The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-10

as thirty-seven men are said to be un-
der reserve. including Manager STALL
ings. OF the last years team, Clements.
Dowd. Taylor and Cross have been
traded to st. Louis n Billy Nash Is
still on the Pacific slope. having an
nounced that he will not again play
with Philadelphia. Ii Is impossible To
predict how the Philadelphia team viii
be made up this year. but of the old
men Orth and Wheeler will be found in
the box. and Douglass, Lajoie and
Cross i'm the infield.
Another big shift has been made in
the Chicago team. where Tom Burns
has succeeded Arson as
Burns had quite a problem to face in
trying to effect a reorganization OF the
Chicago team and to re~-establish the
esprit de corps necessary to success.
but he has worked hard and the Chi
cago team will take many a criinp N
sundry pennant aspirants before frost
comes. Woods. IsDel and Zeigler 8r''
the young blood OF the team. n IL Is
expected that at least w Of them VIII
turn out strong players. Man. ser
Burns was manager of the Springfield,
Mass. Eastern League team asst year,
and is an old ball player. having teen
q member of the Cn.Cago dite stock
ing champions in the days Of William
son. Flint. Joe" Quest and NIX XII
ly. Burns will probably get more ball
playing out of the Chicago team than
most of the Windy Cityites Lave
thought there Is in il. for the last :eir
or two. To have Chicago a strong fac
tor in the race would add greatly to
the interest and success Of t:e season.
The material is there and hot "A f"w CT
the knowing ones would fail II b. sur
prised to see II crop out.
The St. Louis club has had almost as
complete reorganization as hat of the
Philadelphia. Won der Abe has retired
from baseball. nominally, at least. and
Tim Hurst. for some years umpire In
the league. Is now manager. Hurst has
an iron-clad contract. so drawn that
he cannot be interfered with. The team
comprises Holmes, Donelly, Clements,
Taylor. Cross, Dowd. Sugden and
Hughey and others. Ii has been train
ing hard at West Baden Springs. Ind.
and Hurst declares hat he will sur
prise the talent this year.
Barring Clingman at third. Louisville
will have a new infeld. and will also
have two new outfielders. Ritchey,
Hoyle and Ehret have been obtained
from Cincinnati. a deal which strength
ened the nine greatly, and Louisville
may be depended upon to put up an
interesting fight.
To Pittsburg have gone Schriver,
Rhines, Gray and McCarty from Gin
Aio eAie Afot Ball ~
from st. Louis. II is hard To see how
Pittsburg will occupy a higher place
this year han last. however.
The Cleveland nine will appear about
the same as for several years past.
SockaleXis, who was a W OF
strength in the right field last year
until he began to d~issipate, Is said to
have reformed, and to hav been as
sured Of another trial. If this is true.
and ''Sox" lasts the season out, Cleve-
lands chances ought to average rather
better han they did last year.
Brooklyn has acquired Tom Tucker
from Washington for first base and
will play LaChance i'm the outfeld. IL
is declared that Jones. who was right
fielder last season. bids fair to become
a phenomenal short stop, and that
Stein has recovered the use of his
pitching arm-all of which will make
Brooklyn stronger h last year. but
IL is still hard for the average base
ball crank to see how the team car
finish any better h II did. Tucker
will prove to be a tower of strength
for Brooklyn. however. and he may
succeed in Installing some of his lif.
into the team as a whole. All told
every team in the league appear tc
have been strengthened, and the win
ner OF the pennant will be well aware
that IL has played ball by the time tn,
season of 1898 has passed into history
Prophets who are venturing predic'
tons as to the probable result. mus
take into consideration a condition o.
affairs that has not existed before-s
condition that Is likely to help the team
that has the largest number of sea
soned players. The playing schedul
has been heightened from l32 to 10
games for each club. and has been s
changed that the distances to be tray
] eled will be greater. with he" Jumps