The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-09

niggardly treatment of the players
| while travelling. So.
Vice President Dehler vigorously re-
| plies to kittridge. He says Magee' sal
ary was garnisheed for saloon bills ag-
gregating $2S7.20, and the club refused
| to stand for such conduct.
Kittridge and Hartzel1 are also ac-
| cused of conduct which merited their
| release. 1t is a singular fact that since
! all the men, were benched two weeks
ago the team has played winning ball.
, taking eight out of IL games. r-.s
Arthur Irwin, the manager of the
Washington team, is trying the exper-
iment of building up a team for Wash
ington with young players. Since he
took hold Of the team he has disposed
of several of the old members and put
youngsters in their places-men whom
he could mold to his ideas of playing
and who in time will become an INTEL
ligent machine, with all parts working
together and producing a single result.
Mr.. Irwin has the right idea with re-
gard to getting up winning team that
Will play the game at all times. All
that remains to maize 1T a success is
the necessary players. Judging by the
work that the team has done so far this
season, he has secured the nucleus for
strong team and in another season
may be looked for to give Washington
a team of which the city may be proud.
Slagle, Barry, Freeman, Atherton, Bon
ner and one or two other members of
the team, new to the big league. are
giving excellent accounts of themselves,
and another season ought to put them
in the class of stars.-Cincinnat Times
Star.
Buck Freeman. the heavy batter
with the Washingtons, was a pitcher
Baker used to bat against him. Bon
ner, the second baseman, was with the
Baltimores in 1898. He also played
with the st. Louis Browns. Dick Pad
den has been playing professional ball
for six or seven years. These are a
few few Of the young bloods with the
Washington team. Winnie Mercer is
no spring chicken. He has been earn
ing his living as professional ball
player seven or eight years. Add to
this number Gus weighing and Jimmie
Mcclure, who have been playing ball
since 1888, and the Washington team is
pretty nearly as much of a veteran
organization as any in the league.
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A Seattle correspondent OF the Sport
ing News says: The forming of a base
ball league to comprise the cities of Sc
attic. Tacoma, Victoria and Vancou-
yer is again under discussion with
strong probability Of success. W. L.
Work of Tacoma, who has organized
many minor leagues, left for Victoria
this week to meet committee of base
ball enthusiasts who have been agi-
tating the scheme in that city and
Vancouver
Early in the spring efforts to form a
league comprising the Sound cities
were made. but without practical re-
suits. Now that Seattle has secured 4
several more good men, among than
Thornton, the left-handed pitcher who
played such good ball with the Chica-
COS last season, the subject is being
revived with far greater enthusiasm
and 1t is very likely that in the course
of few weeks all the Sound cities
will be represented in the league. z :.
Coincident with the Commencement
THAI the at home games of the -Clsvee
land club win be played in other cities
comes the statement that Manager
Loftus has under consideration the
wholesale transfer of the games schea-
uied for Columbus. Cleveland is vir-
tually abandoned by the National
League, but the Western League which
needs II is not permitted to place
team there. The territorial rights of
the Robisons will continue until for
NAL. action is taken by the National
League. Probably by next fall the
Exiles will be located in another city,
If the twelve-club league is to re- |
main intact fer another year, and |
Cleveland may secure a Western |
League franchise.
In a recent interview Joe Kelley. the |
captain of the Brooklyns. made the |
statement that the bunt hit gradually |
was used less because players in gem |