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SELF DEFENSE; OTHER SPORTS
Resume Of the Latest Happenings in
AthIetics--.IndO0r and Field
Doings OF Interest
SELF DEFENSE; OTHER SPORTS
DIAMOND DUST.

Manager Hanlon and his kicking star
have come to an agreement. Jennings
Keller and Kelley yesterday agreed t{
sign contracts. Joe Corbett is now the
only one outside the breast works. lii
hasn't been heard from.
Ned HAnlon thinks he has secured q
prize in Hughes, the young pitcher from
the Pacific coast.
Chauncey NJ. Depew recently SEM a
check for 500 to Yale to help the Var
sity team take its present Southern trip.
Charlie Cushman, an old.time West
Phlladelphian, and who managed the
Milwaukee. Club few years, will be on
Nick foung's umpire staff this season.
Charlie umpired in the National League
over ten years ago.
Pitcher Nichols has Joined the Boston
team, but has not signed. He will &C.
company the team on its present trip and
fix up his business with President Soden.
This means that the famous pitcher will
be in the box against the Giants.
The Cleveland Indians all refuse to
sign the Brush resolution. They will be
held accountable for violation OF it's BRO
visions, whether they sign or not.
John Clements has been chosen cap
tain OF st. Louis.
The champion Bostons will give a
grand account of themselves" says Presi.
dent Soden, of the Boston Club. 81 feel
pretty confident that Boston will again
earn the flag for which the eleven other
clubs struggled SO CALAMITY last year.
The Boston team is stronger than last
year, owing to the acquisition of one or
two good pitchers and new strength be-
hind the plate"
Talking about hard throwers, Tommy
Corcoran, of the Reds, saws: "Of ali the
shorstops inthe Lag que / think Monte
Cross, of the Phllies, is the hardest
throwcr. He throws harder than any of
the rest of them, but is compelled to
bring his arm all the way around to
make throw"
Manager Watkins, OF the Pittsburg
Pirates, is still undecided as to whom he
Will play at first base this season. At
first it was thought that Harry Davis
would be at his old stand again. hut
Camel, the Western Lacquer, has shown
such good form in practice that "Watty''
IS IN quandary as to whether he shall
send Davis to the outfield and place the
youngster at first or vice versa.
Miller, who is playing second base for
Montreal, was farmed out to the Cana
dIans by the Phillies this spring.
Tim Hurst, the Browns new manager,
evidently knew what he was talking
about when he said: "There is going to
oe q hot race for the pennant this season,
md there is no man on earth who can
'ay with any degree of certainty which
u the teams will finish in the one-two-
hree order. If | was making a book on
he final results | should back Baltimore
or first place. Boston, Cleveland.
>nclnnati and New York, will crowd
ne another for second and third place,
nd DO not consider myself competent
hazard guess as to which will be in
hose places"
This is the greatest set of ball-players
ever had in my charge" says Capt.
uck Ewing of his team of Reds. II
ont forget the fact that ! had the New
ork Giants when thay were in their
rime when l make this statement.
airing accident or sickness, don't see I
ny. we won't be first, second or third ,
'e have Just as good a chance to vim the {
as any of the other eleven t
ans. can't pick one that has a
,tter chance"