The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-03-09

not officially given out until yesterday.
The preliminaries for the deal were ar
ranged at st. Louis last week. The heads
of the Brooklyn and Washington clubs
stopped at the same hotel and while at
breakfast one morning got their heads
together and after a lengthy talk agreed
that Tom should be turned over 10 the
Brooklyns after Mr.. Wagner had cleared
the way. 1t was then given out that st.
Louis vas after the player, and the
claims of that club made void the sale of
Tucker to Omaha. Wagner's announce
ment that the arrangements made with
the Western League city We're engineered
without his authority was verified. On
his return TO Washington the owner of
the Senators completed the deal and the
transfer was made. The purpose of the
Brooklyn people in rounding up Tucker
is apparent in the following statement.
President Ebbets: 81 have secured Tucker
for several reasons, the primary one be
ing that La Chance has not yet signed
a contract, and l do not propose to take
any chance when the season begins.
Should La Chance come to terms, and |
do not wish TO infer that he will not,
we will have two first basemen. making
US unusually strong in that position. This
brings me to the second reason for secur-
ing Tucker. The policy of the Brooklyn
club is to strengthen every position, and
Horton to replace Dunn, should the lat
ter persist in the stand he has taken.
We have four good outfielders, a strong
quartet of catchers, beside which La
Chance can cover the outfield and go be-
hind the bat if that is necessary. If any
other club desire an exchange whereby
Brooklyn can be strengthened, we are in
a position TO give full value for what
we receive. I stand ready to give any
one of my best players, il does not matter
whom, for man who will strengthen any
weak spot in the Brooklyn team. He
must be an ace, however, and ! shall not
hesitate 10 give an ace for him.
Kid Mccoy has given it out that he will
be in Cincinnati today to make final
rangements for a match with Gus Rubin.
The battle between Mccoy and Rubin,
according to the articles agreed upon, is
to be for twenty rounds or to a finish for
the heavyweight championship of the
world. The contest is TO take place
within twelve weeks before the club offer
ing the largest purse. Ii is said there will
be a side bet of So 900. 1t is predicted that
Honest John Kelly's offer of a $4,000 purse
for bout between Mccoy and Joe Choyn-
ski Will bring about the much-desired
meeting of these fighters, though Mccoy
has given 1t out that he will first fight
Rubin. Where Kelly proposes to bring
off the match if he secures il is not
known. He declines to give information
on this point until he has signed the men.
If Mccoy whips Rubin he will probably
lose no time in taking Kellys offer.
A dispatch from Chicago says that
friends of former Capt. Arson are respon-
sible for the statement that he is likely to
take the management of an Eastern ball
team of the National League before many
days have passed 1t was limited strong
~ that Brooklyn was the team the vet
eran will be with. Others who are in
touch with Arson disclaimed any knowl-
edge of such move, saying Arson would
be the last man in the world to deal with
a team that already had as good man
ager as William Barnie. That Arson has
gone East there is no doubt But it is
stated he has gone to perfect business
arrangements outside of baseball and
that the truth OF his latest move will be
made known only when he returns to
Chicago Will Mussey and others who
are said to have been in conference with
the veteran lately in reference to business
deals profess to be in ignorance of the
latest move.
Charlie Camel, claimed by Detroit, is
thinking of running team of his own at
Milford. Mass, in the New England
League" says the Chicago News. THE
old receiving end of the once famous
'PretZel battery'-GetZein the other mem
ber-seems in no hurry to sign himself
into second-class company unless he him.
self is entirely independent of dictation'
The recent easy victory of Jim Jeffreys
over Australian Joe Goddard has greatly
/ advanced the big Californian in the eyes
of the boxing fraternity. Goddard is not
the man he used to be, but his defeat in
four rounds indicate his conquerer to be
a pretty clever fighter and one that may
at no distant day give the best of the
scrapperS n very stiff argument. JEFF
! freys, Notwithstanding his huge proper
! tons, is said TO be remarkably fast and
| with the requirement of more cleverness
| and experience is thought by some to be
| the making of a champion.
| After Tod Sloan's return to this coun-
| try from his triumphant work in the sad
! die in England he went 10 San Fran
! cisco, where he again began to face the
! starter, but for days, even weeks, he rode
! In horrible luck, being from one cause OF
another unable to win race. 1t was
| whispered that he was not really what
! he was cracked up to be and other jock
| eys were landed over him. But things
| seem to be coming Tod's way now. He
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