The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-29
FOR THE FANS.


! 1t is claimed that Louisville's great weak
ness Is behind the bat.
| Lyons leads the Omahogs with the stick
| .S9l, according to the Bee.
First Baseman John Rothfuss. of the Kansas
Citys, has jumped his contract.
1t is said the ghost has not walked within
! the vision Of the st. Louis team this year.
Yeager. OF the Brooklyns, has a delivery
similar to that of the famous Kid Nichols.
Van Derbeck has recalled Kuehne and Is
paying him at first while billiard Is disabled.
The st. Paul team has only been shut out
want?
La Chance is playing an In and out game
In Brooklyn, and Barnie is casting about for
regular short stop.
The Omaha Bee gives Hollingsworth a bat
ting average Of .1sS for last week. He has
.266 for twenty-one games.
Dick Padden. the Pirates second baseman.
! deserted his team last week because of
fine at the hands Of an umpire.
Knepper, who was released by INDIANAPOLIS
and made arrangements to go to Columbus,
has been recalled by the Hoosiers.
The pitching of Clark Griffith and Cy
Young this season has been marked by al
most perfect control of the ball.
war in the hope of conciliating Lincoln
who referred to him base ball buffoon."
Beckwith eloped with Lineoln's daughter.
Pitcher Warren Beckwith, wko enlisted N
coins son-in-law. 1t is said that he went to
Elmer Smith is batting at .440 clip for
Cincinnati. Mccarthy, who took his place in
PittSburg, is knocking them out at the rate
of 400
Captain Ewing said yesterday that if Billy
Dammann is to be returned from Indian
apelis he knew nothing about it.-Cincnnati
Enquirer.
Charley Morton manager OF the Rochester
club, has resigned his position. Eilly Brady.
one of the owLers, has { II red the m mage me 1T
to Adrian c. Arson.
Pitcher ICY" Swain has the sa isfaction of
having compelled the Washington club to re-
call him from his volun AIRY ex lie, after having
va-nly triad to farm him out.
The St. Paul club seems to have run
against high sky" al around the horizon.
But never despair dear fans, they'll find
club somewhere they can beat.
James McAleer the great center fe der,
will sign contract Saturday night that VIII
make bridegroom out Of the Indian, and
he will leave for Brooklyn at once.
The only way Sunday ball can be played
in the vicinity Of Detroit is for the teams
to play en- the wafer, and the Saints don't
take kindly to water.-NIiwaukee Journal.
A base pail statistician figures that kanras
City de 279 base hts, st. Paul 2i5, De-
trcit 242. Milwaukee 22o Columbus 217, Min
neapos PIT, Indianapolis 1S4 and Omaha 1873.
Bill Clark. who was called the greatest
Pittsburg, trying to get his release from
New York. SO that he 'can join the Wes,ern
league.
Lewis the Pos.on pitcher who smut cut
man. 1t was his first game since Lis
turn, from Harvard, where he has teea
coaching.
Decker is the best first baseman the Browns
have had since Comiskey's day and that jack
Crooks is playing tie best second bsse in the
league
Twirlers Yeager, of Brooklyn, Hughes of
Baltimore, and RUDE Willis. of Boston, are
the most promising pitching novices in many
a season, though Hughes classes up sever a.
notcheS above the others.
Please MI President Johnson can't YOU
move the umpires around little more?
There are others, you know. Umpire Man
! nassau did as well IS e kr ew how again yes
terday.-De.roit Free Press.
Tim Hurst denies the soft impeachment
te.egraphed out from Pittsburg. He says ne
has trouble enough without committing mat
rmcny When the Browns win the pennint
Tim viii have time to go couring
The base bali writers who excuse the loss
of game by saying that il jones had not
fumbied Does drive in that fatal inning the
would be different are having their in
nings now in Detroit, Omaha indianapolis
and Observation-Disclosures Sentinel
Jot Gear is using the strongest liniment
possible. He said yesterday afternoon that
his pitching arm felt better than it had any
time since he came from the South. He is
much encouraged and expects TO- take his
"A fortnight ago. said Frank Selee, "it
really looked as if We were a tr.fie. weak
in the pitchers position Now things look
brighter for U.S. l think Willis enc of the
best youngsters in the league, wnil,: Lewis
I has improved so per cent over his last years
form"
AT recent meeting of the Eastern lesgua
magnates It was decided that after June 1
no club in the league should have more than
twelve players On its pay ro1. An exception
was however made in the case of the Frovi-
dence club. which is allowed to carry ex-
ira man.
Frank MotZ will not be able to play for sew
eral days. His knee is in worse shape than
he at first supposed and he has been advis ed
Qi god npady will Law first
base while Motz is out Of the game. Flynn
will go to left and Fleming to center.-Indian-
apoliS News
The fact that so far no National league
payer has been brought before the board
of discipline for indulging in obscenity on
the ball field is strong evidence that the new
Brush rule is effective in suppressing the
evils which disgraced the game last year
New York Sun.
Billy Dammann, of the Indianapolis club, is.
from all appearances much-wanted man.
Cincinnati that if Billy joins the big league
he will play with the Reds. indianapolis
claims to have as good pitcher as Dammann.
and for that reason is willing to deal.
Frank Graves, formerly manager of the
Detroit base ball team, yesterday began suit
In the Justices court against President G. A.
of his release to June Is. This is in pursu-
ance of a contract which he had with Pres:-
dent Vanderbeck for his serv ces until
June /, and fifteen days nottce-De troit Free
Press.
special from Baltimore says: "Dr. Ar
lington Pond, CT Manager Hanlon's pitching
staff, called on Colonel Wardwell today for
information as to the method Of getting into
the army as surgeon. Ponds position is
uncomfortable just now, as Hanlon has put
him on the market for a trade and he is
likely to go. Pond is regarded as a good
| medico."
pebble jack Glasscock gets friskier as
| time goes by. He was all around his bag
yesterday and picked throws out of the dirt
| when necessary, besides jumping into the
! air in the fourth aud pulling down a high
throw by Shugart. At that he got several of
his put-outs when almost any observer would
| have said that his foot was off the bag as
he caught the ball. He leaves the bag sus-
! President johnson, of the Western Base
| Ball league. has received the official fig
ures of ''Sandow'' Mertes' base ball record
while in the Western league this SEASON.
Mertes had played eighteen games before he
joind Chicago. He had been at bat II times
bases. OF sacrifice hits he has and stolen
bases IA. His record is completed with 20
| put-outs, assists and 2 errors. AS 1t will
be seen from the figures. his batting average
is about $40 and fielding average OIL
Nyce is evidently anxious to contribute a
should have learned by this time that Man
nassau is the umpire, and brooks 10 inter-
! ference or assistance, but he made rush
| upon the diamond in the ninth inning when
Glenalvin blocked Twineham, and had So
much to say that the umpire ordered him
that he was not sent to the club house, and
with fine to think about.-Detroit Journal
Comiskey has entered a protest to President
Johnson because Mannassau removed Burke
and shugart from the game Monday. and
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