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NOTES FROM THE LEAGUES.

Jiggs Donahue, the southpaw catch
er, with Minneapolis for a time last
season and now with Milwaukee, split
his thumb and will be out of the game
for several days.
Old Bill Wilson is still using his head
He tried to steal home in one of the
games with Milwaukee, and if MaIo-
ney, up at bat, had helped Bill would
have made the play.
e. In the concluding game of the series
between Pittsburg and st. Louis, the
81. Louis fanatics made half hearted
attempt to mob Clarke Several wild
ones raped the Pittsburg player in the
face with their hats, but he kept his
head and the riot held off.
Manager Selee. of Chicago, has loan
ed Clark and Jacobs to the Kansas
City team.
Adkins, the star Beloit player, who
was recently tried out by Boston, has
been signed by the Milwaukee Western
League team. Adkins should find no
trouble making good in the Western.
Willie Maxwell Swormstead, with
Minneapolis last season, and with Gin
cinnati at the start Of the National
season, is the real thing with the Mil
Wauke fans backing the Western
League. Swormstead raped out two
hits the other day and the shock was
something awful.
Arlie Latham is now trying to hold
on with the Denver team, but his field
ing and batting is way below par and
he may be retired.
Nichols has accepted Dale Gears
challenge for a five-game post-season
series for the championship of Kansas
City. Now watch the league leaders
jump in and spoil this chance for a
showdown.
Mike Donlin, Tx former Baltimore
player, now serving term in Jail for
assaulting a chorus girl, will be re-
leased Aug. 16, and VIII join the Gin
cinnati team the following day.
Dusty Miller, signed by Manager
Nichols, of the Western Kansas City
team, was blacklisted by the Van
Brunt-Burns crowd just a few weeks
player. When the Western leaders
have time they will explain all about
this and the O'Brien case.
4 ~ *-,1
Willie McGil1 has been walked. Ac-
cording to the press reports the Peoria
team, of the Western league, was COM
PEELED to cut down expenses and drop
ped Vaughn and McGill. Peoria is
now trying to worry along with ten
men. Manager Hart might draw on
that 900 sinking fund.
John Grim, late manager of the Co
lumbus team, has been offered a chance
to manage the Evansville team. Grim
may accept the offer.
When you think it over you must
admit that Ban Johnson and his fol-
lowers had it coming to them in this
Baltimore deal. Several American
league agents were very busy at the
close of the 1901 season, and they did
not go out of their way to tell the Ma
tional magnates about the raids they
were planning.
The following from the st. Louis
Star explains how Hans Wagner won
his suspension:
Hans Wagner has always been a
great favorfte in st. Louis. His adj
mirers were sorry to see him act so
ruffianly when he pulled Umpire Brown
around and squared off as though he
was going to annihilate him. 1t hap
pened after O'Neil had made his sensa-
tional four fly capture off HonuS bat.
Yerkes' first pitch to Wagner had been
trifie wide and Brown had called it a
strike. 1t might have been a poor de-
cision, but great sticker like Wagner
shouldn't grieve so over having a strike
called. His ruffianly act gained him a
trip to the far corner of the playing
field.
Little TannehilFs condition is more
serious than was first supposed. He
will not be able to play for at least six
or eight weeks.