DEVOTED TO—BASE BALL —GUNS—GUNNING VOLUME 30, NO. 1, PHILADELPHIA, SEPTEMBER 25, 1897. TALK OF A CHANGE CHICAGO©S CELTIC tATCHER AS A KEEN OBSERVES, i Goes Into Print With His Impres A Contracted Circuit For Next Season sions of the Chief Characteristics May be Necessary, Especially il of Some Cities Embraced in the tbe Proposed Iron and Oil League League©s Circuit, Materializes.____ Timothy Donahue, the lively catcher of Springfield, O., Sept. 22. Local authori the Chicago Club, is a man of thoughtful ties here are of the opinion that the Inter arid studious mind. "Bridget" i« a close state League will present a different front observer of men and cities and his letters next year. New Castle will probably drop sire keenly interesting to all who have the out. Lamoree, who is at the head of the good fortune to peruse them. He was management, has bought a brewery and asked to write his impressions of the dif will devote his attention to that. There ferent League cities and forward them to a is a strong likelihood that the Chicago friend. "TVs" first letter has just Iron and Oil League will be re been published and students of ethnology organized, and that New Castle will be and social science will find it worthy of represented in it. It is also prob able that the circuit of tbe Interstate League careful examination. He writes: will be contracted, with Mansfield, the farthest "THE CITY OF CINCINNATI point Kast. The five Western cities Dayton, Fort is divided into two parts one, on- this side of! Wayne, Toledo, Springfield and Ymingstown the Rhine, inhabited by human beings, while the will remain, barring a probability that Toledo other side, over the Rhine, is peopled by Dutch will enter the Western League and Springfield men. Ball cranks in this town are dangerous. quit entirely. To these may be added one or two They carry bottler and glasses more to throw than other Western cities Richmond, Ind.; Bay City, for use in drinking. Nothing but beer Is imbibed Mich.; Jackson, Mich.; Akron or Canton. Nat In this town, because the water is so thick that urally any plans that may be made at present It is used for mash and the Kentuckians across are largely provisional and dependent upon cir tbe river consume all the whisky. cumstances, mostly financial, at the close of this "PITTSBUIIG season. The local directors are in favor of a is a mean town, especially to stay over Sunday. shorter season next year, if there be a season for They have some funny cranks there, who might Springfield next year. The finances of the team be happy if the club won 5 out of 4 games. They are assuming a better shape. The present East like to tell you of a team they had in 1877 ern trip will not be so satisfactory from a money when Galvia made a home run. standpoint as the Western, just completed. WASHINGTON Wheeling is the only town that ever paid any Is a handsome city, with a population of two thing over a guarantee, and that was the princely varieties those on, the inside and those on the sum. of $30. outside. Those on the inside hold fat jobs and quit them at 2 o©clock every day to attend the bull games. Those who are on the outside work YOUNG©S SUGGESTION till 7 o©clock fixing up schemes to down the other fellows. The cranks here are not danger As to How the Magnates Can Stamp ous. They have for years been accustomed to a Out Rowdyism. losing teain, and are affronted if the Senators win. Washington, Sept. 21. Speaking of rowdyism "BALTIMORE and dirty ball President Young is of the opinion Is inhabited by amphibians and webfeet. The that it could be stopped if tbe clubs would re food of the town is varied oysters, crabs, ter fuse to pay players© fines. He cites the clubs rapin and the cud of bitter reflections. The Piobably no other young player has, in the same length of time, gained the renown on the, who play clean ball, viz.: Cincinnati, Boston, people are very peaceable. If one Baltimorean green diamond that Fred C. Cli-.rke, the clever out fielder and manager of the Louisville Club, of Chicago, Washington, Louisville and St. Louis, calls another a liar the insulted one says, ©I the National League and American Association, has. He was born October 3, 1872, at Des and finds that the players in these clubs pay hope the next crab you eat will choke you,© and Moines. la., and learned to play ball at an early age while attending school at his native place. their own fines. The Cleveland and New York ttey glare at each other awhile. He started on bis professional career in 1892. before he had reached his 20th birthday, when Clubs pay the players© fines, and the manage "PHILADELPHIA he accepted an engagement with the Hastings, Neb., Club. He began the season of 1893 with ment of the Baltimore Club puts into a fund Is like some buried city. A curious thing about "he St Joseph Club of the Western League, and remained with its team until June, when the the receipts from exhibition gumes, and out of the town is the fact that the railroad time-tables League disbanded. He finished the season with the Montgomery Club. In 1894 ho played with this fund players© fines are paid. It has been have three times as many trains running out of the Savannah Club until the Southern League disbanded in June, when he was signed by the suggested to Mr. Young to increase the penalty the city on Sunday, as on any other day. That Louisville Club, with whose team he has played ever since, having in the meantime gained for kicking to suspension for a period of not shows how anxious the people are to get away great renown as a batsman, base runner and fielder, and the proud distinction, of becoming what less than one day nor more than three months. from Philadelphia even for a day. They say is known in base ball parlance as a $10,000 player. He is regarded by many authorities as the This, he says, would be the most effectual many of the Philadelphia players have taken to leading outflelder and batter of the day. -He has shown managerial talent this season, and it is way to stop kicking-, for no management could or drink, but I can©t blame them. It©s the only expected that he will make the Colonels a factor in the National League race of 1898. He would allow its players to kick with such a way the poor fellows can forget where they are. has a good chance of leading the League as a batter this year. punishment staring them in the face. The^only "NEW YOKK fault that Mr. Young finds with this piau is Is very slow. The Bowery isn©t a patch on the that it would give the umpires too much power. varied attractions of Clark street, but is about A VETERAN DYING. DOUBT BARS THE WAY. Still I gathered from what he said that this the same gait as Milwaukee avenue. I walked very thiug will be seriously considered by the all over the town and all I met was a soubrette magnates at their November meeting. What a who asked after Bill Lange. The audiences in The Once Famous "Jlooney" Sweeney The Objection to Double Umpires world of good base ball reacting /iome enter the theatres laugh at mossy old jokes that they on His Deathbed. Purely a Monetary One. prising reporter could gather in Philadelphia wouldn©t dare tell in Taunton, and the ball New York, Sept. IS. John Sweeny, a once cranks are a gang of sheep, who go clear out While President N. E. Young is an enthusiastic if there were only another hole in the floor of to One "Hundred and Fifty-fifth street to see a famous base ball player, more popularly known indorser of the double umpire system, he does the Senate chamber the same as at Frankfort, bull game (When Chicago cranks won©t go more as "Rooney" Sweeney. is dying in the Hudsou not speak very hopefully of its adoption at the Ky. ________©__ tbsin three miles to see the best game that ever Street Hospital as the result of injuries sus coming League meeting. "Before that action can tained by a fall in Battery Park last night. be taken some new way must be devised to happened. For some past Sweeney has been assisting KOBISON©S II>EA "BOSTON pay the umpires© salaries, for it is hard enough the boatmen at the Battery. About 0 o©clock to collect assessments from some ol! the losing is regular and systematic. At 11.42 o©clock e^ery last night, while seated on the excursion pier, clubs sufficient to liquidate the expenses for the Of Combatting the Fvil of Rowdy day everyliedy in Boston stops work and lines up he was seized with an epileptic tit, and fell present system." was his declaration to Frank Playing. at the drug store for an egg phosphate. At heavily to the ground, sustaining a concussion Bancroft. No citation of delinquents was made, Cleveland, O., Sept. 20. President Frank Robi- 12.03 everybody goes and gets a plate of beans. of the brain. An ambulance was rung up, and but it would not be a hard matter to guess.