The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-16
DOPE OF THE DAY

ANDY OYLER will play with Minneapolis,
but not on Sunday Further changes of mind
are to be expected
1T is WONDERFUL what a victory will do.
''We intend to keep on the trail Of those New
Yorks all season. said President Shettsline az
ter the game with the giants Friday. That's
good. There will be six other clubs making the
resolution.
POOR CINCINNATI! Looks like the same old
story for yorktown. The greatest club in the
world before the season opens, but after the
start it's the small end of the score for the
reds. Still, the season is young
THEY SAY in Philadelphia that when D1f.
fy's crowd gets to hitting the club will be
every bit good as New York.
COMPLAINTS ARE being filed in the Quaker
city about Bresnahan working his old trick of
getting hit with the ball. He leans over the
rubber just the pitcher lets the ball go. The
umpires are urged to nip this trick before Roger
piles up too many runs for the giants. Honest
ly tho, is Bresnahan's habit Of getting hit any
worse than Roy Thomas habit Of foulng off the
good ones?
MATHEWsON WILL not>be able to pitch for
at least two weeks. NcGraw says: "We can
easily spare him for that length of time at pres
emit. Don't worry .~-~.
Z BOSTON WILL LOSE good in Abbat-
ticchio. Tenney's club offered the great short
stop the advance demanded some time ago,
but he now refuses to play ball for any amount.
He will go into the hotel business With his
father.
+ CINCINNATI CRITICS say that Chances team
| is strong in every department Of the game, and
that the cubs will undoubtedly be dangerous con-
| tenders for the pennant. There Is not a weak
| spot on the line, according to the CINCINNATI
| writer's.
INFIELDER CLYDE ROBINSON. signed this
| week by Pittsburg, once played on the Washing
| ton, Pa, team in the Interstate league.
| THE MEMBERS of the Pittsburg and Cncin-
| natl baseball clubs will attend the vaudeville
%h1 or6 hNJ1Sn 11eoC.
| day evening, opening day, as the guests of Man.
ager Harry Davis.
PITTENGER, the phillies pitcher, went to
Carlisle to watch the Indians play their first
game, which they Won Roy, the Indian pitcher
signed by the phillies. did splendid work. The
Indians were coached by Pittenger
| LARRY LAJOIE has fixed his batting or
der, and says he will not change it bel fore June
| /, no matter how things CO. Jimmy Collins holds
| the record for making few shifts in his batting
lists. r.
"A YOUNG MAN known in st. Louis as ICY
Young Ill., has been given the tin-can by the
| local leaguers. In this case the name did not
| help him a bit.
PRESIDENT DREYFUss has made bet
| with Sam Lever the batting average the
Goshen man will have the coming season. Lever
| thinks he is showing evidence Of doing some
tail swattng when the championship games
begin.
PITCHER McCLOsKEY has been suffering
| from sore arm since he pitched that
| game in the rain at Columbus The big fellow
| is coming around all right, and will be in
shape when the regular season opens.
WILLIE KELLER has invested some Of his
| surplus wealth in the Montreal club Unlike
Mr. Carnegie, Bill does not believe it a sin to
| die rich.
! GRIMSHAW is swatting the ball with consist
| ency for the Boston Americans. He is sure to
play first base for the former champions, which
| returns Freeman to the outheld
| MANAGER TENNEY is elated over Abba
ticchio agreeing to return to the beaneaters this
| season. His batting will clean up many game
| for Boston,
fast company. He is James, first baseman who
played with Seattle last James is 1e
years old, and in the south made impressive
record.
| PITCHER JOE HARRIS of the Bostons says
he owes great deal of his success as a pitcher
to the able coaching Of Pitcher Bill Carrick OF
| the Fall River club, who goes to Newark this
year.
TREASURER FRANK FARRELL of the New
York Americans is considering Lakewood, N. J..
as a, training place for the highlanders next
| it would not answer the purpose.
JOE NEALON, the pirate first baseman Is {
lover of the ponies, his father being the owner
Of several racing nags. Manager Clarke will
have to to it that his new man pays more
attention to baseball averages than to horse
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