Evening star., 1897-03-20

rays on 1t. and then they would know
what's what. Both these gentlemen at the
head Of the team speak in the most posi-
tive terms of MauTs condition. and also of
lis expected work. Maui stands very high
with Mr.. Wagner. but he will have to work
this season to secure a goodly portion of
the latterS money, and no $500 game
will go this year.
OBrien and Wrigley. who arrived in the
city last Tuesday. never looked better, and
not to be left in the rush Immediately took to
the bicycle, so as to knock off the last re-
naming particles of last winters over
growth. Cartwright was busy at work re-
pairing his wheel last Thursday morning
when Star reporter called at his boarding
house on 7th street and Rhode Island ave-
nue., and "Oid Reliable Jim Mcclure was
drawn up to window deeply interested in
a mysterious novel.
I'm just waiting for the sun to come
out, said the big first baseman with a
genial smile. "and I'll make the whole
gang sweat off ten pounds apiece
Yes. you will" retorted Mcclure with
sarcastic twitch of his mouth. Count me
! out there. You may make the others take
to the woods. but I'm In your class good
and hard
Cartwright smiled and admitted that Nc
Guire was getting to be quite scorcher
but intimated that DeMontreville and Sell
bach were regular Reubens on the wheel
or they wouldn't have been run in last
claimed that the popular little shortstop
and left fielder should have run away from
the bicycle cops. DeMontreville says the
cops" are strictly speedy men and can
get away with any man on the team.
Charley Reilly strolled by just then, with
a bat bag In one hand and an old suit in
| the other, on his way to the park, but said
he wasn't going for work. only to select his
locker for the season in the players dress
ing room. Reilly has never looked better
and like Cartwright. Is fully twenty-five
pounos under last years weight. He has
little to'say about his ability to retain his
of tha lnff
diamond, but there is confident air about
the man that speaks volume for the good
OF the team. Reilly has taken up quar-
ters on X street near Convention Hall for
the grounds when In the city.
Many base ball readers are not convers-
ant with the facts that keep Bert Myers
and A1gie Mcbride from signing Western
League contracts. and If all the stories are
true. several of the western managers are
trying the foxy game with players whom
they have caught under the first claim rule
Manager Comisky wrote Myers that his
salary was decided upon by resolution
adopted at the last meeting of the West
ern League. which was to the effect that
player coming from the National League
must be paid not less than three-fourths of
the salary he received in the major Or
sanlzatlon- In the case of high-salaried
piayer. say, $2.4oO. the three-fourths is all
right. but in Myers case, he having re-
ceived only $1,200 last season from ST.
Louis. according to the western manager
he will have to play for $500. Mcbride re-
ceived $1,000 from Chicago last season. and
the same dodge Is being tried in his case
Comisky said President Young would verify
him IN the matter. but as yet no decision
has been reached If such a rule was
adopted by the Western League 1t ia sim
ply outrageous. and the western men
should know better how to discriminate in
dinerent cases. Eighteen hundred dollars
Is big salary in the Western League hut
$hN Is hardly worthy of state league.
Both Mcbride. and Myers are willing to
play for last years salaries. and when their
apiii.y Is taken into consideration 1890
| IS not too much. Several of the eastern
managers have given it out in no plain
words that the western men are rubbing II
IN on their players, and unless a different
LEX Is taken the war the western mag
mates are looking for will not he far ~
Either one OF these men can sign with the
Eastern or Atlantic leagues for their own
price. and the eastern magnates will be
glad to get them. Pitcher Hutchinson no
doubt refuses to play with ST. Louis this
season on account of this rule He re-
ceives 1880 from the Minneapolis Club.
and II he signs with ST. Louis it viii he
at about that price Should he prove a
failure. and Hutchinson claims he viii. he
Will nave to go back to the Western
League at about 81 $50. and as q result of
the drafting and releasing process be $3.50
worse on. the cases Of Mcbride and Myers
should be looked into by the arbitration
committee and justice meted out with a
liberal hand. It was just such underhand
work against the players that brought on
the brotherhood war. and the big league
owes 1t to itself that no resentment against
1t should be developed II 1t is within their
power to prevent It,
Catcher "Bilr' schriver. who will plav
this season with the Cincinnati team. has
been credited with having caught a base
ball thrown from the top Of the Washing
ton monument about three years ago when
ne was In this city as a member of the
chicago team In a recent interview about
the matter Schriver said:
u did not catch q ball thrown from the
washington monument. 1 did not say that
dio. IN tact. did not try to catch the
clerks In the Arlington Hotel were one day
talking about the feat. Some one made a
bot that there was not ball player in
the crowd that could even fudge a hall
thrown from such height well enough to