The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-07
IN SPRING TRAINING.
The Seattle Team to Make a
California Trip.
AMATEUR LEAGUES CIRCUIT.
Increased to Six CIubs-Records of
PoweiI's Men-Make- Up of the
League Teams-Gossip.

Manager Abuef Powell, OF the Seattle club.
will give his men q course OF spring training
that is very seldom afforded to minor league
teams. II is nothing more or less than series OF
exhibition caves with California clubs, prior TO
tn oTsning OF the Pacific Northwest schedule,
to get his players in condition for the seasons
work. Powell and his men Will start from the
East this week AMI will probably begin active
work within the next ten days or two weeks.
With his usual financial ability, the Seattle
manager has arranged for fourteen games, n
each OF which be viii he paid good guarantee.
with the option Of percentage OF the receipts.
These games will occupy two or three
weeks, and by the time they are I'm
ished the players ought TO be in fine
shape for the championship struggle. The club
Will reach Seattle but a few days before the sel-
sons opens. It's first championship game viii
be at Tacoma OF April H.
The team that Powell, viii have with him on the
California Tip will be: Catcher, LANCE; pitchers,
Petty, GiIliGnd. Dunning and McGinnis; FIST
base, Ryn; second base, Laroque; third base,
Irwin; shortstOp, Hatfield; left field, Powell;
center field, Audrus; right field, Heznon. To
these may be aided another catcher. The old
men on the team are Powell, Hernon. Irwin,
Petty and LANCE Last years players who have
Teen released are thinner, Sehoeneck, Phelan
and shea Charlie NeWInsn is stu under re-
serve, but demands National League salary.
Following are sketches OF the new men:
'Neilie" MeGinnis is youngster who last
season pitched the Msrinet.e club into the
championship OF the Wisconsin League. He is
alef.-handed pitcher and was rated as the best
boxman in that league. He is credited with
winning twenty out OF twenty-thIee games
His batting average was .152.
l. A GiiElani is another "southpaw." He
began last s-asol with New Haven, in the East
ern Association, but was gold in June TO Dem
1t 49, Acc 81 81 a
good work. IN $50 be won twenty-five out of
thirty-seyen games for the New Haven CLUB,
which won the championship OF the Eastern
Association. Gill Land is over six feet tai! and
has terrific speed in pitching. For pitcher he
is heavy hitter and last season had an average
OF .2s5 in the Western Association.
Andrew Dunning, the third new pitcher, played
last season with Manchester, OF the New Eng
land League. A rsmarkaole feat with which he
was credited was retiring the Salem club with
out a base hit on May II, 1891. He won ten
straight games for his club, and sixteen out of
twenty-four in all. His batting average was .le3.
In lsg9 Dunning pitched for the champion
Jamestowus OF the New York and Pennsylvania
League
John RTn, commonly known as Dummy"
will cover first base. He is giant in size and a
deaf-mute. He has always been heavy batter
and strong fielder, and until last season. when
he was crippled. made good record in stolen
bases especially Tor so large man. Last year his
batting average was 81 and his fielding average
al Fl ct base SO. Ryn played in 1855 with Chat
tanooga and the two years following with Penn
sylvania clubs. In 1S5S he was with Saudusky
and Lima and in 1889 with Canton, of the Til
State League. For the past two seasons he has
covered first base for Mimi apolis.
Sam Laroaue, second bsseman, is rated as one
of the beat minor league players in the country
and has during his several years of service
always been known ss winner. He is a good
hitter, dashing fielder and a strong man on
the base lines. In lsS6-s7-sS he played with
Lynn, in the New England League, and the year
following with London, in the International
League. In 1890 he was with the Pittsburg
League team. Last season he was with Duluth,
in the Western Association, until the club col
lapsed He had a fielding average at second
base OF .el4, and q batting average OF .2i6 He
closed the season as first base for Green Bay, in
the Wisconsin League. He ranked second in
batting in that organization with So, and led
the first basemen in fielding with ISL.
Gilbert Hatfield, shor.stop, ought to prove
star of the first magnitude in the Pacific North
west, as he has shown his ability 10 hold his
own in the fastest company in the country. He
is a good batter, brilliant fielder and a dashing
base runner. In addition to shoctstop, he can
play third base and is a fine pitcher. In lsS5
aud ~ he played with Portland, Me-, in the
New England League. In ISSS he went to the
New York League Club and was its all-round
man foz two sessons In 1870 the Brotherhood
revolt took him into the New York Players
League team Last season he went to Washing
ton City, in the American Association. He made
batting average of .25o, aud was among the
leaders in the association IS a base-runuer In
10l games at shortstop he mad fielding average
OF sos, and in twentythfee games ut third, s9i
". W. Andrus. the new Outielder, is a good
batter, splendid base runner and fast fielder
He can play an iufeld position haadiiy, but of
late most of his WORK has been in the outfeld
In 1897 he played second base for Portland, Me-
and in lS3S the same position for Hamilton, Ont
In 1859 he went to Buffalo, y. Y. In 1890 he was
with Grand Rapids until the Internal, oual
League collapsed when he went to Minneapolis
and finished the season there Last year he
opened with Manchester, y. H.. and closed the
season with Jamestown, y. Y. In tae New
England LeaEus he had go in batting and $40
in fielding; in the New York and Pennsylvania
Lea ne. .Sel il batting.
The team which Tacoma is figuring on prom
Uses to be s. strong as any In the league It
Will look something like this: Catcher Cody:
pitchers, flaming, Franco, March and dad"
Clark; fest ba e, Billy o Brien; secoud base
sirpi; thi;- base, AIverd; shortstop, Patton o.
Ely: !eit field, RoutcliAc; center field, Work:
RICH; field and change catcher, wilson The
mon who viii likely be held ovef from last
year are Cody, France, Tanning, March, Sirpi
RATA, EOGtelEs ana NorE. OF the others.
"naf' CLARK has splendid Iecord to has credit
wt'h Omaha. in the Western Association. Billy
O'Bric1 is heavy hitter and has done good
wo-z for Denver. Washington and other
strong clUhe Alycrd has been with Toledo
WASHINGTON AMI pes Moines clubs and has
made Al e>tc4ieut record both as fe der aad a
batter Ely was with s., Paul last wear, aud
closed the season with Brooklyn. He has bean
rated as one OF the finest fielding shorts.ops in
the country W.'son CAUGHT LIST season for
Kansas CITY, in the Western Assoc.a Ion.
John :. barnes ought - set to-ethe- = vsrv
strong team from tie pick o: the Portland md
Spokane Ciuts He is figuring on "Moxie"
Hengle for second b.,e and sher for shot
stop. With th-ee men his team would be about
like this: Catcher, Baldwin; pitchers, McNabh.
Wadsworth. kIol and Mains; frs: base. Motz.
second base. HeDc'c; third base. Ps-Yott; short
stop. Fisher: let field auI CT anra catcher.
Stencil; center field, Turner; right fe J. Poi.
heuUs
SPoSGue's new manager. Ollie Beard. is 70
por 81 - he signing strong tam in the East
although no names sre given cat. He Is him
self a s,-o1g player aud hes done good work for
Syracuse. Cincinnati, Louisville, Denver and
other clubs He can play, either shortston or
thlzd base. Il is not likely that any az last
years men VIII be kept, unless il be Conovc-
and Maunasssu
INCREASING THE CIRCUIT.
Tho Puget Sound Amateur League VIII
Have six Clubs This Season.