The evening times., 1896-01-06
BASEBALL NOTES.

An enthusiastic Pitsburg admirer of the
Pirates offers to bet any person $500 or
81 900 that they cannot name three clubs
which will beat the Pittsburgs out In the
League race.
Latham will have lot OF cast-offs as
running mates in the Browns. Billy Hart
and Monte Cross OF the Pirates are the
latcstadditions to the on der Abe aggrega-
tion.
Ely, the sensational shortstop Of the st.
Louis Browns will dazzle the fans Of the
Smoky City.
Jennings viii not accept The offer of the
Scranton management, because Hanlon will
not release him.
Tom Burns viii in all probability be
signed by the New York management.
Long, Stivetts, Camel aud Bergen are the
only pla yers under contract 10 Boston up to
date.
Pitcher Flannigan of The HagerstowD
club has signed with Baltimore.
George Weand of Pottstown has signed
as a catcher with the Philadelphia State
League Team. He caught last year with the
League.
II is the intention OF the New York club
in the future to expose those players
who violate the. rules of discipline. Hith-
erto il has been the custom to conceal
the breaks Of the players from the public.
But Ma naGer Irwin declares that the men
who dissipate will be shown up without
regard for their feelings. In this way
n l,sn N Af II l,,a
rule-breakers in check.
Cinciunatians are modest regarding their
prospects for this year. One Of the root
ers'' there says:
The team should do much better next
season than they did in 1895, for the
trade with st. Louis has removed from
the team the cause of internal dissensiuns
in the team Of 1895, and has given US the
greatest catcher in the business IN Heinie
Pei,z."
There's the whole Thing In a nutshell.
With harmony in the team, the men in
good condition, and barring accidents
the Reds Of 1896 should and will land
higher tina n did the Reds of 1895.
President Powers Of the Eastern League
has issued the following bulletin:
Contracts for 1896 approved:
With Scra anton-James Mcclure, John
CEOuln- T.. L. Bratley- EuWHEu hat1eTlE.
Syracuse-James Garry, Thomas Power,
Daniel J. Minnchan, Michael Lynch Victor
g. Willis, William Eagan, Mace Mason,
George Briston.
springfield-Joseph Schochern, Tom Has
call.
Toronto-Frank McParilin, James Dean,
James Casey, Willard A. Holland, Stewart
Sanford, George f. Gray, Larry KinseIla,
John Freeman, John Deit rich.
William Johnson ,Joe Null
vey.
Rcleased-By Scrapton-Johu p. Lnby.
Terms A ccepted-By syracuse-H. j.
Jordan, Alexander whitehill. BY Spring
fieid-George y. Leidy.
Humor is not included in the makeup of
the average baseball player. and one would
expect to find little to laugh at when the
sober Ed. Cartwright, the first bascinan of
the Washington Club is mentioned.
But the heavyweight baseinan possesses a
grain of humor, which his intimate friends
did not suspect, as the following letter re-
ceived from him, dated Moorehead City, n.
c., will testify:
Thought l would drop you a line and
send you clipping. You can see by this
who has the kids In this country. This fel-
low is the father of fourteen. am at the
end Of the road; one train day and none on
Sunday. They have no newspaper here
and they discouraged man who wanted to
start one by telling him it was too much
trouble to read.
Most every man you see here has holes
in his trousers, from working so hard with
q pine stick i'll one hHnd and a jack-knife in
the other. The grocers have to nail barbed
wire on the head of flour barrels to keep
the Industrious whittlers from wearing
holes in the heads.
when 1t rains they get up at 7:30, have
breakfast at and go back to bed at 8.
Very fast town. Any time you look down
the main street you can find 1t empty, ex-
cept for few flOcks OF geese, which 1t is
for themselves"