Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-06-08
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Chicago. % S i / 763 pittsbulr y % J. I rs
New New York 26 y ESQ Brooklyn Is - 335
CINCINNATI u - $40 Boston, II - ara
st Louis. IS IS 800 Phillphia 6 20 III
BY an arrangement completed last Sun
day Fielder Jones, center fielder of the
! Chicago White Sox team, became
manager of that body, succeeding James
j. Callahan, who has held the position
for about three years. The change was
! made at Callahans suggestion ana he
was allowed 20 name his successor
! Comiskey announced last Sunday. The
! change was made because of CaNahan's
desire to give the whole of his energy
to the playing of second base to which
he is comparatively new.
Elmer Meredith, the southpaw twirley.
recently signed by the Salt Lake team.
received q bad start at Spokane on Dec
Grafton day. probably due to the fact
that he had spent most of the preceding
week on a railroad train. Better work
can be expected when Meredith gets into,
proper shape.-Salt Lake Tribune.
Pitcher Walter Clarkson Of the Har-
ward university team has received a lib
elal offer to play with the Boston Ameri-
can association at the close Of the college
year, but refused. There is no doubt
if he plays professionally at all it will be
with the Boston team, but he has prac--
ucally decided to go in for civil engineer
ing and give baseball the go-by
Jim Morley of the Los Angeles team
IS now setting up howl that the UNI
pres have been instructed by President
Bert 10 give his team the worst Of it.
The Angels are not having the smooth
sailing this year they had last. and they
are setting up an awful howl because
some of the other teams win some games.
1t is lucky thing for Dillon that lie IS
not on the coast now, for his reputation
as great manager would get several
dents in it. MOrley's talk is silly and he
has been told so in plain Anglo-Saxon
he puts up bluff about wanting to sell
his interests and get out of the league
because he could not get d square deal.
but when he was told that a buyer could
be found in tWenty-four hours, he
changed the subject. Morley started liz
on a shoestring in Los Angeles and Is
now worth thousands Of dollars. He
made it all out Of baseball and would
not think Of letting go of his good thing.
San Francisco Exchange.
There is an outfelder of considerable.
ability with the Cincinnati team who has
never been discovered in fast company.
and who really is playing dual role
without anybody connected with the club
knowing 1t. According to Manager
Buckenberger of the Boston team the
Reds have an excellent outfeder in Tom
Walker, who is signed to pitch for the
team this season and who is expected to-
be one of the star twirlers Of tie aggre--
01tIOn when ln cots rOino riUbt 81 baI
Walker with me in Rochester come years
ago, says Buckenberger He was 4
youngster then, and while he pitched.
good ball there was a feeling all the time
that his arm was not strong enough to
stand the strain of regular work in the
box. Walker was as fearful as anyone.
else regarding the possibility Of losing
the use of his arm for pitching purposes,
so he put in as much of his time as he
possibly could in practicing the outfield.
and IN a very short time he had become
so expert in that territory that [ advised
him to let pitching alone and stick to-
outfleldlng. In making a necessary re-
duction in our playing force Walker, who.
was one of the least experienced men
we had. was turned over to ore of the.
teams III the New York State league.
There we frequently heard Of him for
some extraordinary feat which he accom-
pIlshed IN the outfield. At the same time
he was working as regularly as possible
on the rubber. It would seem that the
strength in his pitching arm increased
with the work he was doing, for we S0On
learned that he had given up his outfield
efforts altogether and was dev9tin~ him
self exclusively to pitching. Judging by
his work at Louisville last season I
should say that there is no twirler in the
business that has much stronger pitch
ing arm than Walker. However if the
time ever should come when Manager
IA oil MIC n fn11 or 10 1o0Ir
farther than Walker
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Tommy Hess, catcher Of the Sioux City
Western league ball team, has been re-
leased. Marshall Of the PHILADELPHIA
National will likely be his successor.
There were over 81 900 people who at
tended the game between New York and
Cincinnati at the Polo grounds in the
Empire city Saturday, the largest crowd
in the history of the game in the Ma
tiOnal league. The attendance at all the
games in the American league and Amer
lean association did not reach that fig
ure Saturday.
Giant Campbell, who weighs only 21O~
pounds and is credited with being one
of Cincinnati's best amateur twirlers, has
been signed to pitch for Toledo.
Harlem's $4,000 National handicap
was won Saturday by James ArthuI's7
Bondage. with Fonsoluca second and
Gregor * third. Lord Badge, divers
eastern entry, was left at the post. The
race. which was the feature of the open
ing day of Harem's spring meeting, was
at mile and three-sixteenths and was
worth $4,000 to the winner.
The fourth annual derby Of the Gen
tlemen's Driving club of Sheboygan will
be held on July 4. AS it is impossible to-
get the new track in condition this sea-
son, the lease on the old half-mle track
has been renewed
frankie Neil, bantam champion of the
world, and Harry Forbes, the lad from
whom he wrested the title, have BEEN
matched to box before the Waverly club
of Chicago June II.
There may be a little intercollegiate
controversy if Wisconsin protests Lehighs
Turner, who is presumed to be slated as;
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