St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-23
WESTERN LEAGUE MEETS TOMOR-
ROW IN CHICAGO, INSTEAD OF
ST. PAUL.
NATIONAL ALSO THIS WEEK.
NICK YOUNGys GALAXY OF TALENT
WILL GATHER IN NEW
YORK.
HINTS FOR CAPT. coM1sKEY
They Are Made in Watkins, Town,
So, of Course, They Are I'm
selfish.

According to the Indianapolis News,
Capt. Comiskey Is overlooking some
bets. That paper says:
Charley Comiskey seems to be doing less
IMAM any manager in the league toward
strengthening his team. st. Paul was last
season none too strong. and had the team
ceen forced to stand on it's own merits 1t
would have stood much lower in the race at
the end of the season. The twenty-four out
or tWenty-six games which the team won on
its home grounds. however gave the club
standing which, together with good luck, it
managed to maintain throughout the balance
of the season. II will be different this year.
Not only is the league much stronger
promise of appointing much better staff of
umpires, and with competent officials Com
iskey will find he has q rocky road II he
clinss to his present team Of ball-tessers.
1t also takes the following shot at
Minneapolis:
The Minneapolis management has decided
to play its Sunday games at Lake Harriet.
new PARK VIII be built, and everything
put in ship shape before the opening of the
season. These grounds will be much closer
i'll than those at White Bear lake, and caa
be reached by several lines Of cars. The Min
neapoilS downtown park needs attention.
When the Goodnow syndicate was fighting
for the Minneapolis franchise one of the in
ducements 1t offered that IL the fran
chse was secured the grounds would be en-
larged, SO that base ball, and not croquet,
could be played on them. This syndicate
secured the franchise, but since then moth
ing has been heard about enlarging the
grounds.
The st. Paul team will not stay at
the post for month this year at the
beginning of the season. They will re-
port for duty April 1, and when the
weather is bad they will work on the
inside.
The Western league meets tomorrow
in Chicago
James Hart, president Of the Chicago
league ball team, has number of
ideas he will spring on his fellow mag
mates at the New York meeting next
week. Among them will be the sug-
gestion that a rule be adopted where
by each team in each game will have
two coachers, to be players or team
members in uniform, they to do all
the coaching. Hart favorS the single
umpire system, his argument being
that it is hard enough to get six good
men without trying for twelve or more.
He will suggest that seven men be ap-
pointed at the start of the season. and
given years job at umpiring, with
the understanding that they are not
to be removed. This, Hart thinks, will
inspire much needed confidence in play
ers and umpires.
Japan will have base ball this year.
Cincinnati will contribute a number
of players in the Western league this
season. Indianapolis will have George
Hogriever and John Grim; Kansas City
Elsie; Grand Rapids, Billy Niles; Co.
lumbus, Mike Kahoe; Milwaukee, Wal
lie Taylor, with Billy Clingman yet to
be heard from, and Minneapolis. Joe
Strauss.
President Ban Johnson has been Civ
ing the National league managers, who
will try the Western league players
this spring, some gratuitous advice.
He suggests that Philadelphia play
kid" Hulen in the outfield, as he is
left-handed and would be Handicapped
in the infield.
A new base ball leag.e was launched
at Duluth last week. 1t will be known
as the Northern Base Ball league and
will consist OF seven clubs. The sched-
ule calls for siXty-three games. The
cities represented in the league are:
Duluth, Brainerd. Little Falls, ST. Cloud
and Moorhead, Mimi, and Grand Forks
and Bismarck, n. D. Col Sam Akin
son will manage the Duluth team, the
personnel of which will be the same as
last seasons amateur club
John S. Barnes says that he met John
Pickett in Chicago. Comiskey has not
yet signed the second baseman, and
doesn't know whether he will or not, as
Pickett has not been acting just right.
He and Coniskey had some trouble in
California, and ever since then ComiS-
key has kept him guessing. Pickett is
on the reserve list, and is anxious to
know what Comiskey is going to do
with him. If COmiskey can sign anoth-
er good second baseman he will let
Pickett go.
Barnes and. Speer, composing the
pony battery drafted by the Milwau-
kee club from Cedar Rapids Of the
Western association, are causing a
whole lot Of trouble. There is another
Barnes on the Cedar Rapids team and
he is in quandary as to which Of the
men Milwaukee wants. Douglas Barnes
is fielder and Fred Barnes is pitch
er. The latter is the player for whom
Milwaukee has been negotiating. Now
Speer comes along and wants one-half
Of the gate receipts. couple of sec
ticns in the grand stand and a mort
gage on the clubs entire property.
Wetterer, Milwaukee's new shortstop
is a Cincinnati man who had never pre-
viously played professional ball, al
though he has had many offers, includ-
ing one from Comiskey. Mr.. Johnson
says Wetterer is the most promising
amateur of whom he knows.
Kansas City has new pitcher, a
Kansas City boy named A. L. Nichols,
who played with Burlington last sea-
son.
indianapolis claims Frank Fitch,
young short stop who played with
Marquette last year.
Rusie is said to be in the sulks.
Last summer Joe Corbett, the young
err brother of the pugilist, joined the
Washington team for a short time. He
is a pitcher of fair ability, but after
being tried in the box in one game he
was placed at short. Now he has been
signed by Hanlon, of Baltimore.
Paul Russell has been replaced by
Jack Wentz of last years Memphis
team, as manager Of the Little Rock
base ball team
NE, Young. president of the Nation
al leagne, reports that $4,000 in fines
was paid into the leagues treasury
last season. This was by far the
greatest amount ever assessed in one
year upon ball players of single or
ganization. 80 The twelve National
league Clubs paid out a total sum or
$500, GOO to- their players; SO that the.
fines, after all, amount to but two
thirds Of per cent of the players SAL
aries.
The lClevelands list of players at
present embraces nine pitchers, three
catchers, six inf1elders and six out
fielders. M
Bierbauer has signed a Pittsburg
contract.
Eleven of the men on the Cleveland
team reside in Ohio.
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