The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-21
Eagle Baseball Notes.

The Chicagos are the real Giants"
Of the league.
Hoffer of Baltimore has won seven
teen straight games.
Pittsburg won but three games off
New York this season.
According to reports not Philadel-
phia player has been fined this season.
The Colonies are cinched to finish in
| twelfth hole this season. McCloskey
is hopeful for next season.
No less than six New York players
getting right, Mr.. Freedman.
President Byrne of Brooklyn is the
only league magnate who accompanies
his team wherever it goes.
The Chicago club has twenty-four
men under contract. Ten of them are
pitchers. There's experimenting for
you
Breitenstein is said to have played
possum on that hit on the knee in Phil
adeiphia. He wanted a rest and got it.
1t is said that Frank Seelee has ex-
pressed a desire to manage the New
Yorks. Why don't Freedman grab him.
Jouett Meekin proba bly, will play first
base for New York the rest Of the sea-
son. Doyle's injuries make this neces-
sary.
Pitcher Beam Of the Phillies is still
practicing locating the plate. He ex-
poets to be all right for next season.
Maybe.
Philadelphia is negotiating for Pitch
er Inks of Louisville. 1t is hardly pro-
bable that the Colonels management
will sell him.
Jack Doyle of the New Yorks is con-
WINGED that he is not a Casey or Nc
Phee on the bases. He will go behind
the bat next season.
Tommy Mccarthy of Boston may
quit baseball at the close of the season
and devote his time to Duffy & Nc
Carthy's saloon and bowling alley.
Louisville wants Shortstop Shannon
of Springfield in the eastern, to play
out the season there. He has not yet
made his intentions known.
J. Earl Wagner is willing to pay s25,-
600 for three or four named players in
the league. And he sold two stars
Meekin and Farrell, for $500.
The Reds have established an unpre-
cedented record by participating in
three games in which the score was Z
to O. They won one and lost two Of
these games.
Duffy, Mccarthy and Tucker of Bos-
ton are credited with a burning desire
to play in New York. Their respective
contracts. however. read Boston" and
so they'll have to stay there.
Jimmy Mcclure has caught between
100 and 125 games for Washington this
season This is easily the record for
consecutive games. His friends are
raising a purse to present TO him.
An effort will be made to abolish the
rule which allows a substitute to bat
in place of a weak batter at a critical
stage of the game. The rule is hardly
fair, and few teams have derived any
benefit from it.
Red" Ehret and Hemie Peitz are
now decorating the St. Louis bench and
drawing no salary. Ehret is accused
of playing Indifferent ball, while Peitz'
lay-off is because of his using improper
language on the field.
1t is thought that Walter Wilmot
will not make good his bluff to retire
next season sooner than play with Chi
cago. He has worked the same gag
with the fervor and persistence Of
farewell prima donna.
Surprising that New York had had
chance 10 compete for the Temple cup
what sort of an exhibition would she
have made against either Baltimore,
Cleveland. Philadelphia or Boston with
her team in the condition that it is to-
day?-Boston Herald.
There is some talk Of Billy Hamilton
and Jack Boyle OF Philadelphia being
traded for Tucker and Mccarthy OF
Boston at the close of the season. Tuck
or would be the only sufferer. as he
could not stand the quiet Of Philadel-
phia.
All the Cleveland players have been
vaccinated They played in Wheeling
recently and there met an old ball
PLAYER. who shook hands with all the
boys. The next day the man in ques-
ton took down with smallpox No
wonder the Spiders stampeded 10 doc
tors offices