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Show BASE BALL GOSSIP. CURRENT NEWS AND OOSSIP 'I OFTHEOAME. i & Jo.1.on CI. Bnilth I, (). . lh. , J riar.r. In tho Country, Tel II Can B Not (I.I m l-lara n tha 111 Lcagao J III. Ytork n Minor llaba. w A Sllnor taatl Mir. I T UDSON 0. SMITH, l better known pro- W Vvis. fetslonally ai Jud Vs;f Smith, appear to - Vj" ' ono ' 'no, i,ro r feaslonal p I a y o ra jjmj hJM ipend their entire JgJRVV career with m I n or (X H league clubs. This jSgr" ' Is nil eighth scnion aa a professional, and with tho exception ot a brief engagement en-gagement with tho Cincinnati!, he hai nlwaya been n minor leaguer. During the put few reari, however, ho hai been doing my satisfactory work for several eastern loague clubi which aro In clan II, one of tho faatcit minor leaguci In tho country. Smith li n westerner, west-erner, and flnt aw the light of day on January 13, 1870, at Ilrlghton, Mich., tut learned to play ball with amateur teami at South Dakota. Ho started In hli profciitonal career with tho Portland Port-land club, of tho Pacific Northwest league. In 1890. Tho following season found him playing with tho U Grande (Ore.) club, of tho raclfic Intentato league. In 1892 he tat with tho Uutto club, of tho Montana Stato league. In 1893 he mado hla flnt nppearnnco ai n national Icaguo and American assorts-tlon assorts-tlon pliycr, when ho ilgncd with tho Cincinnati club, of that organization; but hit engagement wai a brief ono, and wo next find him with tho Ding, hamplon and Wllkcibarro clubi, of tho eaitern league. In 1931 ho drifted out to Jocktonvltle. 111., and played with the profrnlonal team which rejire-lented rejire-lented that city In tho weitern mo-elation mo-elation that icaaon, he participating In tcvcnty-nlno chainplomhlp gamea and making high both a a batiman and a fielder. When Manager Chapman fecund the franchlio for Toronto, In tho eaitern league, he ilgned Smith to play third baio for tho aeaion of 1893. and the latter participated In 113 gamei, ranking fonrlh In tho ofTlclal batting averages ot the eaitern league, and third In tho official Adding aver ngee. Tour times that leaion he made four safo lilts to n game, Including two homo rum, two doublo baggers, and eight tlmca ho mado three safe bits to a game. Including four hums runs, three triple baggers and thrco doubles. His best fielding performance that tea ion i tho aceptlng all ot ten chances at third bate. Ha wai re-engaged by tho Toronto club for the leaion ot 1890. fr " uaa """ rt" Prt,elpted In one hun-7 hun-7 dred and ten champlomhlp confetti, J ranking high as a batiman. Among bit Jl batting feats win the following: Twlco Si' he mado threo late blti to a game: , Including two home rum and two dou- ' ble baggen; once he mado two iafe hits, jl Including a triple and a doublo bagger: ' v x twlc tnrc tafo h"" t0 a Bme Includ- . Ing two home runs; twice threo safe hits, Including two triple baggers, and even times ho rnadotb eeiafo hlti to a game. Including two doublo baggers. In 1897 he helped Manager Duckcn-bcrgcr's Duckcn-bcrgcr's Syracuse team to win the lantern lant-ern leaguo pennant, participating In i ono hundred and thirty-four champion ship gamea, the greateit number he had ever taken part In during one icaion. Ho again ranked high as a batiman, 'while he itood third In tho official fiddling fidd-ling average! of tho Eaitern league. Hli batting, whllo not bo heavy ai In kho preceding two yean, wai good, ho making on seven different oecailom Ithree safe lilt to a game. Including two home rum and tour double baggers. His best fielding performances were onco accepting all ot ten chances at third baio, four times nine eatchea to a game, threo times eight chances, toy-en toy-en tlmea seven chances and flvo times JUDRON C. SMITH. Ix chances to a game. Ho la a clever fielder and a good batiman. Illghtlng Wrong. "Decauia 'ICld' Olcaion had a bad day at short and mado that error, some mean tplrlfed person at onco started be report that tbs Kid wai under the nflurnco of Intoxicants. Prom tbli a, ' report grow that Glcaion waa ao drunk that be could not field hla position. Nothing was further from tho truth," nays Cincinnati Enquirer. "If Olcaion wai drunk ho got Into that condition drinking buttermilk. He la Captain Joyco's right hand man. Ha and tho Kid were together last night In front ot tho Qlbion House, Tho writer will vouch for aieawm being In a state ot robrloty. The Kid Is not a drunkard or a brawler. Ho Is a bard working, conscientious player, suffering with a lamo arm, and playing In a position be li itrange to. It would be wonderful If he eonld Jump In and play George Davis' Da-vis' poiltlon without an error. Oleaion ahould not be made the victim ot the carelcas and mallcloui Ulk ot mtichtet makers who do not know what they are talking about" The (Irlmih Cat. President Hart, of the Chicago elnb, waa recently quoted as saylug: "I do not think that rjrimth will be called beforo the (ward Lynch muit Ble an affidavit, and we have heard nothing of hla so doing (JrltTlth declares that he said nothing to Lynch that ho could not ray anywhere. If Orlfflth la proven to have ued obscene languago I will be for prosecuting him or any othir Player. It he did not. then I tldo with him. Mr Lynch li a stubborn, quick tempered mm. Ho wai wrong and conscious of It To revenge lilmielf ho put Orirnth out of the game. The rules governing umplrei and giving them rower aro all right, the llruih law Is sll right, but thero are Incompetent Incompe-tent umpires who may abuie both laws. Lynch hai flrmncoi without good Judgment. Judg-ment. Connolly tecmi to be following In the path of hli tutor. When he put Dahlen out of the game ho knew he had made n mlitakp In hli decision, lis called Dahlen out, then reverted, and aid he had called Ityan out. Dahlen avers that Connolly called him a liar and, when lie got the retort direct, fired him out of the game. That waa provoking pro-voking an assault, then abusing a power. pow-er. Although I hare aiked for the dli-ralrral dli-ralrral ot Umpire Lynch I do not think he will bo let go Immediately. I'rcil-dent I'rcil-dent Young would wait until leveral more of tho teami railed an objection to hli work, and then would discharge him. I may bo tho flnt president of a club to object to him, or I may bo the ono that will came him to bo dropped. Everybody who saw hli miserable work whllo In thla city will remember how far oft he was on batli and itrlksi, and It a player objected In tho leait to hlra he would put him out of the gime. I do not favor that kind ot dei-potism, dei-potism, and Lynch should bo removed WILL auiFriTH. to make room for on umpire who understand! under-stand! tho business. Through his decisions de-cisions we havo lost more than ono game which Justly belonged to us. I filed my charges two days after Griffith, Grif-fith, was put out of the game, I waited that long beea'uie I did not wnnt It to eem as though I was .angry at our pitcher! punishment. Lynch may have hail a right to put GrlflUh out ot tho game, or ho may not; but at any rate ho Is a poor umplra and should bo dismissed. I can stand an honest umplra um-plra who Is n llttlo rank, but a man with a temper llko Lynch, and who uses his authority to revenge himself on a player, should have no placo In the major ma-jor league." , Tho Hod Blockings. The Cincinnati! havo a very aggravating aggra-vating way ot defeating the flnt division divi-sion teami with ai much apparent caio aa they havo those of the iccond division. di-vision. We have seen the westerners play both of tho local teams, and we have Just ai good an opinion ot them now as wo had before. It Is tho greatest great-est aggregation of ball players that ever represented Cincinnati ilnce the daya of the famous old "lied Stocking!" ot 1SC9. New York Clipper. Tho 111. Cl.lurns Clou. ThsMt Cleuuni club of ML Clement, Mich., Is now qulto a formidable Independent Inde-pendent team, and ready to play gamea with any league team In tho country that has an off day and wishes to visit Mt, Clemens. The make-up of tho ML Clemens Is an follows: Joseph Kelly, catcher, Charles Macon, pitcher; William Wil-liam Cameron, James I.connrd and Walter Wal-ter liutterfltld. on the basei; O. IC Sato, short, and Nell McNeil, Otis Shut-tuck Shut-tuck and I'rank Campau, In the field. Ilalr-aao of Ilarnla, William Iiarnlo, tho veteran manager, manag-er, hai been given his release by the Brookln club. Mike Oririln was afterwards after-wards appointed manager-captain. President libbeti announced that Mr. Iiarnlo wai released becauio a change appeared to be necessary, as the team had been going from bad to worse, and something had to be done to see If an Improvement could not bo made In the playing. Down KalU Manager Chnpman'e Merlden team, champlona ot tho Connecticut Btate league, are playing great ball, and are making It exceedingly Interesting for the Waterburys, who lead In the pennant pen-nant rare Two promising youngsters on the Merlden team are Pltchertlowell and Third Ilaseman Cuatck, who are attracting at-tracting considerable attention by their to'u iu o) Xiao 'Xuuasoi nan our o) peujniaj 'jaxoq qi8ua JOiip jtiii m 'opooo (,.POBlsqo) Ilia |