The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-14
BALL TOSSERS' TALK
A Meeting of the Anaconda Players
Will Be Held Tonight.
ORGANIZATION IS ASSURED
The Matter of Grounds VIII Be
Discussed-A Good Attendance
Urgently Requested-Some An
aconda Boys in Other Places.

The indications are that snow, hail.
rain or shine, the meeting of the base
ball men tonight will be success.
Despite the fact that two previous at
tempts to gather the ball tossers for
organization have failed, the enthusi-
asm now manifested will insure a large
attendance at to-night's meeting.
New men, claiming to have held all
sorts of positions in eastern minor
leagues, are daily arriving in the city.
After the organization of a club, which
VIII surely be done tonight, the Gull
s ing process, properly applied, will soon
cut out the poor and substitute the
Z good players. The names of new men
VINO have not yet shown what they
can do, will be given every considera-
s ZION, and at the first opportunity their
] CLAIMS or being ball players will be
tested. AS matter of course 1t is
advisable that the men who have play
ed ball In Anaconda during the past
Will be first put on the team After
the organization is complete and things
running smoothly it will be easy to
substitute strangers with proven abil-
1ty for those of the old players of less
capacity.
: The matter of grounds will undoubt-
eddy be one of the interesting discus
sions of the evening 1t is apparent
that the grounds now at the disposal
OF a ball team are in every way made
quate A combination with other ath-
letic organizations to build an athletic
park Is probably the only way to Sc
cure place suitable for ball playing
AS has been before stated in these col
umns, the expense which would attach
Z to each association would be compare
lively nominal. The lay of the land
about Anaconda is. in scores of places,
as level as billiard table, and the
only expenses that would be neces-
sary for one of the finest athletic parks
in the Northwest would be incurred in
the removal of stones and for properly
enclosing the grounds.
1t depends on the turnout at to-
nights meeting whether Anaconda is
to have a first-class baseball club,
properly organized, with able direc-
ton, or whether she will have, as in
certain previous years, a team for
which the term scrub" is not a mis-
homer. The meeting will be held at
the fire house and the hour is at
O'Clock. There is no reason why every
ball player in town, whether he be a
good or bad player, should not be
present.
Joe Werrick, whom Anaconda people
have admired as a ball player and good
fellow, is one of the official umpires of
the Western league. His work with
Minneapolis last year shows that he is
still hard-hitting, first-class infield-
er. The reason that he is not playing
actual ball will probably be found in
the fact that the management of the
Minneapolis team has changed wer-
rick is giving general satisfaction as
an umpire, and on last Saturday
threatened to award a game to st. Paul
If Minneapolis delayed longer.
Young Mart Gleason, who helped the
1894 team of Anaconda out so well, has
been engaged by the Tacomas to pitch.
While Gleason is young and has lever
played professional ball, the experience
which he acquired during his short
campaign with Catcher Mike Dwyer
Will stand him in good stead. The Ta-
comas. not being so very fast. will be
the best possible training for Mart
Another player, whose hard hitting
ability Anacondans know well, is Con
Whalen. His name appears as first
baseman for Victoria in the Pacific
league. While his position Is at third
he is sometimes a little wild in getting
down to first, and in this probably Ii IS
the reason for his being on first.
In spite of the unfavorable comment
of the Sporting News, which paper is
trying to rub it into the st. Louis club,
the Browns are holding a better posi-
ton than the Sporting News would like
20 see
The Boston team contains seven New
England league graduates.
Philadelphia, Brooklyn, st. Louis
and Cincinnati are the National league
teams which lead off the batting order
with the entire outfield.
Ttel,. liz
three games with Cleveland. That was
a wild throw by Merritt in trying TO
catch a man at second. 1t did not az
feet the score.
3 Hawley has made two records that
will not soon be broken. Only four hits
to Cleveland and three strike-outs in
one inning, after a man reached third
:, Cincinnati has never had a postponed
game on a holiday and but one on a
Sunday during the five years that Ban
croft has been connected with the man.
agement.
5. Baseball in Cincinnati on Sunday is
played under difficulties. After play is
done the players have to register at
one of the police stations. with due for
mality and their personal presence is
required.
John Ward has been appointed by
States Excise Commissioner Lyman as
attorney for his special agents In
King county. This does away with
the story that Ward win manage the
Louisvilles this year.
2 The Western league seems to be
great on finding shortstops Detroit is
ickled half to death over Corcoran's
work. Milwaukee has spasrns of pleas
ure over the work of wetterer and Voix
RS said to have made n hit in his town
II anyone will compare the hits and
I error columns of the Western and Ma
.fional league games, the inference is
easy that the clubs in the Western
league are more closely faieched and
are really playing more close and even
games all the way through. Such ball
.es- New York and Louisville have put
up Is unknown in the Western league.
a game in Baltimore was stopped foe
shout five minutes while tive umpire
M sl,red Second Rasaman Rogers