The St. Louis Republic., 1900-11-20
GOSSIP OF THE RAsEBALL PLAYEKs.
Joe Quinn Has a Very Busy Winter
Hefdrfck May Not Play In st. Louis.

Joe Quinn Has very BUSY Ni"'e
Heidrick May Not Play In st. Louis.
ball player. is having his usual busy winter;
| Unlike the men OF his ilk. joseph makes
| more money in winter than IN snH,mSr: s,I,pI
When the days OF bleak north and sunny
| south come along in devastating and bewii-
| dering alienation. as they have such ,,, a
of Mason and Dixon. then It Is that Under.
| taker Joe reaps his grim harvest. Eor II
is then that the bony CLAWS Of King DEAN ,I
marked ones, and Claypole Quinn gives
them swell and decent burial. 1t being a
take taxes u your Toe chace. ps It is Big business
| quinn is building up. for he is decent
fellow. with tremendous acauainta,nss i. s,nse
| among the people sober and a first-ciass
| man in his dismal but not unproiitaDe line.
Handsome Jimmie Burke. the North st:
Louis laddie whose red-rose coinplexion anj
| bonnie blue eyes have heen the envy OF
many a dame of grandeur. has taken 70 e,
the ball players Milky Way: His lips have
never known the swill- barrel taste OF Gam
tine, ever stalled his stomach or, or gangsrsa gg,s.,
| his batting eye. a rafting third baseman
is Burke. a pupil of one John OConnor.
| along. above. below and between the lines.
He hits them well. for his league president
always figures him among the sacred circle
of the 500 inns one fault is that he is
| not & ieft-handed hitter. nor is he as fast
to first base as man or two you might
| mention.
There is In St. Louis. beyond the western
son o Simeon siIae The ancient
| and honorable name of Cohen, who is. they
aver. pitcher from the we'll. Cohen sngs
sizzling southern slant that zass and zigs.
ztps and jigs across a shuddering plate
much like the vagrant fire flashes that emit
from the end of a broken and vigorous troi.
| George Tebeeu last season under the name
| of McSomething, and did wondrous things
IN that cb for IF bs 1t matters Sss not hot
! comes, nor what mis- family name was when
| his forbears dwelt by the side of the Spree.
ber sp ''S or the - shores e Of the Seine When the
| Young American goes into baseball or pugii-
ism he must grab the ''o,' or appropriate
. land of the free and the home of the brave
Some of the best ball players and boxers
ever, known TO the sports were born born with in
new Jerusalem, or die Wacht am Rhine
| Yet they all We're gay masaueraders under
| the borrowed titles of McHeoligan. OGinty,
! MacMurphy or some such Bosphcrian title.
Fred Buelow is wintering in Detroit town.
| where the supply of saowballs Is already in.
| The crop this season Is said to be fine and
| fat. once you get the. feathers of. Freddie
na bFaw E eas LAST sd sep aa .q
| he burnt the carbon at both ends and in
the middle. and brought upon himself many
a heavy fine for his violation, Of club rule
and discipline. a nice boy and good boy.
but very foolish boy indeed.
Jesse Burke,t. whose keen and Grabbed
| eye has made him the bette noir Of League
| pitchers for almost decade. Is curbing his
Worcester. Mass Unlike his craft, Jesse
! does not pose as fisherman nor hunter
! hold. He is bon vivant in cozy old win
| companions and a delightfully."- easy time.
| a sad crank IS Mr.. Crab. but square lad;
y,,c, intrn md defend
what he thought was right.
Blond William sudhofs, the marionette
! twirler with the saffron thatch and Fritz
danes this winter William is dGwntom5 lfsya own
cavalier to young Mrs. sudhoff. whom he
stole away and married last spring.
Eddie Pabst. the St. Louis player. is MAX
ing quite an al-round hit as first baseman.
captain and manage. Of the San francisco
| team in the California League. Pabst is q
young of excellent parts and some
| breeding and finish.
| Ball players of 1901 will find that the
salary day does not bring the heft Of gol!d
or thickness OF green paper II once Old.
sagely remarked Orator Schaefer one OF
the accredited accoucheurs who assisted at
the birth of the still-born American Associ-
alton: A. ,,o.o,, 49,, .n,o-,c,n
leagues les working hand in glove. the chance
Of the hired man to get rich seems any
1
League fellows are shrewd and clever lot.
but they are ball players. You know what
that means. They are tonsors Of dollars dollars
me- ask any of the men who played for
them in the past. A magnate who was once
checks and retailer Of stories about how he
once worked for $50 per month and played
the best ball Of his life. He never says
he afterwards got. Then you know our
great and good friends Of the National
were ball players. bar one. but they do not
believe in paying any more than they can.
always barring F. De Hass Robson. who
has as pad peyers KG tbe snar
what chance has my friend the ball player;
It is said that the r!I American League ss VIII
mates of tho American l., League are com. m.
parativeiy poor men. The club owners OF
the National League are ssers one and all mil
s25,ooS. What would $4,000 be in a baseball
Tar No vii not sha any one oa
thing 5s except the bali players salary. I
know Mr. johnson made a big bluff when he
Gently about fighting the National League,
saying that he had asked no ones permis-
} sion about placing clubs in Philadelphia;
, Baltimore and Washington. That is all
} l,ovine assurance. It is meant for advertis-
ing. nothing else. will give the American
Leaguers credit for being wonderful auto
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! your life"
BE It Magnate Becker OF Mogul Robson
| that comes to shape up the st. Louis bri-
gade for 1901. he will haNe a contract on
his hands tougher than that Of phiippine
yesterday. For It is many a large and
copious hole there will need filling in that
over-paid. over-fed, over-liquored under
: worked gang Of diamond stars that blew
/ the town with the bluster Of October. There
,, may and there may not be. John McGraw
it, for as long as Mack and Robbie have
: their hearts in the red clay of Baltimore
diamonds It is Just as we'll that they should
not come to ST Louis But there is Held
rick. DO you think there Is chance on
earth for ]. Emmett to come back? Never
| in thousand years.
'Mr. Robson accused Heidrick of shirk-
Ing work and malingering. Now. with this
and that player such an accusation migh hit
not hurt. But J. Emmet is a man of pro-
| dig!ous amour propre. He Is a man who
has Il great deal Of respect for James EN-
NETT Heidrick Mr.. Robson chose to charge
; that tieidrick acted IN manner not eX-
actly honorable. Heidrick is fellow with
nicish ideas of what honor Is He is man
who can be insulted. He thinks pretty well
of himself. In fact. may say that the es-
te"m In which Damon held Pythias the
veneration which Boswell held Johnson the
regard George Munson has for Jere Hunt
were and are, one and all, but pale and
| poor limitations of friendship compared with
5 the rare and exalted article OF admiration
T ; which exists between Emmett Heidrick and
n | himself.
o Now. Heidrick is not going to play in ST.
. Louis next season. You can 90 out and bet
[ hole large enough 10 give an exhibition Of
= fOur-in- hand driving In. Then there is NOR.