The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-02-14
BASEBALL NOTES.

The National League will carry six
jumps.
Charley Nichols has not yet landed a
job for next season.
The New York Giants will be at Los
Angeles from March 10 2L
More than 67S900 fans paid 10 see the
games in the Southern League last sea-
son.
Thirty-one new managers will be in
charge in the principal leagues next
summer.
Fear not Mike DOnlin viii be in line be-
fore the Giants start the championship
campaign.
Jack King has set up his usual ante
season cry for d raise before he will join
the Chicago Cubs
There is no truth in the report that
Nike Donlin is to play leading parts in
a Shakespearean revival
Not a single Cincinnati player is dis
satisfied with his contract That IS
truly a remarkable team.
If Denny Sullivan doesn't do better
with Boston than he did with the Ma
tiOnals. he won't last long.
Connors. formerly of the American
League; Moran. Bauswine. and Finneran
are the Tri-State League umpires.
Only three Of the 1896 regulars will be
with Providence next season. The hold
overs are Rock, Cronin, and Poland.
Jimmy Manning. who was in charge
Of the local club during its first year in
the American League, is in business
in Kansas City.
II the Pirates drop Beaumont, Lever
will be the only player remaining OF
the gang that Dreyfuss took from
Louisville 10 Pittsburg.
After paying S105. 900 for the Chicago
franchise, players, and ali, Charlie Muir
ply raked in $14S.000 the first year he
was in control of the club
Pittsburg and Cleveland are both
claiming their teams are the highest
salaried in the big league. It is not
hard to tell which plays real baseball
Third Baseman Grant has notified the
Philadelphia Nationals that under no
circumstance Will he report until after
he Is graduated from Harvard in June.
Gilbert, who held his job in the
Giants inield last year. still insists
that he viii not play minor league ball.
lie played that sort Of ball all last
season.
Cy Cummings arises TO announce that
the Suburban League. composed of clubs
from Montgomery County, will be
stronger than ever before during the COM
ing season.
COoney. a Hudson River League
catcher. is tOuted by a New York paper
as being as good a man as Sullivan. Of
the White SOX- Wonder whether the
"a r
made.
This idea of minor league recruits
naming their salaries before they show
that they can hang on in the majors
looks like a turntabling of the old
adage. Catch your hare before you
cook him."
Al Setback says he will not go TO
Trenton unless he gets half OF the pur-
chase money. No one seems to be wor-
rying much whether Setback plays bali
next season or puts IN the summer on
bowling alley.
As Jake StahTs father-in-law is the
president OF a Chicago bank, the born
leader is in the I-dOnt- have- tO-ff-I-
don't-want-to class as a ball player.
Reports from the West have IL that
Jake is making good as a typewriter
salesman.
Sherwood Edmonston, the local boy
who pitched good ball for Cumberland
last season, and who is now under re-
serve for the Nationals. is with a rail-
road company in Baltimore. He has not
yet decided whether he will play ball
next season.
The American Association would like
to put a club in Chicago As a baseball
town the Windy City is one Of the best
on the map. but it IS not likely that
the fans would support a minor league
outfit when they have such teams as
the White Sox and the Cubs
Charles Comiskey believes in sticking
by men who stick by him. His observa-
tons on baseball writer's and on old play
ers are well worth repeating He says:
I stick close TO the baseball writer's who
make the game 1 give them all the news
and never lie 10 them. The baseball critic
who comes TO me always gets a story. 4
few scratches of the pen on an advance
money check 10 a baseball player in Janu-
airy are worth ton and a half of soft
soap and blaTney. Learn 10 stick by
man who sticks by you, and don't cast
off a faithful veteran player who may
save the flag for your club In one hard
fought game. Boston Herald