The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-18
FROM ALLLEAGUES

Menefee is now the regular utility man
OF the Chicago Nationals.
The Des Moines club has signed Pitcher
Feeney, of the Natchez club.
Jimmy Barrett, one of the greatest out
Helders in the country, has resigned with
the Detroit club for two seasons.
Wiley Piatt will have about the poorest
fielding average in the American league
TINS season. He has a sead Of errors on
his tab.
One of the conditions of the Cincinnati
club s sale by Mr.. Brush is that the club
must remain in the National league.
selee has offered a position to Lamar
who twice caught for Hobolxen against
Boston this season
Manager Hanlon, Of the Broolzlyns, is
not afraid that he viii lose any of his
players to the American league this fall
several Of his men have been approached
eral tempting offers.
McGinity has been having hard luck
since he joined New York. With weak
battlng behind him any pitchers lot is a
hard one.
Manager Billy Earle, of the vieksburg,
Miss, club, has signed Outfielder House
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mouth, Ohio.
Shettaline has got Doom and Hulswitt
N line Tor next season. 1t is said that
Pltcher Frank Donahue will be back with
the PhillieS
Second Baseman Ace Stewart has left
the Omaha team for his home.
The famous O'Nein battery, of st.
Louis, has three times been responsible
for the defeat of the Pittsburgs this sea-
son. And Manager Donavan was on the
point OF releasing both of them.
Cy' Seymour says his batting has been
affected by the "plunkey' bali used by
the National league.
: Cincinnati has not lost a game at New
York this season.
: John J. McGraw has now entered the
!leId OF literature, and, like MatheWson
is writing for the New York papers.
It is said that the American league has
secured grounds in New York in the Bronx
at a distance requiring but three more
minutes to reach than the National league
grounds in that city.
Arthur Irwin, the University of Penn
~ l IA Goach, mas been made an umpire
IN the National league.
Pitcher Jack Taylor, Of Chicago. is one
o q the best pinch hitters in the profess
In order to prevent National league
RAID on the Boston American team PreSi
cent ) ohnson has already secured the sig
Warner, Stahl, Parent, Ferris. DougheTtv,
daGnan nee freeman and Gleason to 1908
Cleveland, it is said, has SIGNED Taioia
dof lhfee more years at a salary of SIS, 600
George Tebeau is thinking of buiIdinp
seven acres of slyscraners with t ti1e
profits Prof his Louisville team will make him
this year. -
Charley Conisl1ey is coaching his cham
pion Chicago team now, and homes ses'' n
nave them in winning form for the LAST
eastern trip just started.
The now famous O'Neil brothers arc
natives of Pennsylvania. There thev have
participated in all the joys that come to
the men who have to work for living in
- heystone state. They have worked
IN the mines, played football and attend
eel college.
Rube WaddeHs name is linked with a.
nl1 t 70 and n, one different tales. The lat
est Is to the effect that the cratic twirIer
viii tread the boards of the variety STAGE
this winter.
The executive committee Of the No
t u LEA league met in Boston and decided
TO abolish the reserve rule as it applies To
those players claimed by league Gins he
who = haT Ne, deserted during the past two
years This is another direct slap at tI1e
Brooklyn club which has been ini11red
most mos by assertions and has about twenty
SIX deSerteTs on its list Manager FIar1lan
said recently, however that he had not
been asleep and intimated that he had
peen LOOKING out for next season. This
decision, nevertheless, puts the local
magnates severely on the defensive.
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Secretary Hedges, Of the St. Louis
americans, says the refusal of Frank
Roblson to recognize the American league
does not worry him a bit, but if he is
game g3s f he win accept the challenge to play
Vic Willis says the American leagpe has
olLered him any price he may name. with
al q D1lck mouse thrown in for good meas
ufe, TO go with it next season. Pefhans
Ban Johnson would like to keep Vic as a