The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-11-13
BRODIE TRADED OFF
The Famous Center Fielder is No Lonpe,
an Orolc.

Baltimore ami pittsburg clubs which
| borders somewhat on the wholesale order,
| considering the number OF PLAYERS in
volved hi
The Orioles will not have Center Fielder
Brodie and Third Baseman Donnelly next
| season. These players go to Mr. kerr's
Pittsburg club, while Manager Hnnlon
gets Center Fielder Stencil, Outfelder
O'Bren. Pitcher Horton and Second Base
man TRULY. The amount of money that
has passed between the parties to the
trade is said to be nothing and both an
pear To be well satisfied.
The induccment on the two sides for
making the bargain centers upon Dom
nelly and Stencil. Manager IIonIon
wanted for his outiield good nan who
could add largely to the batting and base
running strength of the Baltimore tenn.
and, as averages 90, the result is some
thing startling, rs will be shown further
on. On the other hand, Pittbsurg needed
IL tip-top third baseman, and the acuuisi-
ton OF james DoDnclly, rs all Bnlti
moreans know, will never cause Kerr TO
be called the hayseed end of IL gold brick
deal. Not this time.
1t may he true, as limited, that when
Kerr realized what a group of players he
was gvin0 up for two men he wanted, as
swapping schoolboys say, to ''do it back
again. but it is to he presumed that
llanlon, who usually trades II single stalk
for whole bunch of celery, was bound to
have the fltter end of the bargain. and
Kerr ought TO be glad that Sir Edward
clidn get the residue of the whole Pitts
burg aggregation. Thus il may be that
since October 22--yes. that was the time
when the deal was practically made-Air
Kerr may have wanted I modification of
t1,s. lN.t. La =: -
there.
Mr.. Hanlon has long believed that Bro.
dies hitting and base-running have not
measured up to the requirements of the
championship club, and he seems thor
oughly convinced than Donnelly and Nc.
Graw cannot exist upon the same team
together. Aside from such natural eal-
ousies us naturally arise between two
such rivals on one club, each has Il biz
following among the spectators, and a
temporary slump in the playing of either
results III the calls for the other \ de-
moraliZation of the whole team follows.
the effects of which can sometimes he
observed more markedly in the club
house than on the diamond. Mr. Hanlon
had determined that one of them must
30, and he preferred to keep the man who
has lived up to his reputation as il person
occasional neglect of duty, and with Me
Grlw on third he prefers to keep Quinn
as the utility man
With Stencil, Hotter and Robinson in
the game it is calculated that the Orioles
will have the high batting average of $40
Stencil easy led his team last season in
batting and base-runnng, with an aver
age of 1856 and 81 stolen bases to his
credit. In company with the champions
he is expected to increase his stolen. has,
record largely
by this deal Hanlon holds no fewer
than four men who stand among the six
batting leaders of the league, namely
Jennings, llecler, Kelly and Stencil
lie also has seven of the first twenty.
five leaders. which is not far short of one.
third of them and is more than fourth.
Those making up the seven are McGraw.
Robinson and Doyle, and there's evidently
a basc-runner or two in this trio Man
ager llanlon believes he has strengthened
his team extraordinarily by this NOV,
and he feels very comfortable over the pen
nant prospects of 1897. BY the way, the
Jacob Stencil idea is not Il new one witt
lIanlon He admits that he has been
wanting Stencil for II long time and ha.
waited with the patience cf Il mouscr fol
him.
Stencil was catcher of the Dallas, Tex
team i'll 1888, and with Luby formed 4
celebrated battery of that day. In 1SS!
he was signed by Buckenbcrger to catch
for Columbus lie played there yeai
and went back into minor leagues for Il
couple of years and then went to Pitts
burg, where he has been playing over
| three years.
Player O'Bricn is an overlooked man
L. il
acutest advisers say was the star out
fielder of the Eastern League last season
up to the time he broke bone and was
! put ont of the game. Stahl, of Buffalo
/ for whom Philadelphia unsucccssfully
and Boston successfully had Il struggle
has borne this reputation, but IIanlou
! thinks O'Brien conner, and he was
about to draft him when Pittsburg
/ bought the man O'Briens home is neal
! pittsburg.
Horton has the making of fine
! pitcher. His home is Brooklyn He
| played in the West, hut was bought by
! Kerr and sent TO the Toronto team.
| TRULY played second base for Chicago,
and Pittsburg also bought him and sent
| him to the Toronto farm
Mr.. Hanon will take his new men
| South i'll the spring and size them all up.
He believes he has not been badly treated
in his bargain, and few who know his in.
nocence in making deals think that any
league manager would take IN undue ad
| vantage of Edward because he is appar-
entity SO trusting and 50 confident of the
uprightness of the world. i
BILLIARDS WITHOUT EXERCISE.
Frcquentcrs of the Continental hotel
billiard room have long been accustomed
to the sharp game put up by the gentle
man whose scant hair is always coinbed
scrupulously over IL semi bald head, and
who appears to have no other object in
! the world than to knock the worries about
the green cloth. y slick.looking chap,
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