The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-11

The National league magnates are
busy working all kinds of wires to put
the bosh on the American league next
season, and secret meeting has been
in session q New York for the past
week, formulating plans for the future.
Andy Freedman is in favor of a fight
to the finish. while Brush Dreyfus,
Robson and others prefer landing as
many American stars as possible 1t is
also said that the National agreement
VIII be thrown to the winds if the big
league viii take it's chances in the
scramble for players. Nick Young is
to be replaced by some more aggressive
Hanlon are the ones most talked of as
his successor. One thing is sure. Brook
lyn viii not be a member OF the Ma
tiOnal league next year. and the play
ers will be transferred TO some other
club.
The National league has unlimited
wealth. and believe that by buying up
the best players and putting opposition
teams in American league towns it can
undermine the latter to such an extent
that the tickle public viii fOrsake the
new proposition and come back to the
old flag.
The Western league fight continues
along in the same order, with Kansas
City too far ahead to be caught, while
St. so has gained several laps on St.
Paul for second position, and the latter
is having hard work to keep ahead of
Omaha for third place Minneapolis is
also after the fourth notch. With Des
Moines next, and Colorado springs and
Denver see-sawing in hot fight for
the tail end Of the procession.
Captain Joey" Kostal of the Lagoons
and 'CoOney. the Fox are booked for
a wrestling match to take place at the
T.aor NIGHT VnaW nnnn
trained by Buck Weaver and kid"
MeNichols, while Bill HOffer and ZelSe
Newmeyer have looked after COoney's
interests. COOney was over weight. and
has had to do considerable road work
to get down to shape jim Kelley is
back % the Fox and Manager
Critchlow is behind Joe. The purse is
already up. and all Pennington viii
turn out 10 see the match.
Dud Risley's Spokane team is first
in the Northwestern eague-cOuntinS
from the bottom. Portland leads, with
Tacoma second and Seattle third. Marty
McQuaid is playing dinky ball for Spo-
kane. Knox, who played mere with
POcaIellO, made his debut last week
and fell all over few grOunders,
though his hitting was above reproaeh.
Boise Statesman: William +. Rams
dell has purchased the interest of B L.
LIVINGSTON III LAiE -NaldAOIAulAA DLtA POI n
and in the team. He and r. V stone
viii, in future. conduct the enterprise
| Today they win leave for Portland to
! secure good players. It is probable that
/ Berkeley VIII catch for the new team,
Brooks play ShOrtstOp, and that a
| pitcher, second and third basemen viii
| be secured from the Salt Lake team a
/ telegram having been received yester-
I day Offering these last three players
/ The balance OF the club is to be made
Up in Portland. together with two or
/ three substitutes. The new team viii
! be MANAGED BY a man we'll versed in
/ basHs1l. and who has made such en-
/ terprises successes for many years.
Cut out that pipe dream about the
/ White Wings players, and the PROPOSE
1 ton may pass, but the management
| scheme of taking the team on the road
/ 10 play other intermOuntain clubs Will
get them nothing. unless it is from the
/ coast IN TO Boise
Here's a puzzle for some wise fan"
I Kansas City and indianapolis were
playing a game. There were three men
on bases and nobody out Jimmy
1 SIagle, who is now playing with Bos-
/ ton. was at the bat, and made clean
hit between second and first Not a
run was scored. and not a man was
/ thrown out. yet the side was retired
/ without a man crossing the plate rms
play really happened, and answers are
/ requested.
The American league is evidently de-
/ terrnined To make hay while the sun
! shines Tt has leased grounds IN 81
i Louis and viii locate team there next
year. Just whether 1t VIII transfer
! the Milwaukee or Cleveland FRANCHISE
to that city is a question. Then. TOO,
/ Ban Johnson has his eye on New YORK.
! With New York and St Louis IN the
/ bis. circuit it viii surely place the
( American league in the lead. There is
/ a great deal of underhand Scnenlng
t going on in baseball circles Ihe ten
/ YEAR agreement expires at the end Of
2 the present season. and 1t is known
fact that many of the league magnateS
/ arc dissatisfied with their present lot
I It is Just likely that some OF the lSa-
! tional league clubs will jump 10 the
{ American league. Besides st. Louis
/ and New York it is just possible that
a second club viii also be located IN
I Pittsburg. Taken as a whole. the win
! ter promises TO be q very warm one IN
baseball circles.
The FRANKS which the experienced
men play upon the new and sometimes
! Verdant players while on trips away
from home are sometimes amoslhs'
says the Baltimore sun. Manager NC
/ Graw tells a story on one young payer
e
I 1889. He was on his first trip to the
west. and one Of the Orioles first all
night Jumps was from Cleveland TO
I Cincinnati. The team occupied a spe-
/ cial sleeper attached to the rear of a
( slow train About O'Clock McGraW
made q great show Of holding a Ian
tern from the rear platform, coming TO
the door now and then 10 chat with the
] players in the smoking compartment.
] Presently another player who was in
/ the joke asked Mac" who was going
/ = b, .ap watch" after bedtime, and
/ ne feplied '.Why. G.. Of course The
/ latest recruit always takes first turn
after 10 O'Clock" G.. the young player
/ looked puzzled, but said nothing
/ shortly sfterward Mae explained to
him soIemnly that on special trains like
the one they were on the ball players
had to take turn about holding Ian
/ tern on the back platform tC prevent
any regular train from running into
the special. and that G. would have to
/ take his turn. which would be from 10
to a. M The young fellow took the
! lantern and the last the players saw