I have tried to use gloves.
I sweat a lot when I play drums. Especially under stage lights. Some clubs have low ceilings, but full on lighting systems, and each light can gives off an extreme amount of heat. And I was in a loud band, so I had to play loud.
So I experimented with gloves here and there.
Problem one: Most drum gloves are too small for my hands. I'm sure who's hands they used to judge what is small, medium and large, but most of them don't fit me.
Problem two: Most gloves, drumming and sporting, are made with a soft leathery materials. I found this was more difficult to hold a stick, because the material was so slippery, a stick would just slip out if I used them. So, I'm not sure what anyone was thinking when they were designed.
Problem three: most sporting gloves have some sort of re-enforcement area, which is good for holding onto a big bat, or gold club, but inhibits holding on to a drum stick, which is relatively smaller than most sporting equipment.
Problem four: When I'd sweat, the dye in the gloves would run, and my hands would end up covered in black dye. Again, I really wonder who designs these things!
I tried fingerless gloves, so I could at least have my fingers on the stick, while putting a barrier between my sweating palms and the stick. This sort of works for a little bit, but the material at the end of the fingers would wear out quickly, in addition to all of the above problems.
Some gloves try using a sticky surface, but if your doing a 5 stroke roll or some thing, you don't want the stick to stick to your palm.
The only gloves I ever found that worked great were Jerry Rice model Wide Receiver gloves I found at a store that supplied PE uniforms to schools. They had a nice rubber surface on the glove that really let me grip the sticks with ease. The problem was, after a few rehearsals, the rubber all wore off, and they became useless.
So I gave up on ever finding gloves that worked many years ago.