Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-02

be rejuvenated again this season and Buck
erino predicts that they will constitute the
premier band Of ball tossers in these parts.
The aggregation will be made up much the
same as last year, the positions being filled
as follows: TaylcT, Murphy and Scully,
pitchers; Bowman and Shannon, catchers;
Dorcas, first base Bradford, second base;
Waller, shortstop; Lawler, third base; Jel-
len, LEFT field; Whitney center field; one
OF the twlrlers, right. The grounds of the
team will be the old Nonpareil park at Fiji
teenth and Vinton, which is to be decorated
with a number of improvements. The
bleachers will be repaired, the diamond will
be smooothed, and a bathhouse and dress
ing room will be built. Buck has not ar
ranged his schedule as yet, but ne promises
good series of games during the season.
The comparatively few players WHO repre-
sent Omaha in the ranks of the big leagues
have flown the city. Base ball fans of the
city will be pleased to learn that Lou
Camp has been asked to attach his auto
graph to the bottom of New York con-
tract. He received the invitation to Join
the Giants last week and left for their
training grounds at Paterson, n. j., on
Friday. He has~no idea where he is to be
placed in the makeup of the Giants but
is probably slated to do at least n substi-
tute role in the outfield, where New York is
lamentably weak. Joe Dolan has been
signed with the Richmond Va, team. and
also left to join his band last week He has
absolutely tabooed everything that tends to
break down a man during the winter and
has failed to look upon the wine when II
is red. He is in first-class shape and has
no sign of the glass wing that hampered
him last year. Mc1lvaine, the twirler who
cut so much ice in the Canadian league last
season, will stay there during the coming
year, and promises to duplicate his record
of last season. Finally, Jack Haskell has
been offered an umpireship in the Western
league again, and it is up to him to accept.
The Western league will not adopt the
new balk rule that was Incorporated in
the regulations of the big league at the
spring meeting. At the meeting of the
Western league nabobs it was determined
to stick by the old rule, but the umpires
will be instructed to see that it is more
rigdly enforced.
Dusty Miller, the outfielder of the Reds,
has manipulated high balls of liquid manu-
facture far more than the other sort since
the spring training of the Ewingites COM
menced and he has been sent to Cincin-
natl. He claims that the weather of the
training quarters at Columbus, Ga, does
not agree with him. This looks as if Nc
Bride were slated to cover the right lot
for the Reds this year. Jack Taylor, the
thirsty twirler from st. Louis, has also been
dallying with the flowing mug quite fire.
quently since the practice season has opened
and ticket of leave has been flashed in
his face as a threat by Buck Ewing.
1t is reported that Frank Chance, who
graced the utility list of the Orphans last
season and who is slated for the same role
this year if he is retained by Chicago, has
been farmed out to st. Paul. Chance is
willing to join Comiskey if it is an out
and-out sale, but promises to balk If he Is
tied to the Orphans.
Jack Boyle, the veteran backstop, who
was released by the Quakers last season,
has been offered Cincinnati contract. 1t
is not believed, however, that he is intended
to grace the windpad of the Reds, but that
he is to be farmed out to Indianapolis. II
such is the case a scrap is likely to take
place between the Hoosiers and Jimmy Man
ming, for the latter has claimed Boyle for
the Kansas City team.
The Kansas university base ball nine is
commencing to work down to hard pan,
having been scurrying over the emerald
diamond for the last two weeks. Its sea-
son opens next week, when 1t plays a
series of three games with the team of
the Haskell institute. Frank Jewett has
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