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Show the new leader of the Brewers, and after he signed to manage the Milwau-kees Milwau-kees for Treasurer Havenor he entered en-tered into negotiations with him to come to join the Brewers next spring. Walker agreed to sign and accepted the terms Cantillon offered, but be- . -fore he affixed his signature to a contract con-tract he fell a victim to the wiles of Manager Clymer of the Louisville club, who offered him $50 more a month than he had agreed to come to Milwaukee Mil-waukee for. Clymer immediately produced pro-duced a contract for Walker to sign, and next season he will come to Milwaukee Mil-waukee as a member of the Colonels. Milwaukee Sentinel. A Wealthy Baseball Enthusiast. One who has done much for the national game is W. C. Temple of Pittsburg. Mr. Temple is wealthy and is not afraid to ftart with his money if it can benefit baseball. He it was who gave the Temple cup, to be contested con-tested for by the two leading clubs in the National league in a post-season series. Mr. Temple is an enthusiast in Peace Commission Did Well. Enough glory was gained in putting baseball on a business plane to give every member of the peace commission commis-sion a full share. All took an active part and assisted in the adjustment of the obstacles that seemed insurmountable. insurmount-able. There was not a theorist among them not one who could not consider a proposition from all of its angles. Johnson and Pullman, graduates from journalism, made the game a specialty, and have achieved signal success in its executive department. Killilea, a lawyer with a large practice and fortune, for-tune, and an enthusiast on the national na-tional game; Somers. an extensive coal operator and, a sportsman of the best type; Comiskey, as successful as a magnate as he was as a manager and player; Herrmann, a novice in baseball, but one of its most important import-ant personages; Hart, experienced in the playing and business ends of the people's pastime, and always intent on its improvement and elevation; Robi-son, Robi-son, conservative, but foremost in all progressive movements. Better selections selec-tions could not have been made by either league, and so well did they acquit themselves that they earned tne- gratitude of all who have the welfare wel-fare of the game and its important or- ganizations at heart Sporting News. The Outlook Is. Good. None of the magnates would throw W.C TEMPLE any light on the McGuire matter. Somers, of Cleveland, was the only one who would talk of it.. "It is not certain that Detroit would lose McGuire," Mc-Guire," he said. "Brooklyn does not seem to be especially anxious to get him now, and may not decide to en-' force its claim. 'The Brooklyn club, however, is given priority in dealing with the catcher. ' McGuire signed with Detroit ,f or 1902 and 1903, at a salary of $3,500 a year. He had a bad season in 1902, due largely to lack of spring training and to too much spring work for a veteran catcher. He also signed with Brooklyn in the fall of 1901 and 1902. and was, in addition, reserved. The salary named in his Brooklyn contract is much lower than Detroit paid him. President Pulliam declined to discuss the conference worjk. "It is over," he said, "and it is a grand thing for baseball. It means " permanency of e'reuits, better .. rela-tions rela-tions between baseball men and a chance to realize something on investments. invest-ments. The dark-lantern, gumshoe era in baseball is past." Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. : . Noted Ball" Player's End. everything that pertains to the game and there are few who are better posted on it. It is such as he who above the machinations of a few who would seek its ruin. Mr. Temple was prominently mentioned for the office of president of the National League, which was made vacant by the retirement retire-ment of Nick"Toung. Coakley a Professional. Andrew J. Coakley, the crack pitcher of the Holy Cross College team, has been suspended by President Presi-dent Hanselman for playing with the Philadelphia Athletic team last season under an assumed name. Coakley ' admitted the charge, and said that Connie Mack, who is a personal friend, came to him hard-pressed for pitchers, and besought him to help out. Coakley pitched three games under un-der the name of McAllister and won two of them. Coakley is the baseball idol of Worcester, and his suspension is quite a blow to the fans. He has no definite plans for the future, but intends to take winter practice In the cage with the regular Holy Cross candidates. The discovery of Coak-ley's Coak-ley's professionalism and his enforced withdrawal from the Holy Cross baseball base-ball team is likely to help the pennant pen-nant prospects of the Athletics. It means that the local club will secure the services of a fine pitcher considerably consid-erably earlier than was hoped. Some Win. Mercer, one of the best known baseball pitchers in the country, committed com-mitted suicide in a San Francisco hotel last week. Mercer had turned on the gas in his room. He left a note behind him, but did not assign any cause for the rash act. Mercer was a member of the pitching staff of the Detroit American League team, and had been signed by that club for next season. The dead pitcher was twenty-seven years old, and began playing ball at an early age. He secured se-cured an engagement with the Dover (N. H.) team in 1893, and his good wqrk as a pitcher led to his services being, engaged by the Washington team in the National League the following fol-lowing year." He played with this club several years and was also with the New Yorks for a while. Mercer was a valuable man on a nine, for besides weeks ago Connie Mack said that he had Coakley's- verbal agreement to ' play here next summer after the college col-lege season ended. Mack has every confidence in Coakley and says that he will make one of the greatest pitchers pitch-ers in the country. Philadelphia North American. Pittsburg Club Grounds. In order to protect one of the most exclusive residence districts in the city from the encroachments of baseball base-ball enthusiasts, some property owners of Point Breeze have formed a company com-pany and purchased the Aaron French property for $300,000. It was this property that Barney Dreyfuss, president presi-dent of the Pittsburg team of the National Na-tional league, had an option on, and It is said that the citizens paid the shrewd owner of the league champions a cool $50,000 for his option. This leaves the champions without grounds in case that the Pittsburg & Western railroad should have their present grounds condemned. Exchange. ; Ball Player Now a Statesman. V Charles Q. Hildebrand, the youngest member of Congress, from Ohio was at one time a professional ball player He acknowledges having pitched for the Chattanooga club of the Southern League back in the 80s. One season was enough for him and he gave it Z ntUd5r T Thence he ' Into politics and was elected to Congress ! being a first class pitcher he was a good batter. Personally he was popular popu-lar with players and spectators alike. He was playing in California during the winter montns. Star Player for Milwaukee. One of the pitchers coveted by Manager Man-ager Cantillon for the Brewers was Walker, who was with the Clevelands for a short time last year. Walker's pitching attracted the attention of |