Kansas City daily journal., 1897-01-31
grounds at the Forest City park for Sun

day games.
A player has signed a Western League
contract. using the name Chestnut" Can
this be Rooney" Sweeney or Billy" Tay-
Ior masquerading under a pseudonym?-
New York Herald.
Bill Hutchison is a clerk this winter in
the minneapolis legislature. Old Hutch is
good any place you put him, and he can
WELD pen as gracefully as he can toss a
ball across the plate.
If Frazer. the Louisville pitcher, who was
drafted in 1895 from Minneapolis. could put
ern over the plate a little oftener, he would
be one of the best twirlers in the business.
His wildneSs is his chief fault
Donovan. of the Pittsburg club, has
signed Denny Lyons for this season. He
has also secured the contract of jesse Tan
nehill. of Dayton. Ky, left handed pitch-
in 1886. - ''' e''''''
President Freedman. of the New York
ntimated that his club looked upon the
Plttshurg team as poor drawing card at
the Polo grounds Mr.. Freedman says the
SrateS nave always drawn big money IN
New York
1t is stated upon high Ohio authority that
no baseball game is played at Cincinnati
which is not witnessed by from ten 20
twenty clergymen. Hence it must be IN
ferred that there are no afternoon services
IN the churches of that city during the
a New Yorker turned up in Louisville
last week and posted bet of even money
that the Giants will beat the Colonels out
salesman, but his line of goods is not spe-
cited. 1t is safe to say. however, that he
sells gold bricks to the trade.
Buck Ewing has had call from an en-
terprlstng man who wants to put up SyS-
tenn of deliveries on the Cincinnati dia-
mond similar TO those used between clerks
sibaG and sashers hs in dry goods BY this
the nine and get the ball across to other
basemen. That is not a bad idea.
MaSnate Robson, of Cleveland, is out
with new scheme to govern coaching. He
wants a ne plus ultra chalk line drawn on
the diamond sixty feet distant from the
umpire. All conversations between the
carried on at this prescribed distance, so
that the audience may hear and be edi-
fed. The Robson plan has its good points.
An interchange Of distinguished considera
tions between Pat Tebeau and Tim
Hurst at a distance of sixty feet would be
worth the price of admission.
Western League magnates should con-
graduate themselves that they did not ac-
cept Des Moines at the November meeting
in place of Grand Rapids. President Frick
sociation when he learned that his petition
to the. Western League had been turned
toward the wall, but 1t now transpires that
it is extremely doubtful whether he will be
able to retain that franchise, as scarcely
half of the $3.50 stock required has been
subscribed; and unless that amount is
there this year.
The Foreman brothers will meet again
next season in the Western League Frank
will play in Indianapolis and Brownie" in
Grand Rapids. The two men have never
pitched against each other on a profess
sional team and the cranks will watch with
interest the first game in which they meet
Exchange. If Frank stands by the re-
solve he made when he was here, the
cranks will never have that opportunity.
Frank, during his stay with the Reds re-
fused point blank to pitch in a game in
which Brownie" was scheduled to pitch
for the Pittsburgs. He insisted that
not the proper thing.-Enquirer.