The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-16
BASE BALL BRIEFS.


b, Grand and Rapids is better than Columbus
49, otlIl the attendance is not what Loft
tus expected. He needs !. 900 peon1e a DIV
10 break even. q 0"I
rd BIZ Lange was fired out of the game in
taxeS IN o1 R lor asking Lynch if he paid
v1ox has made favorable impression
IS very weak. ~ N@''inS
There viii be a big hole left in tho
western league teams after the Close of
the drafting season this rail-. Alreadv a
nan oozen players have been sold. and
j SDittS ioI Natlohal league clubs are "siz-
country. Vi "l III the
Jimmy Bannon, the former Boston DIav-
er, - ie S! the Eastern league in batting
an average of 1852.
But two pitchers have ACCOMPLISHED fbe
U Iej4H Oh shutting out an opposing club
WHOM hit this season. On May Is
Iflck on New York and recently VII
us performed the same job on Washing
s Scientific = batting is fast pushing the
Burkett. McGraw. Kelley and Beaumont
are batsmen of the progressive order
Mh0 Try to to- place the ball and hit at the
pal IN dlnerent ways, thereby keaninrr
the pitchers and feeders on the guess
Boston Globe.
Loote' Bierbauer may make a Tom
Daly return to the big league next sea-
son He is. according to Harry Pullman.
putting up the best game OF ali the West
ern league second baSemen Ii there are
two leagues in the field next year Bier
Dauer should have little trouble in get
Ilng an engagement with one of them
St Louis Paper.
Grady becomes a better third baseman
every day. Mikes speciality is his gauge
Of nigh bounder, and he isn't very
OSHKOSH on straight liner either Grady
IS 49st trlfie deliberate in gathering for
a nlng' but he makes up a lot of il 9
ms accuracy and speed in getting the
pail over. There are lots of worse la
borers working at third for bread and
cheese and glory.-New York World
The team which Tebeau touted SO
persstentIy as pennant winner until
fortnight ago is at this writing leading
the second division. Such a showing IS
not no satisfactory to St. Louisans or cred
sporting News. The team should do
as well as that without a manager.
, LeDeau began the season wrong. lie
used poor judgment in not starting the
race with Cross on third and giving
DoWd the preference over Stencil
t HuSShey. who was turned down for Sud
non, is by far the better pitcher Nc.
Kean was carried long after it was
patent to every one except Tebeau that
the once great shortstop and batter was
handicap to the team. The followers
or the game in st. Louis have not lost
confidence in Tebeaus ability to MANAGE
club. but even his greatest admirers
reputation this year"
Manager Connie Mack, Of the Mil
Waukee club, announces that he will
FOLLOW the example set by Manager Man
ming, Of the Kansas City team and en-
gage almost an entire new nine for next
season; in fact, he will have some of
the new players with the team before
that he will retire from the game for
good at the end of this season 10 60 into
business with Umpire Joe Cantillon. They
viii start a poultry commission business
at Cudahy, Wis. Mack says he will have
two good catchers to take the place of
Speer. He will have plenty Of pitchers.
having Mcdonald and Vollend0rf from
the Connecticut state league, and Pitcher
Adkins, of Beloit college, who will Join
him next year, besides Chech, Reidy
s R6 hEeV{ig 61 and 9d s s aP5 tea bs
traded for other players, and Weaver ex-
poets to retire. Nicol will be traded
ana Waldron will surely be sold to a
1t necessary to have three new men for
the outer garden. This will make ten
new men for the Milwaukee club in all.
and Mack says that if they do not show
up strong he will not wait long before
getting new material.
Minneapolis cranks are praying for In
dianapolis to fall down on this trip, fer
they know that if the team can do fair
job at holding its own, there will be no
chance for them. That final series Of
home games will make any rival of In
Gonding, the new Kansas City catcher
came near to being a HOosier two years
ago. He was then with New Orleans He
is said to have improved since that time
and Is fully up to Western league stand
ard
The number of Franklin's players for
the season is now up to thirty-nine. He
has laid off Hall, and Cockman, from the
Atlantic league, Is playing short for the
BunaloS. McKfbben is in left as a result
Of the three ,muffs made by White on
Tuesday. OF the original team there re-
main only Third BaSeman Greminger
Center Filder Garry and Pitcher Gray.
Harry Vaughns first base play for the
st. Paul team Is quite q revelation to the
Western league patrons Evidently no
Western league first baseman will break
Cincinnati Tfmes-Star. Not a revelation,
either, for St. Paul has seen Motz play
the first bag. There's 3. man better than
half your big league first basemen.-In-
dianapolis Sun. * '-za
Frank Quinn, a Grand Rapids boy,
whom Torreyson rejected at the opening
Of the season, but who was accepted by
Manager Lovingly of Mansfield. for sec
ond baseman, where he has made re-
markable record among the second base
men OF the Interstate league, has been
sold to Chicago. Quinn Joined Chicago in
Washington yesterday. Quinn has been
one of the best second basemen in the
Interstate league and has batted among
the leaders.-Grand Rapids Herald.
Magoon has made but one error since
joining the Chicago club, and that was on
the first ball dished up to him as a mem
Der of the Chicago ball club, by Schreck,
the st. Louis catcher. 1t was sizzling
those that looked as If it was coming up
in the air at every bound 1t went SQUARE
through the little shortstops walking
sticks and out to Sammy Mertes, who had
troubles Of his own running it down
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