The Saint Paul globe., 1897-06-07

the grounds with much emphasis and eleven
kicks that sounded like the bursting of a
paper bag on frosty morning The rights
of citizen, of man who has paid his so
cents, OF all base ball enthusiasts, are in the
balance after this election. What privileges
are reserved for the man on the bleachers,
anyway? When an umpire's decison~is alb
so-utely and inexcusably wrong, cannot the
bleacherite call him a fathead or tell him
that he is decayed? The right of calling the
umpire names has for these forty years been
an inaleniable and acknowledged right of the
man on the bleachers and now comes along
one of the Empirical trbe-a man who, by
the common verdict of the people, ought to be
erased from the surface of the earth-and at
one blow upsets prerogative and constitu-
tional custom!
Monk Corcoran who has been travelling
from Detroit to Milwaukee for the past six
Gays, arrived by express Tuesday forenoon
and made the Leigh house his home. monk"
is looking WELL and says he will play up to
MS old-time form. He began practicing with
the team at Milwaukee park this afternoon.
He will be utility man for Col. Mack.-Wis-
conSin.
Grand Rapids has signed Thomas ]. Brady.
the Brown university pitcher and he will
join the team on June l. Brady will be a
tower of strength to Grand Rapids, he is
the best pitcher Brown has had since the
days of Sexton. He has shown up well
against Boston and New York. of the big
league and has fooled the batters of the
Providence championship team. Tenney, now
on first for Boston: says Brady is conner
Brady is about feet 91@ inches in height,
and weighs 165 pounds He is right
handler and clever batter
Even with the hideous base bali removed
from the Boston uniform all the writers on
the Western circuit pronounce it marvel OF
ugi iness. Manager Selee should consult an
artist, not a butcher, when he gets ready for
the suits of '9S.-The Herald
Tenney is probably a permanent fixture on
the first corner of the Beaneaters, which
old campaigner. Tommy Tucker, who, with
Jack Stivetts, is doing the thankless job OF
excess baggage on the Boston team.
''The most scientific batsman I ever pitched
to is Willie Keeler, of the Orioles" says
Win Mercer. cat least 80 per cent of the
batsmen have their weakness. but Keeier is
1aw-ess. He can smash a slow curve and he
can bat out speed. Nothing is impossible to
him-curves, speed, height, or anything else
and with all his great talent as fielder
and batsman he's modest, unassuming lit
tie gentleman"
1t is hinted that Freedman's desire to Sc
cure Tommy Dowd is to appoint a successor
to Scrappy as manager of the Giants.
It wouldn't do little Muggsy McGraw any
harm TO take an evening off and read few
chapters of ''The Book of Etiquette. DE
troit Free Press.
Milwaukee promises to fight Minneapolis
claim for Tom Smith. of Boston.
The Viau family still fourishes One
pitches for the Paterson club. and another in
Roekand, Me.
Lon knight, the veteran Athletic and De
troit outf1e.der. is filling a clerical position
in Philadelphia.
Ren Mulford thinks that Win Mercer might
change his frontispiece to Lose.
Clark Grifath's contract calls fer the limit
So, ,4G0-and a to"us if he wins a certain
percentage of game.
Hank ODay has a fad of levying taxes on
garruious captains. Mike Griffin has-had S5C
this season.
Sockalexs, the aborigine from Maine, and
Lajoe, the Gascon, have the same identical
weakness as batsmen Both make muss
over slow curve ball.
The New England league began the season
with three pitchers named Mullen, and al
three have been released at this early stag5
of the proceedings.
Joe Campbell thinks that Manager Schmel7
should get out an injunction restraining De
Montreville from leaving third base and try
ing to score on a hit to the :nfie!d when the
chances arv 20 to / against him.