The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-05
FROM ALL THE LEAGUES

FKUM ALL HE LEAGUES
Director Billings, of the Boston team,
makes the prediction that Lajoie will
soon be playing with New York.
Napoleon Lajoie says he is complete
ly satisfied with his job at Cleveland.
He gets only about $4,000 or so a year,
and is an awful joker
Connie Mack is after Pitcher
Schmidt, of the Los Angeles, Cal,
team, and has offered him $400
month.
President Hart, of the Chicago club,
announces the signing of several more
members of this seasons team for
next year. 1t is believed that but few
of the present team still are outside
the fold
Manager Joe Kelley is trying to sign
players for next season. Joseph tum-
bled to the Brush plan of jollying the
public from season to season rather
quickly. 1t has always been next sea-
son with the Reds.
Dexter said: Manager Selee and I
parted good friends and [ wish the
a place somewhere and believe / will
as soon as it is known that I am on the
market. v
So ~
Sam Crane says ''The ebullfrog'
stars of the American league are get
ting cold feet and are only waiting to
be asked to 'bullfrog it back again.
There are going to be some lively do
ing now in the way of Strengthening
teams D.
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Joe Kelley will be the first manager
the Cincinnati Reds have had in five
years who takes part in the game. Not
since Buck Ewing gave up the first
base position to Jake Buckley have
the Reds had playing manager. Since
that time the team has been managed
from the bench, and it has been an
absolute failure.
Piggy" Ward, of the Butte (Mont)
team, is leading the Pacific Northwest
league, with a batting average of 1853.
He is just as big about the diaphragm
as ever, and is still carrying the steam
bath Malachi Kittredge presented to
him three years ago.
ST. Louis experts do not believe that
either Mr.. Frank Robson or Mr.. Rob-
ert Hedges is going to make a dollar
Cardinals continued their sensational
winning streak of early July he would
have been able to have piled up some
coin.
In an interview the other day Mr..
Somers said he realized that the two
leagues must get together and cut the
players salaries at least two-thirds, as
it was impossible to play 25-cent ball
with salaries at their present height.
He said he would be willing to get to-
gether with the National league, and
that he felt sure the other clubs would
also be willing to compromise.
Boston American league has been
handicapped for pitchers for two years,
while Cleveland has a string of new
ones-all first class. People are not
giving away first class ball players,
and the local club should open it's
purse strings and go after one or two
good ones.-Boston Globe.
A Rochester, N. Y, paper says:
Leon Demontreville, the apology for a
second baseman, who has found refuge
with the Rochester Baseball club for
some months past, has received official
notice to cease his gold bricking tao
ties in Cor against) the interests of
said club. He goes mourned by none;
with regret, for fain would every fan
speed the parting ping-pongist."
Mug McGraw doesn't seem to have
acted any too wisely in pruning the
Giants pitching staff. He released Roy
Evans, and the Missouri boy joined
Hanlon's crowd and his first game re-
suited in row of ciphers for the OPP
position. Sparks, too, was deemed too
inferior to be retained.
The Athletics have pulled more
games out of the fire at the last min
ute than any other team in either
league. Connie Mack's men work on
the very sensible theory that a game
is never won or lost until the last man
is out. By persistentlyy fighting to the
last ditch the Athletics have bettered
their standing with nearly every game.
A team with this spirit is the one that
wins remnants.
Next to Chicago, st. Louis won more
games from the champions than any
other team in the league. The Car
dinals won four and the Chicagos six
Next comes New York and Brooklyn,
each three; Boston two and Phila-
delphia one, Cincinnati has not yet
Won a game from the champions.
George Treadway, one-time hard
hitting outfielder of the Baltimore and
Brooklyn teams; is now playing with
the Butte team, and has a batting av-
erage of .315.
"Hennie" Reitz. now with the Spo-
kane team, of the Pacific Northwest
league, is hitting the ball fairly well in
that league, and recent figures place
him well up the line with an average
of .279.