The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-09-07
REIDY SIGNS IT. LOUIS CONTRACT.
VIII BE a Member of the
Pitching Sta6 Next Season.

t1fteen-lnning BIZ Reidy yesterday
Club for the season of 1900. Reidy has been
able to pitch but few games this season.
NE Hs. die not round and to- form ;Is, unu a wa bn1
coming effective he had the misfortune TO
get the index finger on his right hand
caught in the machinery Of an elevator In
The finger healed slowly and as yet Reidy
> has not been atfe to pitch. but he may get
in at the finish. As q pitcher OF Slow balls
or ..foaterS" he Is one of the best in the
business.
Il want to say that the club has treated
Here / have been out Of the game for
practically all season. yet l have drawn my
a chance TO show what l could do. I was
offered q good contract for next year.
That is the sort OF treatment that ball
get mixed up IN any accidents next year,
and i expect to do my share toward guard
ing the %pennant, which We are going 10
Re.dy was a member OF the Milwaukee
team last year. and McAleer knows OF his
OF the Cleveland team. Though the Mil
waukee club finished last in 1901. IL made n
great finish. and Reidy was pitching ex-
celient ball at the close of the season
This makes three pitchers who have
| climbed into the Brown band wagon TO-
next season Reidy Is the second member of
the Milwaukee contingent to get aboard for
1903. John Anderson is the other. OF the
other Milwaukee men. Meioney is now with
CINCINNATI. ponOnue IS Dack IN MILWAUKEE,
and Friel is with the Browns. Reidy's home
is in Cleveland.
After to-day's game the Browns will be
seen no more at Sportsman's Park until n
week from Tuesday. BY that time the PEN
nant question may be settled. With the
departure cf Boston. the last of the East
ern teams viii have gone for good. and
from ncw on the East ard West viii meet
no more. hut will fight il out with teams
o. the same section.
Jack Powell will pitch for the Browns
TO-DAY. and that is sufficient guarantee az
phia could not touch Donahue or Powell.
Boston downed Donahue. but Powell Il 60
ing ing, TO b DE a big meal L they get away with
who won from st. Louis after the Browns
and had nobody out. The Browns owe
Dincen one. ard be should get it to-day.
The National League teSfns will observe
me Eastern customs to-day. and viii spend
the day meditating and planning for vic
tories tomorrow, The Cardinals have two
more games to play at Brooklyn, and then
they move on 10 Boston. Tha series will
wind up their Eastern campaign for good.
The Browns will leave a day earlier than
the schedule calls for. They get away to-
night al s o'clock for Detroit. Four games
VIII be played in Detroit. and Detroit has
for games to play here. Secretary Hedges
oelevfs that II the Browns can make a
clean sweep of this series like the Athletics
aio at Detroit recently. IL will Give
them a clear title to the pennant. He
counts on at least i've OF the nine Cleye-
iena garnes- but there he may be surprised.
FROM Detroit the Browns go TO Cleveland
Tor nve games. Including two postponed af-
lars which viii Escessitate a d~ouble-head-
e. Returning horne they meet Detroit n
q series OF four games and then Cleveland
cofssS for four more. The locals also have
q postponed game with the White Sox here
sad che at Chicago. After to-day's game
they VIII have twenty-five games To NAV
II they can win fifteen of them they gard
a coed chance. Stfl. there Is no telling
what Boston and PHILADELPHIA will do TO
t re- 'ne ana hAew'se saifinore and De-