The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-17

First Baseman Jack Doyle, who has
been spending several days in Balti-
more, has gone to his home in Holyoke,
Mass, where he will probably remain
until the opening of the baseball sea-
son. Jack may or may not be over
joyed at the prospect of playing here,
but il is a noticeable fact that he did
not even stop over in Washington on
his way to Baltimore from the Coast
long enough to let anybody connected
with the club know that he had found
his way East.
How well qualified Tom Brown was
to speak of the movements of Doyle is
apparent from the fact that the day
after The Times exclusively announced
Doyle's arrival in Baltimore and print
ed an interview with him Brown was
quoted in a morning paper as saying
that Doyle would remain on the Coast
for another month before coming East.
The morning paper which quoted
Brown as above then woke up. found
Doyle in Baltimore and interviewed
him TO the extent of column, in
which Doyle was made to say that he
was perfectly satisfied to come to
Washington and did not anticipate any
trouble as TO terms with Washington.
Notwithstanding this Jack is said to
have repeated before going To Holyoke
that unless the INDUCEMENTS To play
here were sufficiently attractive he
would enter Business at his home. II
was thought that either President
Wagner or Manager Brown might run
over to Baltimore and talk business
with their new first baseman, but
neither did. Ted Sullivan turned up
in Oystertown one day. and it was
thought by some that he was acting
as Wagner's agent and had gone to
find out Jacks real sentiments. If
there was any business transacted by
the two is was kept quiet.
Whether Doyle is simply trying to
work a little bluff on the Washington
management. and many Of the fans
think he is. remains to be seen. How
ever, all negotiations for the sale OF
Tucker appear to have fallen through
for the present. which would seem to
indicate that the Wagners are acting
on the "bird-in-t the hand policy.
James J. Corbett arrived in Chicago
Yesterday. He wants TO see Siler and
ask him a lot of questions. and will ask
the newspaper writers of Chicago TO
be the referees as to whether Siler an
swers them fairly Siler has gone to
Cleveland. but will be back in Chica-
go on Wednesday. He said he would
see Corbett on his return and answer
any questions he might propose. He
said he was not afraid of the pugilist,
but thought the whole thing was de-
cidedly unfortunate. The questions
Corbett wants Siler to answer are:
Were you a Fitzsimmons or Corbett
man at Carson
Did | not object to you as referee at
Hot Springs and only consented to get
FitZsimmonS to fight?
Were we on speaking terms then?
What was your object in telling me
at Carson how Fitzsimmuns was 10
fight?
Were you not ToOming with House
man. Fitzsimmons' timer at Carson?
Did not | tell you at Carson that my
friends objected TO you as referee?
Did / not accuse you and Houseman
of telegraphing Nat Goodwin to bet
on "Fitz?'
Did you not get $500 from Julian aft
er the fight?
Are you and Houseman interested in
the veriscope?
Did you and Houseman engage a
band to meet "Fitz" at Chicago and
didn't you get a profit from the show?
In the sixth round at Carson did /
not ask you to count faster?
Did you not push me back and lose
two seconds?
Would not two seconds in the four
teenth round have been a great deal
of good to me?