The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-04-24
rHE WORLD OF SPORT.

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snake, and thereby hangs this yarn. In
" the barnum & Bailey show was play
ing at the old Brotherhood grounds IN
iniiaueiphia. | was then pitching for the
iniiiies Lave Cross and | were chicken
ana pigeon fanciers. and we had coon ana
pigeon cotes In backyard adjoining the
GROUNDS. The day after the circus arrived
l missed half a dozen OF our carrier
pigeons and brood OF chickens. We took
an account Of stock on the following day.
snd the pigeon cote was short four birds,
whiie the coop was shy six chickens. In
,'e crew OF canvas men with the circus
was one Ssnegamban, and we immsliately
saddled the loss of the chickens on him
though we couldn't swear to the pigeons
ise,ore was out of bed the next morning
a iau rushed into my room and told me
that big green snake had wormed his
way out OF the circus and was coilcd UP
under the left Held gate woke Lave
Gross on the way to the ground. He
PICKED up his revolver, and we hustled to
the grounds There, In a cavity in the
ground under the gate was the green
beauty. his coat of Shiny plumagc bathed
IN an array of sunshine. He looked too
pretty to kill, but Lave discharged the
seven shots into his kissing nav That
snake was the turning OF my luck as a
pitcher that season. as won my game
that afternoon and had a winning streak
TIL the finish OF the season. Wo skinned
the green beauty and found the remnants
OF a pigeon and chicken banquet under his
hide. l could account for the mysterious
disappearance of my birds The snake
had worked that Billy Earle gag--hypno-
tizea EN-. Lave Cross and ! had the
hide turned into slippers and po,ketbooks,"
Jack Doyle and Dusty Miller were play
In nm he to,
der the management of Bill Harrington
says Charley Morton in the Pittsburg
| Leader. Jack was, TO my mind a wonder
| for youngster and ] asked Harrington
| to set a figure on Jack and Dusty, as |
wanted the pair for the Toledo team. We
made a deal, and Harrington promised TO
| deliver the goods inside of twenty four
| hours. But Billy had several other good
| irons in the fire. Unknown to me he had
sold Jack and Dusty TO Louisville. On his
way to Louisville with the two youngsters
AL Buckenberger, then manager OF the Co.
lumbus team. met Billy at the station OF
| the Ohio capital, and Buck induced Bill to
| turn over his charges to Columbus for d
| few more dollars than was offered by
| Louisville and Toledo. But Doyle and Mil
Ter were not the only players who slipped
through my fingers after | thought ! had
strange on them. ! bought Scrappy Joyce
J from Houston, of the Texas league in 1859.
In the fall of that year Charley Comiskey
roured honeyed nothings into Scrappy's
| year and what was the result? Why.
Scrappy played with the Brooklyn club the
| following season..
| The Baltimore players were recently d's-
cussiag their experiences with umpres,
when Pitcher Jimmy Hughes claimed the
| attention of the party with tale o. how
| they do things on the coast The partic-
| ular Empirical product of whom Hushei
| told was named Clausen, and he was de-
| scribed as one of those ''nutty" fellows who
| knows it all and are eteTnaily making
chances to display their knowledge. Last
| winter he unipired game at Grass Valley,
| CAL between the team of that name and
another from Susanna. The center fielder
wore an ordinary fielding glove but SOM
! how or other 1t caught Mr.. Clausen'5 eye
| and straigbtway the game Was stopped
until the player was called to the bar or
| judgment Take off your glove SIR. was
commanded Upon its removal MI Clausen
| grayc'y produced n small pair o. scales
from his hip pocket weighed the mltt be-
fore the YES Of the astonished and awe
| struck spectators, aud throwing the glove
over the fence he announced that the glove
was over weight. As Mr.. Clausen is a per
| scnt Svrloneaia of baseball records. names
ana a.tas HE ,,,ings would lust as so5n
he questioned by the bloachors as those o.
President Young himself. So when several
innings later the center fielder having res
c,,ad his offending mitt. quietly buckled it
on his hand asain. the crowd c cane are as
near lynching him, 9nd Mr.. C!ausen or
dercd him off the grounds. Anot,er tine
tb,s same umpiro nut man out o. tie
game for smoking cigarette while his
t n was IN tbe bench. Again. Hughes told
! S te" tier = man had been almost killed
by yN pitt pitched ball hitting him. h. male
MN s'aiu w a'in,"oif In ,bo vay As a
m pv,rh w. Mr. Mr. clausen was voted fully
T iils product Of the Golden Glte.--
DA'''''i'
"what commotion it viii raise amons
the Chicago fans if Arson" says the
Omaha Bee, succeeds in his plan to con-
,rol the team. And the indications seem TO
he that this will be the case before another
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