The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-05
GOSSIP OF BASEBALL.

Marx Po!hemus and Lew liilliland still lingef
in the city.
Pat Wright has signed to play second base for
New Orleans.
Charlie Petty keeps on pitching good bail for
Birmingham.
Three Southern League clnbs are fighting over
"Bumpus" Jones' services.
Milt Whitehead has been released by Oakland.
Charlie Irwin will take his place at short.
Some of the cranks are fesiring on introduce
ing base stealing average into the records
Abner Poweil's New Orleans team 10 nearing
the top in the Southern League pennant race.
AL Lawson's amateur teanl played its first
game at Preston, England, 90 q crowd of ], 500.
Baseball is booming In Utah, and there is talk
of organizing an inter-mounsain league of clubs
in Utah and Montana
In q recent game at Butte the great Tony Null
lane was hit safely sixteen times by the HelenaA
Tommy Hernon got four hits. one Q home run.
Montana booze evidently don't agree with Tony.
The latest criticism from the Chicago corre-
spondent of the Sporting Nous about Anson's
new third baseman is: "Jiegs Parrot may be
clever player, but he has net caught on here a.
yet"
One Of the features of the Labor day sports to-
day will be the baseball game at Madison street
park this afternoon between the Printers and
Lougshorsmen.
The entire Helena team Comes from the Pa
cifc Northwest League. Hernon, Dunning,
TulIy, Hatfield and McGinnis are from Seattle.
Besides these there are Huston, Crotty, Stroth.
ers, Munday, Ward and George.
The Sporting Ne,cs man at Green Bay. Wis.
writes: 'Schoeneck, our first baseman, was
called home ON account OF sickness in his fam
lily. When he arrived at home he was surprised
to find young baseball player in the family"
kid" Camp pitched his frs. game yesterday
for Oakland and lost to San Francisco His de-
livery was hit safely fourteen times Willie
Lange played right field aad Charlie Irwin
shortstop. Irwin got in two three-baggers at
the bat
Jake Stencil is back in League company, after
two years absence. He had his first trial in
1890 at Chicago when he went there with Luby
from Texas. Jake showed up we'll, but was in
poor condition and had little chance to show
his ability.
Billy Works "Daisies," who now represent
Missoula, are cutting q wide swath in the
Montana League. In one game they defeated
Philipsburg by 26 to I, making twenty ak hits
of Emmerke. They will find things different
when they 60 up against McGinnis at Helena
Crowell, the pitcher IL not only man of fam.
lily but man OF expedientS When he came to
New Orleans to pitch he bought cottage on the
lake shore, and when he was released he and
Weber went out there and set up a fishery.
Twice week they drew the seine and sent their
hauls to market. and they not only kept in good
health but made money. When Crowell was ap-
pointed an umpire the other dag he did not ask
for advance money, but drew his own check and
went merrily on his way. Weber will run the
fishery in Crowelps absence. -Nsw, Orleans Pica-
yuns
Lou Camp is playing third base for the st.
Louis Browns, and Is doing fairly we'll He has
been dubbed the kangaroo A St Louis
paper had this to say of his opening game:
"Lou Camp. the young man picked out of the
wreck OF tho Jacksonville, III. club by Guy
Hecker for Mr. Won der Abe, played third base
in Kuehnes place. His fielding was of the sub
stantal order, but not brilliant. At the bat he
showed up well His three-bagger and his sim
gle were clean drives. His strong point is base
running If Thursdays work is to be taken as
criterion. He covers ground like Splinter"