The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-07
TACOMA BASEBALL VIM.
Anxious for the Season to Open-Work
Is q Mascot.

TACOMA, March 6.-iSpecisLl Every day base
bail in and about the city is receiving new i'm
petus OF life and activity, through the wide
awake efforts of the new directors and Manager
Work. The latter has got himself down to
WORK, and from every point of the compass has
the refusal OF the most promising baseball talent.
The wires are kept hot between the home
management and baseball eenters. Enough
players to make two teams have been sending in
favorable terms. The faces of Chandler, Rushsr
and Work wear O contentsd look. Pattons
terms have been written 10 the homo club and
the letter is anxiously awaited. A couple OF
twirlers, whose names are not yet 10 be divuiged,
are in readiness to show themselves here. Work,
while very confident, does not waste breath In
predicting pennant winners, but says to start
with, the home team viii be about 20 per cent
stronger than at the opening of last year.
The old men who will be found at their old
positions ere Routelife, Work, Sippi, Cody,
Tanning. Patton, France and March, the fowe,
OF last years aggregation.
Work says he was very sorry to learn that
Hutchinson is not 10 be procured, as the Oak
land tesIn has secured him. He was very
strong batter and with regular first basemap
his throwing would come up TO the standard
A FIRST and third basemsn. pitcher and
change catcher, and two rafting good substi.
tutes, are to be the new blood.
The arranging for the opening game to be
played here with Spokane was the result OF
hard fight by G. G. Chandler, who remembered
the disastrous way in which Tacoma opened
the ball LAST year at Portland in q veritaole
Doggy swamp. 1t is fact that nowher1else in
the Northwest can ball be played easily as ct
Tacoma and Seattle. The weather anywhere
else is either too cold or too rainy.
In batting Tacoma will have three bstters
who have over percentage OF 800 and
from these batters good deal Is expected.
They are Work, Patton and the new first base
man. Routeliffe was very near the mark, but
his ability in this line was sadly handicapped
by playing with losing team. With the team
in the front ranks from the start Routclifs
will be more of "chicken" than
ever. Manager Work is going 10 start the
season with no raw material, and By
his policy, as outlined 10 a correspondent of the
PosT-ISTELLIGESCEe, strong team is sure to De
in the field from the start. he management OF
the players will be left solely in the nanis OF
WORK, and any dissatisfaction among the local
patrons must be lodged with the manager.
The seating capacity OF the local league
grounds Will be enlarged and many marked i'm
provements will be undertaken.
Manager Work is in fine physical condition.
The Tacoma Athletic ball players who in
dulged in football last winter have uncon-
seiously found sliding easy, as the rough winter
sport has hardened them and dulled their sensi.
bilites TO injury. kershaw, Hooker and Evans
are '';errors" in this respect.
The Dodge amateurs have shown a surprising
degree OF skill in their opening games, their vic
tory over the Athletics yesterday being easy
one.
Who are to be the umpires? Everybody is
anxious to know.
The officers of the Tacoma league club are:
President, C. B. Zabrskie; first vice president.
n 81 Taylor; second vice president, Grattsn II.
Wheeler; secretary, w. D. Rusher; ire asurer,
c. 4. W6trous.
There have been times during the past two
months when things looked a tribe blue for
baseball at Tacoma Now the lovers of the game
marvel at the unqualified change Tor the better
Work must be the mascot.
Manager Corey, of the local junior league
team, is chock full of the baseball spirit and is
second Pap" Arson. He and several of his
young men are promising colts.