The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-09
WESTERN LEAGUE.
Baseball Notes.

Seery has taken a terrible drop in batting.
Third baseman McGlone has been released by
the Cleveland Club.
II is said pitcher Ed Morris may play with the
New Yorks next season.
Nichols. the black-lIsted player, 10 making eff
forts once moro to DO restored.
Beginning with the Boston series Tuesday,
the games will commence at half past 3 o'clock.
New York is not LUCKY club as rule, but ii
has always been lucky against the Indianapolis
team.
Mc1eachy is making q great base-steahug
secord. Including yesterdays game be has
stolen forty-one.
Old a. the national game is this will be the
first time that the metropolis Of the country has
the champion club.
Sam Thompson is still at Mt. Clemens. Mich,
trying to get rid of rheumatism which threarens
to ruin bis ball-playing.
Up to Wednesday Kelly bad made hit in
each of the last seventeen games John ston bad
made but one in the last seventeen.
The Indianapolis team will play six games
with the Philadelphia Stub on the next visit of
the latter here. Two will be played on Thurs
day of fair week.
The Grand Avenues and Nationals play at
Brighton Beach this afternoon for the city
championship The batteries will be Vance and
Doremus, Russia and Donovan.
Cincinnati il certainly an unlucky club. 1t
recently lost . game 70 Brooklyn on account Of
q home run secured by Burdock, who can not
ordinarily hit the side of barn with hsh-pole.
Schoensck continues to do excellent fielding,
both on ground and thrown balls, and is much
livelier on the bases than one would expect him
to be. He will hardly make good batter, how
ever.
Sunday, of tho Pittsburgs, was married to
Chicago young lady Wednesday evening. The
Tribune gives an extended account of the we'd
ding, at which Pfeffer and one or two other
members Of the Chicago club were present in
full dress suits.
Dan Richardson is probably the best second
baseman in the League at getting flies batted
into the short outfield No player in the couu-
try, however, can equal Stricken. OF the Cleve-
land club, in this direction, and McPhse, OF Gin
cinnati, is also expert at it. especially on long
foul flies.
Not only will the indianapolis club close the
home championship season in Chicago, but it
will do the same in Pittsburg IL will be . post
poned game. and will be played Sept 81. Il oc-
ours during the centennial week Of Allegheny
county, and manager Phillips stated whom here
that he expected big attendance at the game.
Manager Watkins declares that, during the
last weeks OF his service with the Detroit club,
he was its manager only in name Several
times he was compelled to do things against his
own judgment, and, in every instance, they
proved to have been bad moves The time
when he achieved the greatest success was when
he had the complete control of the team.
IL the Cincinnati club does not know its ersat
weakness. every one else can see t. The team
has not single first-clAss batter. sONsil, Lath-
am and Robinson, of the ST Louis club. are
better batters than any man IN the Cincinnati
team, and every Association club can show at
least one stronger batter than Cincinnati haa