The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-05
CAYLoR REVIEWS THE YEAR.
NATIONAL GAME ENJOYING AM
OTHER REVIVAL OF POPU-
LARTTY.
WESTERN LEAGUES sUCC
Permanence of the Organization
Assured-Good Words for
Denxer.

lhS VI Lie lClilpiC Cup SGIlSS lIl0 OcSS
ball season of 1895 will come to close
If the season from business point of
view has been an undoubted success,
it has it's spots of disappointments pro-
fessionally. Although the Cincinnatis
finish in third place, their friends, as
well as they themselves go into winter
quarters to slow music and with misery
in their base ball souls. Had they been
assured before the season opened of
their place, they would have hailed the
honor with extreme satisfaction, but
the result of the first three months
made them possible pennant winners.
Several weeks later they were sure Of
Temple cup dividends. Then came the
most remarkable slump in the history
of the league. Their finish was lament
able, and it leaves a bad impression
in Cincinnati for the opening of next
years campaign in that city. Just the
opposite effect was attained in New
York, where miserable showing for
the greater part of the season was
changed into very satisfactory finish,
the result of which is that patrons of
the club will anxiously wait for the 1897
race, fully convinced that the Giants
will have a chance second to none.
In Philadelphia there is also dissat-
| isfaction deep and ranking over the
showing of the local team. The local
rooters have not even a small bit of as
surance that anything better is in store
for them on the diamond than has
come out of this year. The Chicagos,
Bostons and Pittsburgs are satisfied.
/ rThaU Sn Y11o
have grounds upon which to base hopes
of better things for next year.
! Probably the worst disappointment in
the National league falls to the lot Of
Brooklyn. Despite the expectations
which were built upon the team last
spring, it has been the biggest disap-
pointment in base ball. To see the
Cincinnatis finish third and the Brook
lyns near the bottom destroys all form
theories in base ball teams.
1t has once more been shown that a
championship can go too often to the
same city. Comparatively little enthu-
siasm greeted the Baltimores' third
! capture of the pennant Even their own
patrons failed to warm up over it,
whereas two years ago the whole city OF
Baltimore was a unit in doing them
honor as champions. The same local
feeling followed the three successful
seasons in Chicago and Boston. 1t is
! too much like having pie three times
q day. Hanlon admitted to me last
spring that financially it would be bet
ter for the club If the team would
fetch up second or third instead Of
first. But said he, you know
enough about the business Of base ball
to know that our boys will win it the
third time and the fourth time, too,
for all that, if they can" While the
| players Of the Baltimore club were
roofing hard for the Cincinnatis to fin
ish second, because it would have been
worth from $500 to $500 more to each
member Of the team to play for the
Temple cup in Cincinnati rather than
in Cleveland. all these personal bene-
fits were forgotten when the two mines
met and the Baltimores, by whipping
the Cincinnaus three games straight,
| virtually put them out of the Temple
cup series. And yet very few people
] will ask, us base ball honest?"
The permanent sOlidity of the West
ern league seems to be assured. There
is a drift into that organization of
National league managers, who have
| chance to secure monetary interests
among the clubs Of the circuit which
| they do not have in the major body,
where all the corporations are too
| close. Comiskey, Watkins, Wilmot,
Manning and Lotus are already part
and parcel Of the Western. And now
| Connie" Mack joins them by taking
| charge Of the Milwaukee franchise.
| Comiskey and Manning have made
! small fortunes in st. Paul and Kansas
| City, while the rest have done so well
| that wild desire exists among play
| ers and managers Of the National
| league to get slice Of the Western
| watermelon.
| The new member from Minneapolis
captures the pennant Of that league.
The club must give the greatest credit
| for its success to Anson's old college
pitcher, Willie Hutchinson. This least
OFF, has just illustrated another one
Of Anson's mistakes. His work for
| W1lmot's team was so good that 1t
seems possible Arson made an error
in letting him go. 1t would not be
surprising to see the ex-Colt back in
the old home next year. Such an event
would not be without precedent. Gin
cinnati turned Rhines adrift for a.
year and took him back, to find him a.
winner.
The first pay day in the National
two weeks later than usual The mag
mates have unanimously agreed to move
UP the date of contracts with PLAYERS
from April 1 to April Is, and from
Sept. 30 to Oct. a. 1t is generally be-
1eved that this means change Of
/ wv WC1hS III Tic UeSlIlIIlnS ana ending
! or the championship season. The
weather during the last half of April
is apt to be largely unfit for outdoor
sports, especially In the northern tier
| Of cities, whereas the first week or fer
Gays of October generally furnish pleas
ant outing weather. A good beginning
in the base ball season is to be very
muen desired, and many championship
| openings during the last few years have
| been spoiled by the uncertain ather
! of April
The raid upon the promising Young
players OF the minor leagues by the
managers of the major clubs has AL
ready begun. AS usual. Uncle Anson
banks In large share of them His
aim seems to be to secure a pitching
prize or two. Denzer. that ST PAM
wonder about whom I wrote several
1 weeks ago, is one of the Chicago con
scripts. He is to be congra,f,1Iatad
provided runlor has measured him,
right, and to be pitied If the old dame
has been f1attering. Arson can prob
ably size up a new PLAYER as ouick
as any man living, and when the neo-
phyte Is counterfeit it takes Arson
a very short time to find 1t out. Amonr
the other clubs which are rounding nm
the promising stars of the minor
leagues are the Baltimores and Phila,
/ deiph1as. 1t seems odd to hear that
| Hanlon Is signing young PLAYERS hv
the pair. But that wise manager -
/ looking far ahead. He has probably
| discovered several impending weak.
nesseS in his three times" winners ma
knows from the experience of Others
! that 1t requires bunch Of these minor
heroes to produce one who is able to
j hold up his end with the veterans
Even should three-fourths Of these
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