The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-12
BASE BALL BRIEFS.

Base ball has taken quite hold in
Mexico. Although the game has not
passed the amateur stage teams think
nothing Of travelling 700 miles-Monterey
to Mexico City-to play a series of three
games.
Tebeau is not the best first baseman in
the world, and his averages will not do to
PRINT IN big black type, but he has a
thinking average of over $685. and is to-
DAY the most valuable field captain in the
league.-Grand Rapids Press.
1t is estimated that the New York club
Will drop at least $4,000 on the season
The salary list, incidental expenses and
rent of the broad meadow under the lea
of COogan'S bluff make the Freedman
plant the cOstlieSt in the league.
Pitcher Keenan,, who refused to accent
the terms offered him by Manager Irwin
IS now the champion slow-ball artist of
the Eastern league and may be drafted
by Washington from the Eastern at the
close of the season.
Scientific batting is fast pushing the
Sluggers to the rear. Tenney. Keller,
Burkett, McGraW Kelley and ReaumOnt
are batsmen of the progressive order who
try to place the ball and hit at the ball
In different ways, thereby keeping the
pitchers and tielders on the guess.-Bos-
ton Globe.
Ed Hanlon, in discussing Tebeau's re-
many of US old fellows-that the young
fellows are to the front now. He's right
in a way, but [ have watched the Cleve-
land club for years, and whenever he
leaves the diamond the club goes back
Fat may not be able to play great ball
day in and out, but in the long run his
presence Is a tower of strength to the
team"
Right Fielder Waldron. of the Milwau-
kee club, is in big demand this summer
by National league clubs, three of which
have made flattering offers for his serV-
ices for 1900, but up to date Manager
Mack says he has not been disposed Of
though he asserts that three National
leaguers are actively bidding for his
services. Manager Mack positively de-
clined to name the trio of magnates, and
the market for the Brewers speedy outer
gardener, he said he was not at liberty
to respond.
The Breoklyns have taken a slump in
to strengthen this department Dahlen.
Jones and Anderson are away below
their form of last year. Kelley, too, has
not been hitting up to expectations
Manager George Stallings, of Detroit
mas, out OF pure gratitude, tipped Boston
off to the best Western league young
sters. The gratitude arose from the fact
that Selee was the only league manager
who had kind words for Stallings when
he tried his hand at Philadelphia as a
league manager.
Billy Danman has been released by the
indianapolis club. President Colt found
hls, pitching staff too large, and the men
were not getting enough work to keep
| them at their best. Damman pitched fair
| NOT
up to his standard of two years ago and
! he seemed to have harder luck fr tha
| box. than the other men. He still belongs
| to Cincinnati, but may be sold to Louis
| ville-Indianapolis News.
Dissipation depreciates the value Of a
| ball player and shortens his career Had
| Tom DAILY taken as good care of himself
! as he is now doing he would not have had
| to play National league ball for minor
| league salary for several seasons and ex-
cept in point Of time, this is equally true
| Of Louis Bierbauer, whose work for the
| columbus club has caused so much COM
| ment 1t is question of condition with
| these and many other players of natural
necessary to make players like Shortstop
| De Montreville, of Chicago; Pitcher
| Nops, of Baltimore; Pitcher Taylor, of
| Cincinnati, and others of that type real
| lie what a mistake they make in mixing
| booze and base ball-SpOrting News.
| Hanlons scheme in working his win
| ming pitchers as often as human endur-
| ance will stand for is, after all, a device
| that all managers Of winning teams have
| employed since Charley Comiskey called
| performances a week. Mcmahon, Hem
| ming, Hawke, Esper and Hoffer are
| among the twirlers who had reached the
| has been stake when Hanlon released or
| Of his own accord. Charley Comiskey
| had the reputation in the old association
| Of working more pitchers in a shorter
| space of time than any of the association
ruthers were sold by Won der Abe to
Brooklyn their palmy pitching days were
amount of pitching steam IN a mans
| arm, and the sooner it Is exhausted the
more winning games will the team bunch,
| and winning In punches is the thing, u
| was Comtskey's cold-blooded idea of ma
| mipulating pitohers.-Wa shington Post