The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-09
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Tcgatory remarks about payer but I
venture the remark that not one ont of q
hundred that Go such things could Dkrk
MP the easiest grounder to short and retire
MS man at frat In the presence OF a
crowd.
adnare the managers of the Seattle
baseball team for the Independence they
nave shown In organizing their team and
HeiBg ahead with all preliminary arrange
menfS. They have not asked any hem
from the people of Seattle. They have
pat their own money into the venture and
promised to give good baseball They de-
serve the patronage Of the public SO long
as they show an honest effort 10 stand
by what they have promised Recently
the Observation-Disclosures published a list of
the players that have been selected for
the Seattle team. AT this time / do not
feel that II lie proper to make any pre-
dictions as TO what the individual players
vii. do. / know. however, that Manager
Dugdale and Proprietor Murphy have
used their best Judgment In selecting
team that VIII be credit to the city,
Their Judgment is to be relied on until IL
il shown that they have made a mistake
They VIII be on the lookout for such an
outcome and VIII undoubtedly do their
best 10 remedy IL.
During the past month have made IL
point TO talk with all the old timers in
baseball They are OF the opinion that
the new league viii have hard time to
live the season. out. but at the same time
they say that they are in hearty accord
with the promoters of the league and will
do what they can TO help 1t along 1t is
very plain talk. TO say that old baseball
men are afraid the league will not be a
success. but !, Is better to tel the facts
as they come out. Every one hopes that
success will crown the efforts Of Billy
Work, George Borchers and Thomas
Murphy In giving the people of the Pacific
Northwest professional baseball
One trouble with the people Of Seattle Is
that they judge every team by the stand
ard set by the Old Pacific Northwest
League when ii Included such players as
Billy LANCE and Griffith. now OF the Chi
cage team. Ii must be remembered that
in those days Tacoma. Seattle. Portland
and Spokane we're trying to Guido each
other without regard 20 the amount of
money spent Ii was hot league, as fast
league as ever existed outside the
National Association. but the salaries
paid were so high that the crash came.
The new league is planned on the theory
OF good baseball at moderate salaries.
Salaries have decreased since the old days
and good men can be secured at reason.
able figures Good and fast bal may be
"a
Idea that the league Is to he repeated.
The Mnth-Lewis wrestling match, which
Is billed 20 take place In Germania hall
May Is. is the subject OF animated dis
cussion In sporting circles here. The
match Is for 500 a side. the stakes being
put up .by the contestants some time ago.
Both men have been training hard and are
already I'm fine fettle. This match Is GER
salnly the genuine article. and Judging
from the regulations of both men. and the
hard preparatory work they are doing, II
promises to be the greatest exhibition OF
strength. science and endurance ever wit
messed In Seattle.
Alfred s. Goldsmith has organized
track team among the legitimate members
OF the Seattle Athletic Club. and he says
that while II may not be the fastest on the
Coast. Ii win certainly he purely amateur.
A meeting OF all members OF the =. A. G..