The age-herald., 1898-03-10
TIME THINGS WERE MOVING Ball Team Should Begin Prac-
 tice Early. OTHER TEAMS COMPLETED While Birmingham's Make-Up is Still ShrOud- ed in MysterY-Big League Teams
 Training in the South.


 still shrouded in the deepest mystery. All efforts to obtain an inkling of the men signed have proved unavailing.
 The clubs of all the other towns in the circuit are either entirely completed or very nearly so. The time for the opening of the season draws near. No team Is able to play championship games unless 1t has had preliminary practice. The managers of the other clubs seem to appreciate this, but Haller does not
 Many of the National league teams are now practicing in the south. The Colts are at Waycross, Ga.: the Pirates and In F dians are doing their spring training at Little Rock, Ark; the Reds getting in condition at San Antonio, Tex.
 Some of the Southern league managers have arranged for games with the big clubs. Such has not been done in Bir- mingham. A game with Baltimore would easily draw 5000 people to West End park The receipts would go a long way toward paying mileage and hotel bills during the summer.
 Secretary and Treasurer Allan L. Eaton is expected home in day or two, and he may have something interesting to give out.
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 War with Spain would hurt the attend ance in the seaboard cities and help 1t in the interior towns, is the opinion of the majority of the National league magnates
 Delaney is the pitcher the Mobile papers have been making such fuss over, but refused to give his name. He played last season with Williamsport, Pa. and is said to be a craek-a-jack.
 Nonemaker, who signed with Mobile, is heinz claimed hu be Mobile Montgomery and Ottumwa of the Western association. Nonemaker is undecided as to just "where he is at."
 Tackey Tom Parrott, the elongated pitch CT, who once twrled for Birmingham, has abandoned bachelorhood and entered the realms of matrimony.
 Waycross, Ga, hasn't hotel large enough to accommodate the entire Chicago team. The players are scattered around at the various boarding houses.
 Columbus, O., may give Kfrkley Baker another chance on the pitching slab. Ba ker was Chattanoogas crack pitcher in 1892
 Hugh Duffy has been informed by Man ager Selee that he will again be captain of the Boston team this year.
 "Burley' Byers a coming third baseman with Portsmouth, O., last season, has been corralled by Jack Sheridan for his Atlanta team Houseman also with Portsmouth, will play left field for Atlanta.
 The Orioles will leave for Macon Ga., March 14, and will stay there about twelve days. Exhibition games will be played Tn Savannah, Charleston, Richmond and Nor folk The first game in Baltimore will be played April with Rochester.
 Tom Power, the base ball player, died recently at his home in Frisco with con sumption. He signed with the Baltimore team in 1890, playing first base that season and the next year played with the Roches- ter team. He was very popular in Cali fornia.
 Mike Kahoe tells funny story on Cliff Lattimer, the catcher, whose home is in St. Louis. Cliff was playing in Mont gomery with Mike several years ago. and one day hit ball over the center field fence You'd thought that Cliff was triy ing to beat out a bunt to see him going down towards first base" said Mike. "He ran like deer with his cap in his hand, and in his anxiety forgot to touch any of the bases. We had to run him around a second time to touch the bags, and they never did find the ball."
 Ed Schan has been turned down by New Orleans to make room for Second Baseman Frank Bedding. Both hail from Louisville. Schan is a youngster, very fast ant a timely hitter Reddy is an experienced sec ond baseman, a fair hitter and good hitter"
 ids Qa) team, is exhibiting a curiosity in the shape of a cane made by Harry Mo ran a convict in the Anamosa penitentiary. It is antistically carved and has the pic lures of last. years Cedar Rapids team upon It. All the pictures are excellent hlxeneeses and the cane is indeed novelty.
 ''When am being hit hard, and Pat comes out to the box, I suppose the crowd thinks he's trimming me-" said George Cuppy, of the Cleveland team, recently. "ThaIt isn't Caps style. Doing your best ain't you, Nig?' he'll say. Sure thing pll answer. Go on, then,' Cap will say, 'and let 'em see how many they make. l wouldn't have you on the team If you didn't get hit hard occasionally.
 Riu Hill the Reds tall twirler, has had quite a varied experience in his compara- lively short career as a pitcher. Talk about being robbed by the umpire, said Hill. ssyou have no idea what it means un- til you have gone against some or phe umpires in the mountains of Tennessee. recall a game in which I pitched at Kings ion. Tenn, against the Athens team. The Kingston team took the field, and when I walked to the pitchers box the umpire followed me- He carried with him a dou- hIa-barreled shotgun and stationed himself immediately behind me. I politely request ed him to go away with his weapon bur he assured me he had the gun merely to preserye order on the Athens team He backed all his decisions with that shotgun and we won easily, altnough 0ne ouher fellows played better ball.
 "One of the best sun fieldeqs have ever soon was little Paul Radford," says Tom Brown, manager of the Senator's Faui lamps never failed to detect bind mus, anu if he were as clever at detecting the de- livery of pitchers he would be in the ma for ieague today. Charley Abbey was an- other cracka jack of sun fielder pernaps the equal of Radford. Old Pete Browning would shy and rear from a sun hit like Billy Boozology Taylor pulling away troih
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