Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-09-01
League Record.

st. Louis. ....... 106 q ~ zoo
President Leadiey of the Grand Rapids
club is thinking of selling out and the
club will have new owner. There are
three parties who have been bidding for
the franchise and one of them will prob
ably get it.
The Bobolinks put up a pretty good ar
ticle of ball for gang of cripples.-
Pioneer Press.
The Chicago club has lost fourteen
games by one run this season. That's
why Arson has been crying hard luckr'
Fourteen games on the other side of the
ledger would put the Colts away ahead
OF New York.
s special from st. Louis says that Sec
ond Baseman Billy Mailman will be re-
leased by Won Der Ahe TO cut down eX-
penses. Billy gets $500 additional for
captaining the nine. Housemen is slated
for the position.
Baltimore will give Silver King trial.
Ned HanIon has already put in q claim
for the '9S pennant.
Pittsburg has suspended Pitchers HaW-
lev and I<ilien without pay.
Fred Clarke of the Louisviles now
leads the National league in batting.
McDougall, the Buffalo pitcher, is play
ing regularly in the Taunton outfeld.
Third Baseman Atherton of Wilkes
barre promises TO develop into quite
player.
4 baseball statistican has figured it out
that the Boston triumvirate viii clear
S150,000 this year.
old Hoss'' Vickery, Milwaukee's old
twirler. pitched two games for Hartford
The other day. winning one and telng the
other.
There are rumors to the effect that the
Chicago and Philadelphia clubs will make
& wholesale exchange OF players.
If Scranton and Wilkesbarre drop out
Of the Eastern league Buffalo will get
the first call on the players Of the Scran-
ton team.
The Hoosier players will each get a
suit of clothes if indianapolis wins 100
OF the 140 games.
Padden is the only Pittsburg player
who has taken part in all the games
played by his team this season.
Young estimates that each club will
use about forty dozen balls this year, at
d cost to each club of $500.
The only manager in the major league
who ever used the methods of the show
man to advertise his team was Horace
Phillips of the Pittsburg club" remarked
Tom Brown. Before entering baseball
Horace managed q transforming TRACE
dian and 4 variety show and worked the
newspapers for circus. These methods
that he employed in the show business he
brought into baseball. Autographs OF
the players We're sent ahead to the va
ri0us cities on the trip, and were billed
like circus. al Maui king of pitcners;'
Tom Brown. the young California sprin-
ter Ed Morris, the wizard of the slab
and other catchy titles were applied to the
players on Phillips team in the lithOs,
the three sheets and stands of bills that
were plastered all over the dead walls.
Then Horace used to put a large display
add in the papers and rain thousands Of
dodgers over the streets. The application
Of the theatrical idea to baseball proved
4 profitable investment. Though Phil
lips team was not composed of world
beaters or champions, we attracted atten-
ton enough through the ingenious idea of
Hora ce's, and the crowds that we're
brought to the game through the medium
Of his Barnum methods were as large as
the multitude that turned out to the
games of Uncle Anson's champion Chi
cago Whites
Jimmy Murphy's challenge has been
accepted by Frank Garrard, and they will
meet in a twenty-round bout if a club
can be found to offer a suitable purse.
THAT the eye and the judgment on an
giles. rather than muscle and sheer
strength, are the most important points
IN batting was demonstrated to me over
at Kid Carsey's grounds in Weehawkin a
few mornings ago." remarked Capt. Mike
Griffin of the Trolley Dodgers to Joe
Campbell the other day. Bob Fitzsim-
mons dropped in while Carsey's players
were practicing. Carsey invited Bob to
take fall out of the bat, just to see how
Al no colo, ,,1c 8 h
hide from the Hercules who put the
Pompadour out of the business would
compare with n sWipe from an ordinary
ball player. Carsey tossed up two slow
curves before Bob found one to his lik
ing. The kangaroo has a liking for
send one up no higher than the stocking
tops. The Kid handed up a slow ball
about on n level with Bob's knees.
Fits chest swayed backward, just as
he pulls himself together when he is in
the act of pushing one of those sleep
producing swings on the jaw of his vic
tim. Then he described half a circle
with his bodysand brought the bat around
with the whole force of his body behind
It. And did he erase the cover from the
bail? ] don't think. He simply popped
4 fly to Carsey. But it was hard to
convince him that he could make longer
hit by simply meeting the ball half way"
Reust, the Abilene pitcher secured by
Manning, will probably prove to be one
Of the finds of the season. He has
speed, good curves and command. Be
sides he is n big fellow, with plenty of
endurance. President Manning saws:
Give me n husky, left-handed pitcher.
with good curves and command of the
ball, and that is all ask, for most south
paws are wild. This young twirer puts
EN- over :"
The danger to boxers from blows over
the region of the heart is so great if
would be well for the managers of box
ing clubs to insist on the men who con-
test in their arenas wearing guards over
their hearts. 1t is due to ''Macon's" eff
forts that the floors of most rings have
been carnated with felting or rubber so