The times., 1897-03-28

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mud before finale is added 10 tn,
coming season.
Buck Ewing says ball pIa yers should not
train over three hours a day. Buck cuts
his own cloth. II s doubtful if he couIc
stand the gait for fifteen minutes.
All the dyeol-in-the-wooI rooters viii
see the game between the .'FarrelIs' and
''AcGures." Ana there viii be the usual
milk and water" contingent in at
! tendance.
Buck Ewing, the maestro Of the Cinoin-
| natl club, thinks the race for the penneu I
| viii be a four-cornered affair, and that
Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Boston
| VIII furnish the quartet
It's announced from Richmond that Jake
! Wells has completed his roster Of pitch
ers by signing Smith. Lever, and Schmidt,
and that ex-senator Carney Flynn viii
| not be communicated with.
| The Texas League is one OF the best
! organized OF the satellites that TevOlve
around the major league orb. and gives
promise of most successful season, ar
tisticalIy and financially
Tommy Dowd bet his money wrong on
the Fitzsinmons-COrbet fight, and is shv
several hundred dollars as q result But
says Tommy, were the men to meet
again, would put my coin on Corbett I
don t think the best man won
The disbandment Of the Charles ton.
S. c., club, Of the busted Southern league.
lert ex-senator Fred Moles worth without
a job, temporarily The pudgy boy. .'how-
ever, has good minor league ability. AMI
fTT grrr for
'Tis said that Big Bill Lange will wed
next fall, pretty California girl having
fallen victim to the arrow which ne had
twanged from Cupid's bow. All the
world loves a lover and Big Bill will no
doubt be more popular over the League
circuit this season than ever before.
The Times will risk prophesy and
say that the coming season will be the
last opportunity that the people OF Cleye-
land VIII have to witness the playing of
National League clubs The handwriting
is on the wall, and 1898 viii see a trans
fer or scattering of the famous IS piders."
Con Daley, the old Brooklyn catcher.
who is well remembered by Washington
fans, is said to have Joined fortunes. for
better or worse, with a Brooklyn lady who !
and the collateral thereof. The report |
further adds that Con has quit the game |
Why shouldn't he?
Pat McCauley's whereabouts for the com
ing season are still in the balance Detroit
and Toronto are both hot after him, but
Cincinnati refuses to waive claim to his
transfer to minor league. IL is said that
the real object in Cincinnati obiectfng is
for the latter TO get control OF Pat and
then transfer him to Minneapolis
Shorty Fuller was another veteran who
jumped against the bars and cut up
nightly over the contract offered him by
Spring gfield. Yet Shorty tucked under
when an ultimatum was issued and meekIy
signed the papers. No use kicking against
he pricks in the baseball business The
nagnates hold high, low, Jack, and have
cinch on the game.
The Washington, Cleveland and st. Louis
lubs are the only ones taking their pre-
iminary practice on home grounds The
Jew Yorks are doing their practicing at
n. J.; Brooklyn is at Charlotte.
7. c.; Baltimore at Macon. Ga; Boston at
savannah; Cincinnati at New Orleans;
hicago al Hot Springs; Louisville at West
laden, Ind, and Pittsburg is getting into |
0rm Roanoke Va.
Even Columbus, the minor league club. Il
as turned Arlie Latham down, and he 4
seeking a job at most any old place \
The fellow OF infinite Jest never finds |
long road without turning. The I
league fans Will not see the clown again; Il
et memories of his antics and his choice, II
lean-cut quips will live long after passed /
p has been written across his baseball \
,ore. II
The matter of silver" King has as Il
Imed a peculiar phase. The letters and II
legraIns addressed to him by Manager H
chmelz to st. Louis at the street numbers H
both his place OF business and residence II
ave been returned marked mo such III
ime" and ''Undeliyered, and the inter III
ted parties are at loss to understand III
e situation. Either silver is playing | III
x or has accepted an engagement with | III
e ''Off the Earth combination. III
John Hadley Doyle, than whom there II
no better judge of ball player among Hi
e members OF the fourth estate, said III
The Times man at George town Field III
sterGay that OF the new pitching talent HI
ded TO the Senatorial staff he fancied I'll
'he as first rater HE handles him III
4 like ball player" said John Hadley, III
nd he looks the part. And at bat he Ill
s that step-Up-to- the-plate Deiehanty HI
lie and swing that suits me. If he HI
es not prove winner, then / am III
fully fooled in appearances - Ill
,x-Umpire Belts, who was with the Vir- III
Tia League last season. says that the III
management secured waltz ~. ~.
lie man In young John Kimble, the Jer- ~