The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-24


for smallness in his management of
players until the st. Louis magnates
cut loose, and now they have the New
Yorker beaten so far that he is likely
to see the flag.
Nearly all sorts of abuses have been
heaped upon players, but it remained
for the owners of the old Cleveland
club to establish record for belittling
the men that make baseball.
There is no news about the story of
the latest outrage of the magnates. 1t
occurred away back in July, when the
season was young. Of-course every one
will remember that the old Cleveland
team was sent to st. Louis to win the
pennant for that city. The start the
team made was good, but after awhile
the transplanted players began to lose
games rather rapidly. Then it was
that somebody wrote letter to one of
the alleged owners OF the team and
stated therein that the club was losing
because OF the behavior, of the players
after hours"
This letter caused the most UNIQUE
move that has ever been made in base
ball.
instead of investigating the charge
the magnate in question went to a de-
tectlVe agency and employed enough
men to shadow each player, not even
neglecting Manager Tebeau, who owns
who employed the St. Louis vidocqs
For several days the players were sub
Jected to the indignity of being follow
ed from dawn to midnight and then to
dawn again, and in the meantime it is
said that as everything was not run
ming smoothly, they were requested not
to push their claims for salaries But
the detectives were all paid no doubt.
This state of affairs went on until
every man in the team learned of it.
Finally an indignation meeting was
held. There was much talk of resent
ment, and had the new league been
sufficiently far advanced to warrant a
revolt the St. Louis club would have
been without players.
1t was finally decided that the best
way to break up the shadowing was
to break up the shadowers. This was
done most effectually on the night of
July Q
The players We're about to start for
Chicago, and they learned that their
shadowers We're to follow them. The
management cared nothing for ex-
penses.
On the date mentioned, however,
there was a little mix-up that the lie
tectives and management did not an
ticioate.
The detectives were employed to fol-
lowe the men; so when tow of them,
namely Harry Blake and John Powell
two very husky lads, by the way
left their hotel they were followed.
Now, it CHANGED that the following
process required a walk into a dark
and unfrequented neighborhood. The
detectives followed, but they soon
wished that they hadn't. After Powell
and Blake got through with them
they had Just strength enough to carry
a message to the rest of their clan, and
that message was to the effect that it,
would not be safe to shadow ball play
ers. The detective agency threw up it's
contract Immediately after this little
incident.
Tim Murnane says in the Boston
Globe: When grand team like the
present champions meet setback the
fans are apt to criticise too severely
the best men of the team. The very
men who were most responsible for
the grand results of the past seasons.
Admitted that players grow slow with
age. yet a first-class ball player who
takes good care of his condition and
has a love for the game will be of far
more value to a team, even after losing
some of his steam. than brainless
youngsters who flare up when away
from home at the howl of a bunch of
rooters. The Brooklyn club this season
is the best evidence in the world that
seasoned players are the best. Han
lon has a string of tried players in
Farrell. Mcguire, Kennedy. McJames,
Jennings, Dahlen, Casey, DAILY, Kelley
and Keller. Casey, who may be looked
upon as a youngster, was a rafting
good professional player 10 years ago"
Pitcher Ed Scott, who Is slated for
Cincinnati next season, is one of the
nerviest players that ever wore a uni
form. After the disastrous first inning
he told the men on the bench the Millers
would be lucky to get another run.
ANY time you fellows make five runs,
l will see that the other team don't
head you" he said, and he was true to
his word. Minneapolis quit with four,
and the Indianapolis team had six runs |
to their credit at the close of the game. |
Scott is also willing to go in every day |
if necessary, and always says he is |
fit to pitch. whether he is or not-In- |
dianapolis News.
Tim Donohue and Clarke Griffith were |
discussing the Philippines issue at the |
Arlington hotel at the last trip of the
Orphans to Washington. and here's an
extract from the argument: Griffith: |
II tell you, Tim, that the administra-
ton is right and ] am with it," Don
ohue: BE domed if OF can see it.
Dewey whips the Spaniards in Manila.
didn't he? just the same as Jim Jeffries
whipped Fitzsimmons at Coney Island.
But Jeffries didn't claim that he owned
Coney Island because he won a fight
there" Anti-expansionists may in
this argument of Tins into
their campaign literature. Washinston
Post.
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