Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-03-26
Gossip of Base Ball
and Other Sports n ~

John Katon. the former White Sox
pitcher, will again be with the Mime.
apolis team this year.
Charles Farrell has announced his
acceptance of an offer to catch for the
Boston American league team.
The national board of arbitration
has awarded Arndt, the Baltimore out
fielder. t. Columbus. He was claimed
by Peoria.
The Chicago team found Brother Joe
Corbett's slants yesterday and the
pride of the Pacific coast was easily
defeated by a score of s to 0.-Denver
Post.
The American league will open the
season in the west on May IL, as fol
lows: Philadelphia at Chicago, Wash.
ington at st. Louis. New York at De.
troit, and Boston at Cleveland.
Manager Tom Delehanty might take
his boys out to the park and put them
through a little SNOWFALL practice. This
is anything but base ball weather and
Toms colts are all chatting at the bit.
Henry Killilea, of Milwaukee, owner
of the Boston American league base
ball club. has offered Charles Baird
the position of business manager and
financial secretary of the Boston Tub
Buelow. the Detroit catcher. has
made a wager that his team will win
a majority of the first eight games
9.1-, n1avnlanI an1 that IL will 1naH
the Lajoie bunch at the end of the
year.
Stats" Davis will leave for the Pa
cifc coast tomorrow morning, provid-
ing. OF course, he gets his transporta-
ton today. "Slats" is booked to play
with Portland and, incidentally, catch
a few salmon in the Columbia river.
Jimmy Callahan, Comiskey's star
pitcher, has been selected to lead the
Chicago American league base ball
team during the coming season. The
appointment was not a surprise, for
Gal" was considered the legitimate
successor to Clark Griffith.
President Packard, of Denver, an
nounces that he has the following
pitchers signed for this season: Whit
tredge. Lempke, McCloskey, Webster,
CASTOR and Barber. That ought to be
enough, and looks like the best array
of slabsters in the Western League.
Charles Schwartz, Seattle's second
baseman, was seriously injured while
at bat in a ball game between Seattle
and a local team. He was hit on the
temple by a pitched ball and was rem
dered unconscious and is now in a de-
lirious condition. Conclusion of the
brain is feared.
Fred Starkey, a base ball player
who played shortstop in the Albuquer.
que tournament, in 1900, passed
through the city this morning en-
route from Los Angeles, where he has
been playing. to Pueblo. Colo, where
he will hitch up with the Colorado
Fuel & Iron team of that city.
Fred Raymer, a well known member
OF the Albuquerque Browns of a form
er tournament, in company wife his
wife and son, left this morning for
Columbus, o., after spending yester-
day in the city the guest of Charles
'Quier. Mr.. Raymer has signed with
the Columbus American association
team for the coming year.
Manager James d. Burbridge, of the
new theater at Jacksonville, Fla, has
arranged with "Rube" Waddell, Bender
and Shrek, the battery for the Phila-
delphia Athletics, for an exhibition of
curves and an explanation of how bat
tiers are deceived. This will be between
acts on two or three Saturday nights,
when In Old Kentucky will be pre-
scented.
The contention of Manager Dale
Gear. of the Kansas City club, that
Catcher Woods, signed by the Milwau'
kee Association club, belongs to the
Blues, because he was first claimed by
Tebeau is denied by Manager Cantil-
Ion. The Milwaukee man says that
Tebeau had no business to claim him
until he was released, and therefore
The Brewers will hold Woods.
The Washington American league
team is signed up as follows: Setback,
left field; Ryan, center field; Delahan-
ty. right field; Coughlin, third base;
De Montreville, second base; Carey,
first base; Robinson Qrom Kansas
City, and Moran (from Georgetown
university, shortstops; Jack Clark,
Orth, Townsend, Patten and Lee,
pitchers; Bill Clark and Drill, catch
ers.
La grippe coughs Yield quickly to
the wonderful curative qualities OF
Foley's Honey and Tar. There is moth