The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-02
GOSSIP OF BASEBALL.


Willie Lange's contract with Chicago calls for
$500 month.
The Montana baseball writers think well OF
Frank March as umpire
Joe Darrah is at his home in East Liverpool,
O., working IN a crocSery factory.
Abner Powell will cover right field for New
Orleans as we'll as manage the team.
Billy Crowell Is wintering in New Orleans
and playing exhibition games with picked
nine.
Savannah, Ga. expects to have Danny Mime.
han, skid" Baldwin and Charley Petty next
season.
The Yale baseball team Is counting on an IN
door diamond and running track. 1t will be 300
feet square.
The Chicago Baseball Club has changed hands,
and hereafter there will be Sunday baseball in
the Windy City.
The Birmingham cranks are signing for Billy
Earle TO hasten home from Cuba and hypnotixs
q team of winners
Bert Allen, the famous catcher of the Harvard
team for three years, died recently in New York
CITY OF peritonitis.
Ollie Beard was dickering for the manage
ment OF the Montgomery. Ala, team, but will
likely be found somewhere else.
Abner Powell has sent out a card from Shen-
andoah, Pa, where he is wintering, calling for
players for his New Orleans team.
John s Barnes has organized the Phoenix
Athletic Club. of ST. Paul. and it has taken in
over 500 members in few months.
McAieer. of the Cievelands, had wonderful
record an outfielder last season. He had 367
put-outs, % assists and only l6 errors.
Al lawson, the greatest fakir in baseball has
turned up in Australia. He denies the charge
OF having left the team he took from America to
England in the iurch.
ha pa,,ls nd 90
ing OF Twin City club. with franchise in the
big league and grounds midway between the two
cities.
Billy Sunday, the ex-professiona, now secre-
tary OF the Chicago Y. NJ. c. A, did some revival
preaching few Sundays ago and all the ball
tossers in Chicago went to hear him.
The bill OF Biggers, the Alabama legislator
who wanted 10 make baseball clubs pay heavy
license, has gone TO n COMMITTEES, and will never
be brought before the house. A deserved fate
The All Americas are drawing big crowds to
their games in Havana Billy Earle ia crestin .
a sensation by his exhibitions OF hypnotism. He
also puts plenty of fun into the game by coach
ing in Spanish
Atlanta is combating Cincinnati's claim to
"Bumpus" Jones. because ne IS on the reserve
list of the Southern town. which thinks il has
that myth called protect on. 1t viii take 500
bill to give Cincinnati good title. but for all
practical purposes olympus" IS IS good as
member Of Comiskey's team.
George Stallings, of last seasons san Jose
team. who Is to manage the Augusta, Ga. team
in the southern league the coming season, has
signed nobody but California players. The team
a. far as completed, 10 as follows: Dooley, of
San Jose. first base; PECK sharp, OF San Fran.
cisco, second base: Jerry Denny. OF San Jose,
third base; Stafford, OF Los Angeles. shortstop;
German. of Oakland, pitcher; McGucken, Nc
Vey and stalIngs. of san Jose, ou;.eiders
.ou,feder George. OF the Pacific Northwes,
League is declared by the Northwestern critics
"a be a wonder. One player says: George IS 4
magnificent base runner, good outfeider, and
b. lar the greatest hitter in that part of the
world He has a wonderful eye, and won't 20
after them unless they over the plate He
hills them whether they are high or low and
with terrific force" George Is Beilaire. O.,
boy. and IN 1857 was pitcher with the New
York team.--Sport.ag LIE Although Billy is III
il with the beet OF them as batter. the state
meat about has magnificent base running and
felting mgst be taken with grain OF salt III
is fairly good in both aud is constantly improy-
ing.
A Southern writer perpetraies the following
rot about player well known 10 the Pacific
Northwest: 1.-The latest acquisition for the
Memphis team l. Bill! Goodenoueh. a catcher.
He Is now In sacramento Cal. punching fares
on AL electric railroad. He made worli's re-
cord fer himself by catching $50 straight games
fer SaR Francisco lsst season" Gooieuough
played in the outleli last year for Tacoma and
so far a. heard from never caught in profess
siouai game in his lie, although he used 10 DO
n little twIrllug. The astgte southern writer
hiss probably coniouDied ''Goody' with Hank
Spies who made great catching record il san
Francisco IL 1872