The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-04
Baseball Notes.

Pitcher Kiroy wants So 500 from Baltimore.
Fred Pfefer says the Chicago in6sld is the
toughest in the League.
The younger members of the New York team
are now in the South
Lille once a well-known League out-felder
is in Kansas City, out of an engagement
The Cincinnatis talk of carrying net monkey
along for mascot the approaching season.
Viau, of the Cincinnatis, is pronounced one Of
the fnestlooking players in the profession.
Tommy Bond. once Boston's favorite pitch
or, will umpire this summer in the New Eng
land League.
Pitcher George, who played with the New
Yorks last year, is lying i'll at his home in
Bellaire, o.
The wellknown California pitcher, Purcell,
will. at the end of the season. go TO Baltimore to
to study for the priesthood.
Young Crook. who has signed to play second
base for the St. Louis Whites, is son of Gen.
Crook, of Indian war fame.
Wizard Shaw is living quietly at Chariestown,
Macs, and practices every day. He might
prove effective again under the threstrike rule.
The Phil adelphia club will this year have
two uniforms-one blue and one white-both
trimmed with red. The stockings and belts will
be red.
The spring series between the Detroits and
ST. Louis have been limited to five games,
Nashville, April 6; IN ST Louis April Is and IA.
Chicago correspondent intimates that
Williamson may be played on first before long
and that Arson will. retire 20 the bench. Arson
says the big shorsstop would make great first
baseman.
Ed Williamson, who is back from California,
says that if Clarkson signs again with Chicago
the latter will win the penant, Van Haltren
is "simply pitching wonderfully" He thinks
Cincinnati will win the Association pennant.
An Association Authority rates the chances of
the various clubs for the penn ant the coming sea-
son as follows: Ito against Cincinnati; to
against Brooklyn or Louisville: to against
baltimore n = a l Ar h.
letics; IL to against Cleveland; 1000, 900 to /
against Kansas City.
Ex-Manaeer Scanlon, of the Washington club,
is said to have been chiefly instrumental in hav-
ing the House eff Represe natives include base
ball in the pool bill passed by that body. If this
provision should pass the Senate it will have
will remove temptations to players, and, at the
same time. remove of the most demoraliz-
ing causes the game has to contend against in
Washington.
Pitcher Staeg. who is training the Yale Col
lege nine, has devised new scheme for teach
ing them to slide bases. He has constructed
and placed in the gymnasium a pine frame,
fourteen by seven feet. covered with canvas
drawn tightly and overcovering OF velvet
carpet, and with it's surface elevated about four
feet above the ground. The candidates run
distance of twenty feet so. and then huri
themselves headlong upon this new machine.
Detroit Free Press Association people are
continually looking around for the causes of
their inferiority when compared with the
League. To a large extent it is due to superior
base ball generaiship in the older organization,
but the main reason is that League officials
know something which those of the Association
have yet to learn. and that is that unless
a-sport has basis of responsibility and observ-
ance of Sunday it cannot hope to flourish. The
class of people who throw beer mugs at the
pire cannot support a club They not num-
erous enough. 1t is the large class of respecta-
BILE. Iawabiding people who pay the salaries of
players and in some cases put dividends into
the pockets OF the stockholders. When the As
sociation takes pattern from the League, forbids
beer-selling in the grand-stands and omits TO
schedule any games for Sunday, then. and then
during basis; aud unless it does this soon its
downfall may be looked for.
o. P. Caylor. One spring day in 1882, Char
ley Snyder walking up Main street. in Gin
cinnatI. when his eyes rested upon a modest
sign, which read 60 Hermann. glove
maker" He was in need of glove. and he went
in solicit the making of one. He found a
German and his wife in a small room about
by fifteen feet in area, and a patron age which
was meager they barely lived. After much
trouble Snyder made them understand what it
was he wanted. In few days he had his glove
and it proved to be one of the best he ever used
Several visiting eaGchers saw the glove got q
pointer and. hunting up the German, left orders
Those gloves in turn secured other orders. and
In year the glove-maker had rented a
neiRhboring building, employed help and was
manufacturing gloves for players In almost
every part of the country. Presently orders
came in for supplies of gloves from Spalding
Bros, Reach, Wright and other base ball supply
dealers, so that ia the years which have followed
the German and his wife have made a small
fortune Snyder's visit to that little room on
like the fairys visits of which we read.