Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-06-28
SPORTING ITEMS
BASEBALL.

Manager Ransick of the Augusta club.
| South Atlantic league, has been succeed
ed by Richard Crozier.
Waivers have been asked for Jake
Beckley. He will likely go to the Johns
town club of the Tri-State league.
Freddie Weeks of Cripple Creek was
given the decision over bantam weight
Jimmy Walsh of Boston in Il ten-round
! go at Denver Athletic club.
Pitcher Will Fisher, farmed by the
! South Bend club of the Central league
to Richmond has been loaned to Evans
/ vile.
! President Carson of the Central ieague
| has signed Umpire LOngley, formerly OF
the american association, to succeed
Jack Daub.
Umpire O'CcnheH is seriously i'll at St.
Johns hospital in Springfield, ILL.,, and
Alien has been assigned by President
| Holland to work in the Central league.
In a decision handed down the Nation
al baseball commission decided i'll favor
of player Zena Clayton in his claim
against the st. Louis National club for
money which he claimed is due him.
Tom McDonough, manager of Dave
DeshIer. has accepted an offer from the
new Polo A. c. at New York for Desh-
| Ter to box Andy McGarry in Il week or
| two. DeSher wants another meeting
with Charley Neary.
| Pitcher Kaiser has been transferred by
| the HOughtOn team of the Copper league
to Calumet and the latter has released
| Pitcher Knutse l. Con Lewis. former
captain of the University of Wisconsin
team, has signed with Calumet.
President Carpenter of the Tri-State
! league has taken up the case of Third
| Baseman Odell of Lancaster, who
slapped Umpire Finneran i'll the face
with his glove and received Il beating
from Finneran. Odell was fined 500 and
suspended five days.
Lave Cross, who was released by
| Washington last week, has signed to
play with New Orleans. Jim Delehanty.
since joining Washington. Cantillon has
sent Blankenship on Il scouting trip
through the Western leagues.
Jack Thoney of the Toronto Baseball
! club of the Eastern league, has been
| traded to the Boston Americans in cX-
change for First Baseman Grimshaw
and Second Baseman Schlahy, the latter
recently purchased from Washington.
| Thoney was with indianapolis two years
ago.
The application for reinstatement by
| his contract with the MarshalltoWn
| 1owa) club. and for that reason had
! been declared ineligible, has been granted
! by the national commission. He is TO
be reinstated on the payment OF tine
Of $50.
Last year Stcvanus Kane was about
the poorest excuse Of an umpire ON Joe
O'Briens staff. This year he has been
showing up in great style In fact he has
done better and more satisfactory work
than KERN. Sullivan or Werden and
Just as good as Jack Egan.-Toledo
/ News-Bee.
Bill Armour is hot under the collar
Some Of the Toledo hoodums insist on
throwing cushions and q man was
knocked senseless by one Of them Sun
day. Armour announces that he will ar
rest any man caught throwing cushions
hereafter, and he will be prosecuted to
the full extent of the Iaw.-Toledo Bee.
The Terre Haute club of the Central
| league has released Pitcher Martin and
signed Donthett, twirler of the Rose
polytechnic team. 4 deal is under way
| to secure Stevenson Of the St. Louis
Americans. who pitched one game. a
shut-out one, for Terre Haute, but who
is now under an agreement to make the
eastern trip with the Browns.
1t develops that neither Of the pitch
ers that Ashenbach got from Cincinnati
have reported. Minahan is not in shape
and Vinegar Bill ESsick is hanging
around Cincinnati playing the races. Both
men were offered $500 a month less than
they We're getting at Cincinnati. After
Essick had been transferred TO St. Paul
an offer for him came from New Orleans
at the same salary ne was getting before.
Columbus Post.
Ed Minahan has changed his mind,
and is dissatisfied with the arrange
ment by which he is sold TO the St.
Paul American association club. The
ILL In
mann to register a robust kick against
going to St. Paul. The reason is that
Eddy Ashenbach, acting from the owners
of the Saints. has cut Minahan's salary
800 per month. However, Edward viii
play just the same.