Show amer can league notes captain jimmie collins never cares to lay off a game fielder jones thinks hub hart Is in bast company to stay lajoie s men maintain their supremacy at long distance hitting detroit s new first baseman lind say Is hitting close to and looks alike a fixture on the tiger team joe cassady has grown desperate over hia poor stick work although he hits the ball hard it won t go safe W H yawkey owner of the detroit club says he will have a battery staff next year of pennant winning pow er rumor has it that joe cantillon of the milwaukee club will manage cither cleveland or washington next year catcher bemis had tour stitches tak en in the spiking he got at washington land will be out of the game for some time the boston club is reported hav fug purchased pitcher james cox from ithe nashua club of the new england league said that jimmy mcabeer has tad his eye on johnny butler catcher or kanas city and will probably him there Is a possibility that bill coughlin will be a member of the all american nine that will tour the pacific coast no matter how well harry howell pitches in other cities he Is firmly am pressed with the idea that he cannot win in washington of the browns and moore and hess of the naps are the only american pitchers who haven t been taken out of the box catcher spencer is from scranton pa and Is called Hacken schmidt by ithe browns he is big and strong like the famous wrestler national league news hans wagner in 53 games hit safely 48 times mathewson certainly is the main stay of the giants maloney has been dropped in achl cago a baiting order harry arndts hitting has been of much benefit to the cardinals lately mal eason the brooklyn pitcher has been turned over to baltimore the cincinnati club has closed with the utica club for pitcher hugh duffy has practically decided to remain with the phyllies another u the giants are actually above their percentage of a year ago and so are the pittsburgh Pitts burgs at long range hitting the new york nationals are tar and away better than any of their rivals outfielder brown of the giants has been laid up with a mashed finger jammed by a pitched ball joe cantillon of milwaukee Is spoken of as the next manager of the st louis national league club the brooklyn club has secured pitchers of albany and pitcher bell of the A J G club president pulliam was the guest for several days jast week of garry herr man at the famed laughery club steubenville Steu benville 0 knights of colum bus have presented catcher needham of boston with a fine gold watch young cy young led the national league in shutouts shut outs tor a good while but matthewson has supplanted him fred lewis has resumed his place at short for the brooklynn Brook lyns he was out of the game for ten days with a bad leg central league casert right fielder of the dayton club has a record for the season of 36 assists red lyons who has been playing in abe outfield for terre haute has been released bob myers an old terre haute shortstop Is now on the fire depart ment in anaville ans ville richardson who signed with south bend a few dais ago will return to terre haute and will conduct a saloon on east W abash avenue john ganzel says that there will be no central league next year because only three towns in the league can support a team he leaves terre haute out ot the three it Is said that before the drafting period opens pitcher van anda sec ond baseman johnson and shortstop lindesay Lind isay of the canton team will either be purchased outright or claimed by the teams of the larger leagues cleveland will probably buy van anda grand rapids and wheeling had ar ranged for a post season series when grand rapids seemed to have the sec ondi place cinched but the present out look is that wheeling and evansville V play the post season series possibly with wheeling finishing second in the pennant race american Asso clat on catcher stoner has been transferred from the kansas city club to the club pitcher jaeger ot minneapolis has now been sold to indianapolis he has dene fair work with the millers two jenoua accidents have hap bened in the association this year zake wrigley broke his arm and tip 0 nelli a leg roy brashear formerly ot the st louis and philadelphia nationals leads the american association in bits tor extra bases the milwaukee club has sold first baseman bateman and pitcher ar thur goodwin to the cleveland and pittsburg clubs respectively manager barrows has a two year contract with the indianapolis man argement and ot course has turned down the offer from the toronto eastern league club pitcher ferguson of the louisville club is credited with having the brightest future of the pitchers ot that club having plenty ot speed fine curves and the best ot habits J ed grille of toledo has traded gilbert and cassady tor nance of the kansas city team and cash nance has been the captain of the kansas city club for several sea sons southern league outfielder and pitcher otto wagner has joined the birmingham team the new orleans cina has sold pitcher dygert to the athletic club of philadelphia six birmingham players miller delehanty regan hatford hennessey edward M reulbach the chicago national league pitcher who waa the hero of a twenty inning battle with philadelphia aug 4 is beyond doubt the sensation of the year in baseball no other untried college youth ever came into a big league and leaped in to fame as suddenly as reulbach has managers of national league teams admit that mathewson 1 the only other national league twirler in his class Reul bachs feat was scarcely less notable than his eighteen inning victory over jack taylor of the st louis team earlier in the season the cub pitcher is possessed of great stam ina and has good nerve in trying places aa was shown by his retire ment of the two strongest batsmen on the philadelphia team in the awen bieth inning when a runner was on third waiting tor a chance to score the run that would tie the game and moore went on strike august 16 because certain deserved fines were deducted from their salaries the matter was amicably settled the jacksonville club of the south atlantic league has laid claim to pitcher moxie manuel whom new or leans purchased from the baton rouge club just prior to disbandment of the cotton states league manager frank has sent his evidence to president kavanaugh Western League sioux city baa secured catcher ed die noyes formerly with st joseph bobby caruthers is the best umpire in the western league according to the opinion of fans and players alike the st joseph club has released outfielder W A mcgilvray because he 1 icken at being docked three days pay tor illness newlan and cadwallader cr of the sioux city seem to have regained their form of the early games and are winning with regularity again sioux city has farmed out kostal and bills again to an iowa state league team bostal has gone to his home in canada and refuses to re port pitcher war sanders has left the omaha club in consequence of what he deems unfair treatment at the hands of rourke in refusing him sal ary while s ck vice president myrlca of des has wagered a 5 hat that the milwaukee team managed by the can w 11 win the pennant in the american association denver is worl ing their young catcher brown pretty regularly and giving lucia a rest brown Is a strapping big fellow and a fairly good hit but ir inexperienced k A i |