The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-26
bile. has signed with the Syracuse for

bile, has signed with the Syracuse for
| 1899.
Peitz weighs less now than during any
winter since he became a professional.
| Jimmy Ryan has the inside track for
| the eaptaincy of the Chicago team for
| next season. Dahlen is entirely out of the
race.
AL selbach's release puts large dent
| in Washington pride. Photographer Harry
Merrick says: 1.-THE talk of a 16-league
baseball league will in no manner shake
our belief in Washington's ability to fin
| ish in last place.
| Rosebrough, the Dayton southpaw
| twirler, who was purchased by Pittsburg,
| has signed a contract for this year which
calls for $1,000. Rosebrough is a reporter
on a Charleston Ill., paper during the
winter months.
| George Van Haltren has returned to
New York from San Francisco. and re-
| ports that Heine Reitz is perfectly salts
| fled with the deal that sends him to Pitts
burg. Reitz is stold, phlegmatic chap,
who surveys all cities alike. So long as
the salary is Forthcoming he has no pref
| erence as to choice of clubs.
Martin Bergen, the Boston catcher. who
three years ago caused Jimmy Manning
so much trouble, is getting ready to jump
the traces on the salary question. He
last season, and, after promising to take
ii off, did not do so. This is his griev-
ance.
Baseball players should begin playing
nandball It's the best winter practice in
the world.
Charley thinner says his throwing arm
is O. X Nearly ali wings are fine as silk
in the winter time.
Danny Green and kid Gleason are
| members of the Al-Star basket ball team
OF Philadelphia.
sockalexis will not be in the Tebeau fold
next season. The Indian was a box Office
card when he made his first bow in
Cleveland and drew many freak hunt
er to the game on the trip. AS a freak
attraction in the Eastern or Western
league he would prove an excellent in
vestment and could probably play up to
the speed of the average Eastern or
Western league MISUNDERSTANDING
Manager Watkins win take the Pitts
burg club to Virginia for it's spring prac-
tice. He does not believe in going too far
South, as the change in coming North
fos the opening of the season is too great.
He says that the club was more harmed
than benefited by its practice at Hot
Springs last season, and that the men
we're all sick after their return to Pitts
burg.
We note with pleasure that President
Kerr of the Pittsburg baseball club has
decided that his club shall play no Sun
day ball the coming season. He had
something of conflict over the matter,
but he was firm and cautious and won his
point. Sunday baseball is a source of
great Decentralization. and should not be
tolerated anywhere. We congratulate
President Kerr on his stand and success
Christian Advocate.
THAT catcher never stood in shoe
leather who could compare with Martin
Bergen as backstop and throWer. and
this statement can easily brave contradic-
ton. Bergen is the phenomenon of the
baseball world. past and present" So
says the Boston Herald, and this will
arouse all fans of the old school who will
not admit without an argument that Ber-
gen, brilliant he is, excelled King KEEL
~ in his palmy days could make Will
liam Buckingham Ewing play second
fiddle.
Ted Sullivan in letter to the Sporting
News, says of baseball in Cuba 49,,
las to baseball, the Cubans, of course,
are wild over our game, and have been
for more than 20 years. as people who are
posted know. The Spaniards would not
allow them to play our game, and they
went into the Cuban army. I saw game
yesterday between the Cubans and our
soldiers, and the Cuban team beat them
easily and made fake of our people. So
our people must know they can play ball.
The patronage is the main issue in bring
ing team from America. To show my
friends North how much interest our SOL
diers take in the game, there were not 20
soldiers looking at the game outside the
ccntesting team, which was picked nine
of the Illinois soldiers. The governor
general is strict on the soldiers and will
not let them come into the city, That is
one reason. and even if they could come,
they would only come one day--that is
the day they are paid off. After that they
are busteu.l
THE only way man could run a team
here is for congress to make an appropri-
alton to maintain the sport and compel
the Havana hotel keepers to reduce their
rates to $40 per day man and give the
Americans some dishes that they are ia
milar with and not present them with
delicacies that are so unsavory that they
kill the appetite for the next three days,
but the bill in the end is the same as If
you were daily consumer
1.-THE butter is so strong here that it
could whip the Spanish army, and l be-
lieve that it was our strongest ally in the
late struggle, and was more powerful in
bringing the Spaniards to terms than the
guns of Sampson or the charges of the
Rough Riders