St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
BASE BALL GOSSIP.

in Minneapolis last year, had fight with
Smink OF the Grand Rapids team. on the
Columbus grounds on Friday. It was in the
fourth inning, and the two men had some
words. The Columbus Dispatch thus de-
scribes the mill: Wilson stood facing Nc
Greevy when he let go his left-Wilson en-
deavoring to counter with his stick. but
Smink, McGreevy's second, caught the bat
and and thus prevented the big heavyweight from
killing the sobbing missile. Wilson dropped
his mace and let drive at Sminks face.
snatching off his bird cage. Smink crossed
his left and went to a clinch. throwing Will
son. Business was resumed in bar-room
fashion in the boghole. 1t would have done
Farmer Burns good to have seen the rough
and-tumble go-as -you-please wrestling match
AT this stage OF the ceremony-but the COM
pany concluded to resume play and parted
the belligerents when the fun was at its
height
President Vanderbeck. of the Detroit ball
club. has released Schmidt, Lobeck, Fisher
and Ballantyre to Mobile.
Manager Carney has closed a contract with
Jlggs Parrott, having secured his release
from Chicago, and the elongated infielder
Joined the Gold Bugs at Indianapolis. The
Gold Bugs have been rechristened the yell
low Jackets.
Manager Watkins, of the indianapolis team
has decided to carry five pitchers this sea-
son.
Cassidays wrist was first broken at Grand
Rapids last season. In healing one or two
pieces of bone refused to knit. These pieces
were discovered recently by the use of the
cathode rays and removed. 1t was thought
that he would have no further difficulty.
Manager George Stallings, of the Detroit
team, is an enthusiast on the subject of
is one of the greatest utility players in the
business. Last season, when he was with
Little Rock, before being drafted by Chicago,
he started into a series against the Nashville
ne cd
Rock and defeated Nashville. In the second
game of the series he played second base,
and his work was phenomenal. In the third
game Little Rock lacked a catcher, and FL
field went behind the bat. He not only
caught great game, but threw eight men
out at second base. Stallings was twice
victim OF his strong arm.
One has to go away from home to get the
news. The following appeared in the Kan
sas City Sunday Times:
Charley Comiskey, the veteran base ball
magnate, and the man who first made the
ST. Louis Browns famous did not accompany
the team in charge of his brother Pat and
went from Milwaukee back to st. Paul to
look after his grounds. The diamond at St.
Paul rebuilt this spring but rain this
week Is said to have washed it away.
In the dressing room at st. Louis, after
the ball game Thursday, Arlie Latham cap
tain OF the Browns, assaulted Umpire Sheri-
Dan, striking him under the eye, cutting
deep cash, which will be some time in heal
ing. 1t is not known whether Latham used
Latham Gained down and began to apoIogiZe
but Sheridan stopped him.
You need not apologize" he said. "You
are a coward to attack me in this way; but
If you think you can whip me will prove
that you cannot
"All right chirped Latham; "we'll wait
track and have it OUT
mo; we will fight here in the dressing
room; said Sheridan, wiping the blood from
In the meantime Chris Won der Abe and
Manager, Diddlebock and a squad of police
men gathered about the door and hostilities
were prevented.
]. Peck Sharpe is playing a phenomenal
game with Columbus, and has set the fans
Manager Manning has fixed up plae.
for bicycles under the grand stand at Ex-
position ball park, and will check wheels
free.-Kansas City World:
Umpire Murphy's career In the Western
league was meteoric, sure enough. He start
ed wednesday. and disgusted everybody in
Columbus, and then on FRIDAY he was sick
SO Butler, a local and a very bad umpire
took his place. Butler wouldn't do and
Fred Jevne, an ex-NationaI league umpire
son.
Tommy INLAND has made his debut in st.
Louis. His fielding average for the first
game was 800, and his batting .0OO Still
for three years Latham has been insisting
fire. e -0"e"e oA
placing their hits into right field they would
iatten ien tnelr averages" says Tom Hurst ''In
hitting to right there is a big loophoIe
through which the ball can escape-the space
between the first and second base. But hit
on the other side of the diamond stands in
imminent danger of being assisted to first by
the snort stop. There were more place hit
ters in the old days of the game when the
pitchers didn't exercise such power as those
of today, whose main effects lie almost solely
in their speed"
The indianapolis papers still insist that
st. Paul got the best of the umpiring last
year. The News has this mean fling in it's
last issue:
Charley Snyder's work in the two Detroit
games has been gilt-edged, and not protest
was made by a player of either team His
Judgment on balls and strikes was excellent.
and his base decisions gave general satisfac-
tion: Snyder adopts the same policy in his
partial, and the home team that figures on
getting decided shade the best of it at his
hands will be left It will be interesting in
watching the reports Of his work when he
goes to st. Paul, and it is ten to one shot
that he will not satisfy the cranks Of that
city: Last season they did not ask for a
shade the best of it; they wanted 1t all, and
the majority of the umpires gave it to them"
st. Paul did not want or get the best of it
last summer. An absolutely impartial UNI
pire is all that is wanted in this town.
There will not be much base ball in In
dianapolis during the next month. The
team leaves Monday evening, after the last
game with Grand Rapids, for that CITY, and
plays in Detroit and Columbus before re-
turning home. On May z the team opens
here for a series of three games with the
Buckeyes, and then starts on its first West