The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-03
BASE BALL BRIEFS.

and will cover first base,
Paul Radford, the old Cleveland player,
has been released by Hartford.
Tom Bannon. who was released by the Kan
sas City club, may sign with Syracuse.
The Australian ball players will play in
Chicago June 6 against picked team of
professionals.
Jack Newell who played third base for In
d1anapohs in 1895. but who refused to come
into the fold last season, has signed a con-
tract with Manager Watkins.
Manager Watkins will not permit any
member of the Indianapolis team except
Motz to "kick'' at the umpire's decisions
If the Hoosiers are fined for kicking" the
money is taken out of their salaries, and if
they are put out of the game the Indian
apolis club fines them $25.
The Milwaukee Base Ball club is scooting
down the same old toboggan slide; first there
is elation. then elevation, then expecta-
ton, then explanation. then indignation,
then CONSERVATION, defamation, vituperation
desperation and justification. Later-Since
the above was written the Milwaukee boys
are climbing the toboggan and at a very
good pace.-Whitewater Register.
The Peoria team has been nicknamed
'Dugdales Distillers.
What is base ball coming to? Are the
Murphys, the O'Gradys, the Kelys, the No
lans, the We.dmans and the BreitenS ems
dying? These questions follow reading the
base ball scores of the day, when one tries
to masticate such names as Sccka,exis De-
montreville, Lajoie and others. And what is
to become of the fans when they are asked
to watch Isbell play and see Phillppi pitch.
Send for Horatn and the Curaii and let US
have somebody with real name of antiquity
to worry the scorers-Exchange There are
a few Reillys, Kahoes, Trosts, Flynns Hog
rieVorS- etc left vat-KanSaS iroo
Nothing in the literature of base bail has
been pathetic as the expressed misery of
the Kansas City papers during the Blues
slump. The wailing Of the banshee isn't in
it with them.-Sporting News. The man that
wrote this had been looking on the amber
when it was yellow. The patience Of Kansas
City papers this spring has been almost phe-
nomenal to use base ball language. No hing
like it has been seen on the circuit Of course
the News did not originate the sorry It was
Clipped from some Western league paper and
not credited, but it is in line with the methods
of journal that, when 1t does give credit for
an idea, credits It to some other paper in the
same city than the one which gave utterance
to it.-Kansas City Times.
1t Is a fact not generally known that Sail
ings was a catcher for the Philadelphia club
in 1884, yet such is the case, he being secured
then up to league standard, and he drifted
West.
There seventeen different leagues or as
soeiations of professional base ball clubs in
the United States. These leagues are made up
of 107 cities, and only one Of these 107 cities
is outside of this country. Toronto is a mem
Der of the Eastern league.
Milwaukee has gone daffy over the reports
that several National league teams are after
the young south-paw, Bert Jones. Louisville
has made a cash offer, Brooklyn is willing to
i'm md N1,1
Sehmelz says he might be induced to trade
Norton and Swain and Jones.
Atlantic City has the Indian fever, and the
team at that place has been reinforced by the
addition Of twirler from the Indian school
at Carlisle, Pa, whose name will appear on
the score cards as Sho-fo-lo. Buckheart Wah,
who has been signed by Rochester is Sho-fo-
los catcher, and some attention will now be
diverted from Sockalexis, who is not the only
red man in the game