Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-12
MAY HAVE SUPERBAS
Possible Transfer # the Team to
This sohy.
SELLING OUT OF TIE SENATORS
Talk Of PuttingSan Eastern League
Tean Hrs.
CURRENT SPORTING NEWS
CURRENT sPdRT1Na NEWS

CURRENT SPORTING NEWS
! Baseball news concerning the Washing
! ton club has been coming to the front with
| surprising activity during the past twenty
| four hours and with sensational effect
| Saturday evenings Star tod of the sale of
| Dinneen and Freeman to the Boston club
but it developed later that Barry also goes
to the beaneating outfit. In addition, Jack
| O'Brten has been sold to St. Louis, Mccain
to Pittsburg. Slagle and Padden to Chica-
go. weighing to Brooklyn and Mercer to
| New York Evans. Kittrdge and MCGEE
are also being negotiated for, and the prob
! aoiiities are that before the close of the
| week all the members of last years Wash
| ington team worth disposing of will be sold
| The sale of these players certainly means
but one thing, and that is that the Messrs
| Wagner have disposed of their Washington
| interests to the National League and have
| concluded to quit the business as far as
| Washington is concerned. A special from
| Syracuse says that ]. Earl Wagner will
| continue in the Eastern League as a Wash
| ington magnate, but this Is hardly posi-
| Bile under the circumstances.
| The Transferred Players.
All of the payers disposed of, with prob
/
getting into the veteran class, have bright
| futures before them, and it only requires
proper teaching to develop ability in them
| of the highest class. Jack O'Brien's work
| in Washington last season was of the dis
| appointing order, but there were many To-
| cal followers Of the game who believed he
| could pay high order of ball under IA
| vorable conditions. In st. Louis O'Brien
| has been looked upon as one of the bright
1 nc cta n ha Mott
| and when the Senators became chattels of
| sale Tebeau made but one proposition and
| that was for Jack.
According to tactics adopted and carried
| out by the Boston club for years past Man.
| ager Seee undoubtedly secured the cream
| of the Washington club Dinneen, Freeman
| and Barry know the game thoroughly and
| in addition are corners, not goers. If Mer-
| Ger has been assigned to the New York
| club President Freedman need look no fur
| Their for a player to fill in the gap at third
base Mercer played third base the last
! two months of the season for the Wash
| ington club and there is no gainsaying the
| fact that his work was of the most salts
| factory kind. AS to Wins base running
| and batting ability, it is not necessary to
| speak. as he has been considered one of
the cleverest in the business in these fea-
| lures of the game.
Reduction of the League Circuit.
| The disposal of the Washington players
doubtless means the reduction of the Ma
! tional League circuit, and some day the
news will be given out that this movement
| was finally decided upon at the meeting in
| Cleveland some weeks past. The New Amer
lean Association sprnging up and develop
ing strength knocked the plans of the
| league magnates awry for the time being,
| but as they now consider that movement
| a dead one they arc carrying out the
| circuit reducing scheme as then agreed
| upon. 1t is out Of the question for the
| National League to continue with nine
| clubs, and Baltimore, Of necessity. will
| have to quit.
Transfer of the Brooklyns to This City
| Many weird reports have come out of
| New York and Baltimore within the past
! twentyfour hours and one of these is to
the effect that the Brooklyn outfit will be
transferred to Baltimore so as to placate
Magnate Freedman of the big metropolis.
| This would be working on lines called for
by the league constitution, which says that
but one club can be placed in the same
city, and as New York now embraces
Brooklyn. Freedman is really entitled to
monopoly in the Tammany stronghold But
| if the Brooklyn club is driven out of the
city of churches 1t will never go to Balti-
more. Stick pin here. The patrons of
| the game in oysterville extremely vexed
at Vonderhorst and Hanlon. and to locate
the championship team in that city would
assuredly mean the loss of big money.
Washington is the natural retreat Of the
Brooklyn Club If 1t is compelled to desert
its home. and a better selection by Man
ager Hanlon could not be made. This city
is craving for good ball team and exhi-
billions that could be given by Kelley, Kee-
Ter. Jennings and others of the champions
would simply make a barrel of money.
Whether Washington will stand for mi
nor league ball is question to be devei-
oped, but from the experience Of Walter
Hewitt and others on the 18th street
grounds ten years ago with winning team
In the Atlantic League, it would appear
that Il frost awaits such a venture.
The New American Association.
The New American Association meets in
Chicago today for the final roundup"
This meeting will decide whether the or
ganization will compete with the National
League the coming season or give up the
ghost" and go into retirement until next
year. The magnates of the National League
| claim to have information that the new
| movement will go up in smoke at the Chi
cago meeting, and for this reason have set
about the reduction of the circuit with
quickness and dispatch Whether this in
lorna ton Is correct or not the next twen-
ty-four hours will develop, and until the
end of that time it will be we'll to take all
predictions as to the associations future
with grain of salt
Mr.. Wagner Fails to Arrive.
]. Earl Wagner, secretary and treasurer
OF the local club was expected in Wash
ington today. but up to a late hour this
afternoon had not arrived Mr.. Wagner
was in Syracuse Saturday fixing up the
Boston contract with Pitcher Dinneen. and
may have gone to Liverpool, Ohio to find
Mercer on the same sort of mission for the
New York club. Should this be the case
he will probably reach Washington tonight.
Denied bVyToin Lotus.
CHICAGO. February 12.-Manager Tom
Eoftus of the Chicago Base Ball Club has
arrived in Chicago and will at once as
sumo charge Of thB plating affairs of the
team. He will discuss the situation with
President Hart for the next few days. and
then make trip through the south for the