The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 14, 1885, Page 6

¥ i THE MONEY IN BASE-BALL. How the Exhibition Business Is Managed Nowadays—Salaries of the Early Professional Players. For some years b: conducted on regular ples, but not unt high salaries be of a nite chin present paid. for the g is responsi 1 professional nine was the fam- Red-ste iin 1869. bs throughout coun- any try, which, previous is ti had two or three players for their just as many of our all trictly amateur’ nines do at present. Red Stockings were the first club, ver, to take men on contracts and to pay every one on the team. Harry and George Wright received the high- est salaries paid in the club, and neither was the regular pitcher. Said George Wright: “The money paid the entire team would put a poor nine in the field ,. My brother Harry was the most expensive man in the team, and | he got $2,000 for being captain and playing center-field. I was in my reg- ular position at short, and drew $1,500. The catcher came next in order, and the other men ranged from that sum to-d: e no way of getting the thread you made used, now. | whole difficulty. villages once had its we earnest to patterns for ta! truest touches in George on the Floss’ to be ri 1 and she Was re ion * or ua once set in motion. s she averred with pun rare good th He w I asked her why not go on spit ning good thread, | nswer W “No one spins now,” and if T pus hed mv Soe further, I was told it was h to spin, but that there was or for the! “re were no hand-looms That, no doubt, summed up the Every little group of ver, and much ven in those days le-linen. One of the Eliot’s “M is the contempt whi at v thoug down. Several came under $1, ele ye) Held weet “ge “It would seem that fielders were | the sister who “held Wilh & Spree sncld | considered to be worth as much as | fer the sister who had always “held | pitchers and catchers in those days. | *That’s it, exactly. A club without 1 strong outfield was as weak then ne would be now with a poor battery. Svery man had to be a playe nd the | pitcher was of no more importance than any other man in the team. Why, almost anyone who pretended to be a as with a spo monplace, and to be s spot when she might have had— have seen on a tablecloth—the history of Jon | the whale facade of a gorgeous palace in utterly com- tisfied A spot w with a -what I whole ah, the exact portrait of swallowed him, the Nine- in which together with } her own initi it | copie them, an a a 2 sent out poe to most of ther tors to send tk poems if they were accepted. to responded favor Writing of the Keely motor, the entific American says: Another chap- terin the history of this time-worn, stock-jobbing deception was lately com- sleted by a public exhibition at Sandy Hook, N. Y., on September 20, of a pretended ‘‘etheric force’? gun; but which in reality, to our eye, was noth- | ing more than a clumsy from |! which a few bullets were rged. was present and performed as a Keely satisfaction of the juggler, much to the assembled crowd of New York stock brokers who seemed to re the Keely jargon and the muddy clarity of his absurd exp ns. | The ! ahara are very par- ticular as to the color of their horses. White is the color for princes, but does not st The black brings ¢ fortune, : ky ground. i chestnut js ve. If one! Hs you I fly in the isk of what ex t was: if he re- plies ‘chestnut,’ believe him. In a combat against a tnut you must | good player could go into the box with | the corner, groveling mind. vlittle practice and do well. And In the days of hor xespun linen eyery | then, of course, the catching was quite | Woman made it a matter of pride and different from what it is now. A man | Conscience to leave behind her in the } who held a thrown ball would go be- | fmily chests and presses at least as hind the bat in an emergency and ac- much as she found when she “e acces quit himself very creditably. Now, if nely, 1 1 into the your pitcher gives out you might as Sues and pride s well stop playing; and it is just the gs of the past. same with the catcher. It makes no | {4% -f@eocat difference how good your other seven ——— men are, you are nowhere if the battery GLEANINGS. is weak.” *-Were the Cincinnati Red Stockings ever troubled this way?” Well, we went through our first on with ten men, and youcan judge r yourself how many extra batteries ould have had. The pitcher did pronounced his case hop a horse tumbled 1 side of Sheep Mounts Coreoran,of Washington, has physicians who s in 1871. M. T., dispatch says 00 feet down the in and walked olf W. W. yived three of the A Fort Keogh, hot try to see how many he could strike | uninjured. out, but used his head and showed his Thi caai dre: 7 GERO00 aromnen ini see skill by changing his speed sothat the] 1, \q¢ and Wales who fieure 2s Wace batsman would be deceived and not hit | 226 22 eres We : : ; earners—a fact which would seem to the ball hard. Even if he was batted | jo aicate ¢ his eight 2 cok daa 1 it was nothing against him and n0 | eee ene ae a ne eee th cheer one said he had lost the game. Why, | gurainerte We if one nine made six or seven runs in | 0) crits an inning the other nine was not by any means defeated, and thought noth- ing of this lead. With the changes in the style of pitching have come higher wages for the players, until now a base-ball team is an expensive institution. New York has the two men who are paid more for playing ball than any others in the world. They are Ward and Ewin; and each receives a little over $3,00 for the presentseason. The New Yorks are called the ‘shigh-priced team,”’ but several of the men are hired at low fig- ures, which brings down the total of the salary list, and the Chicagos will have to be acknowledged the most ex- pensive club in the league. There is not a cheap player in the nine. and while the highest ary is not over $3,000, every} man is well remunerated for his services. Corcoran is a valuable player. He is well aware of it him- self, and his skill in curving the ball brings him in $2,300 this year. Rad- bourne and Galvin are other ‘gilt edged” players, both in the work they doa a the reward they receive. Th ary list of the Boston league club amounts to $25,000 in round num- ber The most val sty man, and de- servedly the best one, is € ‘apt. Morrill. He also holds the position of man: ager, t Haywards, Cal., spends his time with a flock of geese. Every day when the geese go meerschaums. er is and smoke from damp, tobacco is blown over until the desired color owed in this country by tion of and development of railroads it is still of sufficient importance to sup- port a population estimated at 60,000, a number about equal to that of the persons engaged in our coasting trade. are made that when M. N. Foster, a farmer has a living near hog which into the pond for th accustomed swim, the hog plunges in at the same time, and remains as long as the geese do. The state authorities of Massachu- setts have consented to allow another Sunday t Hoosac Tunnel, thus toenable the Wa- bash line to run a train through from St. Louis every day in the week. ain to be run through the A German industry is the coloring of The pipe or cigar hold- nded in a tightly closed box, strong, black nd through it gained. While the business of canal boat nav- igation has been very largely overshad- ‘the introduc- Many tenement-house cigarmakers receive from theiremploy: ers 100 pounds of tobacco, for which they have to re- urn 102 pounds of cigars. Complaints the tobacco falls and he has earned every cent of — his short igar stumps, willow, oak and $2,800. Whitney comes next, and is | ¢!™ leaves are used to make good the certainly royally paid for the amount deficiency, and that in some ins of work he has done this season, for | 100 pounds of tobacco have thus bee which he receiv es $2,500. Burdock made to produce 200 pounds of cigars. and Hornung just turn $2,000, and all A Brooklyn gi sto the papers others come below this figure. The | thati nion t fathers are value of several is set at about $1,800, | 8t the bettom of t elopements.” but the season has made great changes | She says her papa tinds some fault with in the playing of some, and the prices | 2 1lher young gentlemen friends, and will be different another year. orders her to **give them th walk It is impossible toestimate how much | P2pers without either rhyme or reas- has been paid in salaries to bs all-play- on.”> And when icht one’? comes throughout the coun Thee g ieclares she will elope h league clubs will certai average as { him, if she ean‘t cet any other 2y have had the much as Boston's total, as ried more men if the. such seen more ¥ more th the Boston oan - and every one Lof the other nines i players. There The erican | s twelve clubs. and must certs ainly pay for this number as much as, if not more, than the league does for eight. In fact, a few of the dearest ball-toss- ers in the world are-claimed by the ee Association. Thus the salary se three largest base-ball | sociations in the country aggregate be- doe to cover the amount ths at has earned this season by ball-tossers. } of We wan't = never react afternoon Undertake that you've way. know of its diseases. in Dalms land covered to ciated Mr. Edwin | e means of y is the hardi- j est and mo > tells you a horse has leaped to the bottom of a precipice without hurting himself, ask have a of what color it was, and if he rep i “bay,”’ believe him. On the shores of the Keuka lake, New York, the culture of the and the manufacture of wine have at- tained development not sewhere reached in America. There is a_ pe- culiarly favoring quality in the sunshine andthe soil thereabout. Eight thous- and acres are devoted to grape culture, the annual product averaging about $50 per acre, or nearly $500,000. The Pleasant Walley company consumes annually 1,500 tons of grapes, from | which are made 250,000 bottles of champagne and 250,000 gallons of still wines, sweet and dry Catawba, choice brandies and a port made from choice black Oporto grapes. All their wines are pure and true to name.—Boston Journal. Three or four decades ago the Amer- ican men and women were generally lean and bony. Our women especially were lank and thin. Of late years, however, a change in the shape of our people has been noted. The change is not yet very marked in the men, but the women are growing round and fat. t our watering-places, where people from all parts of the country congre- gate, a bony woman is a rare sight. Most of the women are plump and well- rounded. It is to be observed, how- ever, that sleekness and curved * out- lines belong to the well-to-do and leis- asses of society. Among hard- ers and the people on the fron- tiers the lean and bony type still pre dominates.— Atlanta Constitution. ed A Queer Coasting-Place. Cuzco, the ancient capital of the oid | Inca Empire of Peru, is situated high up among the Andes, at a point so ele- | vated that, although under the tropics, it has the climate and products of the eee zone. It stillhas many r x s of Inca architecture, distinguish- ed for its massiveness, which are likely to endure for centuries tocome. On a hill, or eminence, near a thousand feet high, overlooking the city are the remains of the great Inca fortress of the Sac-sa-hua-man, in the storming of which Juan Pizzaro, the brother of the conqueror of Peru, was slain. This fortress was | it of gigantic stones, or rather rocks, and their | great size and accuracy Ww h which they are fitted tonish all who see them. i Heh of this fortress is a curious, i mass of rock, called the the -da-dero, and sometimes also La Piedra Lisa, or ‘‘smooth rock,’ be cause its convex surface is grooved, as ha sen sq eezed up, while irrecular then hard- of dou i between and state. g walls, A 7s aa the are sm 2 the custom is I modern youth of Cuzco. antag: this re, and it is a these boys pos- hese boys who live in land of ountry i nission of its inf | by regret t ee So Caro’ Higher in New Mount Mitche Ni in eS Than Mount Washi Mam pshir gton all nust b te Wash the tall rile of stone br ody since the Jower of Ba let Professor on his mountain lonesomest if not the highest- yrave in the republic. On the that wooded pes 11 feet Mitchell sleep in pe in the Haeed summit of | dove the Atlantic, and almost that leicht above Mount Vernon, Mitchell les amid clouds i thunder- soms 2 1 battles of the Black Nown This individual eminence astroke of fortune. Washington did vhat he could for hi 1 eleva- tor eut his initial rhup on of the Natural Bridge as le could climb in his stocking feet, and nother ways he deserved well of his but a professor of chemistry, lucky chance of first measuring tis peak and announcing his discovery, md by the equally lucky chance (for is immortality) of losing his life in at- tmpting to establish the assertion that tiis was the d@, and n nator ¢ m eminence d correctness Washi he buttress wa 1, has secured the character possessed by ve him. lingman insi which of life gton could not g course, has a jus- mountain—al- trough she t y twenty peaks wout as high as Mount Washington— d before the war this may have been m arrogant pride; but now this is one é€ the old North State’s contributions t the glory of the republic. Before tie war the Northern States might lave been ready to fight for the su- Evi y of the New Hampshire hill, at least to have insisted that an ad- jority should be con- sdered as one of the compromises of the Constitution; but now they take as nuch national pride in the bigness of Titchell as if it were situated’on Boston Common. It is one of the amiable taits of human nature that people gould take asort of credit to them- elves for such excrescences on the sur- fice of the earth in the places they in- Inbit. The inflation of Western people sbout their eminences is as ian as i is pleasing, and we dwellers in lower pri rgions feel that their importance in he world is increased by the noble leight of their mountains; and we some Englishmen call them is merely the Inow that what in ess toastfi fection of the generous scale on which rature is laid out west of the Mis-is- sppi river. We can not leave this fruitful theme vithe a sugirestion that may serve t« any lingering ling of rivalry or envy in ignobile ninds in regard to the respective leights of these two respectable mount- The White Mountains are of anite, and even their frost-tryi imate likely to cutlast the re ieir integrit he Black Mc : are built of a soft r mater 1 be snbje a more juent r the best mountains are slow sway, and the pride that the Ameri nus? feel in Mitchell as he stands upon is green summit must be moderated it was not made of gran- alone can tell how te. The soon it w common hill, but tan not sensibly gists that Mitchell w source of national pride. li ?rofessor sa eee now livir H Pr we taction, vould be ound to depre st of p: er, tn Harper's M he sculptor euch to the when on he s ard of Knox hun de. ‘Dear had me . PECK’S SUN, 5. Whs. | JHILWACHE -0+e- CEO. W. 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