The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-09
Sporting Spiel.

ara tne story mat JOnn CAMEL has
signed to act as manager and player
of the Cincinnati team next season.
Billy Maloney. the Brooklyn out
fielder. has been making some great
plays of late. His work was especial
ly brilliant in the series with Cincin-
natl.
According to advices received from
Cincinnati, Fred Abbott, of the Toledo
club. will be traded to the Reds for
Pat Livingstone.
Mike Grady, the St. Louis National
league catcher. will be released, as
Marshall and Noonan have him beaten
out for the backstopping position.
Jimmie McAleer will not remain in
st. Louis to see his boys play the fall
series with the Cardinals. The
worlds series for him.
The Cleveland critics say the more
one sees of young Birmingham, out
fielder, secured from the A. j. G. club,
the better he looks.
The Maps are well represented with
sluggers in the 300 class, as Clark,
Lajoie, Flick and Congalton are all
inside the select circle.
Umpire O'Laughlin is again a candi-
date for state senator from Rochester,
N. Y, with excellent chance of getting
there this time.
| Pitcher Frank Donahue of Detroit,
says he considers Dusty" Rhoades.
of Cleveland, the premier pitcher of
the country this season.
The foul strike rule Is again coming
/ up for discussion, and, as usual, Ban
! Johnson is against the troublesome
rule, which he declares spoils the most
attractive feature of the game, base
! stealing.
The list of signed and reserved play
ers of the National teams for 1907
shows that 209 men have signed.
| Pittsburg leads with 81 men, while the
Reds are second with 36.
The Chicago players think McGraw
would brace up his team IL he would
| jump in and play second base himself.
They say he ought to be good for sew
eral years of playing yet.
/ The shift of Pete O'Brien, of the
! Browns, from second base to third
base, has proven decidedly good one,
as his value to the team has been in
creased fully IS per cent.
4 Tim Murnane is of opinion that
"O'Loughlin has fallen off in his work
! as an umpire" and that Conway has
improved gradually until today he is
one of the best umpires in the bust
! ness"
Pitcher Louis Shelter, of Youngs-
town, on Sept. Is. pitched and won
double-header from Newark, scoring
(. two shutouts. In the final game Shet-
tier allowed only four hits, as against
three by his own team off Pitcher
Linke; in the second Shelter yielded
but five hits.
The Chicago players have an addi-
tional incentive to win the worlds
championship series this fall, and get
the $1,000 or SO due the winner All
the members of the team except Evers
and Schultz are married, and the
$1,000 would come in handy for coal
bills during the cold winter.
Pitcher Glaze, the collegian, of Bos-
ton. has the most peculiar delivery of
any pitcher in the game. In winding
up he appears to twist his arm to the
back of his neck as though trying to
button his collar. Then he ducks his
head as though somebody had yellow
low BRIDGE" after which he throws
the ball.
Chadbourne is real American
Lacquer now. The new second base
man Of the Bostons was nipped Off
first by Altrock in the second inning of
the game at Chicago, Sept "a. All
new players have to be initiated by
Mick" in that fashion before they are
entitled to all the privileges of the
organization.
Manager Jack Dunn, of the Proyi-
dence club, speaks very highly of
Charley Wagner, the player drafted by
the Boston Americans. "If he were
my man." says Dunn, II would play
him at second. He is great ground
coverer, has wonderful arm, is death
on thrown balls; in fact, fills the bill
to T."
The New York Herald has prepared
table showing the number of times
players have been elected by the UNI
pires for kicking or other unseemly
conduct The table of clubs which
follows shows the Giants to be the
champion kickers of the world; New
York. 80; St. Louis, &c; Philadelphia.
81; Brooklyn, 2; Chicago. S; Boston,
3 and Pittsburg, 1. That st. Louis and
Philadelphia should have had so many
kicking cases comes in the nature of