Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-09
ORIOLES ATTITUDE
It Has Caused a Sensation in the
Base Bali World.
WHAT M'GRAVs, And ROBBIE SAY
Columbus Defeat. the Y. M. C.
A. BowIers.
CURRENT SPORTING NEWS

The interviews with Manager John ]. Nc
Graw and Captain Wibert Robinson on the
base ball situation, published in The Even
! ing Star of Saturday last in which both of
those players favored placing Baltimore in
| a new league. created good deal of excite
| ment in base ball circles all over the coun-
| try.
Manager McGraw- yesterday received con-
| fidential- kilograms from a number of base
ball men, asking whether he and Robbie
| were in earnest. On account of their con-
| fidential nature the names could not be di-
| vulged.
Il am going ahead said Mr.. McGraw
| last night, ION the spppostion that Balti-
| more is to be deserted by the National
| League. 1 am not going to wait and do
| nothing until March April and find my
| self sold to Chicago or Cincinnati New
! York Rather than go to any of those
! places or to Brooklyn and play for a ball
players salary. would stay right here and
! not play at all. l would like to get club
| here in some good league
| Just to know that 1 could not be sold
! and traded about like dumb, driven cattle
| would be worth good deal to me person.
| ally. L believe there would be money in
| team here, in good league, and | believe
| that there are men here to back it. | know
| some persons who are kicking themselves
for not taking my, advice and buying the
| Orioles last spring. when they could have
| been secured cheap
| Mr.. Hanlon said he had no fear that Nc
| Graw and Robinson would refuse to play
! elsewhere if transferred. 'They will prob
| ably go to where it is to their Decuniary
| benefit to go he said. But Mr. HanIon
| thought the same thing of Griffin and Cor
| bett and others.
1t is thought by many that in case Nc
| Graw and Robinson organize a team in Bal
| tim"re they could hold probably two-thirds
| of the Orioles of 80 and would probably
nave little trouble in forming good team.
Mid-Winter Base Ball Notes.
| Billy ClinGman hit .267 last season, and
| no less than thirty league infielders were
| below him, including Barry Mccormick,
| Magoon and Jimmy Connor of the Chi
| Cages.
| An exchange of Herman Long for Monte
Cross Of Philadelphia. says Jake Morse,
would be splendid thins-for Philadelphia.
| With Long in Philadelphia that team
| would come very near being pennant
| winner
| The Chicago critic who remarked that
Billy Clingman couldn't hit hard enough to
| Eold a job at kokorno. evidently didn't
| know that TIE Bond Hill boy cracked out a
| better average in 30 than several of the
| shortstops including Monte Cross and Her
| nan Long, a. >
Jimmy Rogers. the well-known base ball
| player, lies at his home in Bridgeport,
| Conn, critically iii and with little or no
hopes of recovery. Rogers is one of the
| hest-known ball players in the east. having
| played with Washington several seasons
| back, and goirg from here to Louisville.
| Rogers affiction is directly attributed to
| an injury of the head sustained by a
| pitched ball wheh he,>was with the big
| league. While the injury caused no trouble
| to the ball player during his early career
| it has now come pack on him with serious
| results The injury Isl such that it has
caused brain. trouble. !tnd at the present
time the unfortunate ball player is said. TO
| be on the verge OF coitansex
/ ''RGbe Waddell. whom pittSburg eXpectS
| to be one of its stSndbys next year, was tn.
| central figure around which innumerable
stories turned. On one occasion he was
| pitching in the Western League and at a
| critical period called upon to go in against
team ON which was a notorious waiter"
who was constantly receiving bases on
| balls. 'Ill fix him. said 'Rube.' The
| very first ball up whizzed straight and true
against the offending player in the vicinity
| of the heart. One dose enough, and
the base-on-balls man struck out three
| tines in that game.
Bill LANCE is so busy nowadays that he
| scarcely finds time to talk base ball. He
| was held up on Market street a few min
| utcs yesterday and questioned upon dia-
mGnd matters in general. 81 can't see
where Chicago is going to be any stronger
| than 1t was last year." he began. THE
new men, Dexter Mccarthy and Clingman,
are just fair players. and will not strengthen
| the team. l Hart is talking of selling
Callahan. Now, to finish in last place, Hart
wants to also dispose of Griffith, and he
will end there. L don't know of man on
the team that he less afford to sell or
trade than Callahan. In the last few days
| have heard from Manager Selee of Bos-
ton and Manager Freedman of New York
The former said if l intended to play he
would trade and get me. l wired him not
to do anything until he received a letter. 1
wired the same to Freedman Have you
changed your mind about playing?" he was
asked Not at all he replied. ''If An
son makes go of it in his league will be
with him. hut under no other consdera-
tons. l am through playing as far the
National League is concerned. l haven't
! heard anything new about the new league,
though | expect to very soon.'-Sa Fran
cisco Bulletin.