The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-08
The W@rld of Sp0ft@o

President Ban Johnson of the West
ern league hasn't a very high opinion
regarding the new baseball league.
They will have to give more evil
dence of their stability before 1 be
lieye 1T will amount to anything" said
he. 1T is made up of men who either
have a. grievance against the National
league or of men with no financial or
executive ability
Mr.. Johnson says that it is possible
that the Western league will have a
team in Chicago next season. will it
be the Grand Rapids franchise" he
was asked
l don't know what team it will be.
Grand Rapids supported her team as
WE'LL almost. as any city in the league,
and I am sure that had LOTUS been
there from the start he would have
poorest city in the league. though I'm
not ready to say what club, if any,
will come to Chicago. The city can
well support both National and West
ern league club
II would like to pay tribute to the
successful management of Robinson
and McGraw," said Ned Hanlon in
: Baltimore the other day. They have
certainly produced wonderful results,
and l am the first to appreciate the
difficulties through which they have
r.
There is, however, prevalent one false
idea. AS manager McGraw has not
been hampered in any way, and we
have repeatedly told him to go ahead
and negotiate trades and deals as he
should see fit. We have authorized him
to spend money within his discretion,
and have never restricted him. If he
has gone through the season without
spending much purchase money it is
simply because he thought it wise One
case in particular was that of Ather-
ton. He cost Washington 81 900. and
1--WE had authorized McGraw to buy him,
but Mac thought the price too great,
and he gagged the man just right, as
afterward developed
For several years Fred Tenney of
the Bostons has had the reputation Of
being the greatest first baseman the
game has ever known. According to
report his premiership is at an end now
and the honor has developed upon
Hugh Jennings. who is playing first
base for the Brooklyn team. Earlier
in the season Jennings was tried at
first by Hanlon, but at that time his
arm still was bothering him, and the
showing he made was not entirely sat
isfactory Now. however, there is
enough strength in the wing" to allow
him to make as many quick throws as
are necessary for a trStbaSeman to
make, and since his return to the guar
dianship of the bag his work has been a
revelation Umpire Frank DWyer. who
saw Tenny and Jennings pirted against
each other in the same game. says that
Tenny is no longer king. Jennings
has Tenny outpointed at all stages of
the game said Dwyer to Charlie Zu-
Der He has all the tricks and speed
that Tenney ever had and he is daily
springing new ones. He is as fast as
the wind and the fact that he has base
ball intelligence easily allows him to
make all other first basemen look as If
they really knew nothing about play
ing the position" From Dryers eu-
logium of Jennings ii would seem that
the Philadelphia club made big mis-
fake when it refused to give $4,000 for
him.
Rumor in New York baseball circles
has thrust the millionaire Fleischmann
brothers into the market as prospective
bideTs for the entire stock of the New