Evening star., 1902-01-08
Base Ball Notes.

In the first three games on the Pacific
coast "Rube" WaddeH famed tfirty-one
men.
President Brush says he knows nothing
of the signing of Pitcher Rhoades of Mem
phis and Outfielder Hulseman of Shreve-
port for the Cincinnati team. He would
welcome both men.
Winter guessers are now figuring that
Cofniskey will trade Hoy and Mcfarland to
Tom Lotus for Coughlin. The latter is
clearly one of the coming third basemen of
the country, and would make the white
stockings inf1eld look pretty strong-Chica-
go Record Herald
Detroit tried to sign Dummy Taylor,
the New York pitcher, but President John
son would not sanction the bargain as Tav-
lor jumped an American League contra ct
last year.
Frank Crolius, the young Dartmouth boy
who played in the outfield for the Boston
National League team a part of last season
has Joined the benedicts and given up base
ball for good. His home is in Pfttsburg,
If Detroit lands Bowerman it will cause
weeping in the National League town, be-
cause it will leave New York with hardly a
player of any standing on Its staff
President Johnson predicts that there will
be good base ball news in the near fll-
ture, and many followers of the game con-
strue this to mean that the American
League has not yet given up the invasion
of New York.
Jack Hayden has caught on at Rochester
He was Connie Mack's Atlantic City find
and when he commenced his career he
stretched the seams In many ball.
To learn from Bradley himself as to
where he stood, a Cleveland paper Saturday
wired the third baseman, who is playing at
San Francisco, whether he had Jumped to
the Chicago National League team. Brad
ley replied that he had not signed with any
other team, and is under two years con-
tract with Cleveland.
1t is stated that the Chicago National
League club has scooped In three OF Taco
ma s crack players, namely, Pitcher James
R. Vrain. Infielder Mike Lynch and Out
fielder Charles Mcintyre, the champion
batsman of the Pacific Northwest League
Congalton, the hard-hitting fielder of last
years Minneapolis base ball team, has
signed contract to play with the Chicago
National League club next season. Con-
gaton played with the Brewers in 1899,
having come from the Canadian league
Sherm Kennedy, the crack Connecticut
shortstop, signed Saturday for the season
of 1902 with Hart's Chicago National
League team, at a salary of $1,000 Ken
nedy played the season of 1900 in the Con-
necticut State League, and made great
record last season with the Nashville
Southern League team, leading the league
in batting.
According to President johnson of the
American League, who is in st. Louis,
Charles Comiskey OF the White Sox has
lost Charley Irwin, the Brooklyn third base
man. johnson said that Irwin would play
in st. Louis on McAieer's American League
team, and that he had already signed a
contract The terms are not given. but it is
understood that Irwin has signed for more
than he received while with the Brooklyns
Few followers of base ball in Boston were
at all astonished to hear that Pitcher Di-
neen had signed an American League con-
tract ''BiH' was scared into repudfatfng
his agreement of last season and made up
his mind to make amends therefor when the
opportunity came, and the first time he saw
Collins In Syracuse after the close Of last
season asked the latter for a contract
One of the chief reasons for the good
wishes which public and press alike have
for Spalding's fight is the desire to see the
game returned to something like its old
standard Of sportsmanship. Men like
Freedman and Brush, aside from the other
injuries they have done the game, stand
for commercialism in base ball Their
scheme to pool all interests into one big
base ball trust and divide the profits is
proof enough of that. This element OF COM
mercialism has been the greatest factor In
lowering the public's estimate Of the game,
and Is its greatest danger in future.