The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-08-17
Big League Dope

was Rucker tlrst app cara nee on
1.-THE PittsbuFg grounds. He wCald
have made q bigger hit with the fans
|if he had postponed it
Washington introduced q new catch
er named Block yesterday. It is te
BE hoped his headYork VIII not be q
the sort sugg estel by his handle 4
Catcher WilliamJ James, Of the Wash
lngton P. o. N. league, former cap
tain Of the w. g j. football team has
been bought BY the New York Nation;
ais.
That s2sO0o,OOO fine seems to have
made a lot Of people carless with Sg.
ures. We are told seriously that Ne
Graw paid $500 for an outaeldsr IN
the Meridian, Miss club Of the Cot
ton State League.
Owner Doyey, Of the Boston club
has signed three members of the St.
Louis White Seals Club, semtpro.
Organization. One of them, Jimmy
Reardon, has a great reputation in the
west as an all7around athlete.
Pittsblrg his purchased Third Base.
man William McKechnie, of the WASH
Iington P. o. M. league, who is vii.
kinsburg boy and a very promising
ball player. He is expected to join
the Pirates in the east this week,
Catcher Mike Kahoe has been re.
leased Internationally by the Chicago
Cubs. He has been going along easily
all summer with this team drawing his
salary. 1t looks now as If Oils, the
youngster, is to catch the exhibition
games in the future,
Charley Carr is out with a denial Of
all the stories about his being traded
or cold to this, that or the other club.
He also denies that he intends TO quit
the game, and says that nothing has
yet been said to him about managing
Indianapolis another season.
Wagner, the young shortstop of the
Boston club, is holding the illustriuas
name as a great player Dan Brouth-
ers' dragnet has scooped up a second
baseman of the same nme up in Mich
ign; who will be with the Giants next
spring. Brouthers thinks he is a won
der.
Joe, CandIlon has picked up an out
fielder in a very minor league club,
name of Kay, and intends to make a
first sacker out Of him. ans are still
trying to figure out why major league
managers pick up minor league catch.
ers and then fire them because they
fail to make good as third basemen
or pitchers.
There is certainly conspiracy
against Hughey jennings and his IT.
gers,F says an American league man.
Ban Johnson has ruled that Jennings
can't cheer his men with a whistle.
May be all right, but don't see why it
is anybody eIses business If Jennings
prefers coaching bis men with a steam
Siren
Walter Burnham, manager of the
Newark, N. j., Eastern league club,
is in P1ttsburg and admits that he
came to watch the work of several
players in the P. o. NJ. league, who
were tipped OF to him as being ripe
for faster company. He says he has
just secured Pitcher Willets from De-
troft-
The news that Detroit will attempt
Sunday ball playing win be welcomed
in the American league, and viii make
the Michigan city one of the best draw
ing cards in the organization. With
Sunday bah in Detroit that town
should hold its own with all others.
New York will play in Detroit for the
first Sunday game.
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agents generally operate among the
more ignorant Italians, and only in
few cases threaten intelligent Aneri-
caaf=ed people Of that race. Local.
Italians do not belleey mat they will.
attempt to carry out any threats,
since the facts Of their attempted
operations here have become known
1t is said that some of the smaller
stockholders In the fruit company
favored paying the society," he money
demanded 10 save their lives and