Birmingham age-herald., 1894-09-15
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worked liko a Trojan (though don't know exactly how hard the Trojans worked) to secure the postmastership of Marshalltown for his father, and in the end the appoI1it- ment went to the elder Anson's most hated enemy.
 DiS.1ing Anson's absence from the team his Colts did not do well. A good illus tration is thereby furnished to show the great influence he has over ball players and the worth of his counsel and leadership to his team. But then one of his players ac- complshed 0 feat while "uncle' was in Iowa which brought more or less fame to the Chicago club. Catcher Schriver, it is alleged. caught a bal! dropped from the top of the Washington monument. The specifications do not say what kind of ball it was. The inference is that it was reg ulation baseball, but 1t may have been ball stuffed with cotton or hollow rub Der ball
 This feat has been talked about for years and several ball players have at tempted it, among them being Snyder and Hines It has been pretty generally agreed that the attempt would never sue ceed on account of the great velocity of the ball in the latter part of it's descent. It would drop so rapidly that to accurately gauge its trcck through the air with a view to catching it would be impossible. The ball, it was claimed by those who had tried the experiment, would be as likely to hit the players head, face or body as his hands, and if it should strike him anywhere its force would be so great as to make the result almost an assured injury. If Schriver actually caught ball dropped from the top of Washington mon- 4ha bell .,f dirn nru kind used in playing baseball, and if his hands were not injured in the effort, he has done that which will attract not only the attention of every ball player, but the wonder of scientists as we'll
 As the playing season closes evidence of tho success of the national game in 1894 increases The Eastern league fulfilled its promise of extending it's playing sea- son O week, the reverse of the usual GUS tom of shortening the schedule. The Providence club announced net profit on Aug. 20 of $4,000. The Western league has S25, 900 in its treasury. Every pro- fessional minor league and association will finish its season. Finally new league has just been formed and has applied for national agreement protection under class B to operate in 1895. The organization was made thus early to protect rights of territory" That denotes competition. The newcomer is the Atlantic league, which will embrace eight clubs located in Jersey City, Newark, Trenton, Wilmington, Pat erson and three other cities in New Jersey or Delaware. The California league is also preparing to organize for the coming win ter. Meanwhile the large attendance on the eastern National league games keeps up to the very end, and the promise of a still more prosperous season for lS95 is excellent,
 There will be great scramble about October among the National league man. agers to secure, under the drafting condi- tions of the national agreement, the best of the newly developed playing material in the minor league clubs. There is scarcely National league team which does not need strengthening. This is particularly true of the Cleveland, Cincinnati Pitts burg, Louisville Philadelphia and Brook lyn clubs Dozens of the professionals who have made records in the minor leagues this year will be tried by the ma jor league next spring, and, as usual, two thirds of them will be found wanting in abilities to fill expectations and keep mp in the faster companies.
 Out of about every eight or ten players which National league clubs try is found one such jewel us is George Turner of the Philadelphias. He is one of the best outfielders and batsmen in the coun- try, and his reputation is not yet fully es- tablished He came up out of obscurity by the rarest chance. Season before last when the Philadelphias were in desperate and immediate need of fielder, Jack Sharrott told his manager, Harry Wright that there was young fellow named Tur- ner, a member of local club at Plain field, N. J., with whom he had played, and whom he would like to see get chance in @ big team. MT. Wright was in position to try anybody just then, and he sent for Turner. The young man impressed the veteran manager favorably in his first game, and since then his standing as an Al" player has been fully established N Queer, however, that Sharrott, who recoIn- lended him, is not in the profession now.
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 because they'll not get an oppor
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