Birmingham state herald., 1897-01-03

signed to captain and manage the Hart | ford Atlantic league base ball team for 1 the coming season, His release was se- | cured from the Newarks for $5000.
 "Well. I'll have to step lively to keep 1 up with the. parade. mapped out for me by some of the guessers this winter" was l the sage observation, of Bug Holiday,
 who has been. duly scheduled to march 1 to Brooklyn, Philadelphia and St. Louis Scott Stratton comes to the front again declaring that he will retire permanently | from the diamond. Scott has very l thriving grocery business at his home in l Taylorsville, Ky, and will hereafter give his undivided attention to that.
 Three we'll known Louisville players | will be found again this season with the | Norfolk club, of the Atlantic league l They are Jack WentZ, George Planmil- | Ter and Fred Ciausen, who did excellent 1 work with that team during the past | year. y&T a5n.,s. sni ~g.
 | Connie Mack has signed Pitcher John 1 T. Newirk, d Baltimore boy, who did l splendid work for Oil City last season. l Mack says the report that Brownie Fore l man has signed with Grand Rapids is wrong, as the little chap is on Milwau- kee'S list 4--l.sl loe Jl4ue .-. James Cockfnan is the latest addition l to Bush's Indianapolis list. He resides 1 at Guelph Canada He played with l Roa noke last.year'in the Virginia league. | His position 1slat third base, and he is l said to be very fast fielder in any po- l sition. lH t 93 34SS31
 Bill Joyce is already negotiating with ] Cooke for tour of Europe, Asia, Africa 1 and Ireland next winter. He will take l Jim Stafford, Kid iGleason and Dad | Clarke with him for ballast. And they'll | not go over in cattle ships, either, un- l less steerage rates are raised between now and then. 9l @'ts'F','i
 l President Freedman has bet a suit of l clothes with Manager Seles on the propo- | sition that Dennis .Houle,S the Giants l.young outfielder, leads Stahl. Boston's 8 young pride, in batting next season. A l still better bet is that neither of them plays enough games In the big league l to get an official record.
 Many f1attering reports are going the | rounds about William Becker, young | Louisville pitcher who has signed with | Savannah. Players who have seen him work say that he has wonderful speed, l good curves, and excellent control. He l will no doubt prove find for that club, 1 if all reports be true.
 | A number of University, of Pennsyl- l vania well wishers are anxious to have l Arthur Irwin take charge of the Var | siky base ball team, but the athletic com
 mittee is opposed to engaging profess | sional coach. It is likely, however Mark | Baldwin, who is a student in the medical | department, will coach the pitchers. Business Manager. Bancroft, who l makes Cincinnati his home, will estab- 1 fish himself at Hawley's after January | 1. Any matters pertaining to the Gin l cinnati club will be, attended to by him I there. MT. Bancroft also will establish
 a sort of newspaper bureau. to supply 1 all the local critics with anything in the
 news line that is of interest to the pub | lie. -9SI 5-~-s3t.F -.ss
 1 John Taylor, whom Connie Mack signed last fall for Milwaukee, pitched the | greater part of last season for the Mari | etta, O., club and showed that he was l too fast for the company he was in. | Taylor has speedy delivery, good con- | trol of the ball and an abundance of | stamina. He is a sure hitter, and in the Virginia league is known as told Re- | liable."
 One thing which contributed to Roches- | ter's general falling off was the absence of Manager shannon from the diamond. | This could not be avoided as he was l physically unable to be in the game New ertheless it worked against the team, as both his encouragement and good ex- ample were lacking to a noticeable ex- tent. It also resulted in a certain lack of discipline.
 It is not exaggerating to say that the Atlantic League is probably the hardest league in the country for an umpire to 1 get along with. If he shows the white feather 1t Is all up with him, then and there. For wholesale kicking the league in question can give the others cards and spades. and a beating, President Bar rows therefore, cannot be too careful in his selections.-Exchange.
 There are many young players from the minor leagues who will obtain per-
 manent employment in the big league
 next season, which means that the minors will be strengthened by the major league cast-offs,' says Hal Reid in the Indian- apolis News. As the young bloods drafted by the major. league for next year are | less numerous than ever before, 1t is hard | to figure how the minors are going to be propped up'by the veterans of the major 1 body. rGIe G0 aU
 Base ball in Des. Moines has never been
 what it was In 1888 when it bad team of pennant winners. That season 1t was in | the association with Kansas City, St.
 Paul, Omaha, Milwaukee Chicago, Sioux City and itDavenport. Tt had Hutchin- | son in the box with old BiNs Traffiey be- | hind the bat, Danny Stearns on first, the | famous Joe Quinn on second, Alvord on third MacullarJ at short Van Dyke in i-left field, :yBug' sHollid@y i'm eenter. and Orator Shafer in right, l4 .yAS.sas..4 If the New England league IS reorgan- ized on proper lines with a smalf and compact cireiiits it ought to be a'financiai ! success. The January meeting will set- l tie this end of the ma ttey If Max Na- l thomson. c. Fred Crawford and M Moy and their associates had not been gritty, and possessed barrel of local pride. the