The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-27

| the opposing pitcher even harder. But
| in a number of games in which the
| Orioles batting was light, he won, new
! ertheless, as in the 2-to-1 game in Chi
| cago His earnest work seems to in
| still ginger into his teammates.-Balti-
| more Sun.
The Reds repeated reverses have al
| most been wiped out by their magnifi-
cent series of successive victories. By
| an odd coincidence their splendid series
| of consecutive winning games conceded
with the date of the month on which
| it was broken. Prior to their defeat
| by Boston on August IA they had won
IA straight games. Their great record
| included five games from Boston and
| two from Baltimore. In recent years
| the Reds have begun we'll and ended
| badly. This season the reverse has
been the case so far. They are in fifth
place and have a fine chance to beat
| out all their Western rivals in the 1899
race.
| In the course of an interview on the
| baseball situation Treasurer Abel of
| the Brooklyn club said
Il don't think the public likes the
| idea of one set of men owning two
| clubs, but in the case of Brooklyn and
Baltimore the membership of the lat
ter club was forced on us. We did not
want it and we don't want it. 1t is in
the market to-day, but both the fran
| chise and the players are worth double
what they were before the season
| opened.
| "A long time ago we went to Mr..
| Freedman of the New York club and Of
fered to him the release of McGraw
and Robinson. He told us that he
would not give $40 for the best ball
player in the world, SO we could do no
more. OF course, we did not have sim
| pie charity in mind when we made the
offer. We had our own axe to grind.
| We wanted to see the New York club
! built up so that it would be rival of
| Brooklyn, and we were figuring on the
great attendance there would be at the
inter-city games. Mr. Freedman would
not cooperate, so Baltimore was
thrown back on our hands, and we had
| to make the best of it,
ANY of the clubs among the first
| seven, said Manager Tebeau the other
| day, has a chance to win the pennant
When st. Louis started this season my
calcula ton was to finish not lower than
| third, with second place a proba biiity,
, and fighting chance for the flag My
opinion has not changed since, for the
element OF luck cuts a big figure in
! baseball. We have had many strokes
of bad luck, without glimmer of good
! fortune during the season. Ninety-f1ve
| per cent of the games won by us TINS
| far we have hit, fought, pitched and
| helded out, and never once has the ele-
ment of luck entered into any of our
| victories. We have been losing LATELY
through inability to hit safely. When a
team is unable to hit, fielding and all
! around work of the players is badly
handicapped. Despite the rut into
| which we have fallen, it is my honest
opinion that we will finish in third place
| this season.
| While l have no desire to go on rec
| ord as saying that Boston will win the
| pennant, l certainly size them up as
superior to the Brooklyns, and j be-
| lieve Selee's men will beat out Han
Ions team in the pennant race. The
! present champions overshadow the
| Brooklyns in the pitchers points and in
| the field, although Hanlon's men have
| the best of the Bostonians as regards
| Individual batting. Team work means
| working players at the bat, on the
pitching slab and on the bases, while
fielding has nothing to do with team
| work when you come down to the fine
| points of baseball. There is an excep-
! ton to this rule, however. at short field
and third base. These positions require
sure, steady, cool-headed fielders, and
as the game progresses we find the in
| field to be the basis of the team.
| Brooklyn's team does not compare with
Boston's at third base. or short tseld
| and the players of the inner circle Of
| the champions will cut off more runs
than the Hanlon quartette in the same
| positions"
Il will stand for no arguments nor
for any overtime conversation from any
player in the league" says Frank
Dwyer. Il will give decisions as / see
them, and as a law backs me up in
my rulings l will live up to the law. If
prize fighter kicked against the de-
cisions of the referee in one of these big
fights what would the public say? But
right here in this league you see repre-
sentative players question the rulings
of the umpire, day after day. You
would expect those kicks from pugil-
lists rather than from ball players. as
the diamond athlete is supposed to be
and is-higher in the mental scale than
scrappers Then, why doesn't he show
his mental superiority over the fighter
by bowling to the rulings of the UNI
pires?"
There was much talk of foot race
between Mercer and Callahan, two of
the fleetest men in the National league.
Callahan said about it: Il had no OBJ
lection to racing him If l knew we were
to get some of the proceeds. 1t doesn't
suit me to run as side show to
ball game, and have Earl Wagner take
practically all the proceeds"
Perry Werden, the greatest jollier of
them all, has retired from the Mime
apolis first base for the rest of the sea-
son, and will not be used except in case
of an emergency Werden has had
trouble with his injured knee all the
season, but his hitting has made him
valuable to the Millers. George Carey
will be used at first base.
II think that | figured in the quickest
deal ever made by ball player" says
Keller While l was with New York
l was practicing at the Polo Grounds
one morning and that afternoon l was
playing with Brooklyn. The deal was
made over the telephone"
Jake Stencil, the ball player, reported
to the Cincinnati police Sunday that he
had been robbed of a valuable soil
taire diamond stud. He has bought
out Jim Keenan, and will run a saloon
in that city.
Frank Bonner is one of the steadiest,
surest fielders among the second base
men of the major league. and his i'm
provement since his return TO the big