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Show JOYCE AN OLD STAR. "Scrappy Bill" Also Is Successful Manager; Man-ager; Is Widely Known. William Jr. ("Scrappy Bill") Joyce, owr.or of the Missoula club, which opens the Union league season hero with the Colts Tuesday, Is known all over the country, both as a star player and successful suc-cessful manuger. He is known as the man who brought the New York National league club out of disintegration in 1S97 and 1S0S. He started his baseball career ca-reer In the St. Louis city league as a pitcher. He had a long semi-pro experience, ex-perience, but his first leaguo ball was played with Fort Worth In the Texas league during 18SS as a. third baseman. The circuit was that year formed by ( John J. McCIoskey, now manager of i Butte. In 1SS0 Joyce was signed by Mc-Closkcy Mc-Closkcy and wont with the latter to the Houston club. In the middle of that season he was sold to Toledo of the International In-ternational league, where ho played second sec-ond and third. The year 1S99 found Joyce with the Brooklyn Nationals. In 1S91 he went to Boston, but in July he broke a leg. In 1S92 Joyce went back to Brooklyn, but In the same month of July he was unfortunate again, sustaining sustain-ing another broken leg. Tho following year he had a dispute with Ward at Brooklyn and refused to report. He was then traded to Washington In 1S93, hut that club failed to make good on the salary sal-ary arrangement and Joyce refusod to don a uniform. In 1S94 Joyce and Washington Wash-ington came to an understanding and he was mndo manager and played third. That year he batted .350 and fielded well up. He remained with Washington until un-til the end of the year lS'JG, when he was transferred to New York, of which club he took the management. Now York was in eleventh place in a twelve-club circuit. Joyce pulled the club to third place in 1S97. .In 1SDS Joyce's Giants finished in the same position. Tho end ! . of tho year 1S9S saw Joyce's finish in tho big leagues and he has not played professionally pro-fessionally since that time. He has been In business at St. Louis since 1898. |