The evening times., 1896-02-07
Fit.

| the Syracuse club on April .. with the Brock
! tons on April Q. and with the Jersey Citysop
April and 10. Then the game with the
| Princetons on April /. the Harry Wright
Day game April ), and the Yale team visit
| on April 4 Will complete the heante-champion-
| ship program.
And now DR.. stuckcy. Of the Loui.viIles,
has gone into the prophet class. He has 1t all
| figured out. He predicts that the Colonels
! will finish eighth in SO. fourth in 81, and
| win the pennaut in '9s. and then war with
England will be declared. 1t is to be
hoped the Colone!s will not rush the ooun-
try too strong.
President Frank DeHaas Robson def
niteiy decided last night that he would not
dispose OF the Cleveland ball team, but that
| Cleveland would remain in the League as
| usual. All the surplus pla yers. however,
| VIII be transferred 10 a minor league team
| in the West.
If Mr.. Diddlebuck "f st. Louis can .e-
cure Schoenhut he will release sheehan.
| Sheehan is not the worst hitter In the
| world.
/ At an Informal conference OF members OF
the Western Baseball League the formal
transfer of the Toledo players was made
! to the Grand Rapids club.
John Ward. Yale Murphy and Huyler wes-
| tervelt will play with the Orange Athletic
Club nine in the game with the New York
League team ON April IS.
Mr.. Freedman has already selected Har-
vey Watkins successor as business manager
of the New York club. Irwin will not be
asked to do anything which will take his
| attentions or presence from the field.
There is war against Sunday games at
Burlington, Iowa. The baseball managers
say the club cannot pay expenses without
Sunday ball, and that they Will be COM
PEELED TO drop out OF the Western Associa-
ton if the church people win.
Al BuckenberGer is much pleased with
the prospects of winning and paying
team at Toronto. He now has nineteen
players under contract, inclgdiDg the five
given him by the Pitisburg club. They
are Catchers Dowse. Casey and Kiusella;
Pitchers Moran. Berrett. Dean. Dunn, Nc
Partlin and Dinneen; Infe.ders Luten-
berg, Paten. Smith. Stuart and AL Wag-
ner, and Outfie.ders Freeman. 0'BIieD,
Sanford. Walsh, ard Dietrich. "Buck''
says with that aggregation he ought 20
come very near windin. his grasp in the
folds of the Eastern Lea que peDDant.
President Young has issued the following
bulletin:
Contracts for 1S96-with Chica go-Jobn
Dolan w. E. Parrott. W. II. Thornton, C.
C. Griffith, G. A. Decker. and II. G. TRULY.
With Cincinnati-John A. McPbee, W.
E. Hoy and Frank Dwyer.
With Louisville-Ellswo Cunningham
and John j. Warner.
With New York-S. VI. Bowen.
Players selected-By Lonsviile-Fred
Ciausen, Frank Eustace and Edward Boyle.
BY Baltimore-J. b. Donnelly and George
Gray.
BY Cincinnati-A. s. Kennedy.
By Boston-w. E. Mains.
The following schedule of preliminary
games is announced 10y Manager Tebeau,
of Cleveland:
ID Cleveland and Pittsburg will play at
Hot Springs together until March 90. when
the Cleveland will journey To Little Rock,
Ark. where they will play on March 80
and 81. From there the Clevelands will
play in the following cities: Memphis,
April and 2: Kansas City April and 8;
st. Joseph. April 6 and = Des MoiIes,
April and 8; Burlington. April o and IL;
Peoria, April 12 and 13. The last exhi-
bit ! game will be played at Quincy on
April 4,
''Nick" Young announces that the silver
souvenir passes. to he issued by the league,
which the Herald announced exclusively,
will be limited TO ten for each club. The other
fifteen will be OF last year skind.-New York
Herald.
Kritain's PrOtectorntc Over Ashantee.
London. Feb. "A dispatch from Accra
says that Gov. Maxwell of the Gold Coast
colony has issued proclamation declaring
British protectorate over Ashantee.
Great sale of Dlackin;osEes at 403-4ob
Seventh street at o5 per cent Of regular
prices.
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