Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-01-26
SOME WINTER GOSSIP.
Baseball Men Lay Plans While
They May.
ACTIVITY IN THE MINOR LEAGUES
a Lively Campaign Will Re Carried Out
Next summer On Secondary Diamonds.
Will Stand.


How the InfeIds Of the Great Clabs
will Stand.
Although winter has but fairly begun,
there is q hustle and stir among the smaller
fry in the councils of the magnates, 1t is
a healthy sign of the revival that it is con
fidently expected viii come with the spring.
The kindergartens of the game need the
fostering care of the United league, but
some Of the minor organizations are going
ahead laying the foundation for another
years race without hearing from the com
nittee appointed by the major body TO
draft some plan that will replace the ma
tional agreement.
The Western league will cut Denver off
its visiting list. That seems assured. Co
lumbus is in the position of a fair damsel
with two suitors begging for her hand
That city-like Indianapolis and Milwau-
kee--iS coveted by both the Western and
Central leagues The fact that Manager
Gus IL. Schmelz is on the Westerns cir
cult committee with John w. Speas of
Kansas City, and r. W. Mcguire, of Mil
waukee, is significant. however. The Cen
trail league will perhaps get the mltten,
and James A. Williams, who issued the
call for its organization, is slated for sec
rotary and treasurer of the Western
L. e. krauthoff, one of the members of
the famous and short lived board of con-
troll, will be elected president, but the
place will be honorary, Mr., Williams will
shoulder all the labor, and in this case he
will assume lots Of it. The Central league.
us projected, intended to give the millennl-
UNI plan-fathered by Frank Richter, of
Sporting Life-a practical trial. All the
players are to be signed by the secretary
and distributed by lot. The maximum
salaries of the various basemen, outtield-
ers, pitchers and catchers will be fixed,
and in this way salary limit will he
maintained. The delay of the eastern
clubs in responding to the call and the
activity displayed at Chicago have turned
the eyes of Columbus and Milwaukee to-
ward the west
The Illinois and Iowa-facetiously called
"The Two Eyed League"-has installed
James f. Mckee as president. Five OF the
old clubs are in line-Rockford, Joliet,
Quincy, Cedar Rapids and Ottumwa. Pc
oria, Springfield and Burlington will take
the places of clubs that will drop ont.
From the far west comes the story OF an
other wedding in the baseball family.
The California league has led the North
Pacific league to the altar and the Pacific
Coast Consolidated league is the name of
the new organization. Sacramento and
Spokane Falls retire, and the new circuit
includes San Francisco, san Jose and Los
Angeles, in California; Portland, Or.
and Seattle and Tacoma, in Washington
San Jose finally won the championship of
the Pacific coast, but the series was so long
drawn out and tedious that the closing
games lacked in interest.
The task of equalizing the playing
strength of the twelve clubs in the big
league is progressing, and the interest
manifested on all sides is gratifying proof
that interest in the national game was re-
vived the moment that the foolish warriors
ceased their strife.
In New York the tears Of the cranks are
falling because three famous giants have
been removed from the family and their
chairs must needs be filled by others.
The metropolitan press is severely caustic
and intimate that the Giants as now CON
stituted will make grand struggle for
the BOBBY prize. The scribes mourn be-
cause Dick Buckley, Dannie Richardson
and Roger Conner were not given return
apportionment.
They scout at the idea of Captain VIII
liam Buckeye Ewing being able to till the
role of first basemalsstnd point their fin.
gers toward the City 81 Brotherly Love and
say: "Lo, there is Bill Brown Get him"
The return of Amos Rusic has simply
aroused the critics to a declaration that
now that Dick Buckley has gone, the ex-
mattress artist from iloosieriom's capital
is liable to be no more effective this year
than were Billee Taylor or One Armed
Hugh DAILY in their closing days upon the
turf New York 5 mood is decidedly
gloomy, but they forget that Jack Boyle
and Denny Lyons have been allotted to
them.
Over the river the Brooklynites are Just
as happy as the descendants OF Papa Knick- |
erbocker are inrlorn. 1t is generally be
leved that the team which Captain john
ontgomerv Ward will lead into the |
struggle next spring will be Just rs strong
rs the famous one he commanded during
the stormy days of 1890.
Dan Brouthcrs is booked for first, and |
the mayor of Wappinger Falls will be at
home with Captain Ward by his side, for |
Ward will stick 10 second base MIR. VIII |
liam Joyce, the st. Louisan who gained |
he tit le of "ScraDDy'' throutrh a tendance
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kim from whose presence Cant,i,, L;iJ |
would hava aad
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