The sun., 1897-12-10
THE SPORTING WORLD.
Short and pithy Pointers From
the Turf,
BRIEF TOPICS OF THE DAY.
y Resume of the --latest DOinHS III
Athletics. Indoor and Field
sports That are
Legitimate.
DTAECND JUST.

John T. Erushs resolution against
rowdyism and obsccnity on the ball
field, which will be acted on ut the
Spring meeting OF the League, is meet
ing with universal objection, as being too
radical. However desirable the cllmin-
alton of rowdyism from the national
game may bc the proposition to etcr-
naly blacklist a player who may indulge
in profanity or rowdyism is, in the
opinion OF nearly all baseball! men, en-
tirelv too sever" for the oifcnsc. .>ls-
pending u player for sixty days, ior in
stance, would work very disastrousty for
his club in many cases and would doubt
less cure the evil very quickly.
The Chicago C!ub will hot sign any
players until February. 1t is given out
that the men will not be pat under con-
tract until something definite has been
done in regard to the club management
When Ansun returns from England next
month there will bc IL conference and
agrccmcn, reached.
\ Baltimore correspondent thinks that
Jack Doyle is decidedly the king Of first
bascmcn and all comparisons with men
like Tenncy are silly vaporings. Tcnney
i. inferior at the bat, on the bases and in
natural ability; he lacks the esprit and
tcmcrity as we'll as the natural ability Of
Doyle, and the only quality that even
deserves comparison is his faculty of
reaching with his mitt for the ball and
posing forthc grand stand.
Ed Mexican, the Cleveland short stop
wants President Robson to exchange
him for some other player. Mexican has
been eleven years with Cleveland, and
thinks a change would benefit him.
Jones, the Cleveland clubs new
picther, has record of striking out the
first eight men to face him in game,
and not one Of them hit single foul
at that.
Western colleges have made strong
rules against ''sunmcr nines' in base.
ball.
John Camel, the first lascman drafted
from Grand Rapids by Pittsburg, does
not want to becomes Pirate. He prefers
to remain a minor Lacquer.
Manager IIanon, Of the Baltimore
baseball team, has an offer from Mana
ger Wagner Of Washington, OF McGann,
Demontrcyillc and McJames, for Doyle,
Rcitz and a left paw pitcher to be
selected later. llanlon offered to make
Il deal Oh Amole, Doyle and Rcitz.
A despatch from Chicago states that
city will have no club this year in the
Western Baseball League and for that
reason, il Anson is to join that League,
he will have to connect himself with Il
team representing some other town.
II the two-year-old clause in the draft
ing rules is a good thing for the Class \
clubs, why should not all minor leagues
have the benefit OF ii ? asks the Sport
ing News. Why should the Western,
Eastern and Atlantic leagues get tie
privilege OF annually preying upon clubs
of lesser classification when they declare
such a course wrong as applied to them?
The small leagues are as much entitled
to protection as the more important or
CARNATIONS, and for the same reason.
The Interstate League, Western Assoca-
ton and other minor organizations
should do a little petitioning at the
spring meeting of the National League.
Herman Doescher, the wc'l.known
minor league umpire, claims the credit
for bringing out Keller, of Baltimore,
the leading batsman OF the National
League He says that when, in 1892, he
tie Bingham Eastern League
club, he sa kecer playing on the lots
in Providence where he was urcustoncI
to play one game Il week for - Il game.
Doescher says he paid krclcr 800
month to join his club, simply and solely
because OF the ability he saw him dis
play that day.