The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-21
THE ORR SEASON.
What Ball Players Do Be.
tween Summers.
FADs AND HOBBIES TO KILL TINE

Many Fish, More Hunt and Few Take
other Work to Do-A Pair of Clerks
Experts.
There are five months out Of the dozen
In the calendar year that ball player has
on his hands. With the coming of autumn
many of the heroes of the diamond disap-
pear from public sight to bob up at in
teryals until reporting day arrives in the
spring. A fair percentage enter into other
pursuits, but the great majority enjoy
their liberty either by protracted rest or
by the nursing of varied hobbies, for the
affections of ball player are not wholly
given to the national game 1t is recrea-
tion to turn, after a seasons hard cam
paigning, to something else. Nearly every
man in the bt iness has more than one
string to his bow.
The disciples of Izaak Walton and Nim-
rod are numerous. To them the opening
of the fishing and hunting seasons are
events second only in Importance to the
ApIll VI AoCCo.
There are some very clever shots among
the ball tossers. Captain A. G. Anson is
one of the best, and he was considered
''crack" enough to be installed as one of a
Chicago team in a match with Kansas
City sharpshooters. The captain is a YER
satile citizen, for he is about as good a man
with the cue and ivory balls as he is with
the rifle. There was some talk of sweep
stakes target match this fall between Will
liam P. Rhines, Henri Gastright, late of
the Columbus club, and Captain Anson.
but it is likely to end in talk, just as has
the projected straight away foot race be
tween Arlie Latham, Billy Hamilton and
J. E. McAleer.
Three of the Cincinnati Reds shouldered
their guns the day that the quail and rab-
bit season opened in Kentucky and started
out after small game. They were Rhines,
Jerry Harrington and "Bid" McPhee
While Association agents were keeping the
wires hot after this trio they were tramp
ing over the dark and bloody ground"
plucking quail. They are in no hurry to
sign and are not backward about saying
So In the cold days" McPhee, Hickory"
Carpenter and Charley Jones were com
panions on many a winters jaunt with
guns and dogs through Indiana, Illinois
and Iowa.
Old Man Anson has planned hunting
trip to Mexico this fall, and Willie Mains
and Arthur Whitney are going the other
way and will penetrate the Maine forests
toward the Canada border after big game.
There are logging camps all through the
Pine Tree State, and in the past these have
been welcome spots in the tours of Mil
waukee's lanky pitcher. Mark Baldwin,
of Pittsburg, has bear hunting bee in his
bonnet, and wants Rhines to join him in a
jaunt to the Rocky mountains. Old Cy
Duryea is player who loves to fish as well
as he does to eat, and since st. Louis bid
him farewell he has been dropping his line
into the waters of Spirit lake, out in Iowa.
There are very few players content to
fall into clerical work during the winter,
but exceptions are provided by Ad Gum
bert, who his desk in the prothonotarys
Office at Pittsburg, and Will Hutchinson,
who goes on the pay roll of the Rock Island
and Pacific railroad at Cedar Rapids. 1t
is said that for this service Anson's great
est pitcher draws sixty-five dollars month
and finds himself. Imagine man playing
ball for a figure like thatl Why, the Tri-
State and Indiana leagues did as well.
Ned Andrews, who has retired with the
intention of migrating to Florida, has been
a great pigeon fancier. Gus Weyhing, of
the Athletics twirling staff, is also partial
to the feathered beauties, and he has
loft at his home in 'the highlands" back
of Louisville. Jack SDeed, late of the
Columbus club, dotes on dogs, and mis-
kennel is one of the best in this country.
He will attend the field trials at Bicknell,
Ind, and expects on that occasion to make
his bow as a correspondent. John Mont
gomery Ward is one of the few baseball
authors who really wrote the books which
bear their name. The Brooklyn chieftain
is bright and brainy, and during the IA
nous trip around tie world he contributed
some readable letters to the American
press. He is an attorney, but, like Orator
James O'Rourke, has never utilized his
acquaintance with Blackstone to notable
advantage.
John G.. Reilly, the tall first baseman of
the Cincinnatis, ia an artist. He possesses
genius of an original kind and on trips be
invariably carries sketch book, which he
fills with outlines TO be blended into land
scapes at his leisure. He has also dipped
into etching on copper and his winter days
are generally given to artistic drawings for
photographic concern. Reilly and Car
penter are among the few ball players who
are Masons. There are many of them
wearing aptlers in the councils of the Elks
and others have affiliated with the knights
of Pythias.
Over in st. Louis there is a colony par
tial to handball. The captain of the
Clevelands-Patsy Bolivar Tebeau-thinks
it the finest training school known for
ball players, and be claims that several
OF his famous Tebeauesque stops at third
are made possible by the practice he gains
at handball. Nearly every ball player in
the Mound City plays that game, and
there is court in the clubhouse at Sports
mans park. Billy Earle, who will 90 to
the Boston Association club next spring,
is mesmerist, and a good one. | hive
seen him 'at work" His performances
were as clever as any ever witnessed on
the stage, and have seen the Kennedys,
Carpenter and other mysterious devotees
of hypnotism.
There Is no better polo player in all New
England than Jimmie Cansvan- In Gin
cinnati Jim keenan,, Left" Mari, wild
Bill' Widner, Jack Boyle. Jack Stengel
and Billy klaseman are eli football enthu-
siasts and they are members Of team that
plays under association rules at League
park This IS their second season and they
have boldly challenged all Ohio teams.
Nearly all bali players love billiards, and
there are really enough good ones scat
tered around TO make an interesting tour
nament for 'shortStops." Chicago is the
home Of the protector OF indoor ball.
George W. Hancock. of Club Life, who
was an aTnareur edifnr back in the daEs