Show p M n h J Ili aa M II r a yr V tMaa American League Notes Washington has found New York the hardest nut to crack The Detroit club has drafted Catcher Catch-er Schrniit from tho Syracuse club Gibson has quit the spit ball which It was reported ruined hIs arm The old standby pitchers of the Boston club are not extending themselves them-selves these days Tom Hughes Is sporting a valuable now scnrfpin presented by his admirers admir-ers In Washington Lajole and Griffith ought to play a series at the end of tho season for the hard luck championship Pitcher Barry has all the earmarks of a comer The Boston Americans will hold on to him for the time being be-ing Spencer the Browns star young catcher Is III and he may not be able to get In the game for some time to come Pitcher Ed Barry purchased by Boston Bos-ton from Cccatur refuses to sign at tho terms offered him by President Taylor In Outfielder George Rohe Comls key thinks ho has the find of the season i sea-son Tho blond recruit has made a good Impression to dale Third Baseman Robe secured by Chicago Is no youngster by a good I deal He once played with Baltimore Balti-more anti has been going the rounds National League News Shortstop Lewis of Baltimore Is a Cornell graduate Siegel tho Reds new outfielder neither uses tobacco nor drinks Shortstop Bobby Cargo of Albany has joined the Brooklyn team Pitcher Conrad Carter late of Syracuse Syra-cuse has joined the New York team The rooters at the Polo Grounds think Devlin fully as good as Bradley or Collins Bob Ganloy Is playing good ball for PIttsburg He Is leading off at the bat and Is making good Deacon Phllllpc has one falling ho docs not watch runners on third as closely as he does at the other bases Catcher Kllng Is of opinion that Jack Evers and Miller Huggins aro the I the diamond forever at till end of bin season The Kansas City Club has turned pitchers Wright and Morgan over to Louisville for the remainder of the season President Bryce of the Columbua Club pins his faith to Connie Marks Athletic team In tho coming worlds series He banks a great deal on tho Athletic pitchers Central League Terre Haute has a fast outfield hut tho Inflehl Is miserably weak though Rub mad Fox I are passably good fielders field-ers A rene Haute paper Is authority for the statement that Bert Dennis will reside nt that place having accepted ac-cepted a position In n theater there Every team In tho league will clear up some profit on the season with the possible exception of Terre Haute nnd that town has done pretty well since Hccnan took hold of the team President Hccnan and Manager Hen nls of Terre Haute are talking of anew a-new circuit for next year composed of tho following cities Terre Haute South Bend Evansvllle Grand Rapids Fort Wayne Saginaw Peoria anti llloomlnirtnn Canton Is probably a fixture In tho league and If there arc any changes In tho circuit to make room for Fort Wayne It will probably bo some other t town The Canton team has drawn an average attendance with Sundays and week days together of close to 9CO Grand Rapids leads the league In total season attendance with an even 100000 paid admissions Wheeling drew 76000 Evnnsvllle 70000 Springfield 55000 South Bend 49 000 Dayton 45000 Canton Including Includ-ing games played at Fort Wayne 42 000 nod Terre Haute 37000 Western Association The Topeka Club last week released outfielder Abel Lczotto Dick Rohn claims to be the youngest young-est man on the Sodalla team And then like a girl he refuses to tell his ageOn On Sept 11 Pitcher Ashley of Leav I it Z J 10 r I f I H I I 3 U U L l A I U9j1 I I l 1 9rl Pitcher of the Brooklyn National League Club star second basemen of the National League President Herrmann has Invited Manager Kelley to witness with him the worlds championship games which will begin on October 9 The Pirates new pitcher says his name Is pronounced Llflcld with the emphasis on the first syllable Ho has signed for 190506 with Pittsburg Otis Clymer wants Manager Fred Clarke to give him a trial at first base before the season closes I can eat em up In that position says Otis The New York and Brooklyn critics see many encouraging points about John Hummels style Hummel picks out better balls to hit at than Batch ever did I American Association Columbus closed the season Sept 18 by shutting out Louisville for tho fourth time In three days With the close of the season Columbus captured cap-tured the association pennant for 1905 with an easy stride The team has 100 games to Its credit with only 52 lost The other clubs In the association associa-tion finished tho order named Milwaukee Mil-waukee Minneapolis Louisville St Paul Indianapolis Toledo and Kansas CityMike Mike Kelley will be manager of To ledos 1906 club Pitcher Mallarkey of Columbus has quit tho game and says he wants to be an umpire Pitcher Flcne of Toledo is one of the largest men III baseball He has the easy graceful manner of Lajole Pitcher Harry Eels the big and goodnatured youngster of Kansas City has been drafted by Cleveland Intelligent handling should mako him a winner Bill Hart winner of 12 out of 15 games ho has pitched for Columbus I this year says he means to retire from V enworth held Sodalla to one safe bit yet that hit lost the game by 1 to 0 Sammy Morris the Big Injun of the Miners will probably join tho Chicago White Sox next spring Co miskey has been talking to the Miners for the fast pitcher At Leavenworth Sept 10 Pitcher Craven of Leavenworth shut SedalU out with one safe hit Same day Pitcher Womack of Guthrie also shutout shut-out Springfield with one safe hit Not a member of the Joplin team has been fined benched or sent from the grounds by an umpire this year Not another team In the Western Association As-sociation can boast of this clear record rec-ord Thomas Sheard the owner of the White Sox Is now very mysterious about his plans for next year A half month ago he was willing to say that Dud Risley would In all probability handle his men next year Gene Barnes the owner of the Oklahoma y i I Okla-homa City Mcts is making a hard fight to stay In the Western Association Associa-tion circuit next year He Is approaching i approach-ing all of his friends on the matter to help him In his efforts Southern League The season closed Sept 23 tho pennant pen-nant going to New Orleans with Montgomery Mont-gomery second and Atlanta third Shreveport Birmingham Memphis Nashville and Little Rock finished in tho order named Local admirers have presented Third Baseman Beccher of the Memphis Mem-phis team with a diamond ring The two Atlanta catchers Archer and Brennan are considered the star backstops of tho league Each Is also batting over 250 The Memphis club last week released releas-ed Short Stop Tamsett and Outfielder Duffy dud signed Outfielder Graham Boyd a Memphis amateur e |