Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-16

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BASEBALL GOSSIP.
This is Bancroft's' ninth season with
the Cincinnati club.
The New Yorks nave not played an
ervorless game this season.
Forty = eight pitchers have oeen
worked in the National leasue thls year
Kansas City won IL of the II games
it playeu while away from home on the
last trip.
The Michigan supreme court has de-
cided that Sunday baseball is illegal III
tina state.
Wagner McGraw, Buckley, Flick n
Lajole are the National leasuefs stA1l
in the .4uU class.
McGraw says tina his contract ana
also mai OF ROBINSON Win 81. AouiS
is but tor one year.
Frank Selee says this spring Boston $
receipts have been the smallest since ne
has heen connected with the club. The
club has been losing money as Wen as
games regularly.
Manager Selee say five pitchers are
enough for any league club TO carry III
fact, with three men OF n Nlchols
on a team, and no injuries to any OIL
them. a team would ave easy sleoding.
Exchange.
Ewing is being criticised for not Sc
curing Bill Everltt, ate ol CHICAGO W
cover third base for the Giants EVerltt
was a fairly good guardian OF the thlfa
sack at one time-certainly better ina
any pitcher that Ewing can play In the
~position.-The Sporting News.
The St. Louis players are raising d
purse to give Mrs. James 1arr' "lie ol
the old Cleveland third baseman, VINO
is now confined in an insane asylum.
Frank D. Haas Robinson has CONTRIB
uted 500, and what the players aoo
will make a total of about So0o. bur
kett is nag of a general tund tol
the same purpose.
There is friction in the Cincinnati
team because the wealthy club owner
refuses to pay for the new uniforms just
secured for those destroyed by the Gin
cinnati fire. The players naturally ano
Justly, object to paying for uniforms a
second time this season, especially as
they were not responsible for the ire
nor insured against loss like the club
Exchange.
Chauncey Fisher, who is twirling fol
Comiskey, said after a st. Louls-Chlcag
game that urket and the rest of the
team had thrown down the young pitch
er Harper. II don't believe it, said a
veteran. when you get a team sore
on a pitcher they play careless ball ane
don't care whether they make the pla
or not, and the ball sticks in their hand
and they make every throw perfect
But when they get behind a yount
pitcher they like and are anxious t.
givesthe best of it. they got over anxious
to give the best of it, they get overanx.
ions and fight the ball n make al
kinds of breaks"
Last Saturday the Protective ASCOT
alton of Professional Baseball Player
was formed at New York. Twenty
three delegates, representing the diff
ferent National league clubs, met an
held a five hours secret session. l
vas decided that the names of the OH
GERS hould not be announced. A com
mite was appointed to draft a consti
tuition which will be submitted at tn
next meeting of the association, to tax
place at New York when the wester
clubs take their next eastern trip.
The association voted unanimous
against afhliating with the America
Federation of Labor at present. Wha
It will do eventually is hard to say. /
fact the value of the union in aidin
ho1lp1n vorc in fhoir $rol1hlpS with MAJ
mates seems to be more theoretical tina
practical.
If the new Organization is to be lih
a labor union it will not last long. Thel
is no scale for salaries that will Wor
fairly if applied. Take Muggsy McGra
for example. He receives about $50
from ST. Louis and cannot be expecte
TO join an organization that sets a linn
on the amount of money a player ms
earn. If the union is based on the lin
of most labor organizations, a man lii
McGraw will have to work at "unit
rates. and will draw no more salal
than a man who is worth perhaps on
half as much
1t will be interesting to see what b
comes of the new association; how
will enforce it's decisions, and II Il
members will live up to its rules. Pc
haps in the near future fans will see
baseball strike.
In talking of the new association
aims Hugh Jennings said:
"In case of any unfair treatment a
forded to one of our men, I do not 81
that the Protective association Won
order strikes. but I do say that we wou
resort to harsh measures. Players ha
been oppressed year in n year out
the magnates of the National leag,
and thew have been he'pless. But wi
our Protective association in full sw
we are confident that the magnates
future will see fit to so negotiate wi
players that there will be no grievance