The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-04

develop under the training of Arson 10 cause
fiener 10 De retained against his will. even
though he may be the king pin second base
man.
JACK CROOKS, the great second baseman of the
CoinInous club, is said to be working as a waiter
IN Pullman dining car on the Wabash road
Iof AZ month. The same man only wants
A,5oo for playing ball next summer
western Association will shortly be organ
ized VITA eight cities selected from Minneapo-
Lh, Cd faui, Duluth, St. Joe, Kansas City,
olana' Lincoln, Milwaukee. Davenport, Grand
RAPIDS, Indianapolis, Detroit and others
The latest story about the sale of PLAYERS is that
young soldiers skin at baseball in An ana.
feur game AZ FL Paso, Tex, caused q baseball
manager and some friends TO purchase his re-
lease from the army and make him profes.
sional player
Joe Murphy, the baseball editor OF the Chicago
Tribune, has won the Brunswick Balke-Collen.
Ger medal Tor the billiard championship of
the newspaper men of Chicago at straight
rail- billiards Murphy is fine ball player and
the best pitcher in the city league.
Billy Earle, who slipped up on contracts with
the Boston Association and the Washington
City clubs, may sign with Pittsburg. The smoky
City team Will be handled by Al Buckenberger,
under whom Earle played last season, and who
knows the little cateher's capabilities
Doubtless another attempt viii be made to
reoEganize the defunct Texas League, and If it
should prove to be go, in less than one month
after the initial game the remaining baseball
country will be led to believe that not only one
but dozen phenomenal players have been de.
veloped.
Al Lawson, whose baseball record is as big A
failure as that OF anybody in the business is
busy explaining how he came to leave in the
lurch the picked team which he was TO manage
on a trip to Cuba He is now pushing himself
to the front in the organization of state league
in Florida
From the knowing style adopted BY the San
Francisco papers, Ham Harris is evidently after
one OF the Pacific Northwest pitchers now play
ing with Portland in the south. The man is I'M
doubleday kid" Camp, who is reserved by Sc
attic, and whose release will cost any club a
pretty penny.
Woodcock, the pitcher signed by Pittsburgh,
Is college player having attended both Dart
mouth and Brown university. Jim Whitney,
the pitcher, now dead coached the Dartmouth
team one spring when Woodcock was in college,
and was OF the opinion he was the best twirler
in the team, but lacked strength.
Lew Schoeneck writes from Chicago to a
friend in this city that he has been at work
since October Is, and has reduced his weight
% pounds, now tipping the scales at 234. He
expects to work off Is pounds more before
spring. The great first baseman occasionally
takes part in a game of indoor ball, which is
very popular in Chicago. He has younger
brother who is about the best pitcher in that
city at the indoor game.
The formation of the big twelve-club league
in the East meant something in a financial way
to "Jiggs" Parrott. the young third baseman
had signed 900 contract to play with the
Chicago Association club next season, and I'M
der the new arrangement there will be no such
club in existence. "Jiggs" will probably have
to content himself for another season with
knocking down base hits at the difficult
corner" OF Portlsnd's infeld.
Billy Nash will undoubtedly captain the Bos-
tons for 1892 Comiskey, the exist Louis cap
tain, will look after Cincinnat's interests. An
son and Chicago are inseparable. John NJ. Ward
will control the destines OF Brooklyn. Jack
Glasscock or Fred Pfeter are st. Louis possibil-
tiles. George E. Van Haltren will be the Sc
lected member in Baltimore unless Arson sue
ceeds in making him return to Chicago. Ned
Hanlon is favored for captain of TIE Pittsburg
team by Manager Gus Buckenberger. 'Bdck''
Ewing will probably hold forth in New York
and Pat Tebeau in Cleveland. The remaining
clubs have not indicated their choice.
Some people think that Won der Abe was fool
ish for Throwing down" the Association and
joining the League, and that the small of his
back is liable to touch the ceiling one of these
days.-Sporting Netos Won der Abe has seen
considerable baseball warfare, aud unless re-
ports have been exaggerated usually held his
ground. What has been called by some duplic-
ity on the part of Won der Abe in consenting to
the amalgamaton would be called by others
broad common sense. The st. Louis magnate is
not theoretical mau-he is decidedly practical
He saw the true situation of affairs and joined
in an honorable peace. Treachery by the league