The record-union., 1899-03-12
GOSSIP OF THE BALL FIELD.
GILT EDGES AND ATHLETICS
TO MEET TO-DAY.
The League Season to Open Two
Weeks From To-Day-Minor
Games.

At 2:30 o'clock this afternoon the Gilt
Edges and Athletics of San Francisco
will do baseball at Oak Park 1t is
hardly necessary to say that the game
will be hot one, for these teams have
never been known to do listless work
when they come together on the dia-
mond.
The teams will line up as follows:
Gilt Edges-Stanley, catcher; Doyle,
pitcher; Shanahan, first base; Ed.
Reitz, second base; McHale, third base;
Lockhead, shortstop; Walker, left field;
Sheehan, center field; Peoples, right
field.
Athletics-Sullivan catcher; Iberg
pitcher; A. Johnson, first base, Riley,
second base; Stultz third base; Billings,
shortstcp; McCarty, left field; Meaney
center field. Mclaughlin, right field.
The League season of $50 will open
up two weeks from to-day. There will
not be many changes in the local team
Stanley will probably be back for the
season as catcher, while Doyle will
pitch. Shanahan will be on first, and
Ed. Reitz will likely be seen on second
Lockhead is likely to be seen at short
and Peoples ON third, while Walker will
be in the field. There is likelihood
that Sheehan will be right fielder, and
Meaney may be- with the team also. All
matters connected with the new sea-
sons work Will very soon be settled,
and it is believed the team will be a
strong one.
Referring to the coming season, the
Examiner says:
1.-TWO teams the Athletics and Stock
tons, We're lost in the reorganization
Shuttle, leaving six clubs, which have
since been busy arranging for the grand
championship struggle. AS the winning
club is to be awarded a prize of ST 900,
the spirit of rivalry is more intense
than ever.
1.-The sport will be conducted on a
different system from that in vogue last
season. Every player is guaranteed a
salary, and must line up to the rules of
the National League.
MANY new faces and some warmed
over ones will be seen on the diamond.
None but the best talent developed last
year has been retained. The pick of
the Seattle champions signed with San
Jose, which has an aggregation that
may cause some healthful excitement
among the others. Chief Borchers, cap
tain of the team, says he has bunch
of wonders that would make a National
League team work overtime in beating
them out
Jacksonville has a number of new
men. Santa Cruz presents two out
fielders, first baseman and a battery
for the first time, and Manager Cal
Ewing of Oakland boasts of some we'll
dressed strangers with diamond shirt
studs to take the place of dudes of
other days.
Josh Reilly will play third base, his
original creation on the Frisco team.
Catcher Hartman, late of Seattle, will
wear the air package, and Jim Sullivan
has consented to play first base and al
ternate behind the bat.
Ham Iberg is on the reserve list
and Harris is dickering with Pitcher
George Cobb. once a great .favorite here
Iberg is holding out for a National
League job, but he may consent to re-
main another season in California"
The Hales defeated the Lee Stanleys
by a. score of s to 4 yesterday at Tween
ty-third and K streets The battery for
the Hales We're Roy Clark and Herman.
and for the Stanleys Futterer, Rob Lyn
and Dempsey Ellwood.
At the old Snowflake grounds at s
O'Clock this morning the Van Worries
and W. P. Fuller teams will play ball
Sampson will pitch for the Fullers, and
Felix for the harness-mal.erS