The Saint Paul globe., 1899-04-23
GOSSIP OF THE DIAMOND.

Chris Won der Abe has opened a saloon
in st. Louis. :. sIeN
Indianapolis now talks of buying Pick
ering's release from Buffalo.
The veteran George Shoch has put his
name to a Milwaukee contract.
cleVelands We @ the LEFT overs
Minneapolis is said to have hays faor great eat
young pitcher her in, Cox x, G,td obtained from the
Babb the third baseman discovered
somewhere in the wild West is making
a very favorable impression on the man
ager and patrons Of indianapolis by his
fast work
Fisher is getting into good condition.
He still says he is not going to st. Paul.
but there is not another team he can
play with.
Manager Wilmot has twenty-six men
from whom he can pick team. He says
he will have the hardest-hitting aggre-
cation in the league.
Warren Beckwith, who in 1897 eloped
with the daughter of Robert I. Lincoln,
is playing center field for Sacramento in
the California league.
Jimmie Bannon. he of the great chest
and head expansion, will play with To-
ronto this season, and there will not be
a single tear shed in Kansas City.
Stafford, of Milwaukee has a new
glove with which he scoops the ball off
the ground in great shape. 1t is like a
shovel, and enables Stafford to make one
handed catches like George Carey.
The Western league season opens next
Thursday with Solqmnp}s n} mere, G ,sds BuTalo TAO
and Minneapolis at Milwaukee.
Bill Phillips record in the Western
league last season shows him to be moth
ing short Of remarkable s1 pitcher, cher Pnlli MI
of these he won twenty-nine, losing out
ten.
With the Indianapolis colony are John
nv White. who will play in Buffalo;
EiCbar who he Will not
play in st. Paul: Amos Rusie, who is
Saying nothing, but waiting for President
Freedman to act, and Rob Shaub, OF Lam
caster.
The indianapolis Sentinel quotes Pres
ident Colt of the Hoosiers. as saying
that he contended for five months sea-
SON while Milwaukee, Minneapolis and
St Paul wanted four and half months
schedule.
Mark Baldwin, the once famous league
pitcher, has received his diploma at the
ment Baldwin may take up dermatology
as a speciality and locate in Pittsburg,
He graduated with honors, and members
of the faculty predict brilliant career
for the ex-twirler.
President Colt will make no effort to
bring the Indianapolis players who are
holding out into line, He has written
and If they do not care to sign their con-
tracts and report, he says there are
others" who would be glad to play with
IH6 luOldHdpOllS CluO.
Connie Mack Is delighted with Pitcher
Lehr, Of the Michigan team. Early in
the season Mack claimed the college
boy, and since that time he has been
anxious to size the young fellow up Lehr
Is a big strapping fellow, and has the
reputation of being one Of the best am
ateur players in the country.
Tom Lotus Columbus team has a de-
cided St. Louis smack to it this season.
George Tebeau, a brother of Patsy, will
be on first base; ''Looie'' Bierbauer, very
probably, on second; Rusty Hall at
short, Dick Buckley behind the bat,
George Gilpatrick on the rubber, Frank
Genins and Charley Frank in outfield po-
sitions.
The Detroit Free Press says it is unfor-
tunate that Brushism should be intro
duced In the Western league, and censures
the Indianapolis club for signing Picker
ing, at the same time commencing the
honorable conduct of Connie Mack in re-
plying to Pickering that If he secured
his release from the Buffalo club that he
would be glad to sign him.