The times., 1898-01-11

Fred Lake, the catcher of the Boston
club. who was traded to syracuse for
Pitcher Willis and $1,000, says in the
Boston Herald: Il haven't the least
idea of going To Syracuse next season.
j want my release outright. | know
that / have not outlived my usefulness
in the National League and can get
a position in that organization in very
short order afteI l obtain my release.
/ have called on President Soden ana
explained to him my position, but all
that he had to say was that i hao
been transferred to Syracuse.
Fred expressed himself as very in
dignant at the way he was treated in
the Temple Cup series. When ii came
to sharing up, Allen and Lake received
but half a share apiece.
Il did good work for the club the
past season. Lake said, and helped
To win many a victory, and / consider
it very small business to treat Bob
Allen and myself as We We're treated.
i had a letter frcm Allen in which he
said lac was never treated so shabbily
in his life as he had been treated By
his former associates
Now. everybody knows that had il
not been for Allen the club would never
have won the pennant AS for myself.
Camel and Yeager. yet each of those
players got a full share, but 1 got only
half q share
John Foster. the bright correspondent
Of the Sporting Life. has the following
bits of Brooklyn news in his last letter:
Il am inclined TO believe that Brook
lyn viii play Sunday baseball next
year. in fact, at present, | would be
willing To bank little that the metrop-
oils win be full Of Sunday baseball next
year. 1t may seem uncommon strange
that New York will devote its Sunday
afternoons to amusement on the ball
field. but many a strange thing viii
| blossom in the metropolis before 1901.
IF ever America is to have Paris it
will begin about the time that the
spring buds open again. Just give the
boys a chance 10 oil the machinery, and
then things will be turned loose with a
fun head OF steam on.
Il know positively that the Brooklyn
team would like to get back to its old
location in the neighborhood of Fifth
avenue. and i will be little surprised
if that doesn't result. 1t came within
an ace of happening last year. How
ever. should the move not be made
there is little hope, for patrons Will
20 TO Eastern 1dfh II lfleN are Gt'dScll-
ably certain of seeing good baseball.
1t depends almost entirely upon the
work of the team
A baseball crank who has a fondness
for keeping records recalls an Incl
dent that at the time was talked of all
over the country On September 26
1884. in a game between the Detroits
and another league team, Charley Ben
nett made record that has seldom
been equaled by any catcher in the big
league He was receiving for George
Weidman, and he put out 2S men of
the opposing side in nine innings.
Twenty went out on strikes. and the
other three were nipprG at the plate.
Bennett also had three assists on
throws to second base. Bennett by the
way. is living at Detroit, where he has
built up a prosperous cigar business.
He lost both legs in a railroad acci-
dent several years ago, just at time
when he was winding ap his career on
the diamond as q member of the Boston
team. Bennett and Buck Ewing We're
the two greatest catchers in the coun-
try ten years ago, and their equals
have yet to be found in the profession
al ranks.
The people of ThomasyilIe, Ga, are
andeayol,inp TO have the Baltimore