The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-19
BASE BALL BRIEFS

In Grand Rapids, Detroit and Buffalo
indianapolis is looked on as a sure Win
ner OF the 1899 pennant.
Although it was not expected of him,
Iebeau behaved quite like a gentleman
Buffalo Times.
.r Indianapolis has played fewer games
league, and double-headers will be in
order both ON the final Western trip and
the last series at home.
Jack (hing) Crooks, who played second
paSe Tor Columbus last season and an
bounced his retirement, has blossomed
out as colt with the Alton Gid team.
lie rs playing second base.
Hall. the Buffalo shortstop, has been
released White, left fielder, has been sent
70 the bench as general substitute
BAKER, pitcher, has been laid off without
ieaVe; C!ymer will probably be given a
trial al short.
+,IIhe INDIANAPOLIS team plays ball all the
tlne, and makes everything possible
count. When MOtz fields ball and turns
TO throw to second. Asa Stewart and Rob
err Alien len are not stumps twenty feet
away from the base, nor does Mcfarland
nave 10 stop throw to second on a stea!
PRESIDENT Soden. Of Boston, declares.
WIHe ne would like to see an eight-cllIb
circuit, he will never pay one cent toward
ouyInS Out any club now in the league,
as ne feels sure there are men now hold
ing franchises for the purpose of making
sale.
Chris Won der Abe is still talking of the
turned from a trip to Chicago, where he
says company with plenty of money be-
1lnd 1t has been organized to back a team
IN i!3v mat city: It will be known as the
w mte-Stockings," the name which was
carried by the old Chicago club for SO
many years. "
IT IS rumored that Manager Hanlon Is
S9IHg 70 make a trade with Baltimore by
WnIch ne VIII acquire at least three of
the Orlole pitchers He is determines that
Inc 0uperbaS shall win the pennant. and
ne realizes that his pitching staff can NOT
S HtdHu the strain Of the next month The
!s OF syndicate ball will be reached
II he does this.
Manager Allen and his men are In fine
shape Tor the finish. HartzeH is the only
man not fit, and he will be ready to take
dlanapOlis News
olaIlInss expects that Detroit will lose
from four to six men by draft or Dur-
chase; He is keeping his weather eve
peeled Tor budding talent
Rumor has 1t that six Detroit n1a1,ers
VIII be called higher The PLAYERS men
[loned are Fisk, Cronin, Thomas. Barrett
Buelow and Elberfeld.
Detroit has secured two new PLAYERS
from the Canadian league They are Har-
gerty, who plays short, and ShraIi, Who
mas Deen put in the left garden
Inc indianapolis team is not so fierce
win the ash, but they have the faculty
% III Lna ~ their few hits count, while
the Detroit Free Press.
DaIe Gear, the Kansas City pitcher will
Fetlfe from the box 1T the close Of +his
3f9G Dc anq hereafter play in the outfield
hitter. -''0 a consistent
PRESIDENT LOTUS says the attendance in
strand strand Rapids is better than it was at
SSoIIum NOUS but it is not enough to en-
dpIG MN TO break even on the season.
The Detroit Journal saws that the NIL
MaulIee club recently offered TO Give
&lcoI, Hart and Barnes in exchange for,
Ci&4tc6er Shaw, bat the tender was de-
:, Ma&gnate Earl Wagner figures that
Bro:YokIyn will be beaten out by Boston.
E,hlladelphia and Baltimore He saws that
the trolley Dodgers. win reach the ruck
IN the bruiSlng finish and that Balti-
more's brains, McGraw and Robinson.
VIII win out against the Brooklyn me
chanics. III
The Grand Rapids scorers must ba 1ib-
eral in their estimate of TIL aftendanSe
at the games in that city. If their Zig
ures are correct there is a big leakage
somewhere, as the indianapolis club gels
paid Tor about one-third or the pe3ple
that are supposed to be at the games.
Joe Campbell says: bill LANCE. the
heavyweight soubrette OF the Orphans
vows he will lead a quiet life after this
season. Bill talks as if he had struck a.
job III lighthouse, but his friends de-
clare he will bask in the flare of Hvmen' g
tcrch and that the marriage takes place
the mercantile business in San Francisco
A Boston travelling salesman picks out
Third Baseman Jimmie Burke, of the
Rochester, n. Y, club. as a conner He
says Burke is young and Scrappy and
natural ball tosser and excellent fielder
The Louisville club has done it's share
toward bringing good players into the
league. Dexter. Wagner, Philippi, Clarke,
Leach Magee, Fraser, Kelley, McCreerY
and Jennings are some who played their
nrst league games as Colonels
Inc Detroit Tribune offers this bouquet
to Big Bill Wilson: "a Kansas Citv
paper says that Manning is looking for
catcher to succeed Bill Wilson but II
would be difficult to find one in the minor
leagues who has anything on the burly
packstop in his present form
Ned HanlOn's aggregation has been
pIaylng In great luck all season, but this
cannot last forever. says the St Louis
Globe-Democrat. There is ANYTHING hnt
G9nhdence in the, ranks of the Superbas
Ihey Tear not only Boston, but St Louis
ana PhiladeIphta as well, and If one or
more Of these clubs gets within a gama
or two OF Brooklyn that club is going
to shut up and quit to nothing Han1o1T3
has nothing like the old bunch of "figbt-
eTs that were with his old Baltimore
club. Joe Kelley and Billy Keller 9re
Ine only members OF the regular team
who played under Ned in OysteryiIIa
The two catchers, Mcclure and Farrell
are veterans, but have been PLAYING with
talI-end teams so long that they have
lost all scrappiness.
The manner in which players have been
drafted from Cleveland for the St. Louis
nine is one of the most reprehensibIe acts
In the history of base ball saws the Now
York Telegram. The Cleveland nine is
supposed to be one of twelve factors in a
championship race. In reality it repre-
sents nothing. 1t is the prey of one nine
TO whom it loses its PLAYERS and +he I1rnIy
OF eleven mines to whom it loses games
The league magnates are to be blamed
severely for having permitted this prac-
pennant look like a farce The who'll
league is honeycombed with too much
mutual interest.