The times., 1898-01-17
HIGH FLIES.

/ The Phiiiies may do their preliminary
work at Cape May.
Chicago will pay $4,000 C. o. D. fol
Catcher MCGUIRE, OF Washington.
Fort Wayne is already claiming the
strongest team in the Interstate League.
Billy Earle has a younger brother in
| Quakerdom who is trying to catch a con
tract.
! The gilt-edge twrler, Hughes who joins
the Orioles next season, is a pretty clever
hitter.
. Chicago will enter the lists for Dusty
| afiller's release. He is wanted to play
left field.
Kansas City expects TO get Billy Merritt,
| Rothfuss and Second Baseman Egan from
| Pittsburg.
| Iansford, the Colorado pitcher, signed
| by Brooklyn, is u southpaw, six anda half
| feet in height.
Catchers CANCEL and Lake, of the Boston
| club, are kicking on being traded or sold.
They both want their release if the Bost on
club has no further use for them Last
season Ganzel blocked his sale to the
PittSburg club
With the exception of one bid from
Topeka, nobody has offered Mana ger Man
ming anything for the st. Joseph baseball
franchise in the Western Association. Of
fers have been expected from st. Joseph,
but none have been made.
Billy Dammann is confident that lie VIII
be retained on the Reds pitching staff next
season. He says he was not In condition
to pitch winning ban last summer on ac-
count Of his sickness III the spring. If con-
ftdence VIII make successful bah player,
nammann would have no equal in the
country.
Little Frank Connaughton, the short
stop, who was formerly with the Bostons,
but later with the Giants, thinks he viii
retire from the diamond and devote him
self TO business. Connaughton, after leav
Ing the Giants, went to Jimmy Manning's
Western League club and made hit there
during the past two seasons. Mana ger
Manning does not like to lose him.
President Young announces that the
umpire staff OF '9S will consist OF twelve
regula rs and four substitutes. Charlie
Gould, one of the famous Sixty miners. IL
an applicant for position. I've not much
hope said the veteran, I'm afraid that
age entry, fifty years. is against me, but
I'm sure / could umpire as well the
ma jority now in the harness, and get
around about as lively
Eddie Boyle, the Cincinnati player, who
was drafted by Pittsburg from Minneapolis
last fail, received his contract the other
day from Manager Watkins, and sent it
back in the next mail unsigned. lie claims
that lie has been asked to play ia Pitts
burg for less money than he received in
Minneapolis. Boyle has played under Wat
kins before, aud he knows Just how diff
cult il viii be to get him TO raise a CON
tract after IL has once been rendered. Boyle
is now talking of quitting the game and
engaging in business.
DR.. Pond is suffering with an embarrass-
ment of professions. ii e could be content
with either We're the other far away, An
elder brother of DR.. Pond is one of the
leading physicians in the State of Yer
mont, which is the home of the Ponds.
This brother has held out the most fIatter-
ing offers for the doctor TO start a practice
in Vermont, saying that instant success is
assured. At present Pond Is wavering
between the two prospects, and is rather
leaning 10 the idea of at once adopting the
profession, which he really regards a his
life's work.