The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-27
Baseball Gossip.

Baseball Gossip.
Catcher Steelman. who was a colonel
for short time last season. has been
scooped by Brooklyn, and Hanlon. will
great throwing wing"
Henry Hines. an old Kansas City base
ball player. will in all probability be the
manager Of the Des Moines baseball
team. F. P Flynn and ". P. Chase. who
own the franchise of the team, have left
the choice of the manager to President
Hickey, and George Tebeau, and they
nave about decided on Hines.
Captain-M Manager Fred Clarke, of the
would cover the shorttieid position for his
aggregation. OF course, as Jimmy Will
Jams will be retained at cushion No. 3, the
choice for short lies between Fred Ely
be acceptable for the position. and it
promises TO be warm battle between the
two for the berth. Clarke will play
make the place.
spent last summer in the California
league and opposing young Sheehan Bill
is only an uncut jewel. ct may take a
season season or tive to polish the kid up; says
get there. Though he is not a finished ar
siet aie study Is as pea 9 as PpP a ndd
say that L would not be a bit surprised
to see him make good after a. couple of
months under Tebeau and OConnor. He
is a. great chap on a ground ball, fast as
a greyhound and a good hitter, Last sea-
son was his first in fast company
league"
u certainly do wish that Tebeau would
gSit yTfn;,i sa9a Blil J0yG9 iaSt nlgt'
not to speak of Jones and Sudhoff, Pat
Mercer as the equal of any pitcher, as a
pitcher, and the superior of any of them
as batter and base runner. It will take
a tall and fancy figure to land him from
the wise peddler of players, Earl Wagner,
but money SO invested in baseball players
/ &c nn 1lra F,T-+ 7
pitched was one in St Louis in 1896 Mer-
Ger and Breitenstein were pitching. Mer-
bum club, Washingto on Brett ' had be been
doing great work here. They were both
It was a terrific game, but Brett won. 2
to 1, and three hits to four Charley Alb
It was the most skillfully. cleverly pitch
ed battle / ever saw Mercer IS only 26
years old. He came in the league at 10
and has had seven years experience.
Il do not know what kind of d second
baseman Joe Quinn is" said Murphy,
a third sack that was unimpeachable
You remember, the game Tenny- Leach
played last fall for Louisville? That is
the game his undertaking nibs put IN day
after day for Hanlon when McGraw was
| sick. He could get hunts as good as Coll
Inns or Wallace, cover as much ground
as Herman Long, and cop hot shot like
Lave Cross. He could go a mile to get a
foul fly, and he was blocking runners and
playing the Intervals of the game all the
after he got well Hanlon kept Quinn in
the game. One day McGraw went in CEN
ter and Joe at third After an inning
Mac came in and complained of being
unable to judge fly balls in the field. Joe
says, Go to third, Mac, and I'll go to
| center When the crowd saw the switch,
! they hoWled for Quinn to come back to
| third You know how good McGraw is,
and what wonders he did in Baltimore,
so you may judge how well Quinn did"
George Carey. whom you wanted Te-
| beau to sign last fall, was the greatest
fielding first baseman ever saw said
| Bill Joyce yesterday in st. Louis ut is
mitt ever used by a player and all that.
| He had the reach and the knack of get
| ting bad throws in a superlative degree.
! AS a batter he fair and likely to i'm
ton under Werden last year in the West
| ern league, doing $40 to Perry'S .341. That
| shows he is a hitter. Hanlon had to let
| him go to Baltimore for this reason: He
| If Little Eva" Lange's California "phe-
| nom,' Kid Sheehan, makes good. Pat
/ Tebeau will indeed be well fortified as to
| infelders. In Roderico Wallace, Lave
| Cross and Joe Quinn the Chief has a
! trio of great grounder trapperS. and with
| Sheehan performing up to the speed tip
| ped off for him by the former Chica eoan,
! Tebeau will have four cracks to pick from
! for the second and third bags and short
! field. This leaves Schreckongost as the
most desirable man for the first. Osee is
| a fair sort of a player, who offsets his
| mediocre field work by banging the leath-
! er hard. at times, and always in the
! game His head, though, isn't Overburd-
/ does the big fellow make a decidedly
/ dumb play. If Sheehan really is what
/ the doctor ordered, and can jump in from
/ the start and play either third or short
! part to switch the wonderful Wallace
over to frst-St. Louis Globe.