Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-11-18
%In The Field Of Sports y
Baseball


Barney Dreyfnss wants a 140-gamc
schedule next season.
Jerry Nops is pitching for Frank
leonard's All-Americans at Havana.
Big Bill Massey, who was a Red dur
ing the last days of the Comiskey admin
istration, is running a candy store in
Toronto.
Mayor Fleischmann must think pretty
| well of the 1905 edition of the Redlegs,
/ for he has laid bet that they will finish
in front of New York;
st. Jacob Beckley is at Los Angeles
and will do a little work at the Ascot
meeting instead of going to New Orleans.
as was his original intention.
'Truck'' Eagan, who played a brief
engagement al the big league, broke his
arm at Los Angeles while trying to
touch out Frank Chance. He will be out
Of it the rest of the season.
7Jimmy Rayn absolutely refuses to get
out of the game. 1t is up to Ryan or
Tom DAILY as to which is the older player
in the business. Ryan has secured the
franchise of the Evansville Club, and
will be a player-manager.
Manager Hanlon will endeavor to pick
out a nine from his fifty -four varieties
10 play the Detroits next spring down
south. Ned should hire a tect for his
ounch of talent. There is no hotel in
Columbia that could house the crowd.
Chris Won der Abe has made another
bile of ducats and wants to get into base
oaii again. There seems a possible open
ing for him right in st. Louis. 'Del
Boss would be welcomed into the fold
again. There were many worse than
good old Chris.
Baseball follows the flag, Away out
in the Sandwich Islands there is a base
Yah league that is having a very inter
4sting race. The third baseman of the
best team in the league is a fuli-blood
Chinaman, and he is said to be the besi
player on the team.
The Pacific Coast League is having
a struggle for the championship that
equals the recent American League race
in closenes9. Tacoma and Oakland are
about a tie, while Los Angles is only a
game or two behind. The season will
close in about two weeks.
George Tebeau is clinging to the anti
quated ante-war claim list. He is trying
to block a triangular deal in which the
Detroit Club wants to give Infield
O'Leary for Robinson and Martin Glen
don. Tebeau declares he will not allow
Robinson to play in the Colonies. Chair
man Tebeau, of the national board, is on
his way to Denver to spend Thanksgiving.
It now develops that Iron Man Joe
McGinnity signed a two-year contract
with New York and Is working a new
gag to get a supplemental raise. He is
quoted as making the declaration that
If he completed a deal at South McAllis-
ter, Indian Territory, he would Ego into
business and retire from baseball.
The Iron Man has been of q retiring
disposition every winter for years and
during the war jumped so often that it
kept a fellow cross-eyed following him
IL IdISy OOuOVdn COdcuGS lrOm Tue
bench next season, as he says he intends
to do, the American League will have
but four playing managers-Griffiths,
Collins, Lajole and Fielder Jones. The
National League will have the n ne num-
deficiency, KelleJ, Nichols and Clarke.
Hugh Duffy, who will again manage
the National team in Philadelphia next
year, is making every effort to get to-
gether a team which will be able to cope
successfully with the strong clubs of
Duffy's first step in this direction
is to opening negotiations with the st.
Louis National League Club to secnre
Jack Taylor, who, 1t is under
stood, is anxious to leave the Worlds
Fair city. 1t is understood that Duffy is
to give Outfielder Titus, Pitcher
Frank Sparks and a money consideration
for Taylor.