The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-18
GOSSIP OF THE GAME.


the HOLSTERS.
Camel may not be the most brilliant and
snowy catcher on the diamond but he is the
most modest and unassuming in his work
and today he leads the oatchers of the league
IN helding average.-Boston Herald.
Everett, of Chicago, has an uneoualed rec
ord He played all last year without missing
single game, and has not been out of the
game this season. The man must be excep-
tionally lucky in escaping accidents or sick
ness.
Before Farrell left New York it was given
out that his throwing to second was very
weak: Since his arrival in Washington Char
leys right arm seems to be in great shape
and very few get away with steal Mercer
speaks very highly Of Farrell as coacher for
pitchers.
Manager seelee, of the Boston club, and
Murray, of the Providence club. ha~e arrang
e ep series OF nye games sor the champion
snip Oh new FIglano, to be played at Prov
l1ence, Sept. % and 80, on neutral ground
ych u and at Boston, Oct and g. Kittredge,
d the Chicagos, will probably umpire.
President John T. Brush NAV make a trim
TO Pittshurg with the team. His presence
VIII not only have a tonic effect but should
me Pirates be filled with a vengeful spirit
tiey might be little more careful If one OF
the league moguls were eying them Frank
hlllen is booked for an invitation to Join the
November class in the League School of Dis
epline.-Cincinnati Post.
When the Baltimores win the pennant this
year 1t Will be for the third successive season
u ranos9 and and Boston have the same proud
record. Next season these three clubs will
make great fight for the rubber
II Indianapolis should play all its fourteen
remaining games and win every one and
minneapolis should play all its eleven re.
naming games and lose every one the Hoo
siers would only be in a position to play of
a q ue Ihere's calculation in the law of
cHahces 10 puzzle Lord Bacon himself
La-Jo-Wee is the way to pronounce Laioie
GaccoTolng TO the authority Of Linguist Lave
Cross. IF wore a name like that I would
get job tearing ribbons in Macv's or thumn-
ing piano with a burlesque show - is the
critical fling that Comedian Dad Clarke takes
CT La o-"ee'-Indianapoli Journal
~ chris Won der Abe met Alexander salvini
ene tragedian, at Tony Fausts famous damn
says BiIIy Nasb In st Louis last
lovely tide during the evening, and when he
was was IL introduced to the actor he said Rvot
y 0tbe say you I dG? Well, I play Hamlet,
me actor. Chris Immediately sized up Sal
VIM Tor race horse man and said: ''Vel. 7
Ton know emmy of dose horses dot you say
you prayed Come out to my race track and
viii put you onto Won or two good tings."
Neroen acted as though he was full of
water from the spring of life or some other
faucet, and played the best game seen here
TINS season on first. The big fellow is funny
and partly made the people forget the hard
luck or the team.-Detroit Free Press
Eddie Boyle, who was with st. Paul last
season, and was drafted by Louisville is
now doing regular turn behind the hat for
the Pirates. He was traded to Pittsbure in
the spring. but most of the season has been
playing with Toronto. The Pittsburg cranks
are favorably impressed with his work
Martin Bergen is now doing all of the
catching for Boston, and doing 1t WELL
When hen he e, hrst Joined the team last spring the
cranks did not take kindly to his work and
he came in for number of "roasts They
have stopped that sort of thing now and
there Is no more popular man on the team
The Cowboys landed on their old associate,
Peter Daniels, Sunday, and batted out the
he had the game won, and his smile was
broader than usual up to the ninth. A play
er always likes to beat club from which he
has been released, and Daniels would rather
defeat Kansas City than any other club IN
the league.
Manning expects to have a team next sea-
son, and will not try any more experiments.
Twice he has promised the people of Kansas
City pennant-winner, and he says that he
Is going to make one more trial at It, 1t
is not his fault that the Cowboys are not up
in front. He spent more money than any
other manager In the league, buying players
spring looked to be fit for the fastest SOM
pany in the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS News.
The old report of Milwaukee getting into
the National league via Cleveland is going
the rounds again. This time 1t is announced
that the league will buy out st. Louis and
Cleveland may also be purchased to make
room for Milwaukee. The most feasible
plan would be to form two leagues on the
plan of the old American association and
National league.-Milwaukee Evening Wis
consin
Fiheld will probably be drafted by Cincin-
natl Brush wants him.
Somebody has made an offer of IS, 900 for
the Milwaukee franchise As Arlie Latham
would say: Great Scott! a man with that
much money could start brewery!'-Kan-
sas City World
While there is considerable sympathy in
this city with the Cincinnati club in its eff
forts to get a whack at the Temple cup SERIES
such feeling does not exist with the Boston
players, who declare that in no city in the
West or South were they SO outrageously
treated by players. people and the press as in
Cincinnati. and while they have no. particular
liking for Tebeau's gang because of their
actions on the ball field. one or the other
must play the Orioles, and, altogether, they
prefer the Clevelands Herald.
An improvement in scoring is suggested by
Tim Murnane. who believes that the official
scorers in the major league cities should
meet next winter and strike some agreement
that would prove satisfactory to the players
and public. Chris Won der Abe, who was
recently interviewed this matter said:
''Vot tink Of uniformity NIT scorers? Now
vot do reborters want NIT uniforms on? Are
dey stuck on dere shades, and do dey want
to show off? Let der players ware uniforms
but not der reborters.'
Here few base ball proverbs from the
Baltimore News: He who hesitates is out
closed glove catches no flies. Strike while
pitcher is hot. Where there's hit there's
a way The early Bird catches the pennant.
fool and his base are soon parted. Good
pitching in time saves the nine It's a
a gift pitcher in the mouth. The race is not
always to the best runner. Two strikes ia
company, three is roast. OF the making of
errors there is no end. II at first you don't
succeed. try the outfeld. A reckless base
runner makes a fat score card. A swift
rolling grounder gathers no moss It's a
poor bat that won't work both ways Even
the umpire will turn when trodden upon
Ban Johnson has expressed his opinion that
Milwaukee Jones, not Bumpus will be one
or the wonders of the league In the pitchers
box next year.
Sam Gillen is the only Detroit man who
has played In all the games this year. and
his work has been UP to anything claimed for
1t at the beginning of the season.
CoRBETT-SHARKE GO.