The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-11
BASEBALL NOTES

BASEBALL NOTES
Mellor, Baltimore's new first base
man, from Whitinsville, r. T., saws that
ne never saw a major league game I'M
I'll he Joined the Baltimore team, and
that he was a little confused by the
fast work he went against.
Dave Fultz is the best run getter in
the American league. And he has no
Lajoie or Delahanty to help hinn~make
runs, either.
Among the debts of the Baltimore
club is one of about $4,000 owing Nc
Graw for advance money advanced to
players before the opening of the pres
ent season.
Recently in thirty three games La
Joie, playing for the Cleveland team,
accepted 1876 out of 1919 chances only
three mlSplayS in almost 200 oppor-
tunities. 1t is one of the most re-
markable fielding feats on record.
"McGraw will last about three weeks
unless Freedman goes to Europe" said
one of the New York players. ''Muggsy
is not the man to listen in silence to
one of Andy's TRADES, and there will
be fun when the two clash"
Recent assertions from the American
league have had a telling effect on the
players, of the old league, and they are
loath to leave the organization. The
attacks of the National league have
been from all directions, and the
American league magnates find them
selves kept very busy keeping apace
with their rival just now.
Yeager is one of the few pitchers
who will not wear mitt, and unfor-
tunate as it is his reward came in the
shape of badly split hand.
Umpire O'Laughlin says he would
sooner work in Philadelphia than any
city in the country.
Joe Bean keeps up his hitting 96
in twenty-four games-and leads the
Eastern league. Halligan second with
1858.
If Ban Johnson can pull his organ
ization through the present crisis he is
indeed a great general. For the good of
baseball it is to be hoped that both
leagues survive the war, and that an
amicable settlement of their differences
Will NC ICeiCuCQ GIG IllC nSAL pas 1DS
season opens.-Cincinnat Commercial
Tribune.
Clarke says Dreyfuss has no reason
to leave the league. The latest pipe
dream is that Ban B. Johnson, presi-
dent of the American league, intimated
that Col. Dreyfuss wanted him to pur-
chase the Pittsburg team for an Amer
lean league organization in this city.
Kelley says that the American
league is in a bad way, and that at the
end of this season it will find that it
has lost many more players than it
can afford to lose. Many players have
pledged themselves now, although but
few of them will leave the American
before the end of the season.
'Rube" Waddell says: "a closed
glove catches no fries"
Arrangements with Rogers for La
joie's transfer to New York have not
yet been made, but no trouble is ex-
pected from this source. Brush nat
urally had waived claim to Barrett.
Baltimore has released Andrew Oy-
Ter, the utility infielder, and Prentiss,
the pitcher who came from Boston.
s'The Pittsburg club could not leave
the National league anyway until the
end of this year. which it is bound by
agreement to finish,' said Treasurer
Mr.. Dreyfuss could undoubtedly do as
hechose. have not the slightest idea,
however, that he will resign from the
National league. AS q business prop
osition, I haven't the slightest idea
that Mr.. Dreyfuss would find it worth
while to consider going over to the
American league. I guess he is pretty
we'll satisfied where he is and as he is"
Piatt predicts that within a few
years it will be necessary to put the
pitchers slab several feet further
back. He claims that the twirlers are
gradually gaining the ascendancy in
the endless duel between batter and
pitcher. The frequency of small score
games lends color to ''Wiley's" argu-
ment.
Isaac Butler, of the Shreveport, La,
team, of the Southern league, says if
he can get his release from Shreve-
port he will join Baltimore in st.
Louis. Butler is a pitcher and has
won thirteen out of twenty-four
games.
oCylllOUL, VIM Is COuutGu DIS one OIL
the P. P. U. blacklisted men, although
he was regularly released by the
Baltimore owners, says he will be able
to play as good ball and draw as large
a salary without the aid of the P.
p. A.
Siever, of Detroit, will be one of the
Boston National staff next season at
a big advance in salary. Eberfeld was
also wanted by Billings.
Jim Hart declares that he's got
Comiskey beaten at Chicago and
Charley Ebbetts maintains that this is
Brooklyn's banner year in point of
attendance.
Tony Mullane could write an enter
tanning story of the crime Of 49, He
was receiving something like $4,000 a
year from Cincinnati when in the mid
die of the season Of go he was cut to
$1,000. He kicked, but what was the
use? The National league magnates
had entered into a conspiracy to COM
pei the players to play for the cost of
the asinine Indianapolis amalgama-
tion.. Mullane would not work for the
salary offered, and as he could get
employment with no other club party
to the National agreement, he had to
finish out the season with the team at
Rutland or some other out-of- the-way
town. Nearly 100 players had their
salaries cut from 80 to so per cent
right in the middle of the season.