The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1895-12-29
GOSSIP OF SPORTS.
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Washington Post.
McCloskey of the Louisvilles writes
Ted sullivan that there viii he AT least
twenty-eight Colonels when the gong taps
that ushers in the next baseball season
is heard.
After wedding out the dead ones Mae
ought to have n strong team. rae has
the timber, and Is entitled 10 shake
hands with himself for his efforts. As
he says, the Colonies, with team work,
ought to give any team in the league an
argument.
Mae says the league race will Zoe even
closer next season than last, especially
as regards the teams in the last division.
"Ihe exchange of players says Mac,
has been sort of reciprocity deal, and
fine race between the teams of the last
division will be the result
AL Mott says in Sporting Life: The
league crafts on the minors and the
minors draft on themselves. 1t is class
A, b aud so on down through an alpha
betical discord. They complain OF com
bine and make no effort to combine
against it. If one long-hcadcd fellow,
sav like O'Neal of Norfolk, would cor
respond with all the others and then
cali meeting ut some central point the
thing could be done in short order II
they could only be cotton Ia be of one
mind on anything. The league has
things its own way, because, while the
magnates fight themselves TO some eH-
tent. they are solid as against all the
other fellows. 1t is not question OF
money ut all. 1t is purely matter OF
ulavefs whom the league can not by any
possibility use until they are certainly
mot promisingly) developed,
lin Hall changes his mind about as
often as his shirt. AT least that is the
impression he creates among those news
paper men who are unfamiliar with
.Jim's habit of "joshins and strlnging',
TO a reporter in Cleveland me other
day he said that Ftzsimmons could make
star gazer out Oh Teter Manner III
few brief rounds.
Now Peter and Hall are the best of
friends. Jam has as much use for Peters
right as an electrician has for 1--we
wire. as he showed in Boston last spring.
when he begged tie freshman not to
knock him out and put him out OF the
business" OF course jim was playing
little string music when he told the
reporter that he wanted TO fight fitz
,goin His notorious mania for string
ing" has got him into trouble many
time. IVA.
wrote inns pugilistic epitaph IN Il DIE,
round hand on Jim's jaw, the latter was
tackled by Il newspaper man, VINO az
legged that the fight wasn't on the iefel'
that Hall laid down TO the kangaroo
you're right. Don't give away;
I laid down and got S10,0D for H., snid
Hall, telegraphing wink to JACK NC
Auliffe -. ma,
Then came forth tale OF how fin
and Hall faxed: that Jim realized more
money than his sorrel-topped rival jim
has repeatedly and sincerely denied this
yarn. Int even TO this day he is regarded
ms swell fixed" and having voiuptuonS
rolls of the convenient green slowed
away in banks all over the country Inc
only big money that Jim ever possessed
was after his fight with Ted Prltchard,
in england. when Squire Abingdon
added him 10 the Abingdon Society. OF
Retonchers. which included Mace, Mich
eli. Raldock. Carney and other biihng
caiehrities. all of whom touched the
'souire so often that he really got used
to ii and liked it.
! The sylnh-waisted and beady-eyea
man from Dingo land with the incsnula's,
Inc and opulent "do.lect. you know
has finally thrown his right on, sheet
80 paner which provides that he Is 10
oat he Hibernian with the raven locks;
NJ, ,hev are TO participate in dialogue
80 ~ manIies: that they must partici-
ol i, n Journey that has Tombstone
+ p'V o,nnv nopulated by queer scrappers'
for a terminal point. Ana tne con,'eS
lion Of this eoint is made py VIII
known in railroad circles as v, ,n n.vp
win he the V ana Whien 'H'
remain' y = known among the biting
cr;Ia as a full-hook, SWING, anu Jam