The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-15
Baseball News.

Buck Ewing says he will appoint Jack
The Boston club will probably take its
months preliminary course at Durham,
N. c.. again this season.
Manager Tom Lotus will probably start
the season in Chicago with Jimmy Ryan
as captain of the team.
March / is the date, according to League
law, that the twelve clubs are to have
their contracts distributed among their
It is generally admitted by manager
and player alike that Rube Waddell is the
coming ieft-handed lum1nary Tor the sea-
son of 1900.
Hanlon says that the Brooklyn and Bal
timore clubs would probably go south
March Z.
with the University of Pennsylvania, and
writes that he is developing several prom
'S5 Tim Hurst R'S was vas George Consdine's
choice for the refereeship, of the Jeffries--
Corbett fight. Tim was chosen referee of
Denny Lyons, of the old st. Louis
Browns, Athletic, Cincinnati and Pitts
burg renown, may cover first for the
Wheeling team. in the Interstate league,
Joe Kelley denies that he is out for the
management of the Phillies, but says he
will jump at the chance to direct the Sen
ators on the field for next season, proy1d-
ing Earl Wagner viii agree to give up the
idea of engaging a bench manager
President Frank de Haas Robson of the
ST Louis club still denies that he is in
the east as the missionary agent and mid
dleman of the circuit reduction commit
tee, but claims his mission in Baltimore
was purely of personal nature.
The fact that Ted Lewis. the evangelical
twirler, has renowned the diamond to
continue his ecclesiastical studies, doubt
less caused Selee to enter the market
along with Eddie Hanlon a bidder for
Twirler Billy Dineen.
washington will never stand a class A
League conducted on a one-night stand
basis. That fact was shown in 1890 dur
ing the Brotherhood year. and there was
succeeding that season than at this late
date, says John Hogan, the veteran base
ball fan and former club owner.-Wash-
ington Post.
''The Eastern league may as well give
up the idea of placing a minor league
team in this city, as it will never go in a
thousand years, even If they give WASH
ington q pennant winner" says Bill
Joyce. The capital of the nation IS
built too much on cosmopolitan lines to
stand for a bunch of minor leaguers."
Another baseball organization enters the
grassy arena this spring as a member of
class A. This Organization will be strictly
Hoosier, representing fourishing towns of
Muncie, Anderson, Logansport( Wabash,
average population Of 8 600 with Ed Hill
of Kokomo as president and secretary.
Ed Hanlon refers to that Cuban spring
training trip of the Superbas as the latest
pipe production of the many pill Whiffs
in baseball dreams that have been palmed
off on the public as news by the New
so Hanlon says, will train some where in
Georgia, while the Orioles will probably
be sent to Macon for the training grounds,
providing Baltimore is not handed tick
et-of-leave by the circuit reduction com
ulCCee.
The cases of Mike Griffin and Amos
Rusie are the next problems to be taken
up after the circuit reduction settlement
Unless these independent and anarchistic
players are settled with to their salts
faction out of the courts, the league may
be pestered with two or more civil suits
as bothersome as the Rusie case of two
years ago.
Manager Se1ee maintains that tough
luck rather than a waning arm was the
cause of Charley Nichols comparatively
poor showing in percentage of victories
last season and believes that Nick will
pitch his normal number of winning
games this year, providing the Beaneat-
ers back him with the fielding and batting
support given him in previous years.
Washington Post.