Show THE DIAMOND FIELD 1 1I 1 I The Recent Trouble With Robinson Robin-son of St Louis 1 TD KEEFE OF THE NEW YORKS What President Reach of Philadelphia Says About Johnny Ward and His Proposed ReleaseTim Murmane l The trouble over Little Robby of the St Louis team has made quite a stir It only goes to show how much trouble a little thing will sometimes make Before the game begins be-gins Robinson sends a boy out of tho grounds In St Louis to get his 1 baseball breeches giving tho boy at tho samo time a note of readmission readmis-sion When tho boy comes back 2 with the breeches ha presents the note h to Niehaus who is at the gateand who refuses to admit refuses WILLIAM nonL sox him on Robinsons signature Then Robinson gets his back up cusses Niehaus gets fined S95 refuses to pay it is backed up by tho team and a general row ensues Then the whole matter is settled tho St Louis team gets advertised free gratis for nothing and all is harmony Robinson however is too good a man for tho St Louis team to part with He is ono of the best second basemen in the country He was born in Philadelphia and first played ball in 1881 with the East Saginaw Mich club in the Northwestern league He then played with the Baltimore Unions He has played on the St Louis team for five years WHAT PRESIDENT BEACH SAID It seems that President Reach of tho Philadelphia Phila-delphia club is not willing to pay 12000 forWard for-Ward I would certainly like to have Ward no said in a recent interview but tho Philadelphia club will never pay 12000 for his release The New York club would SSS no doubt like to iMfe dispose of Ward x for U000 but I dont suppose any club will ever give them that much for him It would cost us 17000 to get this player 12000 for his release and S50 > > for salary Now does any sane man believe that if Ward or any other r player is worth that much to the Philadelphia club The day of enormous enorm-ous prices for players releases is A J REACH past It was poor i policy to even start it and if an end had not J ft been put to it there is no telling where it would have led to High prices for players releases and fancy salaries would have killed baseball in a very short time if measures had not been taken by the club owners allover all-over the country to put a stop to it I see some people say that if we had Ward we would surely win the pennant If these same people who make these assertions are JI1fO positive about it let them purchase Ward release and I will give them 15000 next Call if the Philadelphias win the pennant pen-nant Here is a chanco for somebody to make 3000 to back up his opinion Now if he Is afraid to risk his money why should he ask us to throw ours away Of course these people would not mako these unreasonable demands of us if they were in our place and knew the inside facts as well as wo do One man can never win a championship and if we cannot win it without with-out Ward we could not win it with him Wo are not as much in need of a short stop as several other clubs in the League and oven they would not pay half the amount forWard for-Ward that New York asks for him The reason that the price set on Ward was placed at such a high figure was not because of his superiority as a player as there are many players just as good as he but because ho is an intelligent man and would make a good manager for any club The club that would use him as a playermanager could afford to pay twice as much for his release as we because they would savo a managers salary by the operation We have a manager man-ager however and it would be throwing money away to purchase some players release re-lease simply because ho has demonstrated that he could also manage a club If people I would only stop to think over these matters they would not make such unreasonable demands de-mands of in rat MCicfAXE It is said that Tim Murnane the veteran baseball writer and player was offered the other day tho baseball editorship of The Chicago Chi-cago Tribune In 1870 says The Spotting Times Mr Mur nane played ball with local clubs in Norwalk Westport and Stratford Conn In the winter win-ter of 70 and 71 be went south and was connected con-nected witn Tile Savannan Advertiser play v lug ball for the strong amateur club of that f city In the summer of71 this southern team paid the north a visit going as far east as Portsmouth N H Ben Douglass who was managing the Mansflelds of Middletown Conn induced Murnano remain north and play with his team where ho remained until 1873 when he 3 joined the Athletics Athlet-ics of Philadelphia In 74 ho was one of the party who paid England a visit and the following season found him a member of the l Philadelphia team = In 1876 he went to Boston and was one TIM alum AlE II of the members of the champion team in 1877 In TS Manager Douglass induced him to leave Boston and go with the new Providence Provi-dence team the first year they wero in the League In 73 Mr Murnane went with several old League players to Albany to form a club but remained but a short time when the team was transferred to Rochester In the fall of that season they took a trip through the west and went as far as California Murnanethen went intn business in Boston and gave up the JL game until the Union association was formed and he was drafted into the business once more as manager of the Boston team in that association In 1870 he organized the Boston Blues of the New England League and located lo-cated them in Boston where he sold out his I franchise to Walter Burnham in the summer of that season He has done work for The New York Clipper Police News and several other papers and is now the baseball editor of Tho Boston Globe Thero are not a dozen writers on our national sport who are so well equipped to analyze a ball game as is Tim l Murnane As a player he never lost his bead hend1J a writer he is always clear and judicial 4 In his judgment He calls a spade a spade and he knows a hawk fr m a handsaw He Is quick to detect tho weak points of a A player and is just as ready to say kind words where praise Is merited Tim Murnane has a legion of personal friends and the baseball multitude are agreed that his opinions are J < 5 Always worthy of consideration He has i beau ht out some of the best players in the J coon I |