The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-01
al league treasury by the players this
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al league treasury by the players this
season will reach 81 ,O0G
If ST. Louis comes up to expecta-
tions the best she can do is to finish
fifth in the pennant race. Tebeaus in
ability to play because of being sick all
season Is assigned as the reason for not
reaching third place.
Big Bill' Lange, they say, will not
play ball any more, but will retire at
the end of this season and engage in
business in San Francisco. His en-
gagement to Miss Grace Giselman, a
prominent and attractive society belle
in San Francisco, has been announced
for some time.
McGinnity. of the Baltimores showed
his curving with the ball by giving Bos-
ton and st. Louis 63 hits in nine games.
John O'Neill, the second baseman of
the Worcester team, is the find of the
gigantic pitcher. Mike Sullivan, who
discovered O'Neill in the provinces.
The young man comes from St. John,
N. B., where he was born in 1877. He
has been playing ball professionally in
the provinces since 1896. most of the
time as catcher and second baseman
for the Shamrocks and the Roses, two
of the crack New Brunswick teams
This summer Mike Sullivan of Boston
took team down to New Brunswick
and was much impressed with O'Neills
fellow along with him on trip to
Fredericton. AS soon as Sullivan got
back to Boston he spoke of the player
to Manager Selee, and as a result
O'Neill was sent for, and upon his ar
rival in Boston was sent up to Wor-
cester to play second base, which po-
sition had been badly filled all the
season. He has played only one or two
games. but in these he handled him
self well and made good impression
O'Neill is a clean-built. alert-looking
young fellow, about IL inches in
height and weighs IT'S pounds.
Nichols and Young and one or two
other pitchers are habitually referred
to as stars. There is one twirler, too,
on whom this plimentary term is
not ordinarily bestowed, but who is as
much of star in every sense of the
word-so far as present usefulness is
concerned-as Nichols. Young, on any
body else, and that is Hughes of the
Brooklyns-pretty much as great
pitcher as ever came over the baseball
pike.
Jesse Tannehill is supersthious and
in days that he is slated to pitch he
will not get shaved
Ex-Pitcher Mark Baldwin has been
elected captain of the Baltimore Medi-
cal college football eleven.
Captain Robinson of Baltimore Is of
opinion that the National league next
season will be a 10-club affair.
Catcher Kahoe of Indianapolis has
Joined the Cincinnati team, and Pitcher
Scott of the same team will do SO later.
Joe Quinn says the Cleveland team.
despite its miserable showing, only
lacks two good stickers to be a winner.
Dave Fultz is keeping up his good
batting for Baltimore. And Philadel-s
phia released him because "he couldn't
bat"
Leach of Louisville is sprinter, and
Pulliam says he will back him for 800
against Beaumont in 100-yard race.
Mike Donlin of St. Louis is said to be.
the very fastest kid that ever broke
into the National league by main
force.
Donovan has proved a disappoint-'
ment to Manager Hanlon and the lat
ter is now bidding for Dinneen of
Washington. For Mercer of the same.
club Chicago, Baltimore and Cincinnati
have bids in.
Pitcher Frisk of the Cincinnatis is of
Scandinavian descent.
Elberfelds base running does not
please the Cincinnati critics.
Pittsburg has purchased Pitcher
Gray from the Buffalo club. w
Bobby WALLACE has been playing
short field with a very sore arm.
/. Lave Cross is the most popular play
er wearing St. Louis uniform.
preston to a belief that when the mag
mates come to count their profits they
will find the most profitable season of
the last decade.
Outfielder Joe Rickert of Worcester
has joined the Plttsburg team.
Catcher Maurice Powers has been I'M
conditionally released by Louisville.
ST. Louis is going to try the Toronto
pitcher Suthoff (no relative of Sud
hoff).
Official notice has been given of the
suspension of Pitcher Bert Jones by st.
Louis.
Buck" Freeman, the outfielder now
with Washington and the same slugger
who once belonged to Detroit, leads
the major league in the matter of long
hits, as he has II home runs to his cred
it, and expects to make a few more
before the season closes.