Show national league news sam strang has not joined the brooklyn as et cozy dolan Is regarded as a fixture in the cincinnati sun garden the game in st louis looks to be lively despite a world s fair bee miller huggins Is continuing to make exceedingly good for cincinnati so far has batted better in the cincinnati s spring games than kerwin frank selee says that the greatest infielder of the season in bis position will be evers P has turned warn the loung pitcher over to jer sey city for development pitcher sunny jim hackett late of st louis now out of the game on account of eye trouble la coaching the de pauw university team pitcher dunleavy of the cardinals says variety Is more essential to pitching success than speed st louis appears to have picked up p jewel in spike shannon the out fie der secured from st paul dan kerwin objects to being called old he began with scranton in asoo and Is only 25 years old ned hanlon says that young play es overdo themselves in the spring being anxious to make too good a start third baseman mike mccormack looks like a brooklyn counts him as too good to allow to slip away cincinnati may miss billy bergen this year martins younger brother has started in the season well tor brooklyn the st louis club will not consent to the release of donovan unless be relinquishes his demand for unpaid salary jimmy case Is weighing much less than he did last season and figures ly presents an up to date combination of the long and the short that wonderful pair of youngsters parent and fearls are faster than ever this season A ball to those boys Is what a ball of yarn Is to little kittens they cannot get too much practice outfielder lefty davis of last years new york team has refused of from columbus and toledo in the belief that some major league club will yet call for him lie says he has an offer from mcgraw but the salary Is too small he Is helping werden develop his fargo team at st paul american association news the louisville club has released leUer van sickle of aurora ind tho minneapolis club has released the veteran catcher bill allson jal e morton a strong outfielder vl hamilton 0 has signed with colum bus first baseman kahm has been transferred from indianapolis to col umbus the columbus club wants first base man isbell and out fielder hallman of the sot outfielder roy montgomery has been awarded by the national board to the louisville club gus bonno has been ally released by columbus for failure to report when ordered toledo has at last succeeded in signing third baseman arthur brouth ers late of new orleans an ohio state university player named taylor Is a candidate for util ity man on the toledo team outfielder jackson has at last signed with st paul leaving pitcher ferguson the only man to hold out the toledo players under manager second baseman of the st louis cardinals was born at covington dec 4 1876 he secured his first professional engagement with the newcastle club of the interstate league in 1896 as a pitcher but was played in the outfield on account of his batting he was with springfield in 1897 and 1898 and returned to new on being among the leading batsmen this year leach Is playing the real kind of baseball at third in practice again making numerous wonderful stops and pretty throws billy ladder the retired new york third baseman Is finding time from his law studies to coach the columbia baseball team american leagie notes cotton turner the cleveland recruit Is fielding finely but batting lightly manager barrow has benched bee ond baseman john burns owing to a very lame arm first baseman jake stahl and pit cher duni ie last week signed wash ington contracts ey bays he feels sure his reconstructed white sox will prove the surprise of the season the detroit club Is negotiating with second baseman bobby lowe who la training with the pittsburgh Pitts burgs elberfeld Elb erteld is carrying around a new name where the highlanders train ed the southerners dubbed him tobasco bill dineen still has a kick coming over the ary question but he Is wearing a boston uniform and elev the goods buck freeman Is certainly in the finest possible shape he never look ed younger and Is hitting the ball with all of his old time fervor general arthur dixwell who pre dented the boston champions with their world s series flag was asked to raise the flag for the first time april 18 jesse burkett Is murdering the ball in the preliminary games and this promises to be the best season that the human crab has enjoyed tor some time the washington club will probably release catcher bill clarke outright owing to his refusal to sign a 2 contract his health Is said to be poor this spring with carr and greminger on the outside and robinson and 0 leary on the inside the detroit infield certain castle in 1899 when he was secured by the kansas city club of the ameri can league lie was transferred to washington city with mannings team and was switched to second base he jumped to the cardinals two years ago larrell fielded and batted in the recent spring series with the brown herman long are now practicing at norwood inn cincinnati 0 it Is stated that ex president tom will this season be the secretary treasurer of the st paul club president has purchased from the chicago american club the release of outfielder billy hallman magnate strobel does not intend to trade doc reisling Rel sling but he wants him to pitch for the mud hens IIo griever Is the only indianapolis who has not signed he Is still balking on accepting a cut in salary central league gossip dayton has signed pitcher al wll mot late 0 columbus ganzell will not interest him self in the grand rapids team this year outfielder tom has desert ed the evanston club to play with the independent pa team the dayton club has signed tracy ns the trenton left winged pitch er he v as wanted by marion and wheeling the bench managers this season will be A II 11 colllns of grand rap ids john of dayton and frank shaller of evansville wheeling may sign M E poole of caliern 0 a brother of pitcher ed die poole who highly recommends 1 la brother as an lelder president bement has sent a request to the presidents of the clubs asking that they see to it that um pires are treated with respect with the present staff of pitchers which consists of myers merryman hamilton frye and miller president halderman and manager grim think marlan should make a good raca for the flag during the coming season manager of terre haute announces these engagements pitchers henry whalen william fleet james feeney buck love reed smith and grubbs catcher leo lemon first base richardson second base freck and S baird third base ribald and jason short stop J smeltz and J out fielders bachot thompson and war render |