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Show BASE BALL TOPICS CURRENT NEWS AND NOTES OF THE OAMC. Th (Irrnll s-lt.r. mill llarplna un Th.lr tamrll Sahjerl lille talk of Iasue I IitiiII Itntarllnn Mill Indulged In-dulged In f hleasu'a Nutnlar Iteruril. Mill He No (hangr. Some lnulsvllle sensationalist recently re-cently revived Ihe slory that the Cleveland Cleve-land and Washington clubs would be dropped by Ihe league and the circuit cut down lo ten club. The story had no other foundation than the Idle gossip gos-sip ot players, Induced by the recent postponement of sume Clevelsnd gsmei owing to the death of Mr llobl-son's llobl-son's daughter, and the further disposal dispo-sal of players by Iho Washington club The magnates at large take no stock whatever In reports of clriult reduction 'and they ought to know what Is going ! on If anybody does Messrs Hart and Drain, In fad. have taken tbe palna to again emphatically itiny rumors that really nte.1 no cunlridlt tlon Mr llrush said polntrdl) Ihe Cleveland and Washington clubs are In tbe league partnership until the end of the season sea-son or 1001, and to Ihe best of my knowledge they will remain until that time. It Is certain that both trams will play out Ihe seasuu." If that Is not enough for Ihe "doubting Thomases" Thom-ases" we may add that everybody connected con-nected with the Cleveland club I emphatic em-phatic In the declaratlnu lhal that club will play out Ihe season no matter how much It may loses while the Ilrooklyn-Ualtlmore people make Ihe ame assertion anenl th llaltlmore club. As for Washington, the uwners of that club must hang on, willy nllly, pending Ihe coming reorganisation, or lose all as they are not likely to And a purchaser for the iluli In view ut the uncertainty regarding the fate ot Ihe twelve-club league Itself, to say nothing noth-ing of the future status In base ball of the city of Washington. A llmWri. llrrunl. Chicago Is surely the banner Sunday town of the world mink of nearly 31,000 person witnessing a game of no extraordinary Importance a Sunday Sun-day game between Chicago and Cincinnati, Cincin-nati, This bona tide attendance break I th record. In addition to the turn sUI admission ot 37.159, about 7,000 people were turned away, as there was no possible room for them, besides the tickets ran out, no such crush having been anticipated Bo great was the crush at the gate that men were swept ana; by tb pressure of the crowd behind tbem from tb ticket window after they bad handed In their money lint before they could grab their tickets of admission. Hundreds of men and boys mounted the fence and formed a complete black 1 fringe around th grounds In view ot th unprecedented attendance one can .not help wondering what would bsp-pen bsp-pen should the Chicago team happen , to be first or second In a neck and I neck race at the finish and (be con-1 con-1 eluding series with the nearest club b i played at home? Think also of the i money thrown away before the Hart I regime by the Chicago club' persist-I persist-I tnt refusal for sixteen years to play Sunday gamea at borne or abroad! Th. I'lllaliara Ouin.ld.r, Clarenco Uraumont, who ha been dratted by Pittsburg from Milwaukee, is one ot tbe few players who have Jumped at one boon a from their first minor league engagement Into the National Na-tional league. He Joined tbe Milwaukee Milwau-kee team on Aug ( of last year. Krotn that date to the close of tha season be played In 24 game and finished with a batting average of SSI, leading lead-ing the Milwaukee team In that respect, re-spect, while his fielding record was .107 In the brief period he played In the Western league however, bo deeply deep-ly Impressed all the magnate and critic by hi ability and was hailed on all sides as a rising outfielder, bis batting, baserunnlng and speed In Ihe outfield making him psrllcularly valu- claiu:nck heaumont 1 able. Out of 00 times at bat he cracked crack-ed out 21 singles, six two-baggers, twu triples, flvo home runs and two sacrifice sac-rifice bits, He was the fastest man on the team going to first base, and his baeesteullng record was equal to that of Daly and Waldron and he also possessed pos-sessed a staunch "wing," throwing the ball swiftly and accurately from deep Held to the plate or bases Heaumont Is a native of norhester, Wis , aud be attracted tbe attention of Connie Mack last year, when be was catching the delivery ot Adklns on the Waupun team Ills terrific batting and speed marked him as a phenomenal ball player, and acting under Mack's advice be doffed the wind pad and began to play tbe outfield, n position In which ha exhibited marked ability He also played at second base at times last spring, while attending llelolt College, but moat of bis work was done In left garden. During the summer he rejoined re-joined the Waupuns and played with the Prison City team until August, when he Joined Ihe Milwaukee team. I laBaBlliHalal lliiatnn View HH From noaton (Hobo This year If siiiiiiHflH th champion lloston against In s! field, with the chance about aven, 1 Hrnnklyn, St l-oul and Chicago will H work with a hope of seeing Boston go 'sasai against hsrd luck, for In Ita present IILsaBH condition not a club In the league ha 'staaHasaH an honest chance of beating Hoe loo. 'sSHn The tlireo teams above mentioned, a raaaaaaaaD well as Cincinnati, will 'turn trlekV VBBH that lloston will refuse to consider, WoaTSI "Inside" base ball will find willing HllnrMn student among the club ot Hrooklyn. PUjCrvl St Louis and Cincinnati, and In Han. HMavPvV Ion. Hwlng and Tehran the three above twEra clubs will have mansgers who will WEBm plan campaigns that Manager Seles iSaaVaESS would refuse tn allow hi lloston team fViBftl to pasa through The lloston chain- ShKmt P'nn this season have no Ideal lo fol- B low lly all odds they constitute th aaaHH finest all-round Irnm ever organlied. aHaaB Willi perfect harmony and a string ot jK player as easy lo handle ns a rollrgw B tmm. nothing but clean, straightway 'itHaH ball be looked for, H II I fM The Kanmus Outflilder and Captain ot JH the Hrooklyn ' "yH Tip fur lining I'lar.ra. Young player will do well to follow V H at close ss possible the style living H pursued by a player who ha been over CfHjH twenty years In Ihe spangles and l vH still the king tn his position. Mcl'beo. y nH second baseman of the Cincinnati team, H playa ball on practically an empty VvaMraaafl atomach. 'On days that I take pari "H In a game I rat very little at the noon. mLI day meal," said Md'hee yesterday, H "Some tea or toas), or something cqunl H ly a light Is enuugh for me until aftef H tbe game I found long ago that yu H rannot expect to do good work on a full' H ItsaiarbaWla I'lay. H One day In IMS, Hill Joyce, who wo H theu with Washington, stood poised on first base, while Tack Parrot, who waa playing center for BL Lout, chased a fly In deep field, relate John H II. Sheridan. "Tack" had a habit ot .H 1 touching olf hi catches with a run ot k ten or flttieu yards. Just to allow how B hsrd they wer. lilll waa aonualntd H with thin weakness, and the mlnubs B Ihe ball hit Parrott's mitt he wai off. H When ha struck second rarrott waa H still running wllh bis back to the In- B field, Illll kept on, shot past third KfH and came straight home. When tb H Infleldera saw him go for third they H yelled to "Tacks," and that wild worthy sent In the ball, but Dill had the plate a mile. I think thl I th H only rase In which a runner scored H from first on a field out on which no H error was made. H mini.. Casey Is doing better work for Hrooklyn than ho did for Washington. That's natural, however, considering H that a faster tram Is carrying him along with IH Clark (Iriflllh ha been trying bard H to have that club-Inflicted I2S fine for H removal from game rescinded, but H President Hart, aa a matter of disci- BBbJ pllne, refuse tn relent Manager llanlon thinks there are too raany New Kngland men on Ihe league H start lie Is Inclined tn consider that H a handicap on other league club In LvAaJ favor At Loulsvlllo those patrons who In- , -aVBl suit Ihe local player "knocker" ) "B Prealdrnt Dreyfusa call them are to yKfJ be regularly ejected from tha grounds H by order of Mr Drryfuss, PBbJ Manager Irwin ha rearranged hi H Senatorial team Single goo to short H field, Cassldy to third base, Mercer to H left field, (letlman to renter field and H O'Hrlrn to the bench. H How times have changed There Is H not today tn the National league a H player who ran not write his name, whereas years ago X signature to M contracts were plentiful IH That whltowash of Ualllmure on H April 25 was pitcher Dunn' first shut- M out since ho broke Into the league. To date Dunn has proved Hrooklyn' M winning pitcher H lleasmont, of the Pittsburg team, H since his short residence In the tlmoky M City has become a great loby smoker. IH He never saw them before be slirned tt with Manager Watklna M Tommy Dowd la credited with be- 'H Ing tbe poasessnr ot $30 000 In cold B rash. In the lungunge of a New York B papor as applied to a famous polltl- 'LH clan "Where did he get It?" i'aH The roata of Detroit player will 'ssiaB wear this ear In place of the Dions H usually worn are made of bright rrxl 4laH llannej with black collar, pocket laps '''asaal and cuffs They nre i ut Ilko the reg- s H illation box coat, double breasted ami TfaaH have great black buttons In length KaaH they are a little longer than the usual ntsaaaafl box coat and will make the eye of tha TJaaafl fan bulge about a toot the first Urn dH the player come marching up from th l IH club house wllh these roata on. Elber- H feld saya that tn red roata the team H will have all kinds of lurk and Hlber. J H ftld I a professor on signs and super. stltlona Detroit JourMl H |