Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-28

Wigs Of .the Pacific Northwest League.
who has played with the Helena MONTY
club. with which team he made q record
for good work.
Pitcher Pappaiau of the Toronto team is
wanted by Chicago and st. Louis OF the
National League. He was with the Robi-
sons for short time when they owned the
Cleveland club.
Denver was the best base ball city in the
Western League last season. $4,000 people
going out to the games in the Colorado
metropolis. Omaha was second In drawing
power. 5000 behind Denver,
The yarn that Manager James j. Collins
OF the Boston Americans will have to retire
from the diamond on account of an injured
leg Is pronounced by that player to be en-
tirely untrue He has added considerable
far as his leg is concerned he could go into
the game today. Collins has been in Boston
for week on personal business.
Jesse Tannehin has informed President
Hermann of the Cincinnati club that he
has signed with New York in the American
League The Cincinnati club had secured
permission of Pittsburg to negotiate with
Tannehill, but his declaration some weeks
ago that he had signed with the American
League made 1t certain that the reds would
not get him.
The Boston Americans have signed Pitch
ers Young. Dinneen, Winters, Hughes and
Gibson for next season. Winters expects
to be all right next season; Hughes prom
Uses well in another year and Norwood Glib
son is recommended by Charley Nichols,
the former Boston pitcher.
Al Orth, 1.-The curveless wonder" who had
a good season with the Washington sena-
tors, was the only American League pitch
er that can boast OF not having made Wild
pitch during the campaign Inasmuch as
Ortiz off1ciated in his share Of the games,
that Is brilliant record
News of the American Leagues designs
regarding New York has been scarce of
late, but now a report has It that Dave
Fultz. the crack outfielder Of the Philadel-
phia Athletics, will play with the New York
American League team next season and
not with the New York National League
team as has been understood. Fultz, Sell
bach and Lefty" Davis, 1t is said. will be
the American League outfield in this city
New York Sun. While in this city Satur-
day with the Lafayette team Fultz said he
would be with the American League next
season.
1t is possible that McGraw will lose Catch
er Roger Bresnahan He is one of the bid
ders for the Toledo franchise in the Amer
lean Association, and will manage the team
If he and his associates secure the club:
Ban Johnson, president of the American
League, whose shrewd manipulation of base
ball affairs has the National Leaguers on
the anxious seat, is in New York. He was
willing to say word about the players
whom the American League processes to
have signed for next season, but was mum
on the question Of grounds in New York
You will know in due time, he said but
I don't care to talk on that point just now.
You saw that bulletin of our players for
next year, and I'd like to know If you can
beat it. Keller, FultZ and Davis for the
New York outfeld are pretty good, aren't
they? Then there is Leach at third base
He has signed. all right, as have the other
players named in the list.'-New York Sun.
Seldom is base ball tale sprung that
can lay claim to the slightest bit of orig
inality. However, among the yarns spun
when the champion Indianapolis team of
the American Association was being ban
quoted was one by August Kuhn, which has
Jack Grim the veteran windpaddist who
wound up the past campaign with the
Hoosiers, as the butt of 1t. I'll never
forget the day." said that speaker, when
Jack Grim had his hand split He took the
damaged goods to a surgeon and asked:
Doc, do you think I'll ever be able to catch
againP Sure replied the M. D. Can l
play the piano after you fix me up?' he con-
tinued. Certainly was the doctors re-
sponse and then Grim told him: I m glad
of that for I never could play 1t before -
St Louis Star.