Evening star., 1895-03-09
Boisterous Coaching to Be Stopped
This Year.
EFFECT OF POWER GIVEN TEE UMPIRE
Interest in the Coming Gymnasium
Contest.
GENERAL SPORTING TOPICS

Boisterousness in base ball has got to go.
This season the players will have all fines
inflicted by the umpire to pay out of their
own salaries. The league magnates have
all signed the resolution, adopted at the
recent meeting In New York, providing
that managers will hereafter be restrained
from paying the penalties for disorderly
conduct inflicted upoh the members of their
respective teams by the umpires. A copy
of the resolution was sent by mail to all
of the club managers, and yesterday 1t
came back to league headquarters with all
the signatures attached. 1t will be placed
on file. and President Young declares it
will be enforced to the letter.
Such players as Jack Glasscock of Louis
Vile, Clark and McGraw of Baltimore,
Tucker and Duffy of Boston, Jack Beckley
of Pittsburg, Patsy Tebeau of Cleveland.
Doyle of New York, Cub" Miller of st.
Louis, Vaughn of Cincinnati and all of the
other noisy and boisterous coachers will
be required to tone down their voices and
curb their tempers to comport with the be-
hayiOf of such men as AnSon of Chicago,
Foutz of Brooklyn, Irwin of Philadelphia
and Latham of Cincinnati. The antics of
Latham are seldom disgusting, nor are
they Calculated to bring discredit upon the
game Many people go to the Cincinnati Sc
ries principally TO see Latham perform and
hear him chatter. 1t Is all done in good
form and is an entertaining feature of the
game.
1t has been demonstrated time and time
again that rowdy coaching Is a hindrance
rather than a help to the game. Take the
case of Hoy, who Is deaf and dumb. When
he has his heart in the game he Is as cleV-
er the base lines as the best of them.
He keeps his eye on the ball and takes his
chances accordingly. On the other hand,
some of the greatest blunders in base run
ming have been made when the coachers
with the loudest mouths were giving direc-
tionS to runners.
There is some grumbling heard in the
western cities over the repeal OF the pro-
vision providing that 10 per cent OF the
gate receipts be withheld from the COM
peting clubs and paid into the league treas
ury, to be divided up as dividend. as was
done several times last season. The big
clubs kicked, and their kick went. Now it
will be necessary for every club to put
forth it's best efforts to be attractive not
only at home, but abroad. 1t Is calculated
to make the contests more spirited and m
duce all the clubs to try to be self-sustain-
ing.
The fine spring-like weather of the past
week has enabled Mr.. Wagner and his as
sistants to do some good work on the local
diamond. In the meantime Gus Schmelz
is down in Charleston, s. c., getting his
players into form for the opening game
with Boston on the 10Th of next month.
Reports received from Charleston show
that the Washington team Is ambitious to
realize on Earl Wagner's offer. 1t will be
$4,000 among the members of his team If
they will win the championship this sea-
son. While many persons are conhdent
that Earl will not have to give up his
''ten thous," 1t Is nevertheless fact that
at this time last season no man in the
country would have seriously picked Bal
timore to capture the rag.
Here is the way well-known Congress
man, who Is a great lover of base ball. has
arranged the clubs for the final wind up:
New York, Boston, Baltimore, Philadel-
phia. Pittsburg, Cleveland, st. Louis, Chi
cago, Washington, Cincinnati, Brooklyn,
Louisville.
During the past week many of the play
ers who were disposed to hold off have
come into camp, and President Young has
their contracts in his inside pocket, pre-
paratory to promulgating them. Conspicu-
Gus among the late arrivals are Hawley
and Tom kinslow. with Pittsburg; Breiten-
stein. Denny Lyons ard Ely, with ST. Louis,
and "Jigs'' Parrott, the india-rubber pitcher,
with Cincinnati
While the league men are getting into
line in fine shape there is much trouble
with the players in the minor leagues The
players in these associations appear to
have but little regard for their future,
judging from the reckless manner in which
they place their names to two or three
contracts for the same season.
Center-fielder Brodie is the first of the
five recaicitrant Baltimore players to show
signs of capitulation. Manager Hanlon has
received. letter from him, in which he
receded from the terms he had before dis
cussed and put in plea for $50 more than
the salary already offered him. 1t is not
likely that Mr.. HanIon will concede the
slightest advance.
New York cranks are elated over the
reports of Stafford's work at second base.
President O'Rourke of the Connecticut
Base Ball League takes little stock in the
rumors that the Eastern League team of
Springfield will be transferred to New
Haven this year He says the elm city will
be represented in the state league only.\
1t looks If Bannon would give one of
the New York outfielders quite race for
a regular position on the nine.
President Frank DeHaaS Robson of the
Cleveland Base Ball Club takes very little
stock in the talk Pittsburg is making
about a revolt in the league.
Billy Barnie says that a split in the
twelve-club league circuit is a moral GER
tainty. He believes that an eight-club
league and an eight-club association will
be ultimately established
Fred Pfeffer will begin coaching the
Princeton College team in q few days. He
says he does not know whether he will play
ball in Louisville or not this season.
Anson has at last come out with his
annual statement, although it is bit quail
ifed. He says the Chicagos will make the
fur fly"
Warner, the Bostons new man, is tall,
strapping fellow, five feet ten inches in
height tWenty-seven years old and weighs
16o pounds In 1894 he played with the
Wilkesbarre club, where out of 112 games.
he caught 107. He has batting average