvin will be the star battery of the
league next season.
Jack Crooks may not be indisputably the
best second baseman of the Association, but
he undoubtedly is the king-pin OF the Colum.
bus club.-Sporting Life.
Joe Werrick is home from Denver He is
loud in his praises of Denver as ball town
| and says the Denver club was a great one
| when the season closed.
In case no national agreement is reached
| the Chicagos and Boston Reds have been in
| vited to play the worlds championship series
| in Frisco this winter.
The majority of the New York player:
| think very highly of young Clarkson. anC
say he is one of the most promising pitchers
| they have ever seen.
Buffalo had not won pennant since 1877
| until this year. Billie Barnie captured the
| flag when Buffalo was member of the In.
| ternational league.
NJ A. Smith, Y. M. G. A. runner. and S
| E. Gross, local runner, will run mile race
| at Kittsondale Monday att p. M for yalua
| BILE gold medal.
Rain prevented yesterdays Pickett-Wil
| mot game.
viau has of late been Cleveiand's only win
| ming pitcher.
Foutz retains considerable of his pitching
| skill