Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1913-01-22
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Diamond News and Gossip.

Diamond News and Gossip.
With its woman club owner gone.
the American Association hasn't
claim TO distinction left
Joe Berger has signed bis White
Sox contract.
BY being sold to the Pacific Coast
League Rowdy Elliott won a pro-
motion from Glass A to Glass AA
Yes, indeed. the sort Of promotion
that comes from going TO a smaller
league of higher classification.
Not a member Of the ST. Louis
! Brown club is a hold-out. They're
ashamed TO.
"chick" Gandil has started spring
training.
Bert Daniels. Of the Highlanders, is
working this winter as civil engi-
ncer The umpires are DESTROYS that
he continue his ciyility through the
summer season also.
Hughie jennings saws that Jean Due
buc ought to produce another success
full year in the big show before he
is entitled TO get pulled up.
The members Of the Delta Chi fra
ternity of the University of Virginia
deny that they have decided to initiate
all the Washington American League
bah players into the fraternity in
order to make IL all right for them
to use the fraternity house this spring
A bill to legalize Sunday ball play
ing by amateurs in the State of New
York has been introduced. 10 pro-
vides that tho games must be played
IN tile afternoon and that they must
be noiseless Probably the fans will
be supplied with gags
The City Of Mexico has a baseball
league. They play games once a
week.
Tho report that Pud McTigue, the
Nashville boy who plays with the
Braves was willing to sign, is a fake
McTigue says he will report first, sign
later He wants a slightly larger
stipend.
Dutch stengle ia holding out on
Brooklyn for a $500 raise. "Old Ger
many" must have forgotten that Eb-
bets is building a new ball park this
winter
Judge Kinsley Of the desertion ana
non-support court, in Philadelphia. in
handing down ruling that Dan
Bradley a New York State league
player. must pay his wife so a week,
said 81 don't care what kind Of n
, professional you are. If you can't
make enough money during the ball
Z season you better rustic around and
get a year-round job Bradley agreed
TO rustic"
Mayor Fitzgerald. Of Boston, was
? the greatest pitcher the first nine of
: the Boston Latin school ever had
] while James A. Gallivan. Boston's
street commissioner played second
base for Harvard in 1883.
/, The baseball players Paternity is
going to fight for q rule that base
hall player is free to sign where he
p pleeses when his contract with a clut
ends. Let the club owners give the
/, players longtime contracts II thes
. want to hold their men," say the
! players.
y Charles Faust is still holding on
! on both big leagues
The Brooklyn club has signed
e brother OF lack Wheat Jack. it vii
g be recalled, won fame first in thu
II Southern.
!. The report that several Of the old
y time Barons would be sent to Ho
8 Springs Tor a preliminary boiling GU
d is denied by President Baugh. II vii
e be recalled that the Atlanta Club 4
the only ono i'm the South that eve
l. tried it-and the Crackers finishe
e last that year.
n Maybe Charley Faust is the man VIII
M is backing the United States league
n He has the nerve, If not the money.
At Horace Fogel's new Atlanti
City hotel there will be suite {
rooms for umpires. II is in the celia
y The reason Mike Donlin went 10 IN
Phillics was that Barney Dreyfus
oi didn't consider him worth $1,000
Of year and din't have the heart to CT
IN his salary