Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-18
..Am0NC THE SPORTS.

became a member of the famous Moni-
tor club, tn Waterbury, Conn.,, his home,
till today, he ha been a prominent figure.
From 1876 till 1897 he was in the National
league, from 1888 till 1894 playing with
the New Yorks. In 1885 he was the
champion batsman of the National
league, and for 10 years he was among
the first half dozen leading batsmen. He
has been in minor leagues since he left
st. Louis in 1897. For three years he a
managed the Waterbury club. His eye
sight is troubling him badly.
The magnates, who are at a loss TO ac-
count for the apparent decline in public
interest should have witnessed yester-
days game. Think of over 5000 people
being held up while a half-dozen pin
headed ballplayers exercised their jaws
trying to square their own bum playing
by roasting thhe umpire.-Philadelphia.
Inquirer.
President Ebbetts Of Brooklyn, while
in Philadelphia some weeks ago, said
that thhe attendance at Brooklyn aver
aged fully 5000 people a day, and he was
apparently indignant because of the
story that his team was to be transferred
to Washington. Yet one league played in
Brooklyn last week to a total gate re-
ceipts of $1O2.-Philadelphia Record.
In the spring the Reds played seven
straight games with Boston, and this
time they play seven more, including
games in Boston and Cincinnati, Which
to say the least, is a very bad schedule.
Fourteen games in two series is some
thing unheard of before in base ball.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Hank, We! A game Of baseball has
clubs this year in which there was not
a kick nor a complaint lodged against
the umpire from the beginning to the
end! This noteworthy game was an in
cent of We 9th day of July, 1900. The
teams contrasting We're h C~incinnatis
and the New Yorks. The umpire was
Emslie. At the end of the game he
walked off the field in a half-dazed con-
dition, as if he might have been hyp-
notified. 1t was an experience as novel
to him as a trip ITO a Chinese joss house.
The spectators, too, were i'll at ease
when they left the grounds. There was
something the matter, and none of them
seemed to know it was. An I'M
easy look or the faces of those who had
been present shoWed the concern they
felt. They acted as if the game were a
DRAMA hideous nightmare from which
they would Waken with recollections OF
loathing. In a crowded "L' car one of
those who had seen the contest suddenly
started forward and whispered some
Thing to his neighbor. He communicated
i l / ~ lilS ildi ol IL I1SlIt ctlAu aIboIAC VI
two OF three minutes the news had tray
eled all over the ar. The SPECTATORS
had just discovered it. No wonder a
feeling of worry fastened itself upon
them when they left the ield. One man
vas SO mad that he aid something
about going back to the management and
demanding q return of his money, be-
cause he had seen two hours of baseball
with nary sauabble. Some of the
cranks gravely discussed his rights In
such an emergency.-NeW York Tele-
gram.
Anything calculated to add to the
uncertainty of the race will tend to slim
ulate the dropping public interest. In
their efforts to hold that which they had
and to get as much of the other fellows
as possible, the nlagnates by increasing
the lumber of men who could be re
served from seven to all NUM-
Der, injured their own game says
Frank Hough.
The union has been a long time COM
ing" says a veteran, "but now that it is
agitation at once. The addition of the
union league players will give the new
body am almost Irresistible strength, and
the fall meeting of the magnates may
be marked by a trif1e more excitement
than the ordinary annual gathering.
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Dame Rumor is working overtime on
the theory that F. De Haas Robson Is
going to get out his little ak and use il
with highly interesting effect ON certain
alleged ST. Louis ball players. 1t is
common report that Manager Iebeau
! will be discharged; that some high-sal-
aried players will receive walking papers
| and a new management and a rejuVe-
mated team left to finish out the season.
St. Louis Sayings.
L~eft-handed infielders are In the mi
|nority, but behind the bat the southpaW
lcatchers that have won enduring fame
are few, indeed. Big Jim Clements, the
boston backstop. is the only catcher IN
fast today who encases his
right mauler in a big mitt and uses ms
left for rapid-firing purposes. Clements
isn't a ~youngster by any means, and has
meen in the thick of most Of the lights
ever since he started out with the Key
stones, in the Union Association, in 1884.
Clements hitting, rather than his catch
ing, has kept him in the harness. He
hasn't had enough work to do this year
to cultivate accuracy in throwing, and
in the recent Red engagement he kG&
Barry and Long digging into the dirt
for low-thrown balls. Dcnohue, of Day
ton, in the Interstate league. is one OF
the few left-handed catchers in the mi
nor fold.-Cincinnati Post.
| The Indianapolis club has been pecu-
lliarly unfortunate in the matter of post
!poned games, having eleven of them, and
one tie. all at home except one, with
Buffalo. Some of these it can never ar
range to play. The postponed games are:
One with Cleveland, the second sched-
uled game of April 10; one with Buffalo,
the fourteenth scheduled gams Of May
3; two with Milwaukee, the twenty-sev-
-~---
of Man IS and 10: one with Minneapolis,
the thirty-fourth scheduled game of May
t25; two with Detroit, the thirty-sixth and
tthirty-eighth scheduled games of May
% and 30: four with Chicago, the nine
teenth scheduled game of May 9, n t.
eiehtv-second eighty-third and eighty