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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21

of the season proof was given that the
two new men had made the Giants a
most formidable TEAMS
Internal dissension in the Washing
ton and Pittsburg clubs made it ad-
visable for those two organizations to
let some Of their strongest players go
elsewhere in the cause of harmony
The New York club was fortunate in
getting the two men, Joyce and Beck
ley, whom it needed so much, without
surrendering in return any player who
was needed in the team. Unless all ex-
pectations go astray the Giants will
once more be in the struggle among
the teams in the van.
Had not Tebeau's troubles last wear.
growing out of his arrest at Louisville.
his subsequent fine of 5000 by the
League board of directors and his sue
cessful resistance in court to the paw
ment of the fine, interfered with his
work on the diamond the CIeyeIands
would have pressed the Baltimores
much more closely at the finish and
might possibly have beaten them out.
This year he will enter the race with
virtually the same team, and any i'm
proVement in work over last year will
make his club a strong candidate for
the championship title.
Arson after some years of patient ex-
perimenting has succeeded in putting a
team a1ield on which all competitors are
keeping a Watchful eye IT has for sew
eral seasons been a question of pitch
crs with Uncle Adrian, and now he
thinks he has got several winners in
briggs and Henzer particularly. If he
is not mistaken the Colts viii have
Something to say about that pennant
The Bcetors suffered greatly last year
when they lost the services of Lowe by
accident. Barring accidents of a SINH
lar nature and counting on much help
from KlCbedantz. their new left handed
pitcher obtained from the Eastern
league last fall. the RAan Eaters have
nut in claim as possible pennant win
ners.
The Cinoinnatis, by purchasing the
release Of E~eitenstein4 and exchanging
Smith ana Fisher for Corcoran. believe
they have added so much to the
strength of theic team that they will
be right in it, fromybugle call to fin
ish sea
Of the other teams the most improve
ment is expected from the Washing
tons and Louisvilles. Both have been
growing strong in the pitchers posi-
ton NIcJames for the Senators and
Neill and Hermann for the Louisviles
developed most wonderfully at the end
of last season. The Philadelphias have
a new manager in Stallings, who will
try, With the addition Of new men like
Lajoie, Geier, Fifield, Wheeler and
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21
Toe Corbett.

Young Joe COrbett does not have to
rely upon the fact that he is the broth
er of 'Pompadour" Jim for fame in
the sporting world. Joe is fast gaining
a reputation of his own which will ri
val that of his big brother Joes
achievements as a baseball pitcher
during the past season have been her
aided all over the continent, and he is
generally acknowledged to be the COM
ing 'phenom." He was born in San
Francisco and is in his twenty first
year He learned what he knows about
baseball during his school days
Joe began his professional career on
the diamond with the Baltimores, pitch
ing five full games for that star aggre-
cation. He was assigned to the box in
the game against Louisville which set
tied the pennant and championships
race. Baltimore won, with a score of 9
to l. The Louisvilles got but six hits
off COrbett in that memorable game.
and, what was equally to his credit, the
clever young San Franciscan struck out
six men. Joe also pitched against the
BOstOns, probably the hardest hitting
nine in the big League, and Baltimore
came out victorious, with a score of
to 2. Boston Strengthened out JOe's
curves Tor only seven hits, and he in
turn struck out seven of their ash
Wielders.
When the Baltimores went to New
York young Corbett was honOred by
being placed in the box against the
Giants. This game was called on ac-
count Of darkness having set in. Dur
ing the play the New YorI5s tapped
Joe's delivery for but three hits, and on
those they scored three runs. Corbett
struck out seven of the big fellows
Along with seven other twirlers Corbett
was selected to pitch in the Temple cup
series. He was in the box in the second
game against Cleveland and won it, the
score being to 2. The CIevelands got
seven hits. In the final game against
this same team Joe permitted them to
touch him for but four hits, and they
got no runs. He struck out eight husky
Clevelandites. AS all baseball cranks
know, Baltimore won the Temple cup
with four straight games. COrbett has
signed to play with Baltimore again
this year at an increased salary
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The National Game.

Cleveland will play in Indianapolis
April IS, IA and 15
Not an exchange Of players was made
at the Baltimore meeting.
De Montreville, Cartwright, Brown
and Abbey Of Washington are enthusi-
astic Wheelmen and DO much of their
training astride bicycles.
Hutchinson is a peculiar fellow. He
thinks he isn't strong enough for the
big League and that if he returned to it
he would make failure and be sent 70
the bench The Western league, how
ever, he regards differently and feels
perfectly competent to pitch in it. 1t
was his wonderful work last season
that gave the Minneapolis team the
pennant. During July and August he
pitched in his regular turn and lost
only two games.
Hot Springs continues to be the ia
vorite place for the early training of
the ball players. Already there are
over 25 of the boys there, of whom the
most prominent are Theodore Breiten-
stein, Heine PETIT and Red" Ehret of
the Cincinnatis three exist. Louisans,
by the way; "Shang' Messenger of the
Browns, and Jake Beckley, Fred Ely
and Denny Lyons of the Pittsburgs.
Not one of the several League clubs
that intend taking their spring prac-
tice at the Springs has yet arrived
there The Chicago, Minneapolis and
other clubs will follow, and April l the
place will be the Mecca of all the ball
tOSSerS.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21

The baseball season which is about to
begin is the twenty second of the Ma
tional league and the twenty-ninth of
professional playing. In these years the
wonderful strides which the national
game has made into the hearts Of the
American people is hard to comprehend
without taking up the figures and rec
ordS. Last year 72 of the principal cities
in the Union supported clubs and teams
which played in the one central organi-
cation OF the national agreement all
governed by the laws of that instru-
ment. There can never be any other out
of doors sport maintained profession
ally in one-third of those cities. This
year the great baseball circuit will be
no less extensive and comprehensive
Hard times and exciting public topics
may hold the "noble rage in check, but
it cannot be uprooted from the hearts
of Uncle Sans children.
There was a slight setback to the
game last year, due without any doubt
to the unusual interest which pervades
the country during a presidential cam
paign. Hard times were advanced by
some to explain the slight falling off in
the support of the game during 1896, but
that theory is not supported by the rec
ora OF years. some Oh the most pros
porous baseball seasons have come in
years when there was the greatest COM
nercial depression. The explanation Of
this is that when money is scarce more
people are compelled to stay at home
during the summer months. A greater
number OF clerks and employees can be
spared from business during such dull
periods in trade Few feel so poor as to
be unable to go out to see q baseball
game once or twice a week or every
day. To go to the race track costs from
81 to S., without any betting being in
dulged in, and the loss of half a day in
time. To attend a theater means the
company of a lady and an expenditure
of from 81 to S. each time. For the sum
of SO one can see all the games played
on the local ground during any week
| and he need never leave his business
till or half past 3 o'clock in the after
noon.
Unless something of unusual general
interest happens to attract the atten-
ton of the American people this year
as, for instance, war with Spain-there
is every reason to believe that the sea-
son of 1897 will be one Of notable sue.
cess in the baseball world The Ma
tiOnal league expects to find it's banner
season this year. and the rule has been
that success or disappointment in the
major body affects the minor leagues
and associations in a similar manner
The principal reason on which the
National League of Baseball Clubs
bases its expectation Of unusual sue
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21
Balls and Strikes.

The P1ttsburg grounds were Is feet
under water in the recent flood
Hannivan, Lippert and Waldron have
signed their contracts with Milwaukee.
Colonel Rogers says there are four
clubs in the National Baseball league
which are for sale at any moment
Matthew Killilea, the president of the
Milwaukee club, is an attorney with
large practice.
Geier of the Phillies keeps himself
busy and in condition as we'll by work
ing in his fathers butcher shop in
Washington.
Buck Mckinney, the veteran gate
keeper at the Louisville park, has occu-
pied that position for every Louisville
club organized in the last Il years.
1t was not so long ago that Mr. Won
der Horst of the Baltimore club was
willing to sell it for $4,000 He would
not take ten times that amount today.
Charlie Bennett was offered the pres
idency Of the Michigan State league,
but was Obliged to decline the offer.
Every club will deposit 5000. and the
salary limit is fixed at $500 per month.
Clements has been with the PhiIlies
since 1885 and has never played with
any other major League club. He first
attracted notice the year previous with
the Keystones Of Philadelphia
One would not think that the Brook
lyn club was one of the highest saIaried
clubs in the League, but this is a fact
The club has paid higher salaries and
has had less to show for it than any
other club
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21
By 0. p. Caylor.

cess in the baseball world. The Ma
erage competition for the pennant
Last year the Baltimores seemed right
from the start to outclass every team
i'll the race, and their form was not a
false one. This year there are no pros
poets of a walk over. The Baltimores
are just as strong as they were last
spring, maybe a mite stronger, but
their work lies before them in heavier
sections. Four of their opponents
have been greatly strengthened, and a
fifth, the one which for two years push
ed them hard right up to the goal will
be no weaker. The New York, Chicago,
Cincinnati and Boston teams on form
should play an average of rs per cent
stronger ball than they did last year.
and the Clevelands ought to do as we'll
as if not better than they did in 1896.
Nine of every ten baseball enthusiasts
would name the Baltimore Cleveland,
New York, Boston, Chicago and Gin
cinnati clubs as those which will finish
among the first six. Still there may be
surprises, as baseballs other name is
uncertainty" But, whatever club
wins the pennant this year, it's players
will realize that they have been in a
killing race
Nearly every National league team
will begin the season with some differ
ence in its composition from year q go.
The BaltimOreS will have their great
third base man, McGraw. back in his
position after a years absence. the re-
suit Of typhoid fever contracted While
training in the south last March. As q
winning ball player McGraw has few
peers and possibly no superiOrs. Bro
die will be supplanted in center field BY
Stencil of the Pittsburgs Of 1896. Stem
eel is not so good a fielder as Brodie
but he is much better batsman and
base runner. The trade last November
by which Stencil was released to the
Baltimores for BrOdie and Donnelly was
the sensational deal Of the year in
baseball.
Manager HanlOn's other team limo
walton viii be the release of two old
stand by pi' cheers, EsDer and Nc
Mahon, and sU hstituting in their place
two new sta.2, Nops and COrbett The
latter will attract unusual attention
this year on account of the great fstic
battle in which his brother is one of
the stars. Neither Corbett nor Mons
received a, thorough test last season.
though in the few games in which they
PLAYED late in the fall they met With
fair success.
Probably the team which will show
the greatest Improvement over last
year is the New Yorks. The changes
which made a winner out of a loser
took place six weeks before the close Of
the race last fall, and in that remnant
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21

Brandt, to whip that unfortunate team
into staying form. Every wellwisher
of the game hopes he will do it, for
Philadelphia is a great baseball center
and richly deserves a winning team.
In Pittsburg they at last tired of a
cliquy team which was continually
spelling it's chances. They therefore
got rid of one element and by many
deals and trades have almost entirely
rebuilt their nine. They expect to profit
much through the establishment of
harmony among their players.
Brooklyn, too, has cut right and left
and is reorganizing by disposing of its
prize short STOP COrcoran. 1t certainly
should get better results from any new
team than were realized last season.
The minor leagues enter on the year
with the brightest of prospects. The
western and eastern organizations re-
tain their last seasons circuit. The At
lantic league, which made such a signal
success in its first season, has absorbed
Richmond and Norfolk from the Vir-
ginia league and will have an octagon
circuit. The Interstate league points
with pride to its successful first year
and begins 1897 with circuit of eight
cities in the middle west which seem
sure of standing together during the
season. The New England league, the
Western association, the New Jersey
league, the Texas league and the South
eastern league have secured the protec-
ton of the national agreement and will
have clubs in the great professional
baseball family. At this time the out
look for the season of 1897 is most fiat
tering
There is a desire on the part of the
Cleveland and Brooklyn clubs to play
Sunday championship games at home
this year. The Cleveland club insists
that it will fit up grounds beyond the
city limits and play on Sunday in de-
fiance of the Sunday law and the pro-
test of the county officials. The Brook
lyns meet with much encouragement in
their similar scheme The New York
legislature has now increased the pen
atty for ball players and clubs that
defy the Sunday law, and it is expected
that the BridegrOOms will remember
the Sabbath to keep it holy.
The arrangement of the National
league schedule for 1897 seems to make
it almost an impossibility for any west
ern team to win the championship this
year unless it can get runaway start.
The three strong eastern clubs, Balti-
more, Boston and New York, will finish
the season at home with an average of
s. out Of their last 40 games. On the
contrary, the Cincinnatis, Clevelands
and Chicagos reverse this order and
are scheduled almost constantly on the
road during the last seven weeks.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21
CASEY AT THE BAT.
Reproduction Of a Famous Poem.

There was ease in Caseys stepped his
There pride in bearing a
And when responding TO the cheers he lightly dotted
a the bait
lands with
Ten thousand applauded
And While the wrthing pitcher
Defiance glanced in Caseys a
And the leather
And Casey stood awatchng it
Close by the sturdy batsman
THAT haint style!"
the benches black
Like the beating of
one fromth stand
And it's likely
shone
He stlled the rising bad he go
He sgnaled pitcher emoret the i flew
But Casey still ignored it,
the maddened
But one sconful look from Casey the
Ihy
And they knew that Casey would that
witt
And he beats with cruel violence he
he let's it 60
Ana now the air is shattered by the
Oh somewhere in this favored land the
hearts
Ana somewhere singing,
But there is in MudviHemighy has
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21
Rules Of the Game.

There were not many changes made
In League rules this year, but some of
the few are in the nature of revolution.
The magnates believe they have crush
ed out noisy, irrelevant coaching and
effectually squelched the kickers. Only
one man is allowed to coach when
single runner is on base. When two
runners get into position, another
coacher may go into service. Other
wise and at other times every member
OF the team at bat must sit on the bench
awaiting his turn at the plate or at
base running. Another rule prohibits
any member Of a nine but the captain
from disputing a decision of the UNI
pire. The rule also provides an extra
chalk line to prescribe the captains APP
proach to the umpire.
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erbockers. The old boy knows them.
too, and no matter what sphere he &C.
cupies in life he uses them Familiarity
when occasion requires.
The baseball writer's have this vo-
cabulary at their finger tips, and if a
man entirely unfamiliar with baseball
should read the reports of games pub
lished in some of the dailies of this
country he would be pardoned for sup
posing that he had wandered among a
nation of queer people:
'Box."-The box is the little square
in the center of the diamond where the
pitcher stands and delivers.
"Balk That little word of four let
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21

moving balls, as the term would imply
to the uninitiated. He simply is sent to
first base when the pitcher fails to
pitch the bali five times over the plate
at certain height from the ground.
Dead Ball When the ball strikes
the batter or the bat without him
striking at it. 1t is dead" if it strikes
the umpire before it reaches the catch
er 1t is a wonder that some Of the
catchers and umpires are not dead aft
er some of these plays.
Chasing a Foul. This has nothing
to do with chickens. 1t simply means
that q player is running after q ball
outside of fair ground.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21

a player has fallen asleep on base. but
1t does mean that player is not at
tending to his business as he ought to.
Catching a Fly. This has nothing
to do with the troublesome little sum-
mer insects. 1t means a ball knocked
into the air and caught by fielder.
Change of Pace. This phrase ap-
plies to a pitcher when he alternates
in his delivery between swiftly, slowly
thrown. curved and straight balls.
Battery errors" is a term used to de-
note the misplays of the pitcher and
catcher, such as bases on called balls,
wild pitches and passed balls.
A player is not rolled to first on
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21

tiers makes one think of a lazy or I'M
ruiy horse or mple5311 In baseball it
means an illegal motion or delivery by
the pitcher. 7
Battery is word fathered by the
Oldest living baseball writer in the
country. 1t applies to the pitcher and
catcher. Nobody has ever been able to
find out what part of battery"
catcher could possibly be.
Hot Balls. They are called hot
when swiftly thrown or batted. Some
times when the ball comes to them with
unusual force the, players remark.
That ball had tacks on it..
Caught mapping does not mean that
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21

wild pitch" is so called for reasons
that are plain. When a pitcher throws
the ball out of catcher's reach. then
it is wild pitch. and the mispIay is
charged to the pitcher.
A passed BALI is a mispIay Of the
catcher in not stopping a properly
pitched ball.
''Headwork. This term applies to
players who do not depend upon mus
cular force alone in winning games.
Men who use good judgment in this
work are called headwork players.
Muffin. This is a term applied ia
poor players or to good players doing
poor work.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21

which are more wonderful than the
combined dialects of the world
The technical points in the game are
many and varied, yet they are under
stood by nearly everybody on this side
of the Atlantic ocean. A foreigner will
adopt them quicker than any of the
other Americanisms outside of ''cuss"
words. The small boy knows them all
by heart before he discards his knick-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21
BASEBALL SLANG.

Baseball has a vocabulary all its
own. The costermongers of the old
world have a language to suit their
trade. The thieves in London have a
slang language which is clear and con-
else to them, but wholly a mystery to
everybody else. The English cockney
has language made necessary by i'm
perfect education and articulation.
Baseball has its technical phrases,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21

Perhaps the greatest example Of a
right handed batter becoming a good
left handed hitter is Roger Common.
When he first started out, many years
ago, he batted right handed and in
poor form, so he turned around
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-27
AROUND THE HOTELS.

Miss Birdena FarweH returned yesterday
from chicago to spend month with her pa
rents at their home. 821 Selby avenue.
A. L. Ward and wife, OF Aberdeen, are at
the Merchants.
E. C. Holmes. of Saltwater is Nor
chants guest.
Ex-County Attorney ]. A. Murphy. of Su-
perior, is among the guests at the Merchants.
A. G. Whipple of DEVILS Lake, is STOP
ping at the Merchants.
Fred Fear, of New York, is registered at
the Windsor.
Theodore Lotus, CT Staples, is Windsor
guest.
c. S. Robinson with Mrs Robinson is
registered at the Windsor.
Fred Ladering, of Milwaukee, is guest
at the Clarendon.
Clarendon arrival yesterday was NJ. S.
Ward. 90
J.. NJ. Clark, of Kalispell, is a guest at the
Clarendon. W
Capt. H. S. Co:e. of Fergus Falls, was at
Ine Mlndsor yesterday on his way home from
Washington.
A little party of visitors at the RYAN YES
terday included Mrs. ]. K. Waring of Fort
Harrison, Mont; Lieut.. J. K Macarthur or
Fort Warning, and Lieut.. Sam Hot, west
Point. ''
Fred J. Tucker and wife, of Chicago, are
NJ. B. Whitney, registering from Westfe,d
is at the Ryan.
H: w. Jameson is staying at the Ryan from
Saginaw.
G. NJ johnson and Mrs. johnson are guests
at the Ryan.
H. w. Merchant, Duluth, is at Hotel Met
ropoitan.
/. c. L. Henkle and wife, Evansville. are at
the Metropolitan.
G. 3. Levers, Omaha, registered at the Met
roDoitan yesterday.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-27
FIELD, SCHLICK & CO.

by in travelling chair, w. H. Bridge
man, of Brooklyn, and others.
On the summit there were no evil
dences of habitants. The huts that
We're believed by tradition to be there
and the bones of the 200 people who
were left there at the time of the local
deluge, when the ladder rock was swept
away, were nowhere to be seen. Half
a thousand years have elapsed, ac-
cCrding to traditions among the Indians
since this great flood occurred. 1t
was bare and desolate place.
The only water in sight was such as
stood in pools supposed to have been
made by the Acoma Indians a thous-
and years ago, but no animal life OF
any kind was found. There were the
great rocky battlements used by the
tribe before their rock ladder. path
was destroyed and by which they de-
Tended themselves from the attacks
of the invaders, but all else was desc
late.
The ascent was made Friday. the
party spending the entire day on the
summit. Specimens of flora were
gathered which the scientists of the
party believe will be of vast interest
as belonging to a prehistoric period.