The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-14
SPORTING SEASON OF 1886.
Promises in the Way of Base Ball,
Racing, Gymnastics and Yachting.
The Great Ball Teams of the National League
The Crack Racers-The Single-Scull
Champions.-Knights of the Glove.

Correspondence OF the Indian apois Journal
CHICAGO, April 10.-The great base ball games
os last year between the New York and Chicago
teams raised degree of enthusiasm over the ma
tional game never before known, and the sight
of 20. 900 people in attendance at the games be-
tween these two crack clubs in the Chicago
grounds. last 4th of July, was unprecedented in
the history of baseball With each year, since
the formation of the National League, in 1876,
the game of baseball has steadily grown in puri-
ty Of character, In popular favor, in point OF
creditable management and respectable patron
age until to-day it is termed the national game
of America with every claim to the title.
What last year gave us in brilliant playing,
closely contested games and remarkable vic
tories, this present year promises to duplicate,
IF, indeed, it does not excel. The two great
teams of last season-Chicago and New rk--
are much the same in their personnel this year.
Chicago will possess fourteen players, viz: Nc
Cormick. Clarkson and Flynn, pitchers; Moolic
and Flint, catchers Anson first base; Pfeffer,
second base; Williamson, third base; Ryan or
Burns, short; Sunday or Kelly right field; Gore,
center field, and Dalrymple, left field Thus it
will be that all of the old players have been
retained; three new ones added. namely: Flynn,
Noolic and Ryan. The first two named last year
formed the crack battery of the New England
League, and came highly recommended by
Burns. Clarkson and Williamson, who had seen
them play. Flynn is a little fellow, slight of
build, and not much bigger in stature than Lar
ny Corcoran, our d-time pitcher, now with the
New Yo-ks, but his muscles are as firm as tenn
pered rubber, and he is as quick as cat upon
the field, besides having a cool head and an ac-
curate delivery.
George Moolic, who will hold down Flynn's de-
livery, is short. musculary- built fellow of
twenty three with hand and arm capable, so
Ear as appearances go, of stopping any ball that
ever left pitchers hands or tipped bat. He
is thoroughly acquainted with Flynns style. and
the two are said to work together with the &C.
curacy Of a machine
Ryan displayed his ability as ball player in
our closing games with Philadelphia last year.
Was at that time stamped by Arson as "a good
One.n
: All three are looked upon as valuable acquisi-
tions to the club, and but little doubt is ex-
pressed but that they will prove themselves
SUCH. before the season has far advanced
Mr. A. G. Spaulding, president of the club,
sent the entire team to Hot Springs Ark.
March ID, for preliminary season of exercise
and systematic treatment In the baths, and they
are now playing exhibition games with the
Southern League teams OF Memphis, Nashville,
Savannah, Atlanta and Macon in order to put
themselves in thorough shape for the champion
ship games, the first of which they will play at
Kansas City April 90. All are confident thas
the pennant will come to Chicago again this
year.
New York will also enter the field with its old
team. viz: Welsh Keefe. Deasley and Ewing
as the batteries, big Roger Conner at first base,
Joe Gerhardt at second, Johnny Ward at short,
Richardson or Esterbrook at third, Dorgan at
right, 0 Rourke at center. and Gillespie at left.
Thus the great batting strength and admirable
fielding qualities of the team will be preserved,
with the probability that with the advantage of
one seasons practice, they will play better bali
this year than ever before
Probably no team in the League has been
strengthened and improved to greater extent
than has that of Detroit Its absorption Of the
Indianapolis club; its acquisition of Baldwin,
now looked upon as one of the likeliest young
pitchers of the country. and its scoop of the
''big four" from the Buffalo team, to say moth
ing of the half-dozen promising young players
ithas signed on trial, places it high in the ranks
In almost every point OF playing. The team as
now signed consists of Manning, Brouthers,
White Richardson and Rowe 1.-THE big four).
Crane, Lawrence Twitcheli, Baldwin, Hall and
Fitzsimmons Ia new battery) Getzein. Thomp-
son and Bennett 1t is generally conceded that,
If past records are to show for anything Detroit
should have the heaviest batting team in the
country. They are now playing exhibition
games in the South
Philadelphia will prove popular and attract
tive team this year. for its players are all young,
good-looking athletes. capable of making very
Interesting any game in which they may partici-
pate. The team now consists of Fogarty, An
drews, Mulvey, Camel Seigle, Bignall Titcomb,
Guenrer, Arthur Irwin, Clements, Casey, Far
rell. Ferguson and Mcclure The veteran, Har-
~ Wright, will manage the team.
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particularly strong. and the internal chickering's
and unpleasant feelings which did so much to in
jure it last year seem to have been forever dis
PEELED under the vigorous management OF the
new manager, Mr.. Schmelz, formerly of the At
lantic team. Captain Dunlap will again handle
the team upon the diamond, and will play his
old position at second base with Denny, Glass
cock and McKinnon to make up what is looked
supon as the crack in-feld of the League. In ad-
dition the club will play Cahill, Quinn, Sauer.
Seery Dolan, Healy. Howard Boyle and Kirby.
Much more is anticipated of this team this year
than they did last
The old Bostons will show up with much the
same team they played last year, and with Nash,
Poorman, johnson and Stemmeyer as the young
blood of the team. promise to hold their own
even against the crack teams they are to go
against.
The new teams Kansas City and Washington
are made up largely of old League players who
have been released from the old League teams to
make up the new clubs and judging from the
present outlook, they will each show up with
very credtable aggregations.
Washington will have Barr and Hines and
Shaw and Gilligan as batteries The fine work
of the last-named pair with Providence last year
will be remembered. Baker, Knowles and Glad
man, of the old Nationals will play in the new
team, and Paul Hines, of the old Bostons, Dave
Force late of Buffalo. Carroll of the Providence,
and Ed Crane. will form the backbone of the
nine. Kansas City is boiling over with enthusi-
asm over her League team which, under the
management of Dave Rowe, is blossoming fine
~ They will have Whitney and Hackett the
old Boston battery; Wedman. of the Detroits,
and Briody, of St Louis as their remaining bat
terry; Conway. of the old Bnffalos, AL Myers. Of
the Phillles. Donnelly and McQueery, of the De-
trQits, Lille, of the Buffalos, with Dave Rowe,
Of last years Maroons as captain and shortstop
Il is scarcely expected, in view of the energy and
enthusiasm with which the new cities have en-
tered the League circuit. that either Proyidenca