Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-07
GOSSIP.

"Delehanty and Lajoie are much on
the same order at the bat" said Billy
Earle to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Il
was catching in Brooklyn one day and
1 watched Delehanty particularly. The
first time up he hit a ball two feet out
side the plate and mad a three Dagger.
The next time he stepped back and
cracked out a doubl off ONE of Bill Ken
nedy's in-shoots. When he came up the
third time l signaled Kennedy for a ball
about shoe-top high. One came up as
low as Bill could pitch it, and I guess it
went into the ocean. l know the ball
was never found. The fourth time the
big duffer came up I said:
del, you are not feeling we'll today.
are you?
Just fair, thank YOU said Delehan-
ty, with a grin.
why don't you wait for one over
the plate? I asked.
all nonsense, Bill said Del.
i can make longer ones Off wild pitches
while l was Ginning him l signal
ed for a high one, and the ball came so
high that | was afraid l cou:d not reach
it without jumping. I didn't have to
reach it. though, because Delehanty
soaked it. and I think it hit the top board
of the left field fence. 1t certainly was
a peach. After the game Kennedy said
to me:
Its no use to try to fool that u
The only way to do is to pitch the d-n
ball and trust to luck.
eff Delehanty has a weakness I could
never discover it, said George 1easer,
the catcher. w We're playing on the
Philadelphia grounds one day and the
Rostons We're one run ahead. Two men
on bases and Delehanty came up. l
ak out and told klobedantz to let
him walk. klobby pitched one about
two feet outside the plate and Del step
ped back and clouted it. l think the
ball landed in Paramount Park OF some
other remote corner of the Quaker village.
OF course we lost the game and We're
all sore. L told you to let him walk.
l said to klobedantz ON the way to the
hotel in the bus. oh. l know you did.
replied Klobby, but l had to pitch the
had made a wild pitch until I saw it
going over that outtield fence"
Charlie Frisbie has signed a contract
with the New Yorks, and expressed him
self as glad to be able to play with the
Giants. Hickman also is pleased to go
to New York, as ne expects that he
will have more chance there to show his
worth than he did last year here.
The Boston management does not Wor-
ry about Tom LOTUS claim that he has
first right to Frisbie ON account of the
Grand Rapids Qeal.
Buck Ewing undoubtedly expresses his
own feelings in the matter when he in
sists hat Rusie will lot be traded. I'm
fortunately, Ewing is not the only one to
be consulted when the makeup OF the
New York team is considered. Rumors
that Rusie is to be traded for Setback
and Hawley Of the Cincinnati club nave
been current for some time. Those play
ers have not signed with the Reds, there
being a question of salary between them
and John 7. Brush.
II do moi see where this change OF
front in the plate makes much difference
one way or the either" says Patsy Te-
beau. 1T may help certain clubs that
have left anded hitters like us when
they go against left handed pitchers,
who are invariably a bit wild. The
sou b paw is not clever of control, as a
rule, and if we wait him out he will have
to lay it over properly. Then he can
not use his deadly curve so often. There
Z is nothing SO hard for a left handed bat
ter as to get up against a pitcher of his
own persuasion who has a sharp curve
After all it is 50 much in favor of the
'kitoque' hitter who seems to be king
of the rooSt nowadays"