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1Sisters ! 1 Imothers! 1 THE SAINT PAUL GLOBE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER __5, 1898. \u25a0s a the Louisville team. The new manager, around. The mixologist laid three bottles out to be of little account Patsy Donovan, ls down ln old Kentuck for loaded to tbe muzzle on the bar, and within team. with that the purpose, and Is willingto sacrifice Louis half an hour every bottle was empty. Another McGunnlgle PHY HAS wants Wofl HIS SPURS. Blerbauer in the trade. a bunch of bottles was produced and emptied. BIG FOH STARS There has been innumerable other second baseman, but ls a bit leary of Louis' Itwas a neat piece of acting all around, deals Involving great Killen, and sums of money, ankle. He would trade for but Patsy McKean and the players made believe they but none that was equal to those _I*OL\G wants to hold on to* his•left-handed twirler. had reached the groggy stage of inebriety. already quoted. purchase CORBETT AVILL BE WITH \u2666 They sang, danced, swore, and got up a fake SALES OF BREITENSTEIN, OF THE The of the you "Big Four" from the Buffalos by De- THE BALTIMORES NEXT "Don't believe that the league will fight, ln whloh McKean fell on the floor and BROWNS, TO THE. REDS abolish coaching," says Jack O'Connor, catch- laid there. Sohmelz, who was peeping through FOR troit caused asensation, but itis doubt- YEAR. er of the Clevelands. "Isaw a French show the door when this masquerade was coming 910,000 ful Ifthe money Involved was as great ln New York two years ago. It was all off. ran ln and yelled, 'I'll you |50 apiece in proportion as pantomime. your fine in other deals. The The actors were making signs and captain $100. Look at him there on four consisted of. White, Rowe, Brouth- at each other with their hands and swapping the floor. He can't apeak, he's so drunk.' ers and grips like a lot of Elks on a jag. But the McKean jumped up and assailed Schmele with Richardson. Then there was HIS FINE CLOSING WORK. audience didn't got next and the show was parts of speech that are not used In high another deal that was widelydiscussed an awful case of 10 below zero on a frosty society, and the players gave Gus the laugh. RECALLS OTHER BIG DEALS. at the time. Itoccurred In 1889, Bos- night. They — ! buying SISTERS That's what will happen to base ball had been drinking sarsaparilla out of 1 1 ton the releases of four of the If we try to play the game with signals In- whisky bottles. Old Sleuth Schmelz quit play- 1 best men in the country at the time— CLEVELAND OVERWORKED YOI'NO stead of using our*voices.• ing detective on the players. But he didn't TRANSFER "(HP KELLY TO THBI Brouthere, Richardson, and # forgive McKean, and the situation became so Bennett AND CIIPPY NEAR THE SEA- John _____ MOST Oanzel. Atabout same T. Brush must oxpect something to desperate that either McKean or Schmelz had BOSTONS EASILY lyn the time Brook- SON'S END. happen at the Chicago convention, for he is to leave Uie club, and Bchmelz walked tbe FA-MOP-) bought Collins from Louisville for going ahead with plank." OF ALL. a large sum, his scheme to reorganize y the Athletics purchased MOTHERS! the league as Ifhe had received no I 1 Western — the release of Cross and there were set-back at the Fifth Avenue hotel. Ban Considerable Interest on the part of the \u25a0. Your husbands, brothers, sons will better, softer, \u25a0 other deals for players. Johnson and his fellows Milwaukee J Louisville But wear smoother tHE SPLENDID WORK OP are watching the Western league base ball playors I none of these high Underwear than ever before ifyou buy it 5 TERRY. smooth man of the National league, and will is just at present being centered in tha work THEY LOOK WELL ON PAPER, deals Involved as JR here this season. Of #? resort to the If of Pitcher Jones a sum as $10,000 for any one player. Ufc course you buy it—you should, as you are the best judges of quali- courts. the national board and Catcher Speer. Jones - I , S of arbitration should enact so as to place left for New Mexico as soon as the base ball j OTHER BIG DEALS. TS ties and prices. We want to talk a little with you on this subject *W the Western league ln Brush's power. There season was over to play ball at Albuquerque. ..oxsi About $15,000 Among j«% of Underwear. We'll be short, an there is too much to tellin type. Ok it the Contest for Na- Is ln the Western's treasury to be He afterward wrote Speer, who remained in All the Advertised Sales Are the other base ball deals that But we re ready used for blocking Brushlsra, and the fight Milwaukee for some time, urging But stand out prominently as with our gatherings for cold weather. Come and tional League Championship him to Gfiinlne-nrooklyn's Instances of c' #i should be a merry one Iflt ls once started.— come to New Mexico and play a series of Not Biff In- big money paid for players are at the 8"ood things in this department inside, Next Year. Journal. match the pur- m f5the H outside, Cfc Milwaukee games between the teams o_ that vestment, chases of Herman Long and Willie make, the qualities, the prices. We've got the posted un- Manager McGunnlgle ls trying to effect a territory. Accordingly Speer left about two man best Wi deal young south-paw ago, - Hutchison, Boston paid Kansas City m derwear inthe city. His services are free you. for a pitcher, who is weeks and he and Jones now consti- \u0084 $4,000 to Talk it & said to be as good tute the battery for Albuquerque team, for the former, and Chicago se- over with him, not because we are coaxing you any a left-handed twirler as the to buy, but because 2G Special Correspondence in the country. The young man pitched which is playing a series of games with a cured the latter from the Dcs Moines £v 3 Cma a ls a »y of the Globe. in a hlstc/ry team v«. «?&_ thinfir that leads to money saving. If NEW minor league last season and made a team at Flagstaff for a prize of $500. These Base ball has repeated Itself for the same amount. About f> You. Shopct With Your£ Eyes and Fingers k& YORK? Oct. 22.—There is no great record. Manager McGunnlgle says he contests will last until about the middle of three years ago manage- we'll get you. These spot carry within the past 'few days In the sale the New York flr£* make itpossible: SAJ5 or blemish upon the Baltimore will three right-handed and two left- November and Speer will then return to Breftensteln, ment gave, Itwas said, the Washing- club's title to the championship of the handed pitchers next• •year.• Milwaukee, where he willspend the remainder of Theodore the wonder- ton team $10,000 of the winter. ful left-handed pitcher of the St. Louis for the release of National league this year. Last sea- the Meekln and Farrell, a crack battery, mayWaldron. Pawtucket center fielder who team, to the Cincinnati aggregation for son and in 1894 the glory of the club's be signed by Philadelphia, had a record Of individual feats among the finest ln the but the amount of the purchase money claims to the pennant was dimmed by last year of 180 hits•in*ICO* games. big league were the ten assists of Long in the almost unheard-of price of $10,000. was never verified. |UNDERWEAR 1 its defeats the Temple As late as last year there threatened By in cup series. A Canadian league is talked of for to be a & the ton almost. The royal These two came season, next number of deals that involved stock of blue-blood Un- defeats right at the with clubs ln Torronto, Hamilton, big sums. The Chicago team was derwear at littler prices 5 of respective Guelph and after than ever before, and to fit close the seasons, and London.• * * a good second baseman early in the men who always got 50 were so decisive that they dazed the Anson says that season, and made two offers $10,000 g misflts. his three outfielders can faith, of friends of the champions. In nine of throw the ball further and more accurately Ingood one for Clarence "Cupid" A ° than any three Pure w ol (note that), wool fleece, thick and fluffy _R these Temple cup games against the outfielders In the National Childs, of the Clevelands, and one for If\ s New league. • * "Bid" McPhee, of the Clncinnatis. #_ /> made Plendidly.double cuffs, the best garment ever & York and Cleveland teams the «. At MII shown heavy enough to Baltimores had won Beckley was the same time the Chicago manage- I . keep out Jack Frost; same only once. It ls the only man on the New $10,000 S /IIf <luallty dry goods howl f? not strange, therefore, York ISational league club who did not make ment offered for the release of Of ' stores about at 69c; there's 40 Vk that the effect a sacrifice hit during Cyrus Young, the craok pitcher \u25a0*- dozen left out of 160 dozen should be a feeling • the• season.
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