The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-15
THE BASEBALL SEASON
Some Time Yet Before the Butte
Players Will Organise.
STILL IN GREAT DOUBT
No Diniculty in Getting Players to Come
to Butte II Good Positions Can
Be Secured for Them-Many
Want to Come.

As the National Baseball league be-
gins its series of games to-day, this may
properly be called the opening Of the
baseball season. But in Butte. at least.
1t will be some time yet before the ball
players get to work. The weather Is all
right for ball playing. but in other re-
spects is very backward. Anaconda
has selected its team and begun prac-
tice. but Butte's team has not been Sc
lected and no systematic practice has
as yet been done. Butte's playing last
season showed very markedly a lack OF
team work. the players showing good
individual work. II this Is to be OBJ
early begin practicing together.
The fact of the matter is that lana
ger Eschle IL still In great doubt as to
the personnel Of h team and regards
the outlook for a great team in Butte
his season as very slim.
There Is no difficulty in getting
players" said Mr.. Eschie. IF we could
only get jobs for them. There are plenty
of good men that will conn here il We
will only find situations here. They ask
no salary. They prefer to play with us
they ask is steady work. They will pay
their own expenses here. i have letters
from 30 men who are willing to come
to Butte IL guaranteed a Job. Now. IL
the business men of Butte will only
show some interest in baseball and give
a player a job of some sort we would
soon have q team here that would beat
Anaconda or any of the rest of them"
Manager Eschle is not yet ready to
tell who Will be members of the team
this season. He is still hoping to get
jobs for some of the good men who are
anxious to come here. He has, how
ever, got hold OF some good ones. Butte
baseball enthusiasts will certainly re-
member Williams, the lively player who
caught for the Boston Boomers when
they were here last summer. He has
been secured to catch for the Butte
team this year. Pat McGrath. a good
Western league player. has been secured
for shortstop in spite of the efforts of
Kansas City to get him. Marquette. a
splendid Chicago amateur player, hav-
ing been three years with h Chicago
Redings, has been u for first
base.
As to the rest there Is still much
doubt. They can be secured IL Butte
business men or mining superintendents
will furnish jobs for them. Captain
Goldie of the New Orleans team and six
of his men have offered to come to
Butte If given jobs. and they will pay
their own railroad fare.
Then there is a bunch OF amateur
players in St. Paul who want to come
to Butte. They are members of a team
known as Hamm's Exports. and they
have given the st. Paul Western league
team some tight games. Williams. right
field; Eagsn, left field; Beecher. first
base, and Snow, catcher. all want to
come. All are young fellows. active n
amhitinps Williams Is 81 wears old u
feet / inch in height and weighs IFS
pounds; he is a great batsman.
Then Cook. "a catcher of the Mime
apolis team. wants to come to Butte.
Mr.. Eschle has also received some very
favorable letters in regard to g.. S. Hop
kins, a cracking young amateur pitcher
of Wassaic, n. Y, and will bring him
out here If he can find a Job for him.
There will be at least half a dozen
amateur teams in Butte this season. 4
nine has been organized from among the
Colusa-Parrot miners and another from
among the employees of the Butte Re-
duction works.