The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-21
GOSSIP OF BASEBALL.

George Tebeau is wintering in Denver.
Letcher, the jumper, is wintering in Grand
Rapids, Mich.
John 5. Barnes has organized new athletic
club a. Minneapolis.
A dwarf just feet 2 inches in height is the
catcher Tor Denver team.
Billy Earle has signed to manage the Birming.
ham, Ala. team mex: season.
DANNY" Hoy, Washington's deaf mute out
fielder, runs shoe snop during the winter.
Billy Earle is giving private exhibitions in
Cincinnati OF his powers of hypnotism and is
having remarkable success.
skid" Baldwin is crippled and sick, but has
to go behind the bat for Los Angeles because
the team has no other catcher.
The New York club has made an assessment
OF 10 per cent on all OF its stock on account of a
deficit OF So, coo incurred during the season.
Ted Sullivan is after Jake stencil for his next
seasons Southern League team at Nashville,
Tenn. Pittsburg, however, claims to have Jake $
signature to a contract
John Kelly, manager OF the Mobile team, has
started Tor Cuba with a picked team 10 spend
the winter. One OF his pitchers is Wadsworth,
OF the Portands OF 1891.
The United States has baseball the year round.
The season is now over everywhere except in
the California League, and by the time that
closes the Florida League will open up.
new league, with clubs in Salt Lake. Ogden,
Helena and Butte, will likely be organized next
season Con Strouthers who is now managing
the Helena Athletic Club. will probably handle
the ball team again.
During the past season the total attendance in
the twelve cities Of tho big league was 49,
OF which ,097 049 saw the games in tho first half
and 100 in the second half The largest
attendance was in Cincinnati, 1918
Cincinnati has accepted the terms OF william
McGinnis" Wonder il this is our Gus. He was
the only member OF the tribe Of McGinnis who
made any stir in the baseball world last season,
but Chicago was reported to have corralled him.
The latest changes proposed for the baseball
field are: Make the base lines ninety-tnree feet
instead OF ninety as at present: put the pitch
ers point in the geometricai center Of the dia-
mond and abolish the pitchers box; abolish the
foul ball and the fiat bat and make every foul
bunt strike.
While Willie LANCE is laid up with q broken
nose George Van Ha!tren is playing center field
for Oakland in his place. The San Francisco
Examiner says of Van Haltren: "TIe is doing
well, but for all his reputation Oakland patrons
say he is no better than LANCE. He certainly
does not cover as much ground, and his batting,
base running and percentage OF accepted
chances are no better"
Mit Whitehead, the old time ball player is
dangerously i'll with blood poisoning at Stock
ton. Whitehead, who is hunting for the mar
ket around Stockton, had his hand injured re-
Gently while out shooting The hammer of his
gun accidently fell and caught the flesh be-
tween the thumb and foreiiugar on his left
hand. Nothing was thought OF the injury at
the time, but recently symptoms OF blood
poisoning appeared.
The general opinion in California seems to be
that the motto OF three OF the League clubs is:
Anything to beat Los Angeles" Ii is charged
that Oakland, San Francisco and San Jose are
conspiring to beat Los Angeles out OF the lead
by means of swapping players, ii not actually
throwing games. Los Angeles has. however,
only two games to win out of her last ten in
order to come out on top. Oakland has only a
fighting chance to finish ahead of her.