The times., 1899-03-05
news and GOSSIP OF
THE BASEBALL WORLD
The Adjustment of the Farm
ing Evil.
AnsOn Undertakes to Correct Some
Wrong Impressions.
st. Louis Club Stock Sold for n Song.
Freedman and the New
York Team.

The most important change made in the
League rules at the recent session in New
York relates TO farming" In the future
no team may hold more than eighteen
players on its reserve list and before a
team can farm q player to a minor
league team that player must be offered
to all the other National League teams at
the drafting price bf the league to which
the club wishes toi send him. For exam
pie. if National League club wished 10
send a player to Richmond, it could not
put a prohibtive price on such player and
ask the other clubs Ito waive claim at that
price, but must offer the player at $780,
the drafting price. The farming" evil
has done great injustice TO players in the
past and to League clubs without farms
Its abolition is a victory for fair metho IS.
Pop Anson. is far. from being an ad-
mirer of his former pIayfellow and busi-
ness associate, ..APi spalding. He thinks
that he has not been, treated right by his
old employer. The baseball veteran says:
] feel resentiul To Al Spalding for the miser-
able manner IN which was treated at the
nual meeting OF the League in Philadelphia The
club officials knew before ! started for Phila-
delphia that they intended to make a change in
the management OF the team. Instead Of telling
me, like they should have DONE they permitted
me 10 20 to the meeting. | made the
scapegodt. 1t was mean thing to have me
made the aughingstock OF the baseball public
after the many years of faithful service had
rendered Spalding | have noticed several times
in print that | went to Europe the guest OF
Al Spading. This is not | paid every dol
lar Of expense incurred by me on the trip.
want to clear up another thing. 1t is well
known that the trip around the world WAS "A
loser. II is the popular impression that Splld-
ing. who Is millionaire, stood all the losses
Uf that trp This, too, is erroneous | had TO
reach down in my pocket and make good one
half Of those losses. That trip. although it
was a big advertisement for Spalding, cost me
jlist as much money as 1t did him. Another
thing: | was t0uted into. putting So 600 into the
New York club. | never have received cent
hack, and can't get dollar out of it, ! haven't
been III position to protect myself OF late
hut ! will before long, and then ! will be able
10 do something IN connection with the divi-
dend on my Chicago stock.
II thing Cincinnati will be in the push
the coming season.. says Jack TAYLOR
The contracts with the blue ribbon tags
never bother me. as Colonel Rogers was
continually flashing up articles of that
kind when | was in Philadelphia Let the
team play good ball and no one will work
any harder than will. II was enough TO
drive fellow to drink to work with the
Philadephias in 81 and st. Louis last sea-
son. had a pretty good rest the last two
years, as ! saw it was no use to break
ones arm and then lose. With the fast
felders of the Cincinnati team | guess I'll
hold the boys for while
Taylor is favOrte, and all the PLAYERS
like to see him do well.
Members of the brokers corner on the
st. Louis Stock Exchange did not read the
baseball news from New York closely or
they would hardly have let 67S shares of
stock in the st. Louis club be sold for a
song last Thursday. The shares and note
for $3.50, endorsed in blank by Chris Won
der Abe, We're put up for auction at noon.
pursuant TO advertisement. Guy Billion of
the firm of Gaylord & Blessing, cried the
sale. Mr. E. c. Becker owner of the secu-
rites, opened with a bid for 500, and Bro
ker Hattersley raised him So Becker then
said $500 and got the stock. Hattersley
said he just got Into the game for the fun
of the thing. He said he thought after
reading the dispatches from New York
that st. Louis Club stock was worth more
than 500 a thousand shares. Beckers title
to the stock is now said to be perfect
While Manager Day and the New York