The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-12-27

business that he believes he can conduct sue
cess1ully in the OFF season. Mr. Earle owns
a farm near Grants Lick KY, about %
start chicken farm. He has purchased
o." chickens and large number Of eggs
OF the best strain. He will raise chickens
Tor the Cincinnati market. When not en-
gagged In playing ball he will be known as
Farmer Earle from now Billy thinks he
can reallze q pretty interest hts invest
ment by selling eggs and chickens in the
citys
Vanderbeek will now have chance to
Keep Nicholson to captain the team unless
he gets a playing manager. He is thinking
OF Dave Foutz. Arthur Irwin George Te-
beau, Charlie Cushman and Garlic Morton.
According to story printed in Louisville
paper. the st. Paul club may not secure
Second Baseman Connors after ALL as Presi-
| dent STICKY thinks the Minneapolis infielder
can play second base good enough for the
| Colonies.
| Gil Hatfield and Jack Glasscock have
| larger bank accounts than any players In
! the Western league. Gil inherited most of
| his money, and Pebble Jack saved his tidy
fortune fortune. which is invested in real estate at
! wheeling, W. Va.-Washington Post.
There are no revolving wedges in base
| ball ball as in foot ball, but John T. Brush
| discovered that there Is center rush and
| dehled tongue Of the bleacherite is "a double
| cross. This was of the facts discovered
at the Chicago meeting.
! Sporting Life is authority for the state
Chicago and go to the Philadelphia club
believing that eleven years in one club is
enough. Ed Delehanty feels about the same
way toward Philadelphia, but he puts the
time limit little less.
There isn't much difference between what
Denzer, the ST. Paul pitcher wants for next
season and what Arson will give him. Dem
| says he won't sign for less than S. 400.
| Arson says he will either take 81 200 or not
| play ball. Twelve hundred isn't much when
you say it real fast-Detroit Free Press.
At the last session of the Milwaukee base
ball club three stockholders disposed of their
| shares to NJ r. Killilea, F. c. Gross, Charles
Polacheck and c. Helberg, the retiring mag
| mates being r. Giljohann, ex-Secretary Engel
and j. W. Murphy The financial considera-
ton attending the transfer was not made
| public.
! Theodore Breitenstein and Perry Werden
4. intend spending the holidays in St. Louis
| but after the first of the year will resume
| their cruise down the Mississippi on board the
Nancy Hanks" Charley Frank, who owns
| the boat, and Frank Genins, of the Columbus
team, will probably join them when they
| start out again.
| 1t is reported that Charley Comiskey has
! secured Billy Hulen from Philadelphia to
| play short. Hulen is a minor league star of
] the FIRST water, but had trouble with
| the Phfllies last season. He and Jimmy Con-
! nors would keep everybody guessing around
second-base, even on the st. Paul grounds
Indianapolis News.
Col. Vanderbeck, who is on the schedule
| ColulHltete Has dIIdHBou one WHICH lie LnlnKS
will please them all. 1t gives the Western
clubs at home games Decoration day or
Fourth of July, and the Eastern clubs alter
mating those days. On Labor day the East
ern clubs will be in the West. Van says
he thinks this will suit them all, the
West has not had its share of holiday games
lately.
Talking of umpires, Tony Mullane would
scarcely shine holder of the indicator.
| Antonio has a host of friends. but he has
| an erratic temper, and it's question II
| he could hold it during of the stormy
tests that come nearly every game for an
! umpire But the league is going to protect
| the umpires next season. Rules to be
enforced to the letter. and players will not
be allowed to dispute decisions. There will
be less of the despicable practice Of get
ting the crowd onto the umpire Kicking
is not to be tolerated. and an umpire who
does not enforce the rules will be dropped.
| This will be easy if all umpires act in like
manner if all enforce the rules. The trouble
| comes when one enforces the rules-or
tries to-after his predecessor in the city has
been very lax in his ruling. The howl is
| Immediately raised that the good umpire
who is trying to do his full duty-has ''it