The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-01-13
BASEBALL NOTES.
Current Gossip of the Game, the
Nagnntcs and the Players.

bett will be with the orioles again next
season. With Corbett, Maui McJames,
| and Hughes. his team viii be as strong
| in the pitchers box any in the league.
Phil King and his brother Harry are
warm members of the baseball fan com
munity. and keep in close touch with all
matters pertaining to the game. No can
didate for baseball fame escapes their OBJ
! seryation.
! The Cincinnati club will not return 10
I their training quarters at San Antonio,
! Tex. this Spring. Bancroft thinks he has
/ found more desirable place at Colun-
bus, Ga, and has made arrangements to
take the team there
Sporting Life says that John T Brush
| is not so wonderfully able as he has been
| painted by some superficial and subserv-
| lent scribes.' One thing, however. is true.
| Brush will not lie down when he is gently
touched" and he always knows when he
| has enough.
Every prominent newspaper in the coun-
! try faithfully chronicles all baseball events.
1t is strictly the peoples game and they
| demand to be informed of occurring events
/ with reference to il. and the paper that
! does not keep in touch with their baseball
| patrons is not up to date. Official organs
have been supp!anted by the daily press. In
this respect The Times will continue to be
4 lHe people paper
| Andrew Freedman. president of the New
| York club, does not seem disposed to
| strengthen up the weak places in other
teams by disposing of some of his star
! players, consequently George Davis and
Kid Gleason will in the Spring resume bus
! mess at the old stand.
If Col. John |. Rogers can convince the
! League magnates that his present scale OF
admission rates will bring them more reve-
! nue. than that generally prevailing, and he
| thinks it will, he ought TO have very easy
sailing in securing unanimous consent
The statement that Fred A. Abel, OF the
Brooklyn club. is out after the scalps of
! Brush and Robson and will in the future
antagonize them in all baseball legislation.
does that gentleman great injustice as il
| is not true, having been denied by the
| gentleman himself. Mr.. Abel is a level
headed business man and has too much
I good sense to announce that he would op-
| pose legislation simply because Brush and
/ Robson favored it. The truth is, the re-
| lations of these gentlemen are of the most
cordial and friendly character, the state
ments of some would-be disorganizers and
! cheap John scribes TO the contrary not
| withstanding.
| In answer to IAN Inquirer it is impos-
sible to say whether or not the Washing
| ton club Will open the season upon their
/ own grounds or name the club with
whom they will play their first game This
\ information will only be available after
! President Young reports his schedule to
/ the league at their Spring meeting and
| the same is adopted.
If Jake Wells can succeed in tanning the
| savage wildness of Pitcher Donovan's
swift in and out curves so that he can oc-
/ casionally get one of his straight ones
over the plate, and then infuse a little
life and ginger into Donny's movements.
he may be able TO make a ball player out
of him. In these essential qualifications
the young man is very shy and in sad need
of regeneration.
James 4. Hart. president of the Chicago
/ Club. is nothing if not voluble. He is as
full of schemes as he is of imaginations,
and he. is long on the latter article. He
| is never so happy as when he is stringng
the newspaper boys with some pipe story
I that would start a riot If seriously con-
! sidered. Hart frequently and boldly PRO
claims that Lange and Dahlen are two
of the star players in the league, yet his
sleep is disturbed in efforts to devise some
| scheme 10 dispose of them. He predicts
! the organization Of another league one
! day and the next tells how impossible it
( is OF contamination. Keep your eyes To-
cussed on Hart.
Dad Clark announces that he will not
under any conditions-play ball in
minor league. He claims that he is major
| league timber, thoroughly seasoned, and
! without flaw and that if the magnates
OF the big league don't know the real thing
/ when they see it, it is not his fault.
] Rather than hide his light under a minor
| league bushel he would go into politics
and be candidate for the legislature.
The Boston team will do their Spring
! practice at Durham. y. C.
The owners of the Toronto Baseball
/ Club have not as yet decided whether they
| viii cast their lot with the Eastern or
/ Western League. They are very much
! sought after by both these organizations
! with the chances in favor of the West.
Cigarette smoking is more injurious TO
a ball player than alcoholic Indulgence;
| it seriously effects the optic nerves and
impairs the physical condition.
President y. T.. Young is one of the
/ busiest men in the city, his genius bsing
devoted TO arranging playing schedule
for next season that will be as fair and
equitable as is possible. Economy in
! mileage and fair apFortionmsnt of holi-
day dates give him greatest concern.
and whatever he may determine in this
connection some manager Will feel that
he has received the worst OF it. Uncle
Nick has always been just toward all the
clubs. II is impossible to give eacl club
all it wants; therefore, he has vsry
wisely distributed the favors. Clubs that
received the plums last season cannot cX-
pect to control the orchard this year. The
schedule Mr.. Young is now arranging is
a four-trip one, as last season. which was
considered fsvOrably by all the cubs
The assignment of umpires will not be
given out until next Spring. This is an
other veXed problem that causes the
league president serious consideration and
one that viii always prove an obstruc-
ton in the channel OF perfect harmony.
Charles Zuber. Of the Cincinnati Tim, s.
Star, Is in a bewildered state of uncar-
tainty with reference to the present o.
ganization OF the National League, and
imploringly bcgs for light and Informal
ton. He says: IF there is anyone in
the country who can speak out frankly
and convinciugiy and tell how this cir
cult question IS going to be settled he
would be comforting a favor on every pa
iron of baseball and would end, forth
with, scores and scores of arguments. 4"
This matter was very truthfuily and
plainly explained in a recent issue of The
Times, to which Zuber's attention is di-
rected. There Is no occasion for per-
tuTbatiCn with reference to this matter
as il is a sure. .0O0-to-1 shot that the
twelve league clubs will play out the limit
OF time.
The first man 10 inhale the anesthetic
aroma that cXudcd from that dope pipe
which some OF the ways of the National
League cooked up for the scribes who at
( Hal 10 inc at Napl-