The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-02
THE OUT-OF-DOOR SPORTS.
Base Ball.

Manager O'Leary, of the home club is a
devout Catholic.
Lewis, of the Philadelphia, was recently
fined $25 for missing fly ball.
Goldsmith, of the Chicagos, was fined $50
for irregularity of hours, a few days since.
Chicago made an error when they let
Quest go, He is playing great ball this sea-
son.
Ross Barnes, the old-time ball tosser, is at
the head of the Forest City club, of Rock
ford, ILL.,, playing short-stop.
"Buck" Ewing, in the games he has
caught for the New York team, has not had
a player steal second base on him this sea-
son.
Mccormick, of the Clevelands, and Calvin,
OF the Buffalos, have, with one exception,
won in every game in which they have
pitched.
New Orleans will have professional team
this winter. Several capitalists are agitating
the matter. They want Frank Flint Will
Hanson and Big Brouthers as starter.
A tough yarn comes from Saginaw about
center-field hit that evaded the fielder be-
cause of a cyclone that carried it back to the
infield, where the pitcher caught it without
moving from his position.
In twelve games ORourke, of the Buffalos,
has made fifteen runs, twenty-four singles,
with thlrty-two total hits, and has accepted
thirty-six out of forty-two fielding chances.
In batting he is .461, and in fielding $50.
The management of the Chicago club has
purchased uniforms similar to those of street.
car conductors for the players of that giddy
nine for street costumes. The men are sar-
castically referred TO as being lot OF con-
ductors on a strike.
Barnie is one of the longest-headed mana
gers in the association, and, in addition to
his shrewdness, he is a worker. When he
began to organize the Baltimores most of the
players with large regulations were signed.
He went to work, however, and made up
team partially of cast-of players and par
TALLY of amateurs, and their work up to date
has been simply astonishing HIS salary list
is less than $4,000, which he expects to have
cleared by the LIST of June.
Hanlon played clever trick on Burns in
the Detreit-Chcago game of May 8, The
Detroits were at bat, with a man on third,
and man on first. The man on first ran
down to second; Flint threw the ball to
Burns, who could easily have touched out
the runner, but, instead, held the ball in
hand, watching the man on third, and no
man was put out. Hanlon's trick consisted
in his peculiar way of coaching the man on
third. He stood with his feet on the white
line, and as Burns received the ball from
Flint Hanlon made swift dash toward the
plate. Burns was confused into thinking it
home, and so he held the ball, momentarily,
and lost the chance for an out.
The Smoky and Hopper clubs, composed
respectively of one-armed and one-legged
men. played game of bail the other day in
Philadelphia for the cripple championship.
Four of the Smoky club had an arm off at
the shoulder. one had paralyzed arm, and
each of the others of the nine was minus
hand. The Hoppers were in worse trim.
Their first baspman had an artificial leg. the
center and right felders chased balls on
clutches, and the others of the nine travelled
on peg" legs. The two-legged, onearmed
side had an easy victory over the two-armed.
one-legged crowd, the score standing 81 to IL
at the end of the fifth inning when the
game ended. The "Cripples," as the mines
are called, never played together before, and
their success was so great that 1t has been re-
solved to take them on tour 10 New York,
Chicago, st. Louis and other cities Their
play is exceedingly amusing to the outsiders,
and in some cases illustrates the capabilities
that a crippled man can arrive at with prac-
tice and skill in spite of physical imperfec-
tions.