Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-17
IOWA LEAGUE GOSSIP
Manager Niles, of ottumwa,
Names a Signed List of
Nineteen Players
NILES HAS A HARD JOB
Esan Will Trot Out His "champs"
March s1-opens at Sioux City
Hess Goes to Sioux city-snook Ac.
cepts Davenport Contract - Boone
Gets the "Terrible swede."


State League teams are making public
the men who will uphold the stand.
ards of the various clubs thru the COM
ing season. One of the latest to an
nounce his men is Manager Niles, of
= Ottuanwa The players signed by Niles
are:
Catchers-Corbett, Patterson, KEEL
lar.
Pitchers-Lemke, schopp, Teel,
Dwyer, Lowell, Doyle, Heenan, Grin
die.
Short Stop-Plake.
First base-Hoffmeiste Ittig, Man
ager Niles.
Second base-Legge.
Third, base-Hosner
Left field-Hildebrand
4 Center field-Spencer.
Right field-Everett, Manager Niles.
4 OF these the old men are Corbett,
4 Lempke, Schopp, Teel, Plake, Hoff-
"A meister Spencer and Everett.
incidentally Miles has the hardest
proposition of any manager in the
league. A new man, he must turn out
a winning team or an awful cry of
comparison with what Snapper" did
i'm previous years will go up from the
fans Of Ottuanwa.
Egan, of Burlington, is to have two
4 squads in the field during the early
days of the conditioning season. By
] the way, Egan will have his bunch
trotted out earlier than amy of the 9TH
ers. Egan will take one layout -
Sioux City to play THE Packers March
81 and April !. Then he will lead them
against South Omaha on April 2. While
The is fighting the Onlahas at Omaha,
Third Baseman Richards in charge of
the other squad will put his men up
against Chicago White Sox at Burling-
ton on April g A second game with
Cominskey's men will be played at Bur-
lington April 8. If one might judge by
| quantity Egan ought to have sure
enough winning bunch, when he finally
gets them sorted out
Tommy Hess, with both Waterloo
1 and Oskaloosa last year, and one of the
best back stops that ever donned a
4 mask in the Iowa circuit, during those
| epochs when he, kept on the water
wa gon, will be given a trying out by
Carney, of Sioux City. Hess finally in
duced Patterson, of Oskaloosa to re-
lease him, and nov Hess says he will
never drink another drop and has made
arrangements whereby he forfeits
most of his salary.if he does.
|
| Joe Shook, with the Grays in 1904,
and of the Burlington team during
a part of 1905, until he fell off the wa
| ter wagon and "got his nose wet" will
be seen with Davenport of the Three
T. league, this year-if he makes good.
After Burlington dropped him last sea-
son he went to the "Three l. Joe is
one of the keenest, headiest catchers
4 that ever wore protectors in the Iowa
league.
Dummy" Burson, of the Fort Dodge
and Waterloo teams of former years,
| has signed to play in the Kentucky,
Illinois and Tennessee League this sea-
son. Burson is good, but his lack of
complete assortment of senses is a Sc
rious handicap to him.
/
Neither Deacon Lohr nor Shour, of
the Microbes of last year, have as
vet accepted Waterloos terms and may
not do so. 1t is case of either come
in or stay out in the "brush." The
waterloo management proposes to
hold them or force them into outlaw
company or to independent teams.
| johnson, Boone's manager. has
signed Pete Peterson, of Story City.
better known as the Terrible Swede,"
who has been the "whole show" iii.
| the twirling line in and around Story
| City for two or three years. Peterson
| has had it in him to make the divers
brushite teams which have gone
| against him look like they never saw
curve before. Year before last War
ner tried to get Peterson's signature
attached to local contract and make
Gray out of him, but he baked and
put up talk about salary the size of
which would indicate that he had been
in league company with the oldest of
! them.
George Pennington, who played short
and second base for Boone during the
past two seasons has left the Iowa
league. He has landed the manage
ment of st. Louis Independent team
and will confine his base ball activities
to that city during the coming season.
Doctors are Puzzled.
The remarkable recovery of Kenneth
McIver, of Vanceboro, Me-, is the sub
ject of much interest to the medical