x., i.&«r«r-«*. DEVOTED TO BASE BALL BICYCLING GUNS GUNNING VOLUME 30, NO. 18. PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 22, 1898. HICKEY©S IDEA A WINTER PROLIFIC OF PLAYER FOR THE RELIEF OF THE SUFFERING TRANSFERS. MINOR LEAGUES. Changes WMcli Will Practically Revo The Present Unlimited Drafting Sys lutionize-a Number ol National tem Should be Restricted For League Teams Thirty-one Men the Big League as fell as the Shifted and the End Not Yet Minor Classes HOW to Do It. The result of the various shifts of the St. Joseph. Mo., Jan. 10. President T. J. diamond-actors will cause more interest In Hickey, of the Western Association, thinks the contests next season and a re-awaken that the present system of drafting players ing of enthusiasm in the pastime in cer is not the best that might be devised, ami tain cities, such as Philadelphia, where that it works ultimate injury to young something of the kind is needed to have a players. He favors a system by which tonicky effect on the base ball crank. It young players can be drafted from only th« is needless to say each club believes It Western League by the National and from has been strengthened by the changea the Western Association by the Western made. To date twenty-eight men have been League. This would prevent any league traded during this off period as follows: from taking a player from any league ex Philadelphia to St. Louis Clements* Taylor, cept that immediately below it in class. ti. Cross and Dowd. Young players, Mr. Hickey holds, would St. Louis to Philadelphia M. Cross, DosgUuo thus be advanced by degrees, and would and Douabue. not so often prove failures©in the major St. Louis to Brooklyn Mailman. League, from which they are turned back Brooklyn to St. Lo>uis Schocb. upon the minor leagues with swelled heads St. Louis to New York Hartman and Grady. and swelled salaries. New York to St. Louis Wilson, Holmes and Donne! ly. Endorsement For the Scheme. St. Louis to Pittsburg Murphy and Hart. From Cincinnati "Times-Star." Pittsburg to St. Louis Sugden and Hughey. Minor leagues are not doing the wholesale Pittsburg to Cincinnati Smith and Hawley. drafting that they were expected to do. The Cincinnati to Pittsburg Schriver, lihines, Mc- reason for this is found in the fact that Class Carty and Gray. A minor league clubs find that little or no de Baltimore to Washington Doyle, Reitz and sirable talent was left in the Class B, U and .Aniole. D teams after the major league raid was over. Washington to Baltimore Demontreville, Me- The result is that the Class A clubs must hold James and McGaim. off on making up their teams until the Major In addition to the above trades all of the League teams have made their discards. In League clubs have secured by draft and oth the matter of this wholesale drafting by the big erwise young players of more or less prom League the minor leagues need some protection, ise, either for farming or developing pur for how can the Western, Eastern, Atlantic and New England leagues recruit when the big poses. Here is the complete list of young League captures all the desirable talent in the sters scooped in: Class B, C and D leagues? It would seem the Brooklyn Pitcher Horton, pitcher Hansford, proper thing in connection with drafting of Intielder Sheckard. pitcher Yeager, catcher Ryan, players that a rule should be enacted allowing shortstop Bean, shortstop Toman. clubs exercising the dieting rule to claim Boston Pitcher Pittinger, pitcher Wills, pitcher players from only the class immediately beneath Mills and infielder Keister. them. That is to say, that the big league Baltimore Pitcher Hughes, pitcher Kitson. clubs could draft only from Class A minor Chicago Pitclier Isbel. catcher Chance, catcher league teams; Class A from Class B only, and Bade Myers, short stop Ziegler, and pitcher so on. In this way the minor leagues would Woods. not suffer so much from the draft, as no minor Cincinnati Outflel©Jer McBride, outfielder Mc- league club would lose more than two players Farland, pitcher Ooar. pitcher Phiilips. pitcher at the end of any season, and the players would Hahn, outfielder Fleming, pitcher Hawley, pitch be properly developed before they reached the er Phil Corcoran, catcher Leach and infielder fastest company. This scheme would also curtail Steinfeldt. JACOB JIMISON, the farming practice to some extent. Cleveland Infielder Esterquest, infielder Beck, pitcher Blue and outfielder Gilks. The Indian Player Signed by the Philadelphia League Club. Louisville Infielder Ricbtcr. infielder Lewee, NOT SO MUCH. Infielder Stafford, Infielder Carey, pitcher Thomas, Pitcher Jacob Jimeson. the pitcher of the Carlisle School team, is a native and to the manner pitcher Mahaffy, catcher Twineharn, catcher born of the Seneca tribe of the great Iroquois Nation of New York, and was born near the quaint A Record That Was 1 Not Made in a culler, and outfielder Dillard. old village of Gowanda. in Cattaraugus County. His father is Alexander Jimeson. and his mother©s Match Game. New York Pitcl:er Spurline. maiden name was Eliza Smith, both being Senect©s. Jimeson is not only a good base ball player, A base ball crank, who has a fondness for Philadelphia Infielder Eiberfield, catcher Fisher, but an all-around athlete of no mean pretensions in field or gymnesium. He has played with suc keeping records, recalls an incident that at the outfielder Flick, pitcher Piatt, pitcher Murphy, cess in every position in a base ball nine, and last season held up etrougly the place of left time was talked of all over,the country. On Sept. pitcher Bernhardt, pitcher Duggleby, pitcher half-back on the foot ball team of the Indian School. He is 23 years old. 5 feet 9 inches in height 26. 1884, in a game between the Detroits and Jimison. and weighs 172 pounds. Jimeson went to the Carlisle Industrial School in If92. At his home in another League team. Charley Bennett made a Pittsburg Infielder Engan. pitcher Leever, New York State he w-as a leader in athletics among his fellows, but played a particularly good record that has seldom been equaled by any pitcher Scott, pitcher Wolf, catcher Shaw, game of country base ball. At Carlisle his profrciency in this sport was noticed and at once catcher in the big League. He was receiving for catcher Boyle, infielder © Stewart, infielder Gray, gave him a place upon the second team. In 180-1 lie was placed upon, the regular nine, and during George Weidman, and he put out 23 men of the outfielder O©Hagan, outfielder McCarthy. the latter part of that season was pitcher and ca ptain of the team. In 1896 the business men of opposing side in nine innings. Twenty went out St. Louis Infielder Hull, infielder Crooks, Carlisle hired a cumber of base ball players, from which was formed a semi-professional team on strikes, and the other three were nipped at pitcher Gilpatrick. outfielder Genins, pitcher which found a place in the Cumberland Valley League. Jimeson was signed as pitcher on the the plate. Bennett also had three assists on Daniels, catcher Clifford. Carlisle organization. He©plfyed with success, aud was particularly successful in thr.iwijg a drop throws to second base. New York Sun." Washington Piteber Mock, pitcher Donovan, curve which pus/led the best batters who stood at the p©.ftte. Jimeson st.-uck out more men than iratcher Snyder. pitcher Dineen, outfielder McHale, pny pitcher In the League during tho Siiine period had to bis credit. At Carlisle he learned The above statement might Include the Infielder Wagner, pitcher Conniff, catcher Dixon. the trade of house painting and paperhanging, and in this craft ii considered an adept, even fact that Weidman put out the other man. And there may be more coming. What by those who are opposed to educating the red men in the skilled trades. He is proud of his good It is all true except the implication that with the importing of promising youngsters record in the school. Jimeson is compactly bin-- and strong. In complexion he is light, and al this feat was accomplished by the great from minor leagues, the drifting out of the though his conversation is studied and reserved, it is cheerful, and when books or athletics are battery in a League game. It was not. but business or back to the minor of some old mentioned his face brightens and beams with intelligence. He has none of the make-up of a in a country game in the Kalamazoo dis stars and the numerous deals, tbe fans blanket or Western reservation Indian. trict, the Detroit pitcher and catcher being will have trouble next spring in recogniz hired for the occasion for $20 each and ing some of the teams. their expends.© Watkins on Catching Methods. He.Will be Missed. Manager W. H. Watkins, of the Pittsburg Charles H. Byrne will be missed from the coun Well-Meaning, But P A Ball Player Dead. Club, believes in keeping a good catcher be cils of the moguls. He was one of the braiuest Chicago. Jan. 18. In an ac hind the bat as long as he can do good work. of the men in the base ball business. In his alumni of Notre Dame Bishot Louisville. Ky., Jan. 9. Jack Daly, who was He does not believe in the former-fashioned early days be was a reporter. Perhaps that was "Muscle is out of date, at one time one of the best ball players in scheme of alternating catchers, putting iu a the reason he was one of the best friends that world.