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John Reilly fears that the weather may I be pretty raw cn April 13, when he Is toparticipate in the Harry Wright memorialgame. Whether chilly as a February fog cr as .baljtny as a June morning, the chances are that the old-timer* will feel the effects of their exertions for a week.What Reilly dreads mere than the soreness, however, Is that some managers may fancy that he is ready to re-enter the game. “I thought at one time, after I had concluded to quit ball playing,’' said Jchn, “that t would have to go back inorder to make the money that I was forcedto pay for telegrams. I reoelved messages from this, that and the other manager, poking me to name terras. These would generully come at night,,and, while pre-aid, I would have to give the messenger cy an extra quarter for bringing them out to my house and waking me up to readthem. They kept after me pretty much through one season, but since then I have been overlooked.” i ‘ 3*Quite a number of the players in Mr.| Brush’s club expressed regret that George Hogriever was not to be one of the party to New Orleans. One of the players said, before leaving: I was surprised that Ho-• griever was not reclaimed, as he is a faster player than any In the present outfield. He has one fault, but that, I feel sure/ he will overcome He made a mistake inconsenting to go to Indianapolis last season. The ciub tried to send Hoy across the line, but be refused, saying that when be quit the National League he would quit playing base balL Of course, they would nit think of releasing Hoy, and neither would they have released HogTiever, had he taken the -ame position. It is a matterof resrot that he did not-”This is the opinion of one of the beetplayers cn the team.*While every one knows that Harry andGeorge Wright were members of the Cincinnati team back in the days when theReds were the most prominent club playing baa# hall, few remember that aaoth^ brother of the Fttfct* of Che 00**” awfc *pla/er in tltta dfc, .Samuel Wright came her* In I **
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Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Fri, Mar 06, 1896
Page 7
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