The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-26

while Bill Bradley and Charley Carr
are the proprietOTs of big winner in
Cleveland. Addie JOSS and Dode Biz
mingham of Cleveland are a trio. of
players who have taken TO the news
paper game as d bread winner during
the winter.
Larry Lajoie for the past three years
has been a successful publisher.
Hans Wagner of Pittsburg one of
the greatest players the game has ever
produced. is taking things easy this
winter Wagner lives in Carnegie. and
the hardest exercise ne takes during
the winter is on the first of each
month when he collects the rents from
his many tenants. Until this year
Wagner has always played basketball
during the winter with the Carnegie
team. regarded as one of the best fVes
in the country. rheumatism has been
bothering the great player of late, and
he has spent much of his spare time
opening letters from different doctors
who feel certain they can cure him.
There has been d rumOr afiOat that
Wagner would be kept out Of the game
for year at least because of his i'll
ness, but it's dollars to cents that he
viii be back at his old position when
the bell rings.
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George Stone. the wonderful hitter
of the St Louis Browns. takes things
rather easy during the winter looking
after his interests in department
store at Coleridge. Neb his home.
Stone is well fixed, financially. but lust
as long as he continues to command a
fat salary he viii remain one of the
celebrities of the game.
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Billy Sullivan. the premier catcher
of the White SOx. is a salesman during
he
just as good a salesman as he is re-
ceiVer. and if such is the case the. bus
mess enjoys a large increase during
the winter. The latest reports saw
that Bills better half is to inherit a
fortune Of $4,000. If she does. SulIv
viii have so much money he won't
know what to do with it,
The bowling game appeals to many.
Jiggs Donahue is the mana ger of al
leys in Chicago. sOut Of d failure DON
ahue has made a big success. The
alleys are the most popular in Chicago.
and Jtggs is Teaping a big bunch of
money out of the venture. Charley
Hemphill has charge of alleys in
Youngstown, and Earl Moore in CIeve-
land These are only a few of the
players who have taken up the bowl
ing game as a winter pastime and
money maker.
Case Patten, the star Ieft-hanIer of
the Washington team, is a hotel keener
during the winter. Case runs an inn
az Westport, n. Y, wherever that is.
When the snow is on the ground Case
makes the guests of the hotel forget
where they are by telling them stories
OF the diamond, and he knows quite a
rev. Travelling men who make West
port claim that Cases stories are the
best things in the burg.
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Winter baseball in Florida appeals
10 number of the big leaguers. Dur
ing the months of January and Febr,I-
airy teams made up of big league tall
ent entertain the guests of the differ
ent swell winter resorts The teams
represent the different big hotels. The
players work from two TO four games
a week and for this they receive a
falr salary and all their expenses. Mike
Mitchell of Cincinnati. Flick Turner
and Wakefield of Cleveland and Dele
hahty OF Washington are few of the
star ball tosSers who will enjoy an out
ing in Florida and incidentally pick up
little money and get lot of good
things to eat
Barney Petty, the clever pitcher of
the 81. Louis Browns, is a busy man
during the winter. Petty runs a book
store in Pennington, Mo- All the books.
stationery ana the like used in the
public schools have to be bought at
Peity's place of business, for he runs
the leading establishment.
Johnny King of Chicago has a fine
pool and billiard room in Kansas City.
Kings place of business is the base
ball headquarters for the city. He is
one of the cleverest pool players in the
business and is regarded as the cham
pion among the ball players. There are
many who believe that he is without a
superior in the country, but Killing has
always refused to compete for the
championship title.
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Roy Hartsel of the ST Louis Browns
spends his winters on the plains of
Colorado. Hartsel and his brother own
big ranch. The breeding of cattle
is their chief business, and a handsome
income is realized each year. Hartsel
is fond of the western life, and every
year he insists will be his last. There
is fascination about the game, how
ever, that he can't resist, and when the
bell rings for the spring practice he is
always back on the job.
Fred Glade of the New York team il
a miller, but Fred doesn't do any of the
hard work. He is interested with his
brother in several big flour mills in the
northwest The mills are ali hie nav