Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-02-08
LEAGUE PLAYERS.
Where Favorites Will BE Found
This Season.
AGGREGATIONs OF GREAT TALENT

and brooklyn VIII Have All Stars.
Cleveland. Pittsburg and Cincinnati
Need TO Hustle.
II is pretty early TO locate the players OF
tie National league, but 1t is possible to
give a good idea where the great public IA
vorites will &c found his season. The
most talked about nan Of all, John NJ.
Ward, has made his decision, and his
choice is Brooklyn, where be will be man
ager and captain Of a magnificent team OF
players, and will make a game fight for
the pennant. He will have under his con
troll a set Of men who are capable Of doing
wonders, and they are likely TO be called
Wards Wonders, as was the Brotherhood
team he so ably handles last season.
Ward goes TO Brooklyn Of his own free
will. and his release from the New York
club cost Mr.. Byrne absolutely nothing
but thank you. Verify Byrne Is a lucky
man. even IL he did not secure a position
on the National board.
He got into the League for nothing. and
now he gets the most popular player
in the country without putting out a
cent; and il should be remembered hat
one club two years z WAS willing 70 pay
$4,000 in cash for Wards release, and the
Boston club would have to put mp the
same amount or more had Mr.. Day been
willing at that time 70 let Ward 20 20
Boston. But be was not, and hence lost
a snug sum Of money. BY retaining Ward
he won the championship. a feat consid-
cred worth more than the money value
which might have been realized by the re
lease. Those mischief makers who have
been trying 20 show that the League
would make an example Of Ward must
feel a little sick as they contemplate the
dish Of crow that Is now served up 70
them. Wards team will be q RATHER.
Here il is.
Pitchers, Terry, Lovett, Caruthers and
Hemming: catchers. DAILY. Kinslow and
one other not yet known: first base, Dave
Foutz: second base, Collins. third base,
Pinkney: shortstOp. Ward; felders, Burns,
O'Brien and Van Haltren; extras, Smith
and McGeachy.
There is some talk that Collins will go
into the field, Ward play second base and
Smith shortstop. lido not think. however,
that this will he done. II any change Il
made in the infeld Smith may go to second,
but even that would weaken the team, and
Ward is too shrewd a manager TO make
such a disposition Of the men. unless IL l.
necessary 70 preserve harmony In the team.
The New York team will be under Will
lam Ewing as captain and Jim Mutrie a.
and IL viii be individually thu
strongest aggregation Of stars ever gath.
cred in any one team On paper IL will be
named the pennant winner by twothirdi
Of the baseball franks Of America Bat
there IL many q slip beswixt cup and lip,
and perhaps, like he famous AL StAn OF
Chicago, they may 20 70 ptecs through
lack Of harmony. Ward predicts thai they
vii, bot Ward has been mistaken bsfons
and may be again. shall not risk q pre-
diction until the teams are all completed
The Giants Of 1891 follow:
Pitcher Eeefe. WEIGH, Rusie and ShAr
rufE catchers, Ewing. Buckley, Clarke,
and possibly Willard Brown; hnst hase
Conner. second bAse. Richardson: third
hass, Denny; shortstop GlAsseock: field.
en-, SlAttery, Tiernan. ORouke; extras,
either Whistler or Bassett and either Corr
or Hornung. Jim Mutrie tells me thai
there u not another team like the GiAnu
In the world, and they will be wprld
beatsrs nom the start. Ny readers must
remember that Jim Is the most enthudSS
tic man in the country.
There never was a season that Arson did
not claim the pennant i've or three months
before the games began, and what Is mort
he is always ready 70 back his opinion
: IL will not astonish the admirers Of tbs
"old man" in particular and Of the gam
in general 70 hear hat be has announced
in bold tones that the championship is al
ready his. Arson will certainly nave q
strong team to fight for II. II will consist
of:
Pitchers, Hutchinson, Stein, Luby and
one other, probably Dwyer or Gumbert
catcbers, Farrell, Kittredge and Maggie
first base. Arson; second base, Pfeffer
third base. Burns; shortstop. COoney.
ielders. Ryan. Duffy, Carroll and vii
mot; extras, GlenAlvin, Williamson and
Earle.
This Is a great team, and with Captain
Arson at the helm Is likely by team work
and discipline 70 do almost anything In ths
way of baseball effort. II Arson succeeds
in getting Kelly, and there is some chAncg
Of his doing 30, he will be ard to down.
Frank Seeley, over in Boston, will tel
you hat there isn't really anybody in II
with his team, and the Tnumvirs will in
form you that IL money will get a cham.
pion team together they will get it. Ger
tainly they are liberal enough, but they
will have 70 do some hustling 70 win THU
year. The men they will probably star
in with are as follows:
Pitchers, Clarkson, Nichols, Getzein, AMI
possibly Daley. They can have Radboun
but are uncertain whether or not they
want him. As IL stands now they arr
averse to him, but II they expect 70 be in 4
they would do well 20 take Radbourn, un
less he wants the earth As a salary. he Il
worth half a dozen Daleys. Catchers
Bennett, Camel and Kelly; first base
Tucker; second base, Quinn, or Pfeffer
IL the deal with Chicago for Kelly goes
third base, Nash; shortstop, Long; ielders
Richardson, Brodie. Sullivan and Lowe.
The Boston club viii need Kelly for hi
y popularity, and as they have no expert
enced captain they may want him for thaI
position. Bostonians who ART roofing
for the pennant are hot to have Kelly, bui
there Il something Of an under current
against him, and the Triumvirs do no
really know what TO do in the matter.
The Philadelphia club will make tn,
4 greatest effort Of It's career this year, bui
b improvement OF the other teams tfl