The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-23


been taken except April 8. The Milwaukee,
Indianapolis and Detroit teams will play at
Cincinnati. The Reds will play two games in
Indianapolis in April, and the Vets and the
Kids will play two games on the home
grounds in the month of showers. Just as
soon as it is determined which way the Reds
will return home from Hot Springs, dates
will be arranged for games along the route.
The Reds will be fixed a la Batimore-All
American. If the city they contemplate
visiting hasn't ball team there will be more
than enough players on the trip to form two
teams, and play a game between themselves.
Some of the base ball enthusiasts in the
smaller cities would prefer to see a game in
which all the players from the National
league than a game between the league team
and semi-professional organization.
President Brush has never been with the
Reds on any of their training trips. 1t was
and he could not find time to join the Reds
in New Orleans in SO or '97. He has promised
that he will see the players do their first
work in 1898. He is going to San Antonio
with the team. He will make all preparations
SO as to join the Reds at St. Louis on their
way South.
81 Swain, the long pitcher of the Washing
ton team is eating oranges and pineapples
and catching tarpon in Southern Florida. Old
81 keeps his arm limbered up by shying stones
at woodchucks and rattlesnakes.
Contrary to report, Theodore Breitenstein
is still in st. Louis. although he talks OF
moving his lares and penates to Cincinnati
Brett is beloved in st. Louis. all the fans
are proud Of him. but he will lose lot Of
friends if he quits his native city. 1t was
bad enough to lose him player; it would
be infinitely worse to lose him rs a citizen
Chris Won der Abe made more enemies the
day he sold Breitenstein than he made during
the rest of his entire base ball existence. AS
long as he had the little left-hander he could
count a crowd once or twice a week, but
there has never been a decent crowd On the
st. Louis grounds since Brett" was sold.
Brett" will start in training with the rest
of the local gang tomorrow.-St. Louis Re
public.
If st. Louis cannot boast of a great ball
team, she surely is the home of great ball
players who unfortunately are members Of
other teams. Just now the great st. Louis
ball player is busy getting himself into shape
for the approaching season.
Billy Joyce, mcnfg-r and captain of the New
York Giants; Jack O'Connor, the mighty
catcher of the Clevelands: Perry Werden. of
Louisville; Jim Burke. Of Peoria, and Pat
Flaherty. of Rockford, are daily playing hand
ball at John c. Weisman s court, on Eleventh
and Branch streets, in North st. Lou S These
players the early birds. They are ambi-
lions, and every year tAey begin work as
to Jan. / they enjoy themselves; the other
nine months of the year are put in at the
hardest kind of work.
O'Connor and Joyce are always hrst IN the
training field. For many years they nave
trained together Their work on the field
shows that they are ambitious players, and
their great success is, like all success, due
to hard conscientious work in training, IS
well as on the ball field.-St. Louis Republic.
Columbus wants Outielder Eddie" Burke.
of the Cincinnats.
Colonies. slated for the farm.-ChicaSo
Inter Ocean.
Hardie Henderson is now a member Of the
4O0-the 400 who want a place on the league
staff of umpires.
Manager Barnie and Acting President Eb-
bets, of the Brooklyn club. have decided on
the makeup OF their team fer the coming
season First base will be covered by La
Chance who IS expected to do better work
than ever before, because Ebbets and Barnie
think they can handle him properly. Billy
Mailman will cover second base. Shindle
will again cover third. George Smith, Beam.
of Newport and Sheckard are the candidates
for short field, Smith is a strong enough
fielder for any team. but he cannot hit.
Beam is quite light and an unknown guam
tity. SheCkard can hit. but it is thought will
never make an infielder. Jones, Griffin and
Anderson will again make up the Quilted,
and they are a pretty strong trio too. Grim
and Alec Smith, catchers, are still in line,
together with Jack Ryan. the former Boston
backstop, and young Chisham, of Newport,
a promising colt. Nine pitchers are the
clubs roll including Kennedy. Dunn. Payne.
Yeager, Horton, Hansford. Dowd. Fisher and
Miller Yeager comes from the Lancaster
Atlantic league champions. and has been pro-
nounced a conner by such league managers
as Selee and Hanlon, who tried to get him.
Horton is from Syracuse. and did good work
in the recent Baltimore-Al American trip to
California. Hansford is a big left-hander,
who was discovered by Barnie at Glenwood
Springs. Col. Dowd formerly pitched for
GEORGETOWN university. and last year did
effective work for Newport. Miller is also
a New England Lacquer with a good record.
Outfielder Anderson has been Ill at his home
at Worcester and If he should be at all
under the weather Jones would probably be
shifted to left and Sheckard would go into
right field. Sheckard is from Brocton, and
was the champion batter of the New England
league last season.
Director Conant. Of the Boston club. a
few days ago. said the BostOns might be
compelled to play Sunday games away from
home the approaching season 'in self-de-
fense.' II true this sort of statement
would cause much surprise. 1t has been sup
posed no other city in the country would be as
slow in taking up a wide-open Sunday as
Botson, not even excepting orderly and con-
sentative Philadelphia 1t is doubtful if Mr.
Conant made the statement credited to him.
Miller will compete with Mcfarland for
Cincinnati's right field, it is said.
Cadwallader. the big Yale football player
has taken up pitching, and shows considerable
ability.
Now 1t is said the spring schedule meeting
of the National league may be held in New
York instead of st. Louis.
II Manager Stallings doesn't get good team
this season 1t will not be because of lack Of
material. He certainly has enough talent
on his list to stock out two teams. Here are
the players under contract and reservation
to the Philadelphia club, and it will be no.
tfced there are several st. Louis players
among them:
Manager-George T. stallings.
Pitchers-Orth. Donohue. Wheeler. Flfeld,
DuRkIe. Becker. Plat, Brandt, Ames, Bern
hardt. Murphy, Duggleby. Jimeson.
Catchers-Boyle Mcfarland, Douglass,
Fisher, Lajoie, Geier, Fox.
First base-Lajoie: Boyle, Douglass.
Second base-Geier. Abbacchio, Miller.
Childs Elberfeld. Lajoie. Mertes.
Short stop-M. Cross, Shugart, Hulen,
Nash Geier Elberfield.
Third base - Nash. Elberfeld, Lajoie,
Schaub.
MISUNDERSTANDING Cooley, Thompson,
Flick. Tate, Geier, Lajoie, Mertes, Mcvey,
Hulen.