The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-02-16
BASEBALL NOTES.

NEWS comes from Chicago that En-
GROSS, the old-time Providence catcher, is
70 bring to Tacoma a club made up OF the
following. players: Silver Flint, Bill Phil
Ups, Rudolph Kcmmler, Jack Koran,
Spinny Healy, Jimmy Hillery, Fred Jevne,
ueorge Rocks and Tony Suck. Nearly
every one of them back numbers, and
Gross himself has been out of active SER
vice for nearly ten years. The combina-
ton probably intend to play a series of ex-
Manager Dave Rowe, of the Lincoln.
Neb., club, seems to be booming baseball
at great rate in his bailiwick. He has
persuaded the Board of Trade that Lincoln
Will win the championship of the Western
Association, and will then contest for the
worlds championship, and that some of
the games to decide this honor will be
played in Lincoln. In consequence, the
city will be well advertised, and the board
has promised the club its hearty support.
Manager Rowe is not very far wrong in his
ideas. Baseball is great advertiser.
Report has it that John S. Barnes has
signed to manage the Sioux City club, of
western Association. The news can
scarcely be true. Barnes owns a good
share OF the stock of the Spokane Falls
CLUB, and also has other interests that tend
to keep him in the city across the mount
aims. 1t may be, however, that the.pther
stockholders have decided to follow the
example of the other cities of the league
and replace the ex-prizeiighter with a
player-manager.
a social club for ball PLAYERS has been
organized at Tacoma, with President w.
b. Bushnell, Secretary w. 4. Rockwell and
q. 6. Chandler at it's head 1t will be
called the Home Plate Club, I" and every
member OF the Tacoma team will be pre-
sented with a certificate of membership.
There seems to be some doubt as to
which Mclaughlin has been signed by
Tacoma. There are three shortstops Of
that name in the profession Barney" of
Syracuse; Tom. of st. Paul, and Frank, Of
Lowell. Frank IS probably the man.
Jack Reidy, Of last seasons Tacoma
team, Is wet goods solicitor in Buffalo.
and says he is going to stick to that busi-
ness and quit professional baseball. It's
safe to bet Dick will change his tune be-
fore the season opens.
DIR. Harold Ernst. once the famous Har-
ward pitcher, is now professor of bacteriol-
ogy at Harvard college. He recently re-
turned from Germany. having visited that
country to study the efficaciousness of DIR.
koch's consumption cure.
Shortstop kid" Peoples during his ex.
perience in professional baseball. has never
played with any except pennant-winning
teams. His record is: Dallas, 1883:
Houston, 1889; Galveston, 1890; Spokane
Falls, 1880.
Jimmy Wolf, of the Louisvilles, is the
only player who has been continuously
with the American Association since its
inception in lSS2. Wolf has played every
season with Louisville.
While in the East John S. Barnes is
ings for the Spokane Athletic Club, of
which organization he is one of the
originators.
Manager McCloskey, the Sacramentos,
claims to have secured the services of Os-
car France, as well as those Of Huston, Nc
Guirk and Peoples, of the Spokanes.
Routcliffe, Tacoma's new outtielder. is a
fine base-runner. In 1883 he led the Tri-
State League in base-running, and has al.
ways stood high in that respect.
Hon. Wilbur Parker, member of the
Ohio Legislature from Cuyahoga county, is
captain and manager of q crack amateur
baseball club of Cleveland.
Spoke Falls has arranged terms with
Catcher Twineham, of last seasons Den
vers, and Viau. left-handed pitcher.
formerly with the ST. Paul club.
The Columbus, O., club has released
Pitcher Chamberlain for being mixed up
in fake prixehght recently in Buffalo,
NY.
1t Is probable that the PARROT brothers
will be the only players of last years Port
lambs who will be retained this season.
The Ocala. Fla, club, composed mostly
of professionals wintering in that city, is
making short trip through Cuba.
Dick Van Zant, of last years Tacomas,
is reported to have signed to play third
base for the San Francisco team.
Pitcher John GARRISON. Of the Bostons. is
drawing $50 week for coaching the Har-
ward college baseball team.
An Intercollegiate baseball league is to
be formed in Japan, where the game is be-
coming very popular.
Stagg. the ex-Yaie pitcher, is now
director of the physical department of the
University of Chicago.
Arson will not bring the Chicagos to the
Coast this spring. Instead they go 10
Florida early in March.
The Young bucks of the Carlisle Indian
training school have organized baseball
nine for this seasons play.
Catcher Clarke, of the New York team,
is studying this winter AT the Columbia
Law school.
ssUmpire" Fuller, the Tacoma player, is
wiutering at his home in Greenviile, Mich.
Indoor baseball has failed everywhere
except in Chicago.
Baseball has supplanted cricket in public
favor in Australia.
Catcher Billy Earle has signed with
Sioux City.
Patsy Cahill is doing great work in Cali