The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-06
BASE BALL BRIEFS.

Bill Dahlen says he is tickled to death over
the prospect Of again holding down the third
bag.
Charley Comiskey expects to win next
! sons Western league pennant with his
! strengthened st. Paul team
Tommy Corcoran is one more Red who joins
in the Hawley- Breitenstein balk on the tenn
perance clause in the Cincinnati club con-
tracts
Cincinnati fans are beginning to speculate
! on whether or not the strengthened Reds Will
quit in the stretch again this year.
Mike Grady, the New York catcher, says
! that he would refuse to sign with the Giants
| for this season. the management had cut
! his salary $500.
| the footsteps of Jim Mcdonald and Tim
| Hurst, ard has developed into a pugilistic
referee whose services are in demand in and
around Cincinnati He will be referee of a
| contest at Springfield, o., at an early date.
Jack Crooks, the well known St. Paul bal
player, who played with Columbus laat sea-
son, is travelling fer a cigar firm and is now
in the far West. He says he is through with
] base ball.
The first game of base ball ever seen in
Cuba was Played the other day under the
| auspices of the Santiago Athletic association.
| The CubaEn are taking great interest in
! American sports.
Frank De Haas Robson, of Cleveland is
! out in an interview in which he says he will
| not bid for the st. Louis franchise and never
| intended to do so. He says the Indians will
! remain in Cleveland.
The New Castle Interstate league base ball
i club is still after Boston for that $500 that
! has not been paid by the latter club for the
release OF Hickman. The latter released
for $1,000. and only $1,000 has been paid
| President Powers, OF the Eastern base ball
/ league has announced that McHale Clymer,
! Bean and Morse. of the Ottawa club have
been purchased by the Rochester club, and
! that Hartford has secured the remainder OF
| the team.
Three of the Boston players are coaching
college teams in New England for the ap-
preaching season. Capt. Duffy is handling
the Boston college team. Lewis is doing like
wise for the Harvard nine, while Nichols is
teaching the Dartmouth students the game.
The schedule adopted by the league will not
be made public until after the sale of the
st. Louis club. The magnates merely select
ed the schedule which they preferred from
the three submitted by Messrs. Young and
Whitehead and its formal adoption was de-
layed until March Il.
The indications are that the Western
league schedule meeting slated for Miwau-
kee on Wednesday will be postponed until lat
er in the month. owing to the complications
| at st. Louis and the uncertainty regarding
the eighth city in the Western league circuit
George alias Doggy, Foghorn, Calliope
season in the ST. Paul outfeld. is reported
as having quit the game for good In his day
| Doggy was quite ball player. He managed
captained, caught, played first and right for
the St. Louis Browns. His work for Pitts
! burg was also of a high class He PLAYED a
couple of seasons for Minneapolis and drifted
| strong at the end.
In order to make the balk rule effective
ana TO heip umptreS determine whether the
rule has been violated new style Of pitchers
| DoX has been suggested. 1t is claimed that
| If two rubber strips similar to the one used
in the rear end of the pitchers box are
placed along the sides of the box, it will
be hard matter for pitcher to make
| balk without the umpire knowing it, because
It will be easy for the umpire to tell when
| the pitcher has stepped outside to make
q
! rom u Rourke, the manager of Tom Shar-
| key. Bob Armstrong and George Dixon, was
| prominently spoken of last summer as sue
cessor to Freedman as manager of the New
| Yorks. O'Rourke, who arrived here smiled
| when the question CT management of the New
| York team was preached. He did not saw
what he thought of such a place. He simply
remarked: They will have to do some
/ lively hustling in New York this season
| That fine team on the other end of the big
bridge is going to attract lot of attention"
! Manager Walter Wilmot, of the Minneapolis
| team, would like to have Big Chief thinner
to catch for the Mlers If he does not land
! Schriver.
Conservative base. ball men say that in or
{ der tc get rid Of Cleveland. Louisville, Bal
timore and Washington, s15O,OO0 would be re-
| CURED to be cut up into bonuses
Hanlon has admitted that McGraw. Robin
| son ana Clarke will not go to Brooklyn ac-
cordlng to an Eastern paper. but if there are
ohiy e tg or ten clubs in the league it is
Ed Hanlon's radical idea regarding the scor-
| ing of hits would make fielding averages an
nmIp.ossibiity, and practically wipe out the
neiding records Hanlon says every ball hit
on the ground or bound should be scored as
| hit, while the error column should be con-
fined solely to dropped flies or dropped thrown
pals. II the Hanlon idea became the law the
value of batting and fielding averages as a
criterion would be utterly destroyed.
Trainer Hollister, at Northwestern uniyer-
sity thinks he has discovered pitcher for
this seasons base ball team that will rival
any twirler the purple has had for many
years The man is l.. B. Lott a senior He
mas been practicing only a week. but has de-
veloped wonderful abilities as a twirler. Hol
| lister will begin at once to give Lott specaY
work at the gymnasium every afternoon, and
ne hopes by the beginning of the season 4.
| have him in the best of form