The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-26
ANACONDA NEWS.
GOSSIP OF THE DIAMOND
Will Anaconda Have a Ball Team
This YearP
IT IS HIGH TIME TO ACT
Preliminary Steps Should Be Taken at
Once-Othsr Towns OF the State
Will Organize Clubs Talk
About the Players.

What is Anaconda going to do about
a baseball team this year? That is the
question that is asked half a dozen
times day by lovers of the sport If
anything is to be done about a ball
aeam for Anaconda, it ought certainly
to be done pretty soon. The fact that
the weather lately has been so bad is
probably the reason that something has
nlot already been done toward organiz-
ling. Heretofore the preliminary steps
Ehave generally been taken before the
first of April.
Some of the players here are heartily
Yin favor of going ahead at once and or
Eanizing a club, while a few of them
shave not yet got over the experience of
dhe past and are not at all enthusiast
'tic over baseball team. They will
come around in time, though-a ball
lplayer needs a few warm days before
she can feel real enthusiastic
The roster of the ball tossers who are
NOW in town shows that scarcely any of
1.-THE old boys have gone away. There
are Burton. Emerson, Lloyd, Long
Campbell. McHale. Lynch, Sutton
Daily and number of others whose
prowess on the ball field is we'll known
There are several new men here also
who have come during the winter and
who bring with them excellent reputa-
lions. There is plenty of good material
and all that is necessary is for some
yone to make start 1t would doubt
1ess be well for some one to call meet
ling at an early date in order that the
y1natter might be discussed and to de-
1iy,o fln hoe
Ed Hammond, who was for a long
rme captain of the Anaconda team, is
now in Helena. In a letter to friend
IN this city he says the outlook for the
national sport in Helena is excellent:
that the people of the city want good
ball and will patrOniZe the game. Hell
'ena, says Hammond. will undoubtedly
have first class ball team this year.
Reports from Missoula and Butte
Ealso look favorable for a good season
Of baseball.
To date the Kansas City club has re-
ceived contracts and acceptances from
Pitchers Gear Merideth, Friend and
Sstricklett, Catcher Hansen, First Base
man Cancel, Third Baseman Hoff-
1neister. Shortstop Raymer and Out
fielder Millet.
A New York paper is booming Tom
Lynch for the new umpire Inspector
ship, while a Boston paper is doing the
same thing for John Morrill,.
Jake Stencil says his leg is entirely
healed. and that he will give Hamilton
and LANCE hard run for base-stealing
honors this year.
Catcher Maurice Powers of the Colo
nels has secured or made a new catch
er's mitt which differs from the ordin-
AIRY run of catchers' mitts in that it is
stuffed with feathers instead of felt or
hair,
Perry Werden. the veteran first base
man, will be back in the game this
year. His injured leg has mended COM
plete1y
The veteran outfielder, Campau, has
been released by Kansas City and
wants to be appointed an umpire
Bid McPhee recently celebrated his
4oth birthday and was frank enough
ITO own up to every year.
Hugh Jennings states that he will en-
ter the law course at Cornell next fall.
Bert Abbey is booked to coach the
university of Vermont team.
Pitcher Billy Rhines has signed with
SPittsburg. Catcher Bowerman is now
sthe only hold-out.
The Cincinnati players have elected
sMcPhee as team captain.
The Reading club has signed Second
fBaseman Peter Childs.
Walter Brodie and Ducky Holmes
bhave refused to sign Baltimore con-
tracts, owing to some grievances.
The washington team left on We'd
rnesday night by boat for Hampton
Va. Arlie Latham has been signed to
play first base.
A st. Louis dispatch says that the
new st. Louis club owner will either
sell to LOTUS and Comiskey or engage
tthe latter to run the club for the cred
dtors.
Bill Clark has signed with Pittsburg
temporary organization of the long
talked of Indiana league was effected
March IL. On that date representatives
from Wabash, Marion, Ellwood and
Anderson met at Anderson and organ
dzed. Applications for membership were
also received from Kokomo, Muncie,
Pichmond, Logansport, Huntingdon
and Terra Haute.
The new Southern league was formal
ny organized at meeting held in Mo-
bile, Ala, on the Sth inst.
Baseball has been dropped from the
9ist of sports over which the Amateur
Athletic union has jurisdiction. This
departure Is officially announced in the
handbook of the Organizat ton just pub
1ished. In giving the list of sports
claimed by the union, baseball is
omitted and three others inserted in
etead.
The late Billy McGunnigle, who alter
Scott'e Fr,,u1ciop &C o.