The times., 1898-01-05
MAGNATES AND BALL PLAYERS

JOHN j. Kelly is q candidate for reap
pointnent as League umpire.
4 Pat Billiard and Bill Hill have returned
to Chattanooga from their hunting trip.
Louisville may have something to say
about where Ace Stewart goes as we'll as
Kansas City.
DUNCAN lead the batting Of the Detroit
team last season with .379. His fielding
! average was .902.
Ed. Stein has entered suit against the
Brooklyn team for alleged salary. The
trouble dates back to 1896.
Connie Mack must be getting ready to
| free Cuba or start another Fenian raid.
He has thirty men on the Milwaukee list.
Exchange.
| Cincinnati, Philadelphia. Louisville and
| Washington have a sufficient number Of
men reserved for next season to- make
twelve complete teams.
Shortstop Adrian Cross, brother of the
famous Monte Cross, is open for a minor
league engagement. He has the strongest
Endorsement of his brother.
Gus Schmelz, who will manage the
| Minneapolis team next year, offered q
trade to the Detroit mana cement. IL
| "o' iNth p" Noiu iCSCi'tioh.
From Kansas City comes an unsubstan n
tiated report that Manager Manning has
secured from the Pittsburg Club Infield-
| ers Rothfuss and Egan and Catcher Merritt.
Arthur Irwin gives Jimmy McHalea high
/ rating some would call il eNtrayagant.
He says McHale is the peer of Little Eva
Lange and Billy Kecler.-S Sporting News.
The Pittsburg Chronicle Telegra ph says:
NO one should object to Pittsburg's win
| ming the baseball pennant at Christmas
/ time. II is the sa fest time OF all the year
| for such glorious victory
| No private detectives are required to
None of the twirlers has any bad habits.
| They all go TO church in the bargain
| Pittsburg chronicleTe Telegraph.
Syracuse is reported as having signed
the promising young Oberlin College pitch
er, Cy Voorhees,, who was to have been
given a trial by the Phiilies. Syracuse
has also signed Pitcher Blackburn.
There is one member of the Pittsburg
team who will not he blacklisted for using
profane language. Billy Hart is the man.
The Bond Hill prime isone OF the scra ppiest
twirlerS that ever curved a ball, and talks
ailtbrough h a game, bus he was never heard
TO swear. lie ma bd5 one bit OF slang which
he uses on all ooca sions, but this cannot
be found in John T. Brush's list OF OBJ
iectionable words.
Charles IT. Ebbitt has secured control of
the Brooklyn Baseball Club, and will In time
become the president of that corporation.
Mr.. EbbiUt is well known among the Ma
tional League ma aguates, and has practical
knowledge of the game. 1t is hoped that
under Mr. Ebbitt's management the Bride
groonls viii bc made to play the ball they
are competent TO do, and in this way win
back to the club the many thousands of
dollars lost by indifferent playing.
Philadelphia has added an Indian TO their
Quakcrs, Duichmen, Italians, Frenchmen
and so forth. lie is pitcher named
Jarnison from The Carlisle Indian School.
The club has now thirteen pitchers, eight
catchers, four first basemen seven second
baseman, four third basemen, SIX shortstops,
and eleven outfieIders, number OF the
men being equally good in two or more
positions However, there is not crack
ajack second baseman in the collection, and
unless one more firss-class man is secured,
or one of the players already signed de-
velops unexpected strength the team will
be weak in that very important position.
There was a time not 50 very long ago
when the star twirler Of the National
League, Amos Rusie, was not SO well
versed in the ways OF the world as he now
is. good story is told on the big Hoosier
when Rusie, Jack Giasscock, and Jerry
Denny We're members of the indianapolis
team in lS9-.
a fter playing three games at the Polo
Grounds, y. Y, the team left for Eos:,s-,
one night on the Fail River boat. Rusie,
flanked on each side by two qua rdians,
stood on the deck as the steamer sailed UP
the East River.
when we get out of this river said
Amos, where do we so Them
-'Awayoutin the ocean, was Glasscock's
quick retort-
I've never seen the ocean; what is it
Ike asked the Hoosier.
why, it $ nothing but waste o water
chimed in Denny. 1T reaches from here
to England and Ireland. nd is 100 miles
deep. A mug that fallsinto it is gone sure
1t was pretty stormy out and the boat
began to roll. GIasscock, Denny, Bassett,
Buckley and other members of the team
Were apparently frightened and began to
talk about life preservers.
Wed better put em on before we get |
into the bunks,'' said Denny, 80 that in
case the ship sinks we1i float out of the |
windows and be saved
What are these preservers, anyway
Amos asked.
Then they took him to his stateroom and |
told him to stand erect. Denny and Glass |
cock had brought life pfeservers from the I
other staterooms. so that they were able to
literally envelop Amos in cork belts. The |
preservers were put on, too, over the big |
pitchers street clothes, and he was finally |
lifted into a berth like bag of salt. An |
hour or SO later Denny came TO the window
of Amos window and shouted through the
blinds:' She's sinking; keep perfectly still
and lie on your back Amos followed these
to the letter also supplementing |
them by notclosing his eyes all night. When
the team got to Boston in the morning he |
whispered to Glasscock:
THAT was q narrow escape, Jack; guess
III go back by rail-
John Gaffney, who was at one time the
ledged premier of Indicator -ha nd
lers in the big League, and who would
like to have another berth On Uncle Nick's
staff, has some views OF his own on the
double umpire system. John does not
favor the scheme, and the ideas of a man
is SO well versed in baseball affairs
are worthy of consideratio ion.
''It would be all right if the League
could get twelve good men, said Gaff-
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