Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-01-01 | Page 63 | Special Edition, Baseball Dope

Baseball Dope. "Cy" Young Is another that believes the magnates enouid leave the pitchers' j rule stand as It Is. President Ban Johnson announces that the Washington club will positively have new owners In tho near future. f. Fred Tenney will either be made man- J! ni?er of the P...tou Nationals or sold to i ' tho highest bidder is tho latest report "Chief" Zlmmer. nt on e time one ef the best backstops In tho country, and who I sei red a an umpire last season, says he Will retlie. "f am getting too old," says the ' 1 hlcf." "and the young fellows are I Idling tho bill. That s the reason for my retirement." 1 Charley Plttlnger sends word from his home In Pennsylvania that he ts delighted j with the trade which transfers him from ; 1 Boston to Philadelphia. He was dlssatls-fled dlssatls-fled last year, and therefore hie work was not up to tho standard of which he Is j capable. Watch the dog-faced boy from now on. Pitcher Gibson or the Boston Americans '! ' I think If the high ball rule la idopted the gumo would be lengthened a kt.-j; deal, from the fact that there are few plchers In the country who have the control to keep their assortment, and es- . j pedally the curvo ball. In such a small space 1 think Mr. Lajole would hit for about J"$9 and kill the came percentage Of j lnflelders under this rule." We are pleased to regard this Idea as not half bad. says Hugh Keough. It comes from a man six days of whose summer J weeks are filled up with horse racing and j tho other day with baseball. "Why not " he saj s "apply the selling race system to tho national game' Let every pitcher 1 be entered to be sold for a price commensurate com-mensurate with his commercial value. If I ho wins let him be subject to a claim for I the selling pins the value of the estimated ! gate receipts."