The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-14

SCORE BY INNINGS,
2 5 6 50
Y soGs'%Rs agna'....:...s Q @ g
Earned runs-Indianapols 2, Fort Wayne 2.
Struck out-FOrJ Wayne 2.
Left on bases-Indianapolis 8. Fort Wayne 5.
Two-base hits-McKeoD, Keenan,, Forest, Rem
sen.
Double plays-Calahan and MeKeon, Kerins
and McKeou. Peoples, McKeon and Kerins.
Passed baIls-Keenau 1.
Wild pitches-Packard l, Dyson i.
Time OF game-One hour and fifty minutes.
umpire-Morrissey.
NOTES.
1t now looks as though the Quaker city would
win the championship in one association and
bring up the tail end in the other.
Cincinnati News Journal: There never was
but one Bonaparte, there could not be but one
ID. O'Eeary. tAil at once, if you please)
Paul Hines, of the Providence club, holds UP
longer from year year with his fine batting
and fielding than any other player in the arena.
Sawyer, a lefthanded pitcher of the Adelbert
College, has made such good reputation as a
tEvirier that he has been taken on trial by the
Clevelands
The Peoria Qu) nine have the oldest and
youngest professional players in the country.
Their catcher is a boy of seventeen, and Dicky
oPearce is a veteran OF hfty-twO.
9 Members of the Allegheny team have far
o5een fined $500, and still that club is in debt.
yAt this rate the organization ought to pay
dividend at the end of the season.
C. The Indianapolis club will play the Grand
Avenue club tof which Clifton was formerly a
memberl, of st. Louis, at the Seventh-street
grounds this afternoon. Packard and keenan,
, will probably be the battery.
Roseman, of the Mets says that this Is the
first year in all his extended experience that he
has been getting his money. In the other mines
that ne has been play ing with when the finances
were low he averaged n fine every day.
Manager Barnie says he will have two or three
strong League players in his Baltimore nine next
season. He offered Hubbard, the catcher for the
Nnla nnIlA al.rl. Aa.fub %
Season with the Baltimores. but he refused.
-, Joe Start aud Arson play the frstbase posi-
x tion better than any two men in the country
~. oe takes grounders that Arson does not banker
Hitter, but when it comes to batting Arson
.iouble-diseOunts any hrst-base player in the
pecountry.
otfacturer of baseball goods of every description
tihas the hest of facilities for infOrmation says
~ there are LOO base ball clubs this country,
Inland fully 10000 active players. just think of
.hUthe rods OF broken fingers.
~ Enquirer: Jack Gleason has announced his
intention of quitting the profession az the end
T of the season. 1t has been suggested that he
should never have entered it, as he spoiled his
chances of becoming a first-class hud-carrier by
making himself third-rate ball-player.
Tie Toledo club will present each of Its play
ers with suit of clothes and overeOab this
IAN II the club stands as high as third place in
the Northwestern League. The player who has
tue highest fielding average will get a gold
medal and the first batter like reward.
Boston Herald: The number of people that
have attended the games the Bostons
grounds since the return of the club from its frat
Western trip has been 5S,442. Including the at
tendance at those games stopped by rain. this
makes an average attendance of 2,247 to a
game
Base ball is quite as dangerous a pastime as
auy other sport. In n recent game, at PhiIadel-
phia, James Kane cOlded with another player,
and both fell to the ground. In the fall Kane
struck in the stomach by the knee of the
other player, who fell top of him, and re-
ceived injuries which resulted in his death
Cincinnati Enquirer: It is said that several
managers of League and Association teams have
been negotiating and endeavoring to secure
some OF the players in the INDIANAPOLIS club,
1t looks as though the reserve-men clause and
other agreements of the constitution will be
broken into slnithereens before the season Is
over.
The Telegraphers' nine defeated the Tecumseh
Rifles nine at the Seventh-street grounds yester-
day by score of Is to 8. Perry Wright pitched
for the Ielegfaphers, being very effective, and
Charles Campbell caught him in good style.
Frink Richards pitched excellent game for
ported.
The Philadelphia papers are getting shaky
about the Athletics One Of them unearths u
scheme which. in magnitude and daring, would
certainlv startle even the nih;lists. 1t is fol.
lows: (Read II slowly and In a whisper, TO slow
that combination could be formed to keep the
association championship West, and that Allie
gheny would go into it. Just keep your eye
on the umpire changes"
Chicago Herald: Negotiations are at present
in progress for the purpose of securing the ser
vices of the Port Huron nine, in place of the Chi
grounds the present season. This club or
ganizcd in Port Huron two years ago, and, with
hut one or two exceptions, have played together
for two seasons. Belonging TO no association
Z club has been supported largely by local aid,
at the present time have ahOuU S., 900 cant
va with the stock alt purchased and subscribed
for This year they have played about forty
gsns@s and lost only three, one of which was at
Quincy and one with INDIANAPOLIS.
Phi adelphia Record: The Olympic base
hall club, the Oldest hall ORGANIZATION in the
United states, celebrated its tittieth anniver-
fisN- MIA n
the lois in Camden. In 1860 grounds were
secured near Camac's woods, which ia now
Twelfth street and Montgomery avenue The
cub IN 1864 leased the Athletic grounds at
Twenty-ffth and jeff rsOn streets, where il
played until 1878. Since that time the club mas
been maintsinei simply for exercise, and has
not engaged III any match games. Ar present
il has under lease handsome grounds at
Eighteenth and York streets The only original
meinbers' Of the club now living are Robert
Lindsay. Pets D E iinaker, Kirk Wells, r. p.
MCCULLOUGH Hart Carr and Josepn Morris.
New York &iail and Express: The national
game OF base ball hasuow entered upon its third
period of development. In the first nerlod,
lively balls were used, and, in rquence, Ion 9
hi's were frequent, home runs not az all uncom-
mon, and scores large. We remember one game
dozen years ago that lasted rom o'clock TIL
Z. and was stopped by the Oncoming of darkness
VIII n score OF rs To 80. In those DAYS the bat
tng was the main feature OF rhe game. II be-
came evident that the batter had advantage
over the fielder under This system. and dead ba Ia
were intro ured, and the sly le of pitching en-
t1rey changed Under these new conditions
and with the development of more accurate
fielding, era began, Home rims were
scarcely heard of. Scores came down almost
rothing. The hrlders mad it almost all their own
VaV with the natrers, aud the main interest in
ne game centered in the field play. II began to he
suggested, indeed, mat the htttrry nad become
81 ihueh roo powerful for the batter that some
hang- should he mitie--that tue pit cher shonid
isnd farher from the home base m delivering