The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-12

| astic over them. Hough was given tins
| on parties to see, and did considerable
quiet yet effective work Tom Nc
Carthy, the retired outfielder, who is
/ still on the reserve listsof the BROOKLYN
club, says he will attend the meeting in
| New York and do his best to make his
team from Boston a fixture. The last
time there was opposition to major
| league club in Boston there was
| the most vehement opposition on the
| part of the league triumvirate, and the
| newcomer did the business all the same.
The lovers of the game are aching for
new life, new blood and new methods.
| If Providence is given a franchise that
| city will be able to come near making
! good on the Boston series alone. De-
| velopments are watched with the great
| est.interest.
| The ball player who smokes cigar
| cites is fastening the days of his de-
cline as an athlete. The cigarette
smoker has weak heart, his wind is
| short and he lacks stamina. A cigar
or pipe is not harmful. A player of
promise, who graduated from a minor
| league team this season and soon
| dropped out of fast company, is an ex-
cessive smoker of cigarettes Managers
| should do all in their power to break
| their players of so injurious a habit
| Father Chadwick's suggestion that
our soldiers be supplied with baseballs
and bats and encouraged to play base
| ball, will probably be adopted by the
| authorities. The cost would be insignifi-
| cant and in no other way could the
| boys in blue find better or more healthy
/ exercise. The father of baseball is get
| ting along in years, but he is always
ready with progressive ideas and sug
| gestions for the advancement of our
national pastime;
| President Barney Dreyfus of the Lou
isville club admits that negotiations are
| Kerr Of the Pittsburg club. when l
4 was in Pittsburg last week. said Drey-
1 fus, "the matter came up between Mr..
Kerr and myself whether it would not
| be expedient for one of us to sell to the
other. We did not go into details, but
considered general proposition to buy
1 Or sell, no figures being named for
/ either team. I have not discussed the
question Of selling or buying with any
one else" Mr.. Dreyfus was asked if
he really wanted to sell the Colonies.
| He replied: Yes; our franchise ex-
| pires two years from now, and would
rather dispose Of the franchise and
team now than wait two years when
the present organization will have moth
! ing to SELL What figure do place up
| on the Louisville club? 1t should bring
$4,000, but don't believe l will be able
| to get more than half that sum for the
team" Mr.. Dreyfus then said he rea-
lized that the Pirates were much more
valuable as a baseball organization
than the Colonels. and he could not
hope to buy them for the price at which
| he would sell the Bourbonites. He ad-
nitted, however, that he may be ready
to buy or sell If satisfactory terms could
be reached He said the Colonies would
be in the big league again next year.
Mr.. Dreyfus said he proposed to go
1 n fayy a nj he
probably stop off at Pittsburg to see
Mr.. Kerr. THE whole matter will be
settled within a week" the Louisville
magnate declared:
1t will not be long before the mag
mates will ask for suggestions in re-
gard to changes in the playing rules of
the coming season. While many efforts
| have been made from year to year to
simplify the rules by changing them SO
as to allow of no misunderstanding rs
| to their scope or value, there still re-
| mains much missionary work to be
done in this direction before the rules
| are perfectly clear on every point.
| There is one rule in force now, which,
| interpreted according to the way in
| which it is written, saves many an er-
ror for catchers. first basemen and
third basemen. The rule describes an
| error as misplay which allows a
striker or a base-runner to make one
more base when perfect play would
| have insured his being put out. Now,
i it happens frequently that a batsman
will hit up a foul fly that a fielder will
muff. While common sense will record
his play as an error for the reason that
| it allows the batter to have another try
at the ball. according to the rule it can
! not be recorded an error unless the
batsman reaches base on his second ilt-
tempt. Should another player retire
| the batsman who was given life by
| the fielder who muffed his foul fly, the
latter will be saved record in the err
that the magnates should change to
bring consistency to the rules as a
whole.-Cincinnati Times-star
| The average youngster who starts out
to play baseball for a living has hard
road to travel. 1t requires much con-
| fidence and more nerve for young
| fellow to leave home and play baseball,
writes J. Ed Grillo. If the nerve is
lacking the youngster is doomed,
though he may have the necessary
ability, and, on the other hand, he
may succeed with less ability if he mas
the required amount of nerve. Prob
ably no player ever started out on his
professional career under more dis
couraging circumstances than Norman
| Elberfeld, of the Reds. Norman was
playing ball with the Bond Hill team,
one of the best amateur organizations
in Cincinnati soon after he was out of
short. pants. Yves Elberfeld, his broth
er, manages that team. Norman dis
| played lots of nerve at the outset and
| soon became one of the regular play
ers on that team
One day Norman and his brother Yves
came down town. They stopped at
| Hawley's, the headquarters for ball
| players. A telegram had been received
| there that morning requesting that
second baseman be sent to Clarksvile,
| Tenn, at once. Yves Elberfield Was
told of the telegram and was trying to
| think of some youngsters who would
| fill the bill, when Norman spoke up:
| why, / can take that job Who?
You never played second base in your
life" was his brothers reply. That
don't make any difference: I'll go and
| try it." Norman was then but II years
old. and his brother refused to give his
| consent. This, however, did not inter
| fere with Norman's determination. He
secured the telegram, and borrowing a
| grip an undershirt and glove, started
| for the depot and was soon on his way
| to accept his professional engagement.