, 1891-11-08

There are five months out of the do
in the calendar year that a ball player IA
on his hands. With the coming Of autum..
many Of the heroes Of the diamond dislp
pear from public sight to bob up" at in
tervals until reporting day arrives in the
spring. A fair percentage enter into other
pursuits, but the great majority enjoy
their liberty either by a protracted rest or
by the nursing OF varied hobbies, for the
affections of a ball player are not wholly
given to the national game. 1t is recrea-
ton to turn, after a seasons hard cam
paigning, to something else. Nearly every
man in the business has more than one
string to his bow.
The disciples of Izaak Walton and MIN
rod are numerous. To them the opening
Of the fishing and hunting seasons are
events second only in Importance to the
April inaugurals OF championship races.
There are some very clever shots among
the ball tossers. Captain A. c. Arson 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 a sweep
stakes target match this fall between vii
liam p. Rhines, Henri Gastright, late of
the Columbus club. and Captain Arson, |
but 1t is likely to end in talk, Just as has
the projected straight away foot race be-
tween Arlie Latham. Billy Hamilton and
j.. +. 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 4
ing over the dark and bloody ground"
pluckinR quail. They are in no hurry to
sign and are not backward about saying
so. In the ''old 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 Arson has planned a 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
Pint 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 a bear hunting bee in his
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lannt TO the Rocky mountains. Old Cy
Duryea Is a 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 AID Gum
bert, who has a desk In the prothonotary's
Office at Pittsburg, and Will Hutchinson,
who OnPx nn tho N a " roll If tho pAck Ta1aa1
and Pacific railroad at Cedar Rapids. 1t
Is said that for this service Anson's great
est pitcher draws sixty-five dollars n month
and finds himself. Imagine a man playing
ball for n figure like thati 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. rus weighing, of
the Athletics twirling staff, is also partial
to the feathered beauties, and he has a
loft at his home In the highlands" back
of Louisville. Jack Sneed, late of the
Columbus club. dotes on dogs, and his
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
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nous trip around the 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.
o h G. Reilly, the tall first baseman of
the ~Cincinnatis, is an artist. He possesses
genius of an original kind and on trips he
invariably carries a sketch book, which he
Al1u trfth outlines 90 lac h1a-Ial int lad
scapes at his leisure. He has also dipped
into etching OIL copper and his winter days
are generally given to artistic drawings for
a photographic concern. Reilly and Car
penter are among the few ball players who
are Masons. There are many of them
wearing antlers 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
1t the finest training school known for
ball players, and he 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 a court in the Clubhouse at Sports
mans park. Billy Earle, who will go to
the Boston Association club next spring,
- mesluetlstt anu u ROOu one. L nave
seen him "at work" His performances
were as clever as any l ever witnessed on
the stage, and l nave seen the Kennedys,
Carpenter and other mysterious devotees
of hypnotism.
There is nc better polo player in all New
England than Jimmie Canavan. In Gin
cinnati Jim Keenan,, Lefty" Mari, "Wild
Bill" Widner, Jack Boyle, Jack Stengel
and Billy Kluseman are all football enthu.
siasts and they are members of a team that
plays under association rules at League
park. This is their second season aud they
have boldly challenged all Ohio teams.
Nearly all ball players Lore 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 amateur editor back in the days
when /, too, held allegiance to the dom.
There are thousands devoted to the game
there, and not the least among them is
Fred Pfefer, who plays with the La Sales.
The list might be carried out indefinitely,
but this has served to show that players
have hobbies" other than base hits.
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