The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-23
Baseball Notes.


Baseball continues to grow in favor in Aus
tralia.
AL Lawson is playing with semi-professional
team in New Orleans.
Jim Mcdonald still hangs on as an umpire in
the California League.
The Washington Club wants Billy Earle If
Boston will let him go.
scheme to organize q Southern League for
next season is being pushed.
The Western Association holds q meeting at
Minneapolis on November Is
Harry Wright, OF the Philadelphia, has been
baseball manager for twenty-five years
Barney Snyder, OF the Seattles and Spo-
kanes, is wintsring at his home In Rockford, III.
The San Jose papers call First Baseman
Dooley the "Appollo Bslvidere" of the dia-
mond.
1t is said that Frank Ward waa released by
Sacramento on account Of his rowdyish con-
duct.
s'King" Kelly Is doing Great Britain in style
and writing weekly letters to the sporting
papers.
The reports of the dying condition of sold
Silver" Flint at Chicago seem to have been pre-
mature
Big Bill Hassamer, who has captainsd the
| Sacramentos of late, is accused OF having the
| big head.
Although "Beesie" McGuirk has played in
| Sacramento all season he is still ON spokane's
| reserve list
| James Mutrie, who has managed the New
York League club for years, has been relieved of
his position.
The father of Pitcher Mark Baldwin has
| bought out a large share of the stock OF the
| Pittsburg club.
| Billy Earle is in Cincinnati waiting for $3.50
advance money promised him by the Boston
| Association club.
| Harold Mcclure, at one time the catcher of the
Philadelphia Athletics. has recently been
elected a district judge.
| Goodenough, the center fielder of the Sacra-
| mentos, who was laid up for awhile with q
| broken nose, is playing again.
| The Washington club made John NJ. Ward an
| offer OF 1900 to manage and captain the team
! next year. IL was not accepted.
Jake stencil is one OF a picked team OF Gin
| einnati professionals who are making a tour of
| New Orleans and other Southern cities
| The final standing of the clubs In the Cali
fornia League Is as follows: San Jose, .6l2; san
| Francisco, $685. sacramento, .507; Oakland, .299.
Hoffman and Spies, the crack battery of the
| sacramentos, are reported to have signed with
| the Baltimore association team for next season
The San Francisco club will go to Los Angeles
| TO play series of games with a strong picked
| nine of professionals that is to represent that
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| The latest issue of the New York Sporting
| Times contains full length portrait of X.
| Shlmomura, pitcher of the Meiji Gokiun Base
| ball Club, of Toxic, Japan.
Willie LANCE seems to be in his element in the
| outfed He gets complimentary notices in
| every game which he plays for the Morrows, of
| San Francisco, for his fine work in the center
garden.
Billy Joyce, third baseman OF the Boston AS
| ISOLATION team, beat n professional Splinter
| known as Phil Doyle. in a loo-ysrd foot race at
| St. Louis recently. Joyce covered the distance
| in 1854 seconds.
| North aud South League is being talked of
| in the states east of the Mississippi. The pros
| pective circuit is made up of New Orleans No
| bile Montgomery. Chattanooga, Nashville,
| Evansville, Terre Haute and Fort Wayne
Manager Harris, of the San Francisco team,
| took Cobb out of the box in the middle of the
| game alleging that he was doing indifferent
pitching, fned him $50 and suspended him for
the balance of the season. This raised storm
| of protests among the cranks with whom Cobb
was fayorite.
The beautiful silver cup and silken banner
Offered by President ". f. Rockwell OF the Pa
| eide Northwest League, 10 the club winning the
| Coast championship has arrived in san Fran
cisco aud will be placed on exhibition. The
! cup is about twelve inches high. 1t is beauti-
fully chased ana appropriately engraved. sew
cral baseball figures appearing on the front.