Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-27
Baseball Gossip.

The Cincinnati Club will carry seventeen
players and no more next season.
Matt Kilroy will be on earth again next
season by playing on an Eastern League
team. ~.
Connie Mack will do very little catching
next year. He will manage his team and
coach.
The Detroit Club is trying to secure the
return of third baseman Gillen, who was
dIafted by Philadelphia.
Snapper" Kennedy has been placed on
the indianapolis teams claim list. Wat
kins admires Kennedy very much.
Cincinnati will carry two southpaws next
season. The second one will be Damman,
who will be taken from Indianapolis in
exchange for Billy Gray and Frank Fore
man.
President Ban johnson makes haste slow
ly as a rule. He has not yet transferred
the Western League headquarters from
Cincinnati to Chicago as authorized by the
Western League. but expects to do so
shortly after New Years.
The Cincinnati ball team will play at
New Orleans this winter. their stay in that
city last winter proving highly beneficial
The New Orleans Club park has been en-
gagged and the Reds will start for the
Crescent City on March IL.
Billy Barnie and Mike Griffin are hob
nchhing to such an extent that factional
fights in the Brooklyn team next season
are considered impossible. Barnie. It must
be remembered was the man who first in
tioduced Mike Griffin to major league COM
pany.
The Western Leagues championship sea-
son will probably open April o. 1t has
been definitely settled that Detroit will pry
oper the season at Columbus. Grand Rap
ids will probably be the attraction at Mil
waukee. st. Paul at Indianapolis and Min
neapolis at Kansas City.
Charles Dana Childs Dexter, the Evans
Vile journalist who has been spending the
winter in reporting cockfights and pro-
gressive euchre parties. wants the Colonels
to go to Hot Springs to train. What does
Carl mean? Ask the club to spend all the
years profits on the spring trip?
EN-Third Baseman Joe Battin says he
will return to the diamond next season.
He claims to be as active and we'll quail
fed to play ball as ever. He has been
working at one of the st. Louis tracks for
year. but is tired of the ponies and wants
to get back into the only game.
The fairy tale comes from st. Paul that
ST. Louis will transfer Hartman to Com
iskeys team after January /. What will
tho Browns do for third basemen then,
unless Chris Won der Abe could make one
more draft on Philadelphia and add Nash
to his collection of ex-Philadelphia stars?
Jud Smith, who years ago was tagged
in Montana by Tony Mullane as the COM
ing third baseman. has again slipped back
into minor company. The Pittsburgs have
decided not to hold him. and have released
him outright to Syracuse. Abe Lezotte
the outfielder, has also gone the same way.
Anson recently returned from n hunting
trip and reported that he killed eight OF
eighty, deer-the type is a little dim
where the number is printed. At any rate
his winter is being put to better purpose
than it was last year. He brings down a
deer much easier than he does house -
Tony Mullane will play with ST. Paul
next season. He says that the various
paragraphs that have been going the
rounds of late are wrong. that he has nc
Intention Of umpiring, and that his pitch
ing days are not yet over. as stated. New
ertheless, Mullane was at the leagues Chi.
cago meeting and sounded Nick Young OF
the prospects for league umpire berth.