Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-07

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Rem milford says that Col Grim OF the
Louisvilles is paying s11 per day for the
purpose of enacting thinking part.
The Baltimore Base Ball Club have been
practicing the past week in Macon. Ga,
and have shown UP pretty well.
Though Vaughn Of the Cincinnatis is
offered within $500 of what he received
during the war Of 1890 he refuses to sign
q contract
George Davis says there are two factions
in the Boston team, one headed by Duffy
! and Tucker and the other by Stivetts.
"Old Horse" Radbourne has assaulted the
The "Phillies' will wear striped stock
ings this year and will thus be right In line
with the Easter styles.
Tommy Lovetts engagement by the
Bostons is merely one OF probation. II he
pitches good ball he'll draw a salary.
All the unmarried men and geographical
widowers Of the New York team board
together on the heights back Of the Polo
Ward stated last week that his only
team desire now is for a left-handed pitch
er. He thinks such a player is good arti-
So MANY New York enthusiasts have al
ready announced their intention to go TO
Baltimore on the 10Th for the league open
ing that special train 10 carry theii
The news comes from st. Louis that Chris
Won der Abe will manage his own team.
The boss manager has done SO Cor years,
but now he expects TO sit on the pench
with the players and pull the string.
Farrell says he will Tot play II ne does
not get the salary he asks for he denies
that he is suffering from "swelled head.
The question has been raised whether
Sage's acceptance OF a league umpireship
will bar him from the amateur athletic
ranks as a Splinter.
And now II is rumo-ed that Capt. Arson
will give Radbourne another chance. There
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The Chicago Tribune says that in order
to complete his team Mike Kelly should
sign Arson, and then cruelty adds that
Chicago will willingly part with the old
man.
Van Haltren SAYS that Jerry Denny
played great ball in California the past win
ter. He declares that while Denny's fielding
was as good as ever his batting was better
than he had ever seen 1t.
Both Treasurer Talcott and Manager
Ward said yesterday that the New York
club has not decided to dock Farrell for
the time he misses by not reporting, dating
from Monday.
Ward and Davis practice batting more
than any of the New York players. They
are placing their hits, Ward in particular
being very proficient In this respect. The
Bostons' skill in placing hits bids fair to be
copied by all the big teams this year.
The batting order of the Bostons at the
beginning of the season will be pretty near
as follows: Lowe, Long, Duffy, Mccarthy.
pitcher. whoever officiates.
Dad" Clarke. with New York this year.
was with the Omaha club at. the same time
that kid" Nichols pitched for that team.
under Frank Selee's management
A dispatch from New York says that Man.
ager Dave Foutz has signed Korwan, a
crack pitcher from the Norwich. Conn,
team. At the same time Manager Tom
York of the Norwich team claims the SER
vices of Korwan. He has applied for pro-
lection to President Young.
Catcher Bennett is having artificial legs
constructed to replace the natural ones lost
recently in railroad accident. Pitcher
Nichols thinks Boston will miss Benefits
services more than II imagines.
When Campeau was signed by Washing
ton he was expected to captain the team
Now he writes asking Manager Schuelz for
permission to stay in New Orleans a month
or six weeks longer, and it has been
granted SO 1t is probable that Joyce will
be appointed captain.
Mr.. Coogan has presented TO the New
York club the tall flag staff which has been
standing on Dead Head hill. back of the
Polo Ground grand stand 1t will be brought
down into center field and erected in Mace
OF the one that did service last season The
new pole is the highest in Harlem.
A New York paper says: Cub" Stricken
is the first member of the Washington null
ttude to get his release from Manager
Schmelz From yesterday Cwhen sala RES
begin to rum they'll drop from the wash
ington roll like hickory nuts from a hickory
tree on a windy day after the first heavy
frost.
Manager Bancroft Of Cincinnati, bo.
grown facetious at the expense of ''Gus"
Schmelz. He proposes that when the WASH
instons play in Cincinnati the local team
shall double discount the Senators Nv
taking two runs off their score every time
the Washinstons make one.
Pitcher Meekin reached Gotham a few
days ago and reported for duty. His an
pearance is good, and he promises 10 DO
satisfactory work this year for the New
Yorks. His coming was delayed by his faith
er's canvass for the nomination for MAYER
on the republican ticket at New Albany
The caucus, or convention, was held SAT-
urday, and Meekin, senior, was beaten by
thirty votes.
President Kerr OF the Pittsbures on
rounces "officially and finally" that his
team will play no Sunday games despite an
temptations held out. st. Louis offered the
club $500 cash to play in that city next
Sunday, but Mr.. Kerr says the offer would
have been declined If it had been $40 900 in
stead of 81: 300. and he adds. This is a fight
for principle and not money"
George Van Haltren is roasting the n. yoe
he says: I'VE New Workers won't 40 a
thing TO Pittsburs this year. They haven't
got pitcher, except Killen, who amounts
to hit" The cranks in the Smoky CITY he We
put on war paint over the insnuation tbaf
they are not in II, and Charley Power calls
van George n-a-Trance." Van has been
~ IiiOou AT tunes, but II is prettV
safe to say he will be wide awake every
time that New York and Pittsburg clash
Manager Ward Is having trouble with "a
rev OF his men, but he is bound to come ont
ahead- An exchange, in speaking of his ef-
forts, has the following: Ward has been
somewhat harshly criticised for his deter
mined opposition to the demands of Farrell
ana Rusie, owing to the fact that when he
was only plain, ordinary player he was
wont to stand out each year for a big ad-
vance The fact that he generally succeeded
In his 'strike"is used against him. There does
not seem to be much sense or justice in this
complaint. He is now a manager, literally
paid to look after the clubs interest. II
makes heap OF difference which side of
the fence person is on. A man of prop
erty is never an anarchist, and a landlord
deprecates the "no-rent" movement
President Reach of the Philadelphia cl,,b
told a good joke on himself at the league
meeting He was in the Fifth Avenue
Hotel one day getting his shoes shinad
when another gentleman who was under
going the same operation looked at him
and said: Al Reach. Al. Reach" "Sena-
tor said Mr. Reach. 81 did not think that
you knew me-" Not know you? Your
face is photographed in my mind. have
chased your balls" The Senator, who was
no other parsonage than Senator German,
who was once a crack center fielder, and
time AL Reach made four home runs in
succession In a game. No wonder the SEN
ator did not forget that The senior Sena-
tor from Maryland has always been
lover Of base ball. He knows many of the
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