The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-22

thinks tnat l9UU Will De gOOu year "
launch a new club in Chicago. The
present club and management is in
decidedly bad odor. Arson thinks he
is more popular and has a larger fol-
lowing than the Chicago league ball
club.
Arson gave out the important in
formation that the new league intend
ed to respect all contracts. I'VE will
not attempt to sign man that is
under contract" he said. 1--WE will,
however, secure the very best players
we can get and will wait until the
National league issues its schedule
and then we will make ours so that
it will not conflict. The league may
talk about fighting us, but I will bet
that we will hardly get a start be-
fore they will be glad to recognize
us. I am willing to risk the popular
ity of my club against the Chicago
club at all times. l know this. The
Chicago club has asked certain of
it's players to sign for next season.
These players have refused to- I
don't know why they have refused,
but 1 might make a good guess. Chi
cago. st. Louis, Milwaukee and De-
troit are ready for the word. All we
want is four good cities in the East.
Philadelphia is already in line. We
expect to interest capital in Boston
and New York AS soon as we get
more or Washington for the asking I
feel confident that the new league will
be a success from the start
Big Bill LAnge, according to Chi
cago advices, will captain Anson's new
team. 1t is also stated that Kittridge
and Thornton will form one of An
sons new batteries.
1t is rumored in major league cir
cles that the alliance heretofore ex-
listing between John T. Brush. James
A. Hart and Frank De Hass Robinson
has been severed; that Brush has cut
loose from his old comrades and en-
tered into a new deal with Andrew
Freedman of New York Mr.. Brush
is quoted as saying that Hart has been
failure in Chicago, while Robinson
has not come up to expectations in St.
Louis. Brush is anxious to retain his
hold as dictator of the baseball world.
His alliance with Hart and Robson in
the West has proved failure. and now
he is looking for material in the East
to compass his ends. Brush and
Freedman have not been good friends in
the past. Freedman, who has about
wrecked the game in New York con-
trolls the Fairgrounds and Manhattan
field, two of the most desirable grounds
Freedman is located in the most i'm
portant city in the circuit. 1t would
not do to drop New York from the ros-
ter, although for years the league
worried along Wthous q team in the
metropolis of the new world. Soden of
Boston and other eastern magnates are
hand and glove with the willy New
Yorker, and combination of their in
terests with Brush in the West could
not but prove of advantage to the lat
ter.
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The story comes from New York
that at the coming meeting Of the Ma
tional league. Nicholas E. Young, who
ever since one can remember, has act
ed as president of the major baseball
organization of the country, will be
deposed and succeeded by a younger
man, possibly somebody from the
West It is limited in underground cir
cles that the position may be offered
to B. B. Johnson, who since its in
ception has officiated as the head OF
the prosperous and successful Western
league. At all events, Uncle Nick is
due to have his official head hacked off.
Freedman has fought Young tooth and
nail and declared that the old chap was
incompetent to run the league. He
particularly found fault with Young's
selection of umpires and his rather
slack management of these officials. 1t
is said that Brush, Freedman and So
den have put their heads together and
decided to force Young into obscurity.
Jack Glasscock has been in the ma
tional game not far from 90 years. His
father was ship carpenter who lived
on Wheeling island in the Ohio river
opposite Wheeling, and Jack followed
the same trade when not playing base
ball. He started out as a baseball
player as a member of" the Standard
Baseball club of Wheeling, composed
of men who lived In Wheeling. w. Va,
and Bridgeport, O., just across the
river. The Standards were one of tn"
fastest amateur or senli-professional
clubs in the country and their chief
rival back in the very early sos were
the Neshannocks of Newcastle, Pa.
Curt WEIGH, the celebrated center field
er, graduated from the same club sew
down with the Crockery Citys from
East Liverpool to play the standards
at Wheeling and the management took
a shine to him and got him a job as
bartender in Charlie Millers saloon in
Bridgeport, so he could play with the
Standards. 1t was Glasscock who took
Joe Miller and Sam Moffett out of the
Standards and brought them to To-
ledo in 1884. Sam Barkley graduated
from the same club and Jesse Burkett,
now of ST. Louis. watched Glasscock,
Barkley, Miller. Moffett, George Lane
and other old timers play IN the
Standards at the fair grounds on
wheeling island when Burkett was a
small boy playing hooky from school.
Barley runs a saloon in ~--icago.
WEIGH is dead, and Moffett, Miller and
other players who came on the scene
after Glasscock had Joined the profess
SIGNALS have been so long out of the
business that they have been almost
forgotten. But old Jack is still on the
turf pounding the pigskin.-Toledo Bee.
Comparing Freeman with the long
p hitters who had their heydey in the
SOS recalls te batting achievements OF
Tip O'Neill. Pete Browning, Dan
Brouthers and Dave Orr. Orr may
have spanned as much space in MS
long drives as Freeman, but Davey's
lengthy shots were less frequent than
Bucky's. Earl Wagner says that the
longest drive within his memory was
made by Orr, who in a game ON the
wagner Brotherhood grounds in Phil
adeiphia, between Brooklyn and Phila-
QeiDhla Brotherhood taa eplli1n1