The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-08

York club or the controlling interest
in the holdings of that plant. One of
the Fleischmanns has fad for base
ball that amounts to a passion. At his
summer house on the Hudson a large
plat of his stately acres is set apart
for baseball games between a team
controlled and equipped by Colonel
Fleischmann and other teams. The
salaries of the players and entire ex-
penses for the season are paid by the
millionaire sportsman. One OF the play
ers on the Fleischmann team remarked
to one of the Orange team at Orange
few weeks ago that Colonel Fle.sch-
mann would pay liberal price for the
New York club or for Freedmans 81
shares Of stock. A certain Gotham
clubman close to Fleschmann says the
nabob sportsman will surely buy the
friend of the nervy New York magnate
declares that the offer has already
been made and is being considered.
Charlie Miller, better known as
Dusty" the crack outiielder of the
Cincinnati team, has purchased a half
interest in the saloon business of Fred
Smith at Toledo. This does not mean
that he has quit the diamond, and it
would not be surprising if he wore a
Toledo uniform next season. Some say
that his wing is dead, but that is only
hearsay. and he has many years of ball
before him if he only thinks so. Mil
Ter has oil interests about Cygnet: He
was member of Denny Longs West
ern league team in 1893.
According to Secretary Young of the
National league nine of the fourteen
minor leagues that started the present
year under the protection of the nation
al agreement will live out the season.
Sc %1.~ xrtt-,, 1Enr aE.
together with their classification and
the drafting price of players therefrom.
are as follows: Glass A, Western
league and Eastern league, drafting
price, $500; class B, Interstate league,
$500; class c, New York state league,
5000; class D. Canadian league. $lO0;
class e, Indiana-Illinois and California
leagues, $75, and class r, New England
league and Connecticut state league,
$50.
The one sided score and small at
tendance go to show that the players
and patrons are firing of the game ana
will be glad when the season OF 1899
has passed into history, says the Sport
ing News. The unevenness, and not the
length of the race is responsible for
this 1t is surprising that the game
is not boycotted in some of the cities.
Washington and New York, for in
stance. Cleveland has been under the
ban all season and SO little interest was
shown in Louisville that President
Dreyfuss decided to transfer his clubs
remaining games rather than erect
stands to replace those destroyed by
fire. The race has become professional
and there is little or nothing to arouse
enthusiasm in any of the cities, Phila-
delphia excepted. A featureless finish is
one of the drawbacks of an unwieldy
12-club league with one-half of its
teams out-classing the others The
tail-enders of this season, the trans
ferred Browns, have not finished high
err than ninth in one of the eight races,
including the one now on, of the Ma
tional league and American association
of professional baseball clubs. Louis
VILE has the same disgraceful record
and three times the Colonies were tail
enders. The Senators We're seventh in
1897, ninth in 1898, tenth in 1892 and
1895. eleventh in 1894 and 1898 and last
in 1893. The Chicago club has occu-
pied a first division berth in three