The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-08-01

deFs.oping well. He made a decided hi
In Seattle. and the patrons OF the game
took as much interest in him as they do
In our own players With a good catcher
10 steady him down, he ought to be ore
the best tn the league
among those who give promise OF fss-
trre greatness in their special lire may be
mentioned Anderson and Dea. OF the So
aftle team; Babbitt and Gates. OF Tacoma:
hopkins. OF Spokane and possibly Mar
saaA' II seems 10 that Marshall ts
out az place IN the inf1e.d. As timely
bafSnan ne Is very valuable 10 team
am sorry TO see Kleiber OF the Tacoma
team, taken from shortstop and put be-
hind the bat. I consider him the best
snortsiop. ali things taken into considera-
ton, IN the league. He handles himself
something after the style of Ed William
son, the old Caicago star. RI holds the
inheid steady. With a first class catcher
the present Tacoma team would be an
entirely different aggregation 20 meet Ia
corna's outfield. all things considered. -
thea best In the league.
Spike" Sullivan who defeated Dial Uaw-
kfTas In New York recently says that he
does not Ike the idea Of fighting In San
Francisco. because ne has heard about the
queer way they give decisions on the Pa
cihc coast. This remark evidently origin
a;ed in connection with the CHATTER about a
fight between I-avigne and Sullivan d; the
National Club IN San Francisco
San Francisco can get along without Sal
Ivan lie l. not the only pusilisl that
walks. He would not be popular in San
Francisco anyway II the stories told about
his love for money are half way true
The big prizefghting clubs of the East
have COME TO the conclusion that il q
safer TO let men fight for a percentage Of
70 nfy
reason for this is found In the fact that
both the Sharkey Rubin and Maher-God-
dard fights were losing propositions. Tom
O'Rourke. of the Lenox Athletic Cub. has
decided To adopt the percentage plan In
the future. All that the fighters will get
to divide is one-haf the total receipts.
The future OF the baseball league Is
predetermined. y press dispatch received
last night announces that the Spokane
team has given up the fight.
Through a misunderstanding It was an
Dounced yesterday morning that Man
ager Dugdale had taken the management.
Of the Portland team. IT Is true" said
Mr. Dugdaie last night that such scheme
was OF foot. but / know nothing OF any
final arrangements"
With the Spokane team out OF It. and the
Portland teams affairs In a muddle. things
look blue.
w. ~. Hardy always accused Erastus
Brainerd of writing the following clever
story which appeared in Forest and
Stream. Recently / mentioned the story
as being one of the best ever written and
the result has been numerous requests
from anglers for its reproduction, 1t is as
follows.
W. A. Hardy, of the Hardy Hall Arms
Company. is a keen sportsman who tells
lots of good stories. One OF them is as
follows: All fishermen know that the
trout is willy. especially the old whale who
has felt the prick ~ the hook. but had
an experience on Mason creek, an affluent
of the Weuatohec river. near the Great
Northern railroads Cascade switchbsck
which seems to indicate that big trout
may be big fool l had been iazily
whipping the stream one warm August
afternoon when l came TO a deep pool
about thirty yards round, down the mid
die of which an undulating ripple marked
the channel in the otherwise smooth and
Oily surface. Vine maple and alder
branches overhung the sides except where
a little sandbar put out three feet from
the head OF the pool. Standing on this
bar | east out over the pool without
rise II looked too tempting to pass has
tily so put a bit OF squirrel meat on my
fly attached to i demijohn cork to the
line. east over. to the ripping current and
let the current carry the floating line
down To the end OF the pool. As | ree!ed
In the line came quartcring back UP and
across the pool toward me. AZ ABOUT M
teen yards from where 1 stood ! heard
splash as Of a muskrat. As ! was not
watching / reelcJ In and cast again. Again
there was a splash al the same place, and
watching | saw broad tail swat the
cork. which danced from the blow. Again
| cast ana again the big fellows tail
whacked the cork. Taking off the cork.
hp M nrGfeSSOr~--lf
where the fish had risen before. This time
ne broke high out of the water and came
down the hook J struck hard from free
reel and hraced for a hard fight. To my
surprise he took no line and I reeled in
quickly feeling the chagrin % loss. as