The Saint Paul globe., 1900-03-18

ment for blindness, but O'Leary says
| that If Harlem is closed all the other
| tracks will also close. AS free tranSpor-
! tation by special train to Romeo is given
to those who wish to play the ponies it
would seem that the game Is a pretty
| good one for the promoters
| Dick Dwyer Will handle the flag at
| all the local tracks this season and a
| better starter never looked over a field
| c. H. Pettingill. "Old Pet" will probably
be the presiding Judge at Washington
park
Imp, the mare Of the century was
| given a turn on a soft half-mile course
at Chillicothe, o.. the other day in :5OA,
which is regarded as remarkable, this
! being the second workout of the sea-
! son and the grand mare had been logged
! for only three weeks.
Tod" Sloan who goes to England
shortly, will be given the mount on May
! Hampstead in the Metropolitan handi-
| cap, to be run at Morris Park track May
| 5. Sloan says the damp spring weather
| in England affects his lungs and for
this reason he may come back here to
ride himself into condition for later
races in England.
STRONG BALL TEAM.
President Jim" Hart. of the Chicago
! ball team, is getting together strong
combination of ball players and all talk
! of "four-fiushing" and like comment is
the result of diseased dsorganization in
the minds of critics. 1t seems that there
is a sort of concerted action on the
part of the critics to belittle the team
and the efforts of Mr.. Hart. whom 1 was
the first to dub as Colonel This is
partly due to the 'con" of A. G. Spald-
ing to newspaper men, and Hart very
foolishly kept up the practice, so that
! iV1 f1on
playing poor ball. he was able to fill
the reportorial ears with buncombe and
get it printed, too. Now the boys" are
having their innings, and Hart don't
like 1t bit. L asked him today for
some news for this letter, and he re-
piled: Its all l can do/to keep local
reporters In line"
However, Chicago is going to have
good ball team this year, the best in
some time. and that means whole lot.
From this point of observation the line
up when the season opens will look
about like this: Catchers, Donahue,
Nichols and Chance; pitchers, Callahan,
Griffith, Cunningham, Garvin, Phyle,
Menefee and Killen or Harvey; first base,
Everett; second base, Childs; shortstop.
Clingman; third base Mccormick; right
field, DUNCAN; center field, Mccarthy,
Mertes or Green; left field Ryan; utility
men, Dexter and Bradley or Wolverton.
Childs is the latest addition, and he
looks to be the best second baseman
since the days of Pfeffer. 1 used to hear
a great deal about Arson and the old
stone-wall infeld when l first came to
Chicago, but gradually l found out that
it was Pfeffer's ability to cover a great
deal of ground around first base that
made Arson great. Childs is a good
ground coverer, albeit that he is such a
fat lump-almost as big around as he is
tall-that one wonders how he gets about
so fast. At the bat Childs is a grand
player and its batting strength upon
which Manager LOTUS figures to get
the rag this year. And he has good
batting team picked out
A letter from big Bill Lange, the
old center fielder-the best that ever
tells me that the day has been set and he