The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-06

| City club, while that team was in In
dianapolis and returned home. At the
| close of that season, his release was
| purchased by Boston. Suspension for
| 1899 would bring him to his senses. IT
| is gratifying to know that his brother
| who is making such a good record as
catcher with the Fort Wayne club of
| the interstate league, is without any
| of the bad traits of his relative, who is
the hardest man in the National league
| to manage.
| Speaking of Bergen's tantrums, a
| Boston paper says: THE sport in Bos-
ton is too important to allow any ball
player to have his own way at the
expense of discipline. Then, again.
a player forced to go in and work
| against his will is poor investment.
Big or little, stars or Texas leaguers,
should either lay off without pay or get
in and play ball the best they know
how
| Dunn is certainly the king of them all
as a fielding pitcher. He has yet to
make his first error, although he has
had more chances than any other
| Brooklyn pitcher.-Brooklyn Eagle.
| With a team in the race this season
| the New York club would have made
from $4,000 to 100000 profit, and it
required only a small outlay to make
the Giants as strong as the best.
Jimmy McJames is not in the ten
SECONDS CLASS III SettlHS arOuHu the
bases He is SO slow, in fact that
Brooklyn spectator very aptly remark
ed 1T takes three-base hit to put Nc
James on first
Wilmot denies a report that he was
| ever offered the management of he
| Cincinnati club.
| Powell of st. Louis has a most Pc
! culiar record. He began the season by
winning two games; then he lost two;
then he won three and lost two: then
won two and had a tie. He then lost
| three, won three, lost again, and won
three. Total 13 won and 10 lost, with
one tie.-Boston Herald.
Big Bill Lange of the Chicagos is
after the base running record of the
| National league, and has chance to
get it. The kind of base running that
the giant William is doing is a revela-
ton to other base runners.
| One of the promoters of the new
| baseball league in St. Louis, who is a.
wealthy man and prominent real es-
tate owner, when shown the statement
| of Ban Johnson that the Western
league would cut a big figure in the
new baseball situation, said:
| THE new league is not looking Tor
assistance from Ban Johnson, the
| Western league, or any one else. 1t
has already formed its lines, and is
| ready and able to do business without
assistance from the Western league or
| any one else. / will be frank, how
| ever, and admit that long ago certain
of the best and truest men in the
| Western league were seen and pledged
| themselves to support the new move
ment. Perhaps Johnson has heard
| from them, and perhaps he sees the
handwriting on the wall, and knows
that no power on earth can head off
the new organization. If johnson is
| sincere and means every word he says,
Al H. 49, - H. Ian
| will gladly welcome him to it's ranks
| and form an alliance with certain of
| thee clubs of the present Western
| league, for our motto will be to make
| friends wherever we can form any al
| lance on earth that will help us crush
| out the present baseball monopoly.
when Johnson said, The conditions
| to-day are such that new baseball
| organization is bound to spring up
he spoke by the card, and his state
| ment, strange as it may seem, is the
very same one that was made. by ev-#
cry man connected with the new
| league that was asked to join hands 4
with it. The glaring weakness of the
present organization will be shown up
in it's entirety the moment the pres
ent league takes the field against it.
A movement that has the good will of
the people, that has right, justice and
decency on it's side, like the SNOWFALL
that rolls down HILL grows bigger and
stronger and broader every moment
and that is the experience we are hav-
ing in the building up of this new or
ganization.'
According to President Young. the
season of 1899 from the viewpoint of
the mighty and potent dollar will prove
the most successful since 1889, the year
before the Brotherhood war. Il re-
ceived a letter from Barney Dreyfuss
of ho .o,,ic lilo 1,,h nd bi.
tells me that the Louisville stockhold-
ers will receive liberal dividend on
their stock this season." says Unclc
Nick. Yet some of the bright young
men who write baseball are predicting
that Louisville will prove a losing city
this season, and that the major league
owners are complaining about the poor
attendance in the Falls city. The only
city in our circuit that has failed to
contribute paying support to the game
this year is Cleveland, and the Robi-
son brothers. who own the Cleveland
franchise. tell me that their team is
making money in the games on the
road since the transfer of the at-home
games from Cleveland" Uncle Nicks
optimistic views of the situation do not
agree with the hard-luck tales sent
out from not a few of the league cit
les. ...
No city in the United States can
boast of more enthusiastic baseball
patrons than the city of Pittsburg. In
1891 Doggy Miller a Pittsburg player,
won game from Boston, with Rad
bourne in the box. by making a home
run in the ninth inning. A shower of
coin and bills greeted him at the plate.
On Monday Williams, the Denver boy
with the Pittsburgs, made a home run
in the ninth inning of the first contest,
pulling the game out of the fire after
the Phillies had it cinched, and was
rewarded with a shower of money |
from the $500 people present The |
rain of bills, silver dollars, quarters. |
etc, continued for fully three minutes
and when Williams counted his pile he |
had almost 500. This beats Miller's |
contribution by SAT. Beaumont. also a |
Western lad, made three-base hit |
and won the second game under sim |
liar circumstances, but the crowd had |