Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-11-09
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explain the poor showing of Brooklyn
on the base ball map. The manage
ment is said to expect to secure good
players as are on the New York team
and at one-fifth of the financial out
lay.
Mathewson was the only pitcher in
the National League to let the oppos-
ing batsmen down without a hit, while
Henley, Smith and Dineen performed
the feat in the American League.
The major league drafting eason
has closed, but the Glass A league sea
sen is open, and the way the fellows
further down the line are losing play
ers is a sin and a shame. 1t is a game
whereby the stronger feast on the
weaker. The fellows way down there
at the bottom probably goes out and
kicks the dog by way of relieving his
pent up feelings.
Harry Newmeyer, a southpaw, of
Denver, who quit the game while play
ing with Waterloo. Ia. because his
salary was cut, has signed a contract
to pitch for Pittsburg next season.
Fred Clarke owns a 1,000-acre farm
in Kansas, and is spending his idle
moments watching his hired men
string a wire fence around it. Among
other agricultural implements Clarke
possesses a steam pillow that turns a
dozen burrows at once
Mertes owns a newspaper route in
Frisco, his contract calling for the
delivery of all the papers to the vari-
Gus news stands in the town.
DIR. Edward w Hagyard, for years
veterinarian at the Bitter Root stud
in Montana, will start a thoroughbred
breeding establishment near Lexing-
ton, KY, and will have at the head the
famous f~our-year-old English stallion,
st. Lawrence, by st. Galien, dam by
Hampton. The mares which will com
prise the establishment are a number
that were purchased from the estate
of Marcus DAILY.
wild Bill" Donovan, the Detroit
pitcher, is a t~eetotaler. Early in life
he promised his mother never to touch
liquor and he has kept that pledge
with absolute fidelity. Donovan cred
its his fine physical condition largely
to the fact that he never tastes in
%toxicants.
Catcher Kittredge is hunting big
game in the woods of Maine. He eX'
poets to remain up there until time for
him to go-to Raleigh, n. c., to coach
the base ball squad of the Agricul.
tural and Mechanical college of that
city.
Judge Borwell of Los Angeles, in
handing down an opinion in a suit be-
tween Diamond Joe" Costen and his
Partner, p. j. German. bookmakers
and race horse owners, said the evil
dence showed that the conditions and
relations existing between hosemen,
bookmakers and professional gamblers
are such that the public is simply a
fool to place its money in any races
there with any hope of winning. The
judge said the evidence showed the
races to be run on the sure thing
plan, and that only suckers" try to
beat the game.
The fact hat Duncan II. Browne,
right tackle of the Columbia eleven,
played an entire half in the game with
Princeton with a broken collar bone
has occasioned considerable comment
There is no doubt that Browne dis,
played not a little fortitude by his
act, but he showed considerable more
damfoolishness in risking the posi-
bility of further injuring himself. A
player who wantonly risks injuring
himself is entitled to little commiser
llOn should ne De disabled.
Joe Nealon, first baseman of the
San Francisco team, denies that he
has signed a contract with the Chi
cago team. Manager Clarke of Pitts
burg is said to have offered Nealon
$4,000 to play next season with his
team.
The students of Amherst college
have taken up fencing and a class OF
80 students is being instructed in the
rudiments of the art. The Italian style
of fencing is being followed, as it is
considered much superior TO that OF
the German.
The outlaws of the Tri-state League
are flirting with Charley Hemphill OF
the st. Louis Americans, and say they
will get him ii money is any induce.
ment for him to draw away, from the
big league.
President Ban Johnson has stayed
the fluttering of the Chicago heart
over the rumor that the American
League headquarters were to be re-
moved to New York. He said the east.
ern owners had tried to get him to
leave Chicago, but he preferred living
in that town to New York. He yolun-
teered no reason for his preference.
The people of Kingston, Jamaica.
saw their first game of Ease ball the
other day, when rival teams from the
cruisers Denver and Yankee played
an exciting game. in which the en,
thuslasm Of the spectators was equal
to that OF the players.
The Georgetown University faculty
will return the silver cup won from
the English in the 50-yard dash by
Arthur Duffey in 19OO-l-2. The Eng
lish amateurs are greatly interested in
Duffey's confession that he was a pro
fessional while claiming to be al am
ateur His English records will be eX'
plunged, as his American records were.