Show nat onah league news catcher needham is do ng good nork for boston pitt burg has asked for waivers on pitcher scanlon ohp three cincinnati outfielders are eft handed throwers jack dunn is anxious to try his k II 11 as a twirler aga n ex captain anson thinks cincinnati will win the pennant this year catcher marshall late of the phil lies has s ened with new york in danny shay tre cardinals have a worthy successor to bobby wallace fred clarl e says new york Is the only club entitled to first division hon ors roger bresnahan is of opinion that new york will have to beat pittsburg out to win the pennant new aorl critics consider cincin nati the strongest team that has yet been seen at the polo grounds pitcher mike lynch has signed a three years contract with the pitts burg team at a salary of 5 per year president pulliam was right when ie told his umpire that they allowed the players to talk altogether too much if mike donlin would cut out his tough talk and have less to say to the the fans would think much more of him A cuban tan is endeavoring to have the cincinnati reds train at havana next spring but the reds think cal forma will catch them brooklyn has had two valuable men aid up catcher R ater with a broken bumb and first baseman dillon with in abscess on his leg max hurst a brother of the famous fim hurst has been appointed um lire by president W farnsworth of the tri state independent league national guard of connecticut pre dented lachance nith a watch when he stepped to the plate in the second inning george davis never covers so much ground as he is doing this season everything seems to hit them at him and george is gathering chances in all directions ane chicago white sox are doing well this season and making big money tor charley comiskey no one 13 entitled to the coin than that old player who tool a chance the brooklyn citizen says that cap tain jimmy collins is not much bigger than a quart cup little jimmie the citizen calls collins let us see coll ns stands 5 feet 9 inches in height we gs pounds and Is a perfect athlete matty Is developing into one of the most valuable vilu able players in the american league he can hunt as well as hit it out can run bases like a ho ise afire and is second to no out fielder in the beag ie in the matter of covering ground western W enow omaha hs released pitcher Ll ebhart tommy hess catcher of the sioux city club has been el eased the denver club has released rele aed catch er hessler to the hockford Poc kford club the sioux city club has released outfielder lohr and infielder hurlburt Huri burt jay parker has been appointed man ager captain of the sioux city team in place of jay andrews resigned the sioux club has signed short stop joe maher of last season s st joseph team who attempted to play with baltimore this spring under an alias st joseph has two old timers in hartman and they have played ball in the past fifteen years short stop of the washington american league club seymour is as speedy and as ever in center field and covers world of ground out there more than any other center fielder in the na dional league what president dreyfuss paid for pitcher flaherty could be expressed thusly 0 00 he merely assumed the contract the carnegie lad had with the chicago americans president pulliam had a conference with his umpires at league head quarters in new aorl on sunday june 5 the umpires were instructed to shut off the growing chin music of the players amer can league notes keeler is stealing a base in most every game griffiths men are this season play ing a stronger roal game than last year on five occasions dur ng the month of may harry darts got three hits in a game it is indeed hard bucl for st louis to have a player lik wallace out with a broken rib i lajoie s shortstop play is very clev er the big frenchman fits in well at any old position considering the strength of the teams he has faced chesbro s work so far this season is the record the young washington player cas sidy has been highly praised by the critics all over the western cincu t osteen the youngster farmed by washington to worcester Is reported as playing a fine third base for new york at cleveland june 9 keeler and lajoie struck out in the same inning this Is as rare an occurrence as will happen in a season cy oung rises to remark that he has played in the big leagues since 1890 but that he is still learning new points about the game bill donovan says that he has ev grything ery thing that he ever had in the past and more too the more consists of a hoodoo that refuses to be en third basemen who can get the v al lops on their right after the fashion of ollins and bradley are about as carce as there are other third base nen at st louis june 10 company G in every league of merit in the country jay andrews Is no longer manager of the sioux city team at a meeting of the stockholders may 31 he ten dered his resignation and it was ac cepter parker anc jack will be joint captains for the team for the present strong efforts are being made by the management to braco up the team central league goss p robert E berryhill former captain of the Is now a central league ump re fort wayne and south bend will have the fight for the pennant is the opinion of a majority of the people who have seen all the teams at work and know the players manager jewell and infielder lelder peer have been released by the dayton club kub knoll will be manager of the team jaci cornsey has been made man ager 0 the grand rapids team will iam blakey has been exchanged for dan curtis of wheeling and these men have been released catcher me donough lelder robertson out fielders blakey and Melc pitchers mears and pearson the greatest drawback to the league just now is a question of umpires president has found one cap able man out of a probable ten he is steve kain of lou aville the others have given poor satisfaction the three I 1 league the rod island club has signed pitcher liebhart late of omaha pock island has s ened a first base man named campbell hailing from chicago decatur has released sed pitcher will wright and gill the favor ite of the fans has taken french leae president hollan I 1 has made an no of the decoration day re subtracting the 10 per cent which goes to the league the sums are rockford 40 dubuque rock island 50 and bloomington 5 the rain inter materially in all the cities or the sums would have been much larger |