The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-10
Baseball Gossip,

Joe Corbett was thrown from car
riase some time ago and suffered a
broken leg He may never pitch again.
Pitcher King, recently secured by
Philadelphia, has been engaged to
coach the team of the Georgetown COL
lege. He played there during the sea-
son just closed. VI
Lefty Pete Bowling will probably be
dropped by President Dreyfuss. now
that Rusie Waddell has contracted to
prop up the south-winged side of the
Colonies pitching corps.
Billy Hallman the veteran second
bagman, is sliding into popularity by
the soft shoe route. Billy has forsaken
the spiked-foot gear, and is the senior
member Of a song and dance team.
Tackle Tom Parrott, the we'll
known pitcher, is now the cornet player
in skating rink orchestra. He is one
of the eight who furnish the music for
the roller skaters at a rink in Cincin-
natl.
When John MCGraW played his first
game in Baltimore in the American as
ISOLATION in 1891 an old uniform worn
by Sam Wise was given him to wear.
1t was a case of all clothes and no
player, so far as appearances went, but
in playing ability the present manager
more than filled the suit.
Jimmy Slagle's Western league adj
nirer. Ban Johnson, Walter Wilmot
and Jimmy Manning, cannot account
for Jimmy's slump since his entry to
the major league, though Park Wilson,
who played with Slagle on the Kansas
City team last year, predicts that jim
my will make good next season.
Tom Brown and Duke Farrell are
hunting in the Businesses of Maryland
with party of sporty Washingtonians.
Tom and the Duke are expert MINI
rods, and the Duke believes that a Win
ter's outing in the woods is the finest
kind of training to keep a ball player
keyed up to an elastic pitch during the
off season.
Death has created universal havoc in
the ranks of ball players families dur
ing the present year Charley Nichols
father died a Kansas City recently. and
his bereavement recalls similar sorrows
that befell William Ewing, Charles F.
Irwin and w. P Rhines, while Jimmy
Callahan lost his mother. and Lave
Cross mourns a sister.
Ned Hanlon. at the time he accepted
Dunn stated that in his estimation Dunn
was the best tWirler in the circuit to
supplant man whose luck and work
made it necessary to change pitchers
during game. His good judgment was
fully warranted, and\in addition Dunn
proved winner for the Superbas.-
Wilkesbarre Record.
olSNC <tsLe, blle VI Lie UuLlGIouS dElllS
of Gus Schmelz's exploded pitching phe-
MONS, is working the hit-by- pitched
ball rule in New Haven. Steve Is work
ing high ball OH the inside, close to
the collar button. He runs saloon in
the classic seat of lore, and works his
delivery on the Yale students who fur
nish the bulk of hrs patronage.
The late Charles Byrne had his choice
of two players, Bucky Freeman and
Andy Anderson. in 1895, when Byrne
went to HaVerhill, Mass, and looked
over this pair Of smuggling outfielders
Byrne picked Anderson and Freeman
drifted to Toronto. Tom O'Brien was
chosen in preference to Freeman by the
Pittsburg club when Toronto was Presi-
dent Kerr's farm.
Cincinnati has been searching for a
star third bagman for two years." says
Rem milford. They have not yet land
ed anybody in Charley Twins class. If
Hans Wagner were possible, Leach
would make the more valuable man OF
the two in the Red infield. Hans is a
hard hitter, but not in the same class
with Leach as fast man at third"
During the baseball season recently
ended the Nebraska Indians covered
1000 miles of territory and played in
Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, In
diana, Ohio. Pennsylvania and New
York. The red men won los games out
of 143 played. They met the stronges'
college and Independent teams in the
country through which they passed and
held their own with them all.