The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-26

| won the western championship and has
I been Identified with baseball for years.
1 Mr.. Lucas managed the Tacoma c1uD
Of the Pacific Northwest league in 1890
| 1t is expected chat W. =. Work, who
| managed the Tacoma club in 1892, over
again in 1898, and during TIE interim
| was q winning manager In Texas and
! the Southwest will have charge Of the
! Canadian club.
| Seattle's club will be in the competent
| hands of the exceedingly popular D. p.
| Dugdale, and associated With him Will
! be j. j. McCloskey, we'll KIN own as man
ager OF the Louisville club VI the Ma
tional league. "Hustling" TED Sullf-
van. if present negotiations art. SUCCESS
fully concluded, will look after tine m
| terests of the Tacoma club next year.
Sullivan has been contested with the
National, Western, Southern, 1rxas,
prominence In the country, with fhe
exception of the Pacific No..nwesr. he
has had teams in Calf ,rnia and in
| Cuba and has crossed The water In the
| interest of the game. He has ben
| identified with baseball since the game
| was called town ball"
| The Pacific Northwest has rot Rad
a successful baseball league since the
| old Pacific Northwest league as- the
early sos This organization dttd
| natural death In 1892. No efforts to-
| ward reorganization were made in 'a3.
| "a or '95. but In 1895 league was a.
| gantzed by eastern men, with Victoria
substituted FOR Spokane. 4 very rainy
| spring, however, sent the hopes Of all
a-glimmering, and June IA Of she year
less than two months after the start
the last game was played. In 81 there
/ was no effort to give this section OF
| the country protest. ,1al baseball, but
| last year there was. The league was or
| ganized upon the cd pasis. Spokane
again being chosen as the fourth town.
1 III
| however. again abortive, excepting go
far as Tacoma and Ssa.tle were col!-
| cefned. There were two reasons fol
| this. One was an attempt to run the
Portland club upon an empty treasury,
and the other that Spokane was too far
| away, involving a too expensive trip
| across the mountains.
| This year these objections will be
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS will not be in the
| league and the Portland club will start
| out with sufficient money in the treas
ury to insure the payment of all sal
| aries and all other legitimate expenses.
Those who remember the enthusi-
astic crowds that paid their half dol
| lar every day, and week after week in
the good old days of 80 and 81 to see
the games put up by the league clubs,
| say there is no doubt that the league
| will succeed next year. Admission will
| be but a quarter, and the grounds more
centrally located. Everything will be
| run on business principles. and the pub
lie will have the satisfaction of dealing
with business men.
Il would not like to commit myself as
saying that would not go to New York
| under any circumstances" says Johnny
) McGraw. but do not think now I
| would so. II Baltimore were dropped,
] would not go to Brooklyn I might
consent to go elsewhere, but want to
stay right mere, and do not think I
| need go elsewhere to play ball. AS to
to the story of reducing the league cir
| cult, it looks like a. fake to me, and I
agree that 1t would be a foolish move
IN the league to abandon Baltimore
but 1t would not be the fret foolish
theing the 'magnates' have done, and,
therefore, 1T would not greatly sur.
prise me. That Is why I went TO New
York to see what the new associa ton
people were doing. Robinson takes no
STOCK IN the story from New York and
declares he would not be transferred to
Brooklyn or New York. Hugh Jen-
ntngs has been visiting me. He still re-
tains his citizenship in Baltimore. He
came over from Philadelphia to vote.
ne is having his arm treated by
University OF Pennsylvania expert in
Philadelphia, and says that the treat
ment has been Of great benefit walter
ERODE has become q mighty Nirnrod.
On election day, while out cunning, he
prousht gown an uncommonly big jack
rabbit of the California variety. It
was very much larger and heavier than
the Maryland variety Of rabbits and 1t
was thought to be one of those that
We're brought from the West by Mr.,
larry Maicom, game warden Of Bal
tlmore county, some time ago. Ball
players PA; like Baltimore as a place of
residence. Among those who have
changed their residences and become
Baltimoreans are: Hanlon, Robinson,
Jennings, Clarke, Kelley, Brodie, Nops,
n,s and others. Keister and 'Paca'
Snllds are native Baltimoreans This
does not include a large number Of
minor league players
resident Ban Johnson is quoted as
SAYING that it matters not whether
ahsrs are two or three big leagues, the
o'u western circuit, now known as The
american league. will have a team in
chicago. Two teams in the Windy
CITY, with non-conflicting schedule.
Mouio De all right, and If the grounds
, Were not too close together, there is
ta.sae doubt that three clubs would .,e-
be necessary Tor all three manapers
70 put hrst-class teams in the fiela
Teams that would rank we'll in thair rs
sepectlve races. American lea eue peo-
PIE, barring Van Derbeck, do not APP
tha, ~, " pe m the least alarmed al
kee,. or. to be more concise eon,natition
~ those Two cities. would be q severe
oiow 70 the ola Western league. At the
annual meeting held in Chicago Oct.
tober II, it was freely stated that n the
new league took the field. Detroit was
the city where the brightest prospects
FOR the rival organizations could he
4 found.-Detroit Free Press.
President Kerr Of Pittsburg has a
queer way of taking self-voiuhteersa
blame upon himself. He can't stand
press goading even a little bit.
pete Bowling, the suspended Louis
VILE pitcher, is putting IN the winter
with an almost continuous performances
OF his special act of failing from
| grace" AAoiii
Manager Sharsig has signed Catcher
William Strong Of Syracuse and r. G.
aaylor, a college pitcher mailing from
BRISTOL, N. H., for his Allentown team.
"a "A new alignment of the factionai
forces in the league seems to be on the
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