The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-02-13
IT'S COMING ON APACE.
THE BAsE-BALL WILL soON BEGIN
TO ROLL HERE.
Wells Has Probably Signed Another Good
Player for Eichmond-stimme IN
Good shape-BaIi Notes

| M work on the schedules and base-Dali
tailors are making uniforms. ,..,
Manager Jake Wells. OF the hlcni' ,' y,
/ team writes that he VIII be NOME III -
few davs. lie is still down In tloilua
eating fruit and riding his bicycle. JAKE
saws he has a little news. but that II
| will keen until he gets pack to Nrslii,a.
| II was known when he left that tne
1 ser,-icas Of a fine player were being Sought
and the news that Jake viii nave soiilc-
| thine, TO tell when he comes means may
be that another player has been auueu
to the list. Ill, -, orco
When Wells gets home. hs VIII az once
COO that tho mark is put in splendid
shane. Rollers and scrapes VIII IeNei
! the rough uneven places, ana carpenleis
will give the bleacheries and glahus'"'u
d thorough going over. $500 In 20
Just when and where the team VIII re-
port is not known. II may be that iVo.-
ers here will not see the men uh'' '"eS
have been tried elsewhere
pitcher Archie stimmell writes from
his home mt Woodsboro, Md, that he Is
I'm good shape and anxious to report ior
dutv. The clever player Is engaged III
large wholesale druggists place but
occasionally he has chance TO 90
little ball playing and is ever IN ue-
mand. lie says he has received a letter
from Manager Weils' amor nieu -
tbat h. will be a m ,mber of the team
ana Archie remarks that's good" At
home the college graduate player is very
popular and has leading part in all me
amateur Mays Just now he Is STUDY
inc the part Of an Irish Agent TO DC
produced this week.
There Is one thing that can be said
about Stimmel that all will agree is
right: When he is in shape there Is not
pitcher i'm this league that STANDS oVe,
him. lie possesses head that is nl.u
with the gray matter and he uses IL
stimmeU never gets worried lie starts
In TO mitch and uses low curve. he
finds that he has been caught, and theh
uses a high drop and n that won't work
trios his cr0ss-fre Then he mixes the
whole business up and that's the reason
n got away with games. five. SIX ana
seven hits. At the bat the twirler can
hit. and it's generally when hit counts.
lie Will be welcomed back.
Howard Holland IS under contract. and
is now a real professional ball player
A few days ago he mailed his contract
TO Manager Charlie Boyer, Of the Char
lestown. s. c., team Of the Southern
League. and has received a letter from
Boyer acknowledging the receipt.
Holland will meet the ex-Roanoke man
aeer here next month. and it is possible
that they will 20 together to the South
ern town. If the boy plays like he did
last season. and there is no reason why
he should not Boyer gets O. jewel
Pete Woodruff is going 10 be with
Reading and Foster with Allentown
! Both men will help their respective teams
and will Doe warmly welcomed when they
come to Richmond. The Elsey matter is
as IL was. Charlie is waiting 10 hear
from several managers. but has express
ed himself as desiring to remain here.
Barley Kahn will play with Richmond,
and his friends want TO see him try for
an inhcld position and believe he can
make one. Dan Leahy is a fixture at
short stop and first base is out of the
question. but the "Kid" might make
things warm for those who are TO try
for second and third base. Barley is
quick enough and this is his hitting sea-
son.
1.-THE secretly black-listed rowdy play
ers Of the Atlantic League are twelve
I'm numbers. The names are not revealed
and will not be. and the only clue to
their identity will be their unconditional
release from the various clubs and fail
lantic League"
SO there YOU are. That IS what
Sporting Life" the recognized and Off
cial organ Of the great federation OF
baseball has TO say. And still President
Barrow. of the Atlantic League says
there is no BLACK list" 10 is funny, ever
so funny. that several players who We're
mighty good bah players last season.
are not IN the league this year Whether
the thing will stand or not IS another
question. but there Is one thing that is
dead certain. tho rule if there is one. is
AS unfair as anything could be- and
right on its face at that Think OF such
men as In ROGUE Leidy Ward Moran,
SNYDER Shaffer and others being in the
league and twelve others being left out
for rowdy ball playing. Sure none OF
them ever threw ball at an umpire or
used vile, abusive language on the field,
but
The Atlantic League will hold a meet
ing next month. and the best thing that
can be done Is to wipe the rule out II It
exists, and to officially say so If It does
not.
Manager Stallings. OF the Philadelphia
Club has his hands full just now and is
His little army of players Will report in
PHILADELPHIA on March 18th and will go
to cape May 10 get in shape. Siailnss
has made up four combinations and FL
berfeld IS in all OF them lie has been
picked TO play either second or third
base. II appears that all existing dir
ferences between the youngster and the
management have been patched up and
he is happy.
Stallings writes about him as follows
"Third Baseman Elberfcld Is as pugna-
cious as any of the McGraws or Doyles
Of the big league and quite as gritty.
Though short in weight he is long on
sand according to all accounts"
Critics declare Brownie" Will displace
Nash, and its quite an honor
The Chicago team will practice at Way
cross, Ga, and will play exhibition games
on the way home again.
Umpire Tim Hurst. has been selected
as manager Of the st. Louis Browns and
is at work making up the team.
John Keefe, an umpire Of much eXpe-
rience is after Job in the Atlantic
League.
The Boston Club will report in Green's
boro y. c.. March 18Th. and will play
week in Virginia before going home
Sockalexis the famous Indian player
has signed with Cleveland again and de-
elares he has permanently reformed.
Pop" Arson, the grand old man OF
Chicago. who has been put on the shelf
in fatty declaring a testimonial, shows
that there's life in the old bones yet"
81 lefty" Mari has been re-engaged to