The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-13

The latest gossip I'M big league circles
Is tnat Ned Ecntun VIII manage the New
Acrk American league club az the LARGEST
saiafF ever paid a man In his pOsltloA-
Secretary Frank Farrell who has now
got gun control of che club. did not ike
the way Clarke Griffith handled the
players last season. Griffith had carte
blanche i'm signing talent and he grabbed
every star he could find and paid tnQr-
nous salaries. In face of this lavish eC-
pCn0iture his team was not one-tWO-
three. which was the source Of Keen dis
appointment to the owners OF the club
HarlOn is generally recognized IS the
peer of managers, and rs Farrell has
been taking him automobling frequently
of late. the gossips figure that they will
come 10 terms for next season.
Evidently Mike FISHER. the Sacramento
baseball uaCnate, is not meeting with
much success i'm trying TO put team IN
Tacoma for the Pacific Coast league.
Mike left Sacramento with blare or
Lrumpets and expected 20 be. welcomed 70
Tacoma with a shower of roses but in
stead got the icy hand from the sporting
writers Of the coast town Now Mike u
trying 70 get sympathy from EotL !lnQ
the hot bed of the outlaws. as this rs
what the Portland Telegram has TO say
about the matter.
Mike Fisher evidently realizes that he
will meet with opposition IN Tacoma when
lac goes to establish a baseball team
there, for he stated before he started mat
he would endcaVOr 20 secure the assist
ance OF Portland and Seattle men, who
are In baseball in the northwest For
some reason. possibly because Lucas has
opposed TO the Pacific CoasC league COM
ing into their city. AS il ts practlcally
their only hope for baseball, the stand or
the sporting writer's IS peculiar, to say
the least and for their own salres, as
well as for that Of the entire northwest
it is to be hoped they viii see the error
o. their way Is 70 0e Pen aaI b es .ic
strengthened by the admission OF .Lacoma
into the league. as IL WiI give thl6 emu
of the circuit better standing. but the
city Of Destiny is apt 10 stand in It's own
light II it fails TO accept the proposition
that viii be made
Jack Christie. the well known local
boxer. is anxious to get into the game
again. Christie has written Jimmy tlypn
at Pueblo asking for a match "ith ttynh
to be pulled off in the Colorado town.
Flynn and Christie have boxed together
in this city in training, and the local man
has q pretty good idea Of what Ftyhn can
do. Christie thinks tl%nn mas roy N
proved any more than he has, and that
in a twenty-rOund 90 he could deLeat inc
Colorado champion
Danny Sullivan Of California is after
Herrera for a fight. Herrera IS now doing
his own management and says ne VIII ac-
cOmmOdate Sullivan. A deposit has beeh
made for the contest, but the men nave
not met and signed articles
1t Is stated that the Denver franchise
in the Western may yet be sold by Pack
ard to AicheIe, who it is said is working
I'm the interest Of the Cripple creek mil
liOnaire mine owner. Aichele and Pack
ard met last week and had the zeal an
but made when Packard held OUT toi
a larger purchase price. It is tnougnL,
however. that Packard and Alchele VIII
get together within q couple or weeks
and the deal VIII then be cOnsummated-
Roy Hartsel. who played with the Lo-
gan team two years ago, has signed win
Packard to play with the Denver team
next yen.
George Gardner wants another chance
at the .sOld man TIE Celtic youth Is
out with a def to meet Fitzsimmons IN
a return match. The COrnishman mas
said that his fighting days are over and
it is not likely that he will agree 20 box
Gardner nor anyone else again Snoulu
such match be arranged, IN view OF lhe
miserable fight the two put up In san
/ Francisco. it is not likely that 1t would
receive any support.
( PLAYING indoor baseball this winter with
a fast professional team of that city. He
also states that he has had several OF
/ fers for next year, but has not yet signed
Emmett Drake and Jack Grim are hav-
ing a busy time in Portland with the
I courts up there The grand stand ahG
fence of the defunct Portland baseball
]
and the league contractors have sued
I Grim and Drake for the amount.
lack Grin, ex-manaRer of the Salt
/ Lake baseball club. has rushed into prin.
I in Portland trying TO prove tnaL ms parl
I in the DOnahue deal was merely JnaL ~
( q friend Of Donahue and that he did not
try I'm any way TO give Salt Lake the
I worst Of 10. He says that the separate
/ contract held BY Donahue was signed by
/ him and Drake in January, ana tnal
therefore DOnahUe was free at the enc
Y Of the season. Grim, however, fails to
state why the agreement was not put or
/ record as required By the constitution OF
[ the Pacific National league If II was
\ signed at the time he says It was. and hS
I also fails to say why he did not inform
/ the owners Of the Portland franchise o.
7 the deal Grim S. now in Portland anc
/ does not seem 20 like the way his name
/ has been mentioned in connection with
the affair
The Portland Telegram published {
I story to the effect that Butte and SAL
I Lake are sick Of baseball and VIII no
I year Tor this reason The article says
] that Salt Lake lost big Wad Of money
I last year and VIII not have a team tnii
I year. The writer Of the article shou-e
I take a lay-of and examine the RECORDS
ON file at the county court house, Wher'
he would see that the Salt Lake club hai
been incorporated since the close Of TIN
/ season for $1,000. of which amount $500
is already paid up. and that the club ha
I IOr It's president oaInuel NeWAOuSe, Alll
/ lionaire mine owner. Does this look a
I II salt Lake was ready to qlntE
Since It was announced that Herrcr
and Bishop had split up in business, tn
sports in Butte are trying 10 get tn
Mexican to come back there and fight
Herrera is well thought Of in Montan'
and he can do better IN the lighting gam
there than any place he may go.
George Engle. who pitched for the Sal
Lake club at the close Of the season, i
now in Cincinnati. He states that he
/ Bob Lowe. the former captain Of tn
Boston and Chicago National leagu
teams, may be the manager Of the 81
| Louis Cardinals next season Lowe !
being considered for the place whic
has been filled by Patsy Donovan for sew
eraI years, because Of the dissension
that have arisen among the members o