The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-23
SIXTEEN STRONG LEAGUES.
THEY COVER EVERY SECTION OF
THE COUNTRY FROM OCEAN
TO OCEAN,
SURPRISES OF THE snAsos.
Caylor's Estimate of Batters Who
Are Making New Base Boil
History.


gave in the abstract some facts to show
the extent and power Of organized base
| ball In the United States under the ma
| tional agreement and reserve rule.
Among other statements was that fully
| 100 clubs and cities were thus combined.
An official list of the sixteen leagues
and associations thereby banded to-
gether and Of the LOT clubs and cities
| therein represented is hereby furnished
through the courtesy Of Chairman N. E..
Young: aG b
National League-New York Boston. Brook
Ign. Philadelphia, Baltimore Washington, Chi
| cago, st. Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati Cleve-
land, Pittsburg.
| Eastern League-Toronto (the only city OF
the 107 which is not in the United States),
1 Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Scranton,
Wilkesbarre, Springfield, Mass; Providence
Western League-st Paul In, Minneapolis poll
City, Columbus, O.. Grand Rapids.
| Atlantic League-Hartford, Newark, Pater-
son, Philadelphia (Athletics), Lancaster, Read
| ing, Richmond, Norfolk.
| Western Association Burlington, Cedar
Rapids, Peoria, Dubuque, Des Moines, Quincy,
/ st. Joseph.
Interstate League-Fort Wayne, Toledo.
| Mansfield, Youngstown, Springfield, o., Day
| ton, Wheeling, Newcastle.
| New England League-Pawtucket, Fall Rlv-
er, Brockton, Newport, New Bedford, Taun-
ton.
Central League-Terre Haute Cairo, ILL.,,
Paducah, Washington, Ind, Nashville, Evans
| vile.
| Texas Associatio2-san Antonio, Galvesto on
| Houston, Austin, Fort Worth, Dallas, Sher-
man, Denison, Paris.
/ Michigan State League-Kalamazoo, Jack
son, Saginaw, Port Huron, Lansing, Bay City.
! New Jersey State League-Trenton, Eliza
| beth, Melville, Atlantic City.
| New York State League-Auburn, Canan-
daigua, Lyons, Palmyra, Batavia. .,,-
Ohio and West Virginia League-zanesville,
1 Marietta, Canal Dover, Parkersburg.
Connecticut State League-Derby, Water
bury, Corrington, Bristol Mer1den. Brioge-
| port.
Central Pennsylvania League-Williamsport'
Milton Shamokin Pottsyille.
| Maine State League-Portland, Lewiston
Augusta, Belfast, Bangor Rock,and.
Excepting the Southeast and the Pa
| cific coast, the United States is pretty
well occupied by this great base ball
confederation. There has never been
any professional sport which occupied
ont-fourth so many cities in single
| central organization cooperating as
one body.
| Jesse Burkett and his fellow veterans
of the National league, who for sew
eral years have been mOnopollZ1ng the
first positions in the batting list, must
! look close to their laurels or have them
4 wrested away this season by several
| of the newcomers. Especially is Phlla-
delphia's new first basenaan, Lajope,
4 making a high bid for the lead. What
| is more, he seems to be able to keep UP
his heavy work and is confessed to he
| a "b I'm h tier" Up to this date LII les
batting has been a leading feature OF
! the pennant race.
| Next to Lajoie as a new Datsman
comes CleVeland's Indian, Sockalexls.
| Some of his batting feats against the
best Of the league pitchers have been
noteworthy. In addition to his excel
| lence with the bat Sock" as he has
| been abbreviated, is skilled base
runner and fine fielder. His feetness
| of foot is doubtless inherited from a
| long line of primitive ancestors. The
| great success made in such a. short time
| by the only Indian playing professional
| ball raises a rumor that Uncle Arson
| has sent an agent into the reservation
in search of talent. The rumor, OF
course, is not true. The grand old man
has trouble enough at home to keep
| him busy by day and wakeful at night.
It was a new and not at all pleasant eX-
! perience for the veteran of quarter
of a century to view a championship
race from the rear-from the very bot
/ TOM No one probably realizes the bit
| terness of this position to Arson. OF
| course he will not stay there with his
! Colts But these excessive defeats at
the start are a severe handicap, which
no one but born fighter as he is, could
overcome or would stand up against
ganely.
Early in the season Mr.. Arson. In all ap-
/ parent earnestness, expressed fear that his
/ Colts might take the bit into their mouths
| and make a runaway race of it. thus taking
all interest cut of the race. Now there are
| those cruel enough to suggest that ne meant
''the crupper" when he said the bit. But
such q little incident as that of being last IN
| the procession does not faze the claimant $
professed faith. He now says it will make the
| race all the more Interesting to chicago to
see him lead his Colts around their field and
| win on the post. Such feat is not imposst-
| BILE, however improbable it may be. for 1t
| was accomplished once before. In one OF the
| years when the New Yorks won the pennant
1883 or 18Ss-they were absolutely last in
/ June, then slowly but surely went to the
1 front. But the Giants that year were clearly
| the best team and had but seven opponents
| to NOW down. two conditions which Arson
cannot claim.
Another surprise player in the league is
Shortstop Richie, Of the Cincinnatis. When
| the season began his retention on the nine
was an absolute necessity, but 1t was used as
| a bluff to bring the rebellious Coreoran to
terms Not one in every hundred expected
| remained absent. But he did. What is more.
| his general playing has been such that Cor
4 coran is not missed from the Cincinnati nine.
The only doubt which exists and It is grow y,
/ pace? II he can. It will be great lesson
for future stars Of the ball field who imagine
that they are absolutely indispensable: to their
| clubs interests. It will emphasize the latest
| slang phrase that there Is more than one
pebble on the beach.
But base ball players are freakish in their
show this fact. Klobedanz. Boston's new
left-handed pitcher, found fault with his club
for refusing to pay him in advance and he
| would not go West with the team. Luckily
for him. he had conservative men to deal
with and repentance came in time. The other
instance is that Of Bierbauer's desertion CT
his St. Louis contract and return to his
home in Erie. This action. presume places
him outside of the national agreement breast
works for all time. In his case it was prob
| ably choice between regular, well-paying
business at home and q small salary from a
club which was not to his liking.
The desertion of Bierbauer is a reminder
that he was one Of two players whose dis
puted services precipitated the National
league and American association war of 1891.
| Queer, too, is the fact that the man who lost
! most heavily in that battle. Chris Won der
Abe, is now the man who suffers by the play
| er's desertfon.
Stovey and Bierbauer were claimed under
| reservation by American association clubs
for 1884, when the Players league went out
| of existence. But a National league club
signed them, and the national board awarded
them to the latter claimants. That action
was a casus belli. The American association
| Withdrew from the national agreement con-
4 federation and placed opposition clubs in Bos-
ton and Cincinnati. The hight lasted one
/ season, cost about $780, 900 and ended in the
4 consolidation of the two belligerents during
| the winter OF 1S91-92. Bierbauer and Stoyey
| were at that time star players. Stovey has
been "out Of the game" for three years, and
| is now a policeman working twelve hours a
day for less than 500 month"; Bierbauer's
| salary has been cut so often and SO much
/ to follow his fast declining talent that he
| gives up the profession in disgust. And all