The times., 1898-03-06
ABOUT THE BALL PLAYERS
LOcal College Mines Begin Prac-
tice for the Season.
GEORGETOWN;,S STRONG TEAM
More Than Thirty Candidates Try
for Places Stars Among the
Arranged With the Senator's
Chicago Lauds Jack Doyle.

put the best baseball team in the field I.
this year that has ever worn the blue
and gray and has arranged an excellent
schedule by which the club meets not
only all the crack university teams, but
will cross bats with some of the National
League teams. Thirty or more candi-
dates have presented themselves to try
for places on the team, and every fine
day they will be found at hard practice
on the ball field or campus Among the
men who will try for the team this year
are Maloney. O'Donnell and O'Connell,
catchcrs; Walsh, Bache, Tracy, Dowd,
Downs and Miles, pitchers; Casey, Smith
and Tracy, first base; Fleming, second;
Hoiford. B. Smith and Downs, third; Mo-
ran, Greene or Downs, short, and Nc
Carthy. captain; OBrien, Reidy. OCon-
nell, j. Smith and Sullivan, outfeldrs.
OF these. Maloney, Walsh. Bache, Tracy,
Fleming and Mccarthy were members of
the % team, and all are reasonably sure
of representing the university on the dia-
mond this year.
During the preliminary trip of the Bos-
tons Selee wished to arrange games with
the Universities of Pennsylvania and
Georgetown. but could not get the con-
sent of the Philadelphia and Washington
clubs. April will find the Senators and
the wearers of the blue and gray fight
ing it out along good lines at the Ma
tonal Park in this city. This will be the
first Of a series of practice games to be
arranged between the clubs. The Cath
olic University will also put strong
nine in the field, and are anxious TO take
on a couple of games with the Washing
tons. They had a strong aggregation
last year with q couple of frst-class
pitchers and will contest with George
town for the honors among the local
amateur teams.
Chicago is grief-stricken over Tom
Burns's failure to arrange a dicker with
Earl Wagner for the transfer of Jack
Doyle from the Senators to the Colts.
Doyle would have been just the man for
the Chicago team, which needs a concen-
trated lump of fire and ginger To inspirit
it" says the Daily News. The club has
every essential of greatness excepting
that one point-snappy resolution. With
that spirit, any club can win-without
it, no team can make a decent showing.
Doyle IS as full of pluck and nerve as he
is of tricks and originality, and his spirit
would communicate itsdlf to the rest of
the team. Like most Of the great play
erS of the league, he is II reformed catch
er. His first appearance in league game
was over on the old Congress Street
grounds as catcher for Frank Knauss,
left-hander whom Cleveland expected to
do great deeds. and who is long since
almost forgotten. The young backStOp
did not spring into public favor at
! bound. In fact ii was months before he
was even referred 10 as q promising play
er. Then the papers began to speak OF
him as a lively man, and there was some
little attention given him. The Cleveland
people began to like him and the New
York management thought they saw the
makings of 4 great baIlplayer of him.
Doyle went TO New York and soon rose
into q top-notch position.
Jack is of medium size, agile tricky
fun of the ideas that made King Kelly
great. He is a terrific batsman and light
ming base-runner and the Chicago team
with Lange. Mccormick, Doyle and Ev-
eritt all going round the bases, would
have all competitors beaten by mile on
the speeding question. Stolen bases mean
runs when there is any batting TO follow,
and runs mean games. The value of such
a man as Doyle can be clearly seen. and
any price asked within reason would not
have been TOO high for such chunk of
ginger"
Doyle has been shedding a number of
opinions since he has been in New York
and among other things he believes that
the four-trip schedule may develop a
dark horse. This is on the theory that
the majority of teams not only do better
work al home, but will not have a chance
to run down their averages by long trips
away from home. pulling up their cour-
age and position in the per cent column
by performances at short intervals before
home audiences. The scrappy teams
| which does not necessarily mean rowdy
! ballplayers, such as the Orioles and
| Clevelands, have always Jared well on
! their trips while other clubs have al
! most invariably returned from long trips
with their averages cut down. The
! Washington team should receive as much
! benefit from the change as any club in
| the league, and if Doyle'S prOgnostication
! comes true they will doubtless be among
| the bunch of somber-coated equines that
| pass first under the wire, but hardly in
| the money. Jack also thinks that Bow
erman, the OriOles's kid catcher, has "A
| bright future.
! Joyce, Tebeau, Brown and Clark will
| be the only playing managers next sea
| son. The other eight will decorate the
| bench
| Hoy will be second on the Colonels'
| batting list next season. Clarke will
lead off. The combination will be
! strong one.
Matt Kilroy, Bill Lange. and Jimmie
| Ryan, will make up the Chicago out
! field This does not look like Jimmie
! Callahan was going to be relieved of box
work.
Gil. Hatfield. once with New York and
! later with Kansas City, will play with
| Newark i'm the Atlantic League next sea-
| son. Hatfield is almost as old as Anson
Four baseball teams will 20 to West
| Baden. viz, Chicago. ST. Louis. Louisville
| and Cleveland. A score of prize fighters
ing Dixon. Barry, Tracey, Kerwin, and
! others of note.
Paul Radford, who has signed to play
| second base for Hartford the coming sea-
| son, no longer yearns for the plaudits of
the baseball fans and glores of the dia-
| mond. He has retired from baseball, and
will go into business for himself
The Orioles will leave for Macon, Ca,
| March H. and will stay there about
| twelve days. Exhibition games will be
played in Savannah, Charleston, Rich
| mond and Norfolk. The first game in
Baltimore will be played April 6, with
! Rochester.
Indianapolis last year. had the best
disciplined team IN the League Watkins
made a rule early in the season that if
| any player besides Motz was fined for
| kicking he would add $25 to the penalty
! Capt. MotZ did all the kicking. and not
| one player lost his $25.
Carney Flynn, the southpaw, who has
played with the Cincinnati. New York
and Washington teams in the National
/ League, is working every day in the Gin
cinnati Gymnasium. 1t is likely that
| Rosey Weber, the manager of the Austin.
| Tex team will give Carney a trial