The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-12-12

Toronto and plays Rugby football with the Trim
ity Medical school
The ST. Louis team had forty players on its list
last season.
Winfield Scott Camp is reported to be in Jack
sonville ILL.,
new baseball league has been established in
South Australia
Jake Stencil has signed . contract for next
season with pittsburg.
Charlie Irwin had seven putouts and four a..
afsts in recent game at Oakland.
Tom Brown, Louisviile's great outHelder,
wound up the California season with Los
Angeles.
shortstop Mexican, of Cleveland, 10 an excel.
lent all-round wrestler, good swordsman and .
6ne boxer.
putting in his time a. groundkeeper for gun
club there
Sam Smith and Frank March are wintering
IN Butte. March is assisting in taking the
school census.
Joe Werrick. who is swinging q policeman
CLUB In Butte, Is posing a. hero after captur-
Ing two desperate burglars recently.
Owney Patton 10 gentleman Of leisure at
Spokane. He has invested in mining property,
ana expects to be a millionaire in few days
The baseball season ran too long in Califor.
between Los Angeles and San Jose to determine
the championship. -
lhe sphinx" is the name given by the New
Orleans papers to Abner Powell since he disap-
peared In the woods ON the hunt for the PEN
nant winners OF 1S92
Mike Cody, the ex-Tacoma catcher passed
through Seattle last week on his way from Mis-
soula, Mont, to Portland, where he expects to
get Job working at his trade a. a mou!der.
Willie LANCE is booked to pitch in San Fran.
cisco for the Bohemian Clubs team in game
against team from the Pacific Union Club for
charity. Zip" O'Nsill will catch for the Pa
ci1c Unions, and he and LANCE will be the only
two professionals in the game.
Willie LANCE, after only season and half of
professional ball playing, has pushed his way
into the fastest company. He has signed with
Chicago, and will be one OF Anson's Colts next
season With fair show he will, under ''Old
Anse's" coaching, prove one of the stars of the
big league.
The big twelve-club league is Just now debat-
ing Sunday ball playing, with opinion about
evenly divided. Brooklyn. Washington, Balti-
more, st. Louis and Louisville are for it, and
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland and
fittsbuTg against it, with Chicago on the fence.
Nick Young has decided that Gus McGinnis
belongs to Chicago, because she came to an
agreement with him before Cincinnati Billy
Earle acted as Chicagos agent in the matter.
This will bring Mac and Willie Lange both
OF last seasons Seatties, together again, and
Arson will have pair OF the most promising
youngsters in the business.
Arrangements are being made in Chicago for
the organization of a baseball team to tour the
East under the colors OF the Chicago Athletic
Association, which this fall sent out a strong
football team on similar tour. The trip. If
made. will be under the direction OF Joe Muir.
ply, wellknown sporting writer of Chicago,
and one of the best amateur pitchers in the
country.
Twelve-club circuits are becoming fashiona.
BILE. The National and the Southern leagues
have each twelve clubs, and now there is talk of
new central league with q membership of q
dozen, the teams to be located in Kansas City,
Indianapolis, Toledo, Milwaukee, Minneapolis,
Detroit or Columbus in the West, and Roches-
ter, Troy, Albany. Buffalo, Syracuse, Provi-
dence, New Haven or Binghampton in the East
Bumpus Jones made . remarkable record in
the Illinois-Iowa League. He pitched for Joliet,
the winner of the fist championship series, and
was put in the box fourteen times. He won
fourteen games, struck out seventy-two men
and gave twsuty-nine bases on balls. Only four
runs were earned off his delivery. Gus McGin-
mis- record doesn't show up SO well On paper.
but his work next season will show that he 10 q
lar better pitcher than Bumpus