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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1894)
THE COURIER 5? - ., t"' ; a- v . h- SL. . -&. l V, Mb BASE BALL GOSSIP. McGrcavy has gone to work in Quincy. t Archio Cole would like to como to Lincoln. t Work has been commenced on the new grounds at Peoria. t Buck Ewing will manago and captain the Cincinnati "Reds." t Lincoln has more players than any other western association club. t Buck Hughes is very low with typhoid fever at his home in Cali fornia. t Manager Ebright would like to have got Preston, of St. Joseph, for the outfield. t It is said that 'there will be an effort made to play Sunday ball in Lincoln next year. t Omaha has signed an outfielder by the name of Slagl. He hails from the eastern league. t Barnes has an offer from Des Moines, but will probably be seen wearing a Lincoln uniform next year. t Paste this in your hat and see if it does not come true that Fred Pf effer will play second base for New York. t Lincoln stood second, with Omaha first, in the Western associa tion's paying cities, and they had no Sunday games on Salt creek, either. Bee. t The report that the Sioux City club would be practically the same as last year is a mistake, as all of them were given to St. Paul with the franchise. t McKibben, of last year's Lincoln team, and Moehler, a Saint Jo seph player, have signed with Traffley's D. M.'s; D. standing for dead and M. standing for men. t So far we have the following players : Ebright, Hill, Van Buren, Taylor, and Hollingsworth. With an infield that hits round the 300 mark we will be much stronger than last year. t Taylor, an Oil City player, has been signed. He can play either the in or out field, and is said to be a wonder. He has wlayed with the Pittsburg club and comes not as an experiment, but as a fixture. t Manager McVittie would like to have Kid Speer on his backstop staff for next season, but has a better chance to secure Clements of the Philadelphia club. Bee, Kid Speer is waiting for a bill from Sandy for the above. t Jimmy Sullivan would like to catch next season and he will be a good back stop for any club that is in need of his services. Now Omaha since you have found out that you cannot have Speer, why not try and get Sullivan? t While Ebright has not got a contract with Barnes and Speer it is almost a sure thing that they will be with us. With Ebright, Hol lingsworth and Hill on thb infield; Speer and Barnes as a battery; Taylor and Van Buren in the outfield we have almost got a club. Handsome colored pictures framed in white fluted enamel, size 122xl6 for 25c at Herpoisheimer & Co's. toy department a 75c pic ture for 39c size 11x22, etc, etc McCarthy and Sullivan have offers from other clubs in the asso ciation. When the band plays and the ball teams are parading for the opening game, both theso players will bo found in a carriage go ing to the base ball park, if not in Lincoln in some other city. t McCarthy is still unsigned and no one but Mr. Ebright knows whether ho will be or not. Tommy has many friends in this city who know him to be one of the hardest workers in the profession, and they would hail with joy the news that ho had signed a Lincoln contract. t The following appeared in the Bee Sunday: "Buck Ebright of Lincoln is already hustling for players. His first catch is Bobby Cargo, tho clever Cincinnati player. Buck can be depended on for a good team for 1895". When asked about it Mr. Ebright denied that he had signed Cargo. t At a meeting of the stockholders of the Lincoln club held Tuesday at the Capital hotel, the treasurer's report was read and it showed thaf there was 8902.00 on hand, which will be used as advance mon ey to players and other necessary expense. R.H. Townley was elected to take the place of Ed Young who resigned. t The St. Joe fans have had a meeting and have decided to stay in the Western Association. A stock company has been organized and $700 worth of stock sold and they are hustling for SSO0 to start the club. The will send a representative to Chicago with the necessary amount of cash to pay the $420 owed by the club to the Association. It is probable that either the Jacksonville or the Sioux City club will be dropped. t Lincoln has secured Belden Hill's signature to a player's contract and he will guard the third bag for us next season. Hill was with out a possible exception the best third baseman in the western asso ciation and is a good batter. Here is how Hughes averaged with him: G. AB. R. BII. SH. SB. AYE. PO. A, E. CH, AVE. HILL 123 497 112 152 21 46 305 213 230 7r SIC SC2 HUGHES 106 430 97 112 32 20 260 152 233 77 467 S33 Van Buren. an outfielder, was the second player to affix his signa ture to a Lincoln contract. Van Buren comes to Lincoln highly recommended by a personal friend of Mr. Ebright who is a ball player. He has played in the II. league and last year was with the pennant winners of the Virginia state league. Philadelphia secured the pitcher and Chicago offered Van Buren a trial but he thought himself hardly strong enough for the big league. He is said to be a good batter. t . Tho first pHyer to sign a Lincoln contract was Wallace Hollings worth the St. Joe short stop. In securing tho services of "Holly'' Manager Ebright has got the King of all the short stops of the western association ; he is not only a good batter.but ho covers more ground than the best of them. Texas league hits are his "Long Suit". Here is how the official averages rate him and Pequignoy: G. AB. R. BII. SH. SB. AV. PO. A. E. C. AV. PICK 76 266 47 60 11 10 225 154 212 58 426 S64 Holly. US 477 163 153 23 46 320 3SS 430 63 6S3 926 51 BEST $I OF HI 551 After May II will make the best set of Teeth for $5. Teeth Extracted Without Pain. ill Work Guaranteed Satisfactory. IXR. H. K. KKRMAJV, ROOMS 94, 95, 96, BURR BLK. SURGEON DENTIST. V