Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-03-23
Local Notes.

CONSIDERABLE ACTIVITY In baseball DO
ings in Albuquerque this season.
Local Notes.
Pitcher Fettes, who played with the
Santa Fe team last year, has signed
with the Denver team of the Western
league.
Bert Julian. who played with the
Albuquerque Browns for two seasons,
has signed with the Fargo team of the
North Dakota league.
The Roswell team have written to
the Browns for games during their va.
cation trip. If the Browns organize
this crack team will be accommodated.
Harry SOnier. a well known twirler,
who spent the winter here, has gone to
Peoria, III. He will play with the Des
Moines team of the Western league
this season.
Jimmy Williams, who played in this
city several seasons ago. and again
last fair, has signed to play with the
New York American league team for
the coming season.
Billy Clarke, formerly a Santa Fe
boy, who played ball in the New Mex
leo league in the early days, has again
signed to catch for the Washington
American league team. He is consid-
cred one of the best catchers in the
business.
This is a very interesting period in
the base bali season. Teams are being
recognized and players are coming
and going. Base ball fans watch this
period very closely and Judge the
strength of a team according to the
new material added.
Jack Holland, another Albuquerque
boy, prominent in the base ball world,
will arrive here tonight from Pinos
Altos, where he has been spending the
winter, and will GO east to join the
American association team at Column
bus with Raymer.
In New Mexico teams have been
organized in Gallup, Belen, Deming,
Silver City. Fort Bayard, Las Vegas,
Santa Fe, Roswell, Socorro and Ell
Paso. The various teams are being
carefully organized for they know AL.
buquerque will have some crack play
ers this year and plenty of material to
select from.
1t is rumored that an interesting
game will be played in Albuquerque
in a short time between the Insurance
men n Lawyers. A good combina-
ton. The lawyers can bring suit for
damages resulting from personal dam
ages resulting from personal injuries
and the insurance men all carry acct
LEM policies.
Bud Fowler, a colored second base
man, who played with the Santa Fe
team IN the early days. has signed to
play with Page Fence Giants, of Chi
cago this season. This will make his
twenty-eighth consecutive season as a
ball player. On the completion of his
twenty-hfth season A. G.. Spalding, the
sporting goods man, of Chicago, pre-
scented him with a beautiful gold watch
which is valued at $3.50.
Fred Raymer, who has been playing
with the Los Angeles team in the Cali
fornia state league, will arrive in Albu-
querque on Wednesday morning from
the coast n will stay over a couple
of days to talk base ball with his old
friends in this city. Raymer is an old
Albuquerque boy and the base ball en-
thusiasts will be glad to see him. From
here he will go to Columbus. Ohio,
where he will play with the American
association team representing that
city.
The base ball players of this city
have already gotten together to con
slider the organization of the Browns,
but unless the right kind of an organ.
ization can be effected and good play,
ers secured there will be no base bal
team in Albuquerque. But at present
the prospects are bright and the gen
eral opinion is that there will be nc
trouble on that cor If the team i;
organized new suits will be purchased
and some well known business mar
will be made manager. Prospective
players are Roy Mcdonald, Bert Vor
hes, Ed Hale, Jim C~osgrove, Ben Hell
wegg, Robert Barrett, Charles Quier
Ross Merritt, Tony Ortiz, Shepard
GrosvenOr Clarkson, an old college
player as first baseman; a third base
man a ball player. from the east who
would have played in the New YORK
state league this season, but was com