The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-20

Will have another veteran pitcher with
whom it will be possible to make an
unusually strong finish in the cham
pionship struggle. With Meekin and
Nichols to alternate in the closing
games, Boston's pennant chances, al
ways good, have been strengthened
materially. With Boston's chances in
creased it means a proportionately
poorer chance for Brooklyn. Freed
man is known to bear no good will to-
ward the owners of the Brooklyn club,
and some of the followers of the game
in Brooklyn will ascribe the action to
deliberate effort on the part of Freed
man to deprive Brooklyn of whatever
chance it might have had to capture
the pennant. The receipts from Brook
lyn enthusiasts at the Polo grounds
hereafter are likely to be meager, in
deed. f.
Meekn is, of course, happy at the
chance to play elsewhere. Like Rusie
and other good players under reserva-
ton to the New York club, he would
| rather play in some other city, even
| at a smaller salary. Freedman's al
legged threat to kill baseball in New
York seems in fair way of being
| realized.
| If nothing happens to prevent, James
| j. Coogan will control the New York
| baseball team next year, and the Polo
busy all the time with various sports
that New Workers. won't recognize the
| spot, says the New York Journal.
A good many things, to be sure,
| might happen to prevent Mr.. Coogans
! scheme from becoming reality. For in
| stance, Andrew Freedman. He is
| good friend as well as a political asSo-
! ciate Of the president of the borough of
| Manhattan. If he wishes to get out of
| the baseball business he would sell as
| readily to Mr.. Coogan as to the next
| man. Mr.. Coogan is in the position of
a man who wants to buy but whom
| considerations of personal friendship
| have made chary, hitherto, of sounding
! Mr.. Freedman on the subject
| Mr.. Coogan owns both the Polo
| grounds and the Manhattan field adj
| joining. If he can get back the lease
held by Mr. Freedman, as well as the
baseball franchise, he will undertake
| to reform the national game in Man
haitian and restore it to it's old popular
| ity. He has some pronounced ideas on
| this subject not altogether in harmony
I with the present managements policy.
| The baseball deal is only part of a
| comprehensive scheme of sports exist
| ing so far, only in the mind of Coogan,
| although his man of business, w. w.
| Alden, says the capital necessary to
carry it out is within reach at any min
| ute.
The idea consists in the organization
of club of 200 members, who are to
subscribe 5000 year each. Membership
entities one to admission to perennial
round of sports to be inaugrated by the
| club There will be club house for
| members in Manhattan field.
In this place will be barns and paVil-
| ions for a first-Class county fair, in
| which the farmers of Washington
| Heights and the Bronx can exhibit
|
| stock, and where the dealers in things
metropolitan farmers might like to buy
| can show their wares.
| An open air horse show, lasting a
| week each year, is another of the club
features. Such shows are popular else
where, and Mr.. Coogan believes that it
would be a big success at Manhattan
field.
| There is room up there for good
half mile track. This suggests an au-
! tomobile club meet, or several If de-
| sirable, each season, as well as other
races. The football and other games
! would go on as usual
The control and management of this
united park of sports. it is proposed; !
shall vest in a corporation to be called
the New York Outing company.
If any one imagines that the Cleve-
land baseball public is weeping great
/
alleged Cleveland baseball club has be-
| come wanderers for good and all, let
| that notion be dispelled at once. There
| is no weeping. In fact, the baseball
| public here has long since ceased to
think of the team of insists which was
anchored in this port temporarily as a
| home team. 1t is true that some of the
fans for while devoted themselves as
siduously to learning to distinguish the
! new faces on the team, but the aspect
of the organization has been so thor
oughly changed so many times that it
! would have been hard to keep track of
| it had it remained at Cleveland. While
it has been changing, the people have
| forgotten all about baseball as con-
nected with the eX-Browns. and the
public hopes that it will not be COM
PEELED to relearn the tedious lesson of
recognizing the baseball faces of
Quinn's Wandering Willies.-Cleveland
I Leader.
The grave of William A. Hubert in
! Graceland cemetery, says Chicago
! paper, is perhaps the only one in the
F:word which is marked with tomb
stone in the shape of baseball. Mr..
! Hubert was the president of the Old
| National league, and when he died in
| 1882 some of his old associates set about
| to show their love and respect for him,
and the result was the monument in
| Graceland. The baseball is made of
red granite. about 20 inches in diane
ter, showing the seams as they appear
upon one of the balls used in regulation
| games Across the top appears in raised
| letters: wv. A. Hubert, President Ma
tional League, T. BIC, 1876, 1882" On
one side appears the names of four
| clubs in the old league-Boston, ProVi-
! dence, Worcester and Troy-and on the
| other those of the other four-Chicago,
| Cleveland, Buffalo and Detroit. Also
| there is a headstone of white marble,
| upon which appears the name, together
with the date of BIRTH Oct. 90. 1882, and
| the date of death, April 10, 1882
! Big Bill" Lange has satisfied the
| management of the Chicago baseball
| team that he is not soldering" and
| according to the statement of a player
| who is close to the center fielder his
| name will not be cut off the salary
| list while he is resting with Clark Crit
| fifth at West Baden. The same player
| intimated that Lange's difficulties with
| the management were not settled so