THE COURIER
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1 "Dese am de bes bird's I evah did
git fo Tbanksgibbin.''
Sullivan, Lincoln's first baseman, went to work this week.
Sullivan is a plummer and it looks as though he were go
ing to stay with us.
If Ward of the New York's retires, Geo. Davis will
captain the team.
Youngy Johnson is trying to get back on the Lincoln
team for 1895. He writes that he and John Barleycorn
have parted company. Youngy is a good pitzher when he
is not drinking, and if some club can get an iron-clad. con
tract with him and make him stick to it, it will have a
valuable man.
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Some one bring a chair ! Lincoln people say their team
will be the pennant winners next year. Will they? Not
on Bundle's Puck cigar sign ! Col. Eaton in the World
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2 "Be still dar yo' rascals
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Sioux City papers are delighted to think that their city will be in
the western association next year.
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McCarthy will go to work in a tew days.
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Sullivan, Barnes, Ebright, Speer and McCarthy were at the park
practicing one morning last week. There is nothing like starting
early.
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Some of the players who left here are very sorry, as California is
dead. They will have no base ball there till 1896.
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Louisville will be weaker in "95 than it was in "94.
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Barnes coached the Beatrice foot ball club for a few days last
week,
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The National League has expelled Barnie, Pfeffer and Bucken
berger, but allows them to try and prove that they are not against
the National league by swearing that they have nothing to do with
the new association. Base ball is a peculiar enterprise. As soon as
a player gets tired of making money for the league magnates and
thinks he will get into another association, the league condemns
him and refuees to ailow him to play with their hired men. And
still some say that base ball is not a monopoly. The gate receipts in
New York were f 120,000 last year.
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Wilton Whitehead, who was to have finished last season with
Lincoln, has been signed by Louisville.
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St Joe has about as many players wintering there as Lincoln has.
Beckley u at his home in Hannibal, Mo.
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There were nearley one-hundred floral offerings at the funeral of
Mike Kelley.
Dave Rowe charged the association $38 for his two visits to Lin
coln when he came simply as owner of the Omaha club.
St. Joe is 9300 behind which will have to be paid before it is al
lowed to vote in the association meeting.
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The dispatches say the western association will contain ten clubs
next year. The Codrieb does not think so. Omaha is flirting with
the western league, and in case it doos not get a franchise, St Paul
will; then the association will have nine clubs and will probably
throw St. Joe out in the cold. In the event that the league contains
ten clubs there will do only two trips for each club and they will
play a series of four games in each city. This will reduce travelirg
expenses; but they should profit by the experience of the National
league that is at present trying to reduce to eight clubs.
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Des Moines is the only association club that has signed any play
ers for next year.
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A ten club league will not pay. There would be too many tail
enders.
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Katz, of the Rock Island club, has been declared leader of the
association in batting.
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Pequigney will probably bo signed by Des Moines.
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3 "Lod! how de snow am fallin'.
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4 "Can, hardly hoi' 'em. Sakes
but dip am hard luck."
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5 Goke.
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