Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-07
BASEBALL GOSSIP.
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: The discovery of the first strand of gray
in the luxurious tresses by My Lady Thor.
oughpace, darling of the IS o'clock tea,'
than the blow that strikes the ball player
on his awakening with the painful realiza-
ton that he has reached the late autumn
Of his career. which recalls the fate of poor
Mike Kelly in the summer of 81, when
King Kers Killers We're transferred from
the sand dunes at Pendleton, Cincinnati, to
Milwaukee. Kel. by his own request, was
turned over to Charlie Princes Boston AS
ISOLATION club. kel was then on his last
legs. and no one realized the fact more
fully than himself. His engagement by
Prince was merely an act of charity from
out the kind heart of Prince himself. heI
was really so much excess baggage, as the
Boston club was supplied with two of the
most brilliant catchers .on the dlamond IN
Farrell and Morgan Murphy. Wnen htthhyy
reported to the team he unbosomed TINS
frank expression to the Duke and Murphy:
"Boys. l am simply here on my shape, on
my past reputation. and can't make good
as a catcher. But | am here just. to bluff
the season out for the few dollars IN 1t. 50
don't think I came to Boston to worm
go in two or three innings. make a blum
at it. tell a few gags to the push from the
coach lines and let it t, go at ts that 70 realize
the wane of Kelly, who was almost as big
a drawing card as when he came tresh
ed as the $1,000 beauty. The association
and league clubs in Boston We're fighting
tooth and nail for patronage, and pubic
lANOI dlu lit oStOI "a iiAAASA
ately on Kels arrival at the Hub engaged
George Floyd as middleman to make him
an offer to desert the Princes association
club. The offer called for twice the amount
of his contract with the Prince. kel fig
ured it would be dollars in his own pocket
and a big saving for Prince if he jumped
his association contract. He laid his case
before Prince, who consented to this cut
and dried proposition of Kels to turn him
%s sa,1 / essf Of 5f 'e eeu iessue that t R sepe had t Nn aea
a miserly trick on Prince in switching to
the enemy. The old Boston leaguers also
thought they had stolen a march on Prince,
little realizing that the king and his old
employer We're working in cahoots. Kelly
was numerically lampooned and lambast-
ceived with a serenade of Kisses on turn
ing up at the old Franklin Place Grounds
in the unfirm Of the Boston League Club.
But it was his bread and butter, his fare
well season in the major league, and while
he worried through that year his heart was
e wae o Of his er old.4im by f fae tsant + a Was ride tbs
falling of the games most popular IDOL
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Uncle Nick Young, ever a defender of the
umpires, is equally emphatic in his claim
that hoodlumism and the other ills that at
tend the game are really not so dark by
several brunette streaks as the pessimistic
baseball writer's paint in their Rembrandt
shades. Your uncle hearkens back to the
early eighties before the vogue of the
coaching rules and recalls scenes of strife
OF sulphur-streaked oratory around the
home plate. That was prior to the exist
the team at the bat fringed the home base,
leaving thin space for the passage of the
ball, and spouting forth parts of speech
Texas cow-puncher. The umpire was in
The rough hands Of this hoodlum element.
unprotected, and the victim of 10 times the
number of outrageS heaped upon the in
dicator handler of the game of today. TIL
absence of the coaching box tackled a
to the piratical!, knock-about
nOO0lNmlSm nrQNfiop6 NV n honda of fouar-
ism, lmpulsive players as they rallied
around the home base and garnished their
oratory with adjectives that would cost the
user his life in certain sections of the south.
Be 1T said IN justice to the old league that
these scenes were in the main confined to
der Abe. disputes between the players
We're often aroused to the dimensions of
out at least one stirring scene and incident
from Kilkenny Fair was so rare an ex-
ception that the writer's passed comment
gaining gradual control of their field. Any
unprecedented observer who has watched
the growth of the Improvement of the
game uring the past Is years must ac-
knowledge an Improvement in the deport-
ment OF the players, regardless of the crit
& hoodlumism and playing on the same
I'd string for want of a better tune. Kick
rsgoo ~ ere close decisions will always obtain,
written privilege of a player-a privilege
granted by the combative mood of nature
to hold out for fancied rights and stick
TOT just privileges. The howl of the writ
ers IN their exaggerated reports of wordy
spats between umpires and players is a
n~auseating bore to the public, many OF
whom actually like to witness the honest
Indignation of the conscientious player in
these disputes that are short-lived, but for
the moment, and SO much ginger in the
eyes or the genuine fan. At the same time
the magnates would satisfy the public and
shorten the long-drawn-out games in the
major league. this season by restoring the
double umpire system.-Cincinnati En-
quirer. H'T