Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-30

see chance to start crops of goose
flesh at critical moments on the necks
of batsmen who are the least bit in
clned to be timid. A movement to effect
the early repeal of the new rule is al
ready under way, and players will ask
for such ;tction, as removing an element
of danger from the game which might
be worked to their injury by twirlers
whose conscience is not large enough
to make them round shouldered in criti-
cal stages of play, when chances for vic
tory might be frightened by slamming
the ball into the Stats of a heavy hitter.
Gus ShalilX was largely responsible for
the passage of the rule which sent a
batsman. who had ben hit to his base.
He was pitching for the Cincinnati club,
and was one of the widest stabmen that
ever fired a ball across the pan. Under
his uncertain aim batsmen dropped like
pigeons before crack shots at the traps.
When the penalty was inflicted it des-
troyed ShalliX's effectiveness, and he
passed out of sight as a pitcher.-Cin-
cinnati Post.
The American League clubs are re-
stricted by an agreement entered into
at the Chicago meeting to four recruits
from the National League. 1t is said
that the Philadelphia and Chicago clubs
will be permitted to exceed that number
in order to put them on a footing with
the National League teams in those cit
les. Another reason is that neither
Mack or Duffy had the nucleus Of team
as was the case with the other mana
gers. 1t is generally agreed that these
cities will be the pivot points in the war
and success can not be achieved unless
! the teams representing them have con-
siderable class. Great care will be taken
that none of the clubs secures such
strength as to make the race farcical.
| Cleveland and Milwaukee will be eau
| tious in the matter or salaries for this
| season. The hackers of the Philadelphia
| and Boston clubs do not expect to real
| ize on their Investment in 1901 and are
| prepared to stand loss. Comiskey is
confident that his club will do better in
| a financial way this season than 1t did
last. Detroit will be a money maker IL
Stallings' team comes up to eXpecta-
| tions. Baltimore will have COMPARE
| lively cheap team, as the nominal sala-
rieS of McGraW and Robinson will
really represent their earnings. Only
one of two of the other members of the
team will draw more than $4,000 and
the salaries of rSajority of them will
range around SIN. The public has
been buncoed into believing that all the
stars of the National League are high
priced men. Many of the best drawing
cards were paid less than $4,000 for their
services in 1900. 1t is only necessary to
mention McGinnity, Dinneen, Scott and
Barrett to prove the truth of this state-
ment. Every National League club con-
| tanned one or more-some Of them a
great many-low-priced players. 1t is
this class of players the American
League has secured, and a mistake was
made in including a few veterans of the
Clarke Griffith type--players with re-
markable records and a limited future.
Collins comes high. but his popularity
in Boston made him a necessity. His
! connection with tina team gives it a pres
tige with patrons from the start that it
could not have attained in any other
way short of a seasons success! ~ -