The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-09
GOSSIP OF BASEBALL.

Abner Powell is playing splendid left field.
Frank Ward is playing fine ball for Milwaukee.
Wadsworth is pitching good ball for ST. Paul.
New Whatcom has put a ball team in the
field.
The Eastern League opens its season on
May y.
Charlie Petty is pitching good game for
Birmingham.
Jack Tanning has not yet won game from
the Los Angeles team.
Dick Phelan is reported as playing a fine seq
ond base for Memphis.
Harry O'Day, OF the Portlands of 1890, has
signed with the Rock Island club in the IL.
League.
Al Lawson is getting up q ball-players' direct
DRY, making Atlanta Ga, the scene of his opera
tons in this line
W. II. Lucas, who managed the 1890 Tacomas,
will probably have charge OF a team at Menomi-
nee, Mich, this season.
Jimmie Calvin, of the Pitt sburgs. has been on
the turf for nineteen seasons, and is still OF
the best pitchers III the country.
When Tom Turner released by Portland
he was, OF course, signed by Oakland. Colonel
Robinson never lets man slip away.
1t is reported in California that the Tacoma
management il trying TO get Hen Retz to Jump
his contract with the san Francisco team.
Pitcher Kennedy, whom Ollie Beard claimed
signed personal contract with him and then
jumped IT, is doing good work with Brooklyn.
The cable on the car line leading to the new
grounds. at Portland, broke on the day OF the
opening game and gave the crowd q chance 10
walk.
James MutTic, who for years managed the
New York giants, has come down so far as TO be
let out by Elmira for ''boozing." The same old
story of the mighty fallen"
1t is said that the reason for Sam Wise not
staying i'll major league company is that his
feet are literally covered with co:ns and bun
ions, which interfere with his work.
Patton, Tacoma's dim jnutive shortstop, has
been dubbed "Lay-Low Owuey' by the players
on account o. his sQuat,ing position at the bat,
making his height about four feet
The Omaha correspondent: OF the Sporting
Neies says he does not consider Frank Motz last
enough for the 1T. Pauls. Either he has very
poor judgment, or the first baseman is away be-
low his standard of last year
A Minneapolis writer has the following
meri;ed praise OF Charlie Newman In the Sport
ing Life: Newman in center is q corker. lie
ia sure catch, long ani strong thrower, and
by his spr:n;ing makes a hit where other run
ners would be thrown out
Mccormick, who pitched q few games for Sc
ettle IN 1899. has signed with the Texas Iesgue
and been assigned @ Houston. PATSY FlaheTty
will play third tfse for Fort Worth. Neil bono
hue, OF last years Tacomns, W Il also De with
Fort Worth. and Eugene Curry With Houstos
They claim up North that MaunesSaU, the
new OakiaGder, Is a weak hitter He has been
doing pretty well down here with the stick. He
Strengthened OF: four 81 HsT7e-'s curves into
tase-hIts the first time he facel the san Jose
pitcher-nacl6 re sitB sports Wait awhile.
The Terre HSute correspondent OF the Sporting
Nelos contributes the following: DO Il!
p.ayers never get Old? GA man Reccias, who
played with Auson's grandfather before the
revolution. IS paying bali again this season,
away out II seattle. Tbs must be Pairs sixth
time on earth. They 90 tell IS how lie IS play
ing the gene oi his life las ususD this year"
Phi Is certainly pitching good ball, although it
is for Spokane instead Of seattle.
4 Chicago exchange says: Captain Arson
prop ses 70 train his players - hunt the bal
more successfully than they so. There isn't
d man in he Chicago club, he says. who can 10
called good sacrifice hitter, and anybody who
eau hit the bali at al can become quite p-cf-
Client as a bnnter il only lie viii spend a little
time in pracicing ii. and the boys must practice
bunting" Ii some OF the know-it-alls at the
Mad son street park could only ie made 70 see
in this light aai not try 10 howl dowa one OF the
most valuable features OF team work when Judi
ciously used khner Powell thinks Just as An
son does, and should be encouraged IL IL