The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-03-25

er Charley Farrell Indignantly rejects the
New Yorks' offer of S4O0 month Pitcher
Bill Kennedy of the Brook yns has been in.
suited by an offer of only 500 a month in.
crease in his last years salary and has aired
his grievance in u letter to Brooklyn
friend. George Miller, endearingly called
"Foghorn" by his friends on account of
the intonation of his chest sounds, turns III
his Roman nose at Won der Ahc's offer OF
S33333] per month to play west of the Mis-.
sissippi.
Amos Rusie treats with silent contempt
the New Yorks' contract forwarded to him
with $500 per month engrossed on the sal.
airy line. Ned Hanlon, manager of the Bal
tlmore club, is on record rs thrusting satan
behind him when he was tempted with an
offer of $4,000 Il year to 20 to ST Louis and
manage for Won der Abe And SO on nd
inflnitum
The most remarkable of these is that
reputed offer made by Won der Abe to Han.
Ion. There seems to be no doubt that the
offer was made, but there must have been
some private conditions attached which
made the acceptance prohiEitory | know
that Won der Abe refused to give Harry
Wright $1,000 IL year for the lattcrs serv
ices, and there is nothing about Hanlun.
spiritually, esthctically. physically or pro.
fessionally, TO make him worth lGG PEI
cent more than Harry Wright in Il mana
gerial capacity.
Farrell's dissatisfaction with the salary
offered by the New Works grows out of the
fact, no doubt, that the club paid so much
money for his release Seven thousand five
hundred dollars cash was handed to the
Washington club for his and Mcckius re-.
lease, and Farrell ut once became full OF
the sophlstry that if club could paw that
much for his release they ought to double
his salary. He forgcts that while the clul
paid SO much for his release they haveco;,.
troll of a half dozen other players for each
of whom they could get equally rs large -
sum OF release money, yet they do not OH
that account pay increased salaries
The New Yorks have II men under con.
tract, counting lsusie, whose contract il
but Il question of time and endurance, and
these II men will draw $3i. 600 from the
clubs treasury for six months services. In
the light of the hard times and this fact
does anybody believe that II baseball PLAYER
is an abused or suffering mortal, especially
when 1T Is known that during two months
of the six he is living ut the best hotels i'm
the land or travelling around on ii Pullnan
car at the clubs expense?
Farrell, it is true, is n great catcher The
League has not Il man behind the ba, whoi.
his superior but $50 Il month is Il good sal
He was one of the members of Anson's Chi
cage team which WAS so completely dis
ruptcd and scattered by the revolt of 1880
Farrell, Duffy, Van IIaltrcn. Pfcflcr RYAN
and Williamson deserted Arson LEAVING
Burns, Hutchinson and Wilmot all that
were saved from the wreck In 1901 Far
rell went to the American association clui
in Boston. AT the indianapolis consolida
ton in Decembe 1891, he was assigned &c
the Pittsburg club in spite of Ansons pro
test and claim. Last year he caught in s:
games for the Washngtons and is now ~
che head of his class.
The baseball stars life generally is mctc.
ORIG. Usually he lives score of wear.
without more than a few hundred of the
66, O00, 900 people in the United States know.
ing there is such a fellow on earth Sud
denly he plays several remarkable games of
ball, and then something like 10000. 00C
people, more or less, begin TO speak his
name in tones of admiration. while his re.
fusal to accept pitiful pittance of 81, 600
year for his services is the subject of col.
umns, in the daily newspapers. a few more
years, and the star sets-settles, ! should
say-of in some inland town Then comes
oblivion, and he is forgotten by the mil
lions who so short time before called him
mighty.
This homily pardonable, perhaps, when
I am forced to announce the sequestration
of King Kelly, recently known as the slO,-
900 beauty. Twenty years ago Mike was
an unknown barefoot at Paterson ~ j
There he began to play baseball on the cor
ner lots. He showed skill Barnie took
him out to Columbus, O., where he began
10 play iemiprofessionally In 1879 Kelly