The evening times., 1900-04-16
BASEBALL NOTES.
Gossip Ab"ut the Players. Managers.
aud Clubs

aud Clubs
In the halcyon days of their baseball
glory The champion Orioles were permitte
TO carry around in their trousers pocket
/ the keys Of The Baltimore municipality
4 They were in such high favor with tn
/ fans and rooters Of that burg that Isl
tors life was in danger who rooted 70
! an opposing team during the progress o
! a game: now all is changed. They hiss
/ Hdulon and their old pets from the dia
/ mond and give the glad hand TO another
team-on account OF the indignities heapeC
upon he fans by the National League.
Buck Freeman unhesitatingIy declares
that the present New York team is
stronger than the one that representa-
Cincinnati last season. While that NAV be
true, il is no very high compliment ID
the Giants at that.
should the Chicago and Cincinnati re5ms
play a game al National Park they would
not take in money enough to buy The
necessary ice water
McGraw and Robinson have a few more
days in which TO finally declare themselves
with reference 10 playing ball in ST. Louis.
The public are anxious to know who has
been playing a bluff.
President y. f YouBgs schedule for the
umpires will go to the public in q day or
TWO. This item is intended for eight club
league territory. So far as this bailiwick
is concerned il has no significance.
The Dom Pauls' and the "Bobbys"
are the latest organizations OF amateur
-r.,l-. III.
are made up from two rival sections of
the city.
Barney Dreyfus really believes-or at
least pretends to-that the Pittsburg club
will win the 1900 pennant. Barney has
frequently made the same sort of forecast
with reference to the Louisville club con-
Sequently The public is NOT inclined TO
take him seriously.
The excellent showing made by the I'll
gers" should bring the services of Coacher
Bill Clark in great demand. He has GER
tainly rounded into form a splendid ball
team in the personnel of the Tigers
a Western magnate'' is quoted as say
lug that Washington ought lot TO com
plain at tbe baseball situation That last
winter their Indifference 10 the sport Nas
proven when they were offered the owner
ship of the Washington club at a ruinous-
ly low figure-s16.5e0 less than the League
paid for it a few weeks later-yet after
months passing around the hat among
capitalists and Spectators not enough
money was realized to endow peanut
stand. Why is ii that if that great city is
the baseball bonanza il is represented that
some gentleman of money and nerve did
not avail himself of that opportunity TO
make millions >" The situation is quite
differept pow. Then il was not believed
thai Washington would be dropped from
the League; that the game would go right
along no one doubted: now that our pride
ha been snubbed and we have been ruth
lessly pushed aside. the dander of our peo-
ple has riz and all kinds and amounts of
money could be raised upon short notice
TO start a club in opposi' ion TO the National
League trus'.
Charley Farrell is at least twentyti five
pounds overweight, which seriously handi-
caps his professional usefulness. He hopes
TO be able to divorce himself from this
surplus avoirdupois by constant practice.
I-a,- -h,, $50, sa, fc