The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-29
TACOMA SPORTING NEWS.
New Management of the League Team
AmafeurA Are Active.

new Management of the League Team
Amateurs Are Active.
TACOMA, Feb. 2S-lspeclal. 1.-The selection OF
W. L. Work to manage Tacoma's league base
ball team has created spirit of enthusiasm re-
garding the position that the tail -enders of 1891
will take in the season of 1892. Works great
work ut the bat and In the field during the close
OF the season made him prime favorite. He is
good judge of material, and there seems to be
no lack of confidence in Works ability to get
together a winning team, and mansge it when
he gets it He will arrive, It is expected, this
week.
@. g. Chandler and C. B. abriskie, who went
about last week diagnosing the baseball fever,
were met everywhere with the assurance of sub
stantial support. provided always, that the Ia
coma league baseball team went into the hands
of good manager and player, and that when
such a man was secured he be left alone and be
made responsible for the teams work. The AL
nouncement OF Work as playing manager was
the sufficient warrant for the liberal subscrip-
tons that were pledged.
Baseball critics here agree with Phil ii. ker-
shaw, OF this city, who has not forgotten how to
play ball since college days. in the opinion that
when fairly good working team is organized
1t is a thing to be left alone and not to be med
died with upon the say so Of every fellow who
thinks he sees incompstency among individual
players There seems TO be a tacit agreement
that Tacoma learned her lesson along this line
last season.
Walter d. Rusher, the new secretary and
treasurer OF the Tacoma League Baseball Club,
Is a prominent member of the Tacoma Athletic
Association, OF which he is vice president. He
took very active part in the arrangement of
preliminaries for the Portland Tacoma football
game last New Years day at this city. That
event netted the association several hundred
dollars. and Mr.. Rusher aided most materially
In making the affair such a success financially.
He is also an active member OF the association
baseball team and good judge of players.
Z. Is. Muller, one of the best gun club shots in
this city, is still a member of the club, his
resignation having been unanimously rejected
at the last meeting when there was full at
tendance to testify TO the desire OF the club to
retain Mr.. Muller as a member. While he does
not say as much, it is feared tine awarding of
the 2o0-yard medal for 1891 on the results of a
contest on 500-ygrd range was displeasing to
Mr.. Muller. He was not present at the time to
participate in the shoot
The Tacoma Rifle, Rod and Gun Club has de-
cided upon rihe-green and gray as club colors.
The coats will be of the former color, and the
hats OF the latter The club button will be
combination in silk of the club colors.
The Rife, Rod and Gun Club has hung out
this challenge:
We hereby challenge any team OF ten men
from any one company OF militia in Oregon,
Washington or the city of Victoria, to shoot
rifle contest, conditions as follows Ten men
each, ten shots per man. distance 300 yards at
regulation Creedrn0re target, elliptica ii desired
any military rifle within the rules; National
Rifle Association rules TO govern; the Tacoma
range preferred, but II shot upon other ground
we desire the expense of the team to be the
stake to be shot for. This may also be the con-
dition on the Tacoma range II desired. Accep-
tons to be published in the Tacoma Ledger
within twenty days; match to take place within
thirty days OF acceptance.