The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-09
chance to get good nights rest before
the first battle for the Western league
pennant is waged.

pennant iS Waged.
JACK ROWE TALKS.
Former Manager Jack Rowe is out of
base ball so far as active connection with
the game is concerned, but he is still
very much interested in It. and generally
finds time to fan about the magnates
and PLAYERS with such of his customers
as enjoy that sort of thing. Rowe is a
strong partisan of the Bisons, and is
ready to break lance with any of the
Westerners who are predicting that the
Buffalos will finish low down in the pen
nant race now at hand.
IL have made a number of bets that the
| Bisons will beat out Milwaukee,. which
took third place in the Western league
race last year, and. which many expect
to finish first this season. said Rowe
Yesterday land moreover l expect to
win them all. Connie Mack has clever
| lot of fielders, but / don't see any hard
| hitters among them
BOXING BALL PLAYER.
John Raih, who was on the catching
staff of the Brewers last season, has
signed to play with Quincy in the West
ern association and will probably do his
| training with the Brewers John
would be a great catcher If he would
only pay more attention to his thinking
| apparatus During the winter he de-
veloped into quite boxer and succeed
! ed in defeating two men at Sheboygan,
| but they We're only SecOnd-raters Jonn
says that Higgins and himself can put
| up great bout, as they are evenly
| matched, but no one ever accused Zig
! gins of being first-class man. How
ever Raih will improve with practice.
| MANAGER STALLINGS DEFIANT.
Sam DUNCAN may or may not play ball
! in Detroit the coming season. President
| Van Derbeck mailed him a contract some
| time ago. The bald-headed outtielder still
! has the contract in his possession. He
| wrote in reply that his salary must be
guaranteed FIVE months, and demanded
| that half of the purchase money-he evil
IDENTIFY expects to bring big price after
| the season is oVer-be turned over 10 MIN.
| Manager Stallings said:
DUNCAN has received the only contract
! he will get If he does not accept the
terms offered he can stew and sweat all
season. We are prepared to get along
without him. / will play left field from
start to finish. Barrett will play center
and Sharrott right. That will make
| pretty strong outfeld, will it not? 1t will
| certainly be as fast as any in the league.
DUNCAN is no doubt a good batter, but he
is not the only pebble on the beach. De-
troit will have strong and fast team
and will be in the race from the start
! FRISK SIGNS.
| ]. Emil Frisk, the new pitcher of the
Detroit club, sent in his contract and is
| now regularly enrolled the list. He
| has been touted to President Van Derbeck
as Conner and his record shows that
| something can be expected Of him If he
! shows up in form and can keep it. He
is "a years old, weighs 40 pounds and
stands feet II inches in his stocking feet.
| His ball playing career has not been eX
| tended, but he has been more than usual
| ly successful.
MEYERS WITH INDIANAPOLIS.
Bert Meyers who was with st. Louis
| sc, Milwaukee 81, and Washington part
! of '9S, has signed with Indianapolis for
| this season and will report to Manager
| Allen at once He is in good condition
| and expects to be assigned a regular po-
sition at third base Bert kicked over
the traces while in Milwaukee and never
really appeared in good condition. If
/ he keeps straight he will make a good
| third baseman for the HOLSTERS.
PICKERING SQUABBLE
| The Pickering squabble is not settled
yet. The Buffalo management declares
that it will make a fight for the services
| of the man and if the affidavits already
| forwarded to President Ban Johnson are
| not sufficient they will be supplemented
| by others even stronger. Manager Nash
| has two witnesses who are willing to
swear that they saw him mail the con-
| tract to the former st. Joe man. 1t looks
as though Mr.. Pickering will have to do
| time in Buffalo.
NEW YORK, I; YALE, g.
| NEW YORK. April 8.-The New Yorks,
! fresh from the South, opened the eXhi-
| bition series at the polo grounds this af-
| ternoon with the Yale team, and as was
expected, the local players won, Z to 8.
! Score by innings:
R.H.D.
Batteries-Doheney, Colelough, Warner
and Wilson; Cook, Robertson and Suli-
| van.
At Observation-Disclosures II, Fordham 8.
| At Cambridge-Harvard 5; Tufts /.