The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-07
GOSSIP OF BASEBALL.

Ed ONeil IS pitching for the Santa Rosal
A. c. Ansons father is mayor OF Mar halltown,
Ia.
The Los Angeles club will have eight left.
handed batters.
"oid Hoss" Joe Ardner has signed q Western
Association contract.
KID Camp is IN Omaha, but has been or.
dered to report at PIttsburg with the res. OF
the team on April /.
"Chappie" Graft will probably not be with the
Portlands this season.
Los Angeles has the ball fever bad and has q
city league OF six clubs.
Pittsburgs college pitcher, wooicock, is said
to &c very fine bass singer.
little Willie" Mains who is said TO have
signed with Portland. is splendid shot
seatte's new outfelder, W. W. Andrus has
been studying medicine fo- q couple OF years.
There is talk Of reorganizi%g the Pacific Inter-
state League with clubs in Waila Walla, Baker
City, Pendlaton and Moscow.
The California League season begins on March
e6 and runs to November ., over eight months.
Each club will play los games
The California papers are all down on "Big
BIZ Hassamcr and are continually roasting
him for his alleged mean qualities.
Late news indicate that Pitcher John Ewing
o! the New Works, will not, rs reported, die but
viii be unable 10 play bali this season
Pitcher Frank Homer has thrown up his con-
tract as coach of the Yale University team to
accept position with the Oakland club,
The Portland club is getting its new grounds
into shape. They ar J90x400 fee. and twelve
minutes ride from down town by the cable cars
King" GatGey Will not sign a contract to
umpire Tor the league because it does not call
Tor as much money as lie was 10 have received
i,om the Association.
Bob Pender, of the seattles OF $500, is in Sioux
City. He was az Hot Springs, South Dakota.
last summer and part OF the winter, and claims
that he Is now in fine condition.
Yale and Harvard have arranged for two
games One VIII be played al Cambridge on
June = and the second one al New Haven on
thu day after the Yale commencement
Ell Cartwright, VINO played first base for san
Francisco last season, is foreman OF gang of
iron workers on the new United States warship
Mouiere-, now building in san Francisco.
Barney snyder, who caught Tor Seattle spd
Spokane last year, has signed with Rockford
III. in the I-ja0is-Iawa League. Breckenridge
WHO covered frat for Portland in 1890, viii .lay
in Rockford.
Frei PielIer. the great second baser-an oyer
whom Chicago and Louisville are Easing. i,
lad up in Louisville wish lame knee. the re-
su't OF q slide 10 homo plate il an indoor hail
game at Chicago.
The B-s,oa team viii have this season nina
players who have al DIFF rent times in tbe,r
baseball career oeon captains. Tnev gr. Nash
s;cvcy Kelly, Bennett, Quinn Mccarthy. Dprfv
Tucker and camel.
EN-C.apl-e 5. HcnEle. who handled the in.
dicd'os IL the Pacific Nor;hw ives. last wear. i m
tour around the world. When last hoard ~ be
Was al sidney, y. :. ". Hsexpec.s to return
to th's country IL about three uloaths.
The southern League has arranged v1.b eIrhs
IN Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis, Macon and
Columbus. An effort viii be made 70 sdd
two more cities selected from Nashville
knoxville Chattanooga and Birmingham.
"Circ!c.' the Sporting Lje's corresnor1e,t at
fittsau-g, says: 1.-The claim Of the seattle el,b
thst Camp was on thei- reserve list is about rs
funny as made this season. Perhaps Nr ROCK
well doesn't know the war is over" ROY ssvs
that the war has just begun. and when il ennis
the laugh may be on the other side
Henry l. ? .p9. AEson's new second bssnr,s,
mas played bal for twelve years, mart of the
t.4-e PROFESSIONALLY, but usually recreation.
Ae Is six feet two inches in height, weisbs q05
poun :, and Is said would do fo- a sTatre ..
the perfect s-h.eie Nevertheless il is .,I,sr, -
oe1,e '+iI Waen the season begins the "o.d
man VIII have some veteran covering second
base
President Williams, of the Western Iesrue.
announces taa. he has accepted the terms al
AeNaba' Baldwin, aotz. NcGuirk, Hatfield.
4-sro9ue, Turner, Polhemus and Newman. all Of
Naom have either signed with or are rese-ved
oy Faclae northwest clubs. Accepting terms
ana signing contracts IS diaeren. thing. now.
eseT, ana probably ali the men named. exeeDt
AeHulEA aad Newman, Will play in this league.