Kansas City journal., 1898-02-19
Baseball Notes.

Tommy Tucker for his twelfth place ST
Louis aggregation.
In the meantime any old sort of league
Grand Rapids fans.
After all. the earned run rule is bother
ing the sporting writer's a great deal more
than 1t the fans.
President Van Derbeck is trying to land
Pitcher Briggs and the Detroit papers seem
to think he will be successful.
Does the purchase Of Rockford by De-
western YES % Lacquer? Bill is W said % to be- be- a a
careful guardian of the initial sack
The indianapolis papers say Ace Stewart
will play in their heir. town 's,I o next season and
of the team. The Indianapolis papers have
another guess coming.
The panied expression on "Uncle'' An
sons face in this weeks issue of Sporting
Life was probably due to the haste of the
artist and not to the fact that the old man
is a manager out of job.
Sporting Life. which has never concealed
its dislike for Won Der Abe, is not conceal
ing it now that the boss manager Is in deep
distress. "Forgive thine enemies" is not
IDENTIFY.
Charlie Comiskey has the sort of head
He is said to have promised Tony Mullane
him an umpire, and then fixed it with
Young to reject the counts application
There is no reason" says Tom Burns.
Anson's successor as manager of the Colts.
why the Chicago baseball club cannot win
Probably few changes will have to be
| made but I think that the team ranks
among the first four, and am certain
that we can work together and pull toward
the top" .r.aEt
The st. Joseph correspondent of Sporting
News is authority for the statement that
Manager Manning has sold the franchise
will manage the team there next season,
M The sans. same authority says 4 number Of Kan
the town up the river.
Some nimble witted individual has given
this team to Indianapolis for next season:
First base. Motz; second base, Stewart:
third base. Hoffmeister: shortstop, Allen;
left field. Rothfuss: center field. McFar-
land; right field. Hogriever; catchers, Ka-
Phillips. F. Foreman. Hahn. Dammann,, amman n,
Scott and Donovan.
Gus Schmelz was in town yesterday in
| conference with President Ban Johnson. of
Washington has prepared team with
which which he expects to make Minneapolis
eE eubschcago e Tpibune. Nonsense eeasne Mr
Schmelz is too .shrewd a manager to be-
lieve the team he is getting together is a
first division possibility.
According to Cleveland dailies, $500 en-
thusiastic rooters met Manager Tebeau at
the depot on his recent return to that city
Statistics show that the average Cleve-
season and shy on loyalty to his team
when the turnstile has to be passed And
that. too with one of the best teams Of
ficered by the most capable and popular
officials Of the National League.-Sporting
News.
Indianapolis. Milwaukee, st. Paul. Kan
sas City. These four cities will have the
best teams in the Western League this
year, according to President Ban johnson,
| and one of them. in his estimation. will
| carry off the championship pennant.-Chi-
to have overlooked Columbus Don't seT under
| estimate the Aneients: they will be up
| toward the top fighting for the bunting,
A. E. Antisdel. who tried to get the
| eighth Western League franchise for Grand
| Rapids and failed, is spending his spare
| hours In Chicago being interviewed by
sporting writers and berating Presiden,
Ban johnson for not allowing Antisdel to
| dictate the policy of the Western League
| President johnson has paid for protection
| in both Grand Rapids and Omaha so that
| the Western League controls both towns
| In the event that Omaha should not prove
winner the team could be transferred ir
a day to Grand Rapids. Antisdel tried tc
| get National League protection for Grand
| Rapids to be prepared. in the event the
| Omaha deal should fall through. to dictate
| terms to the Western League. He has
sounded most dolorous wall over his
| signal failure.