The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-30
Baseball Notes.

Daniels is the first umpire to wear cricket
guard on his right leg.
Charles j. Ferguson, the well-known pitcher
OF the Philadelphia Baseball Club, died. last
evening, Of typhoid fever.
Burglars cracked E. E. Mengess safe at Kan
sas City the other night. and got away with
$500, the receipts of the game played that after
noon.
to Batteries: Frederick and Schaub for the
Clippers. and Shepherd, Vance and Elliott for
the Daltons
Tug Arundel. the catcher recently released by
Indianapolis. was yesterday signed by Manager
LOTUS for the St Louis Whites. LOTUS says
Tug is an easy man TO handle.
The Dorman-streets defeated the Hempsteads
yesterday. by q score of 16 to 10. Batteries
Bencil and Henbaugh for the Dormans, and
Healy and Rettig for the Hempsteads.
After Cincinnati had defeated ST. Louis three
straight games the ST. Louis Republican re-
marked: Zone thing has been demonstrated,
ANYHOW, and that is that Il takes something else
beside hi yi-ing' to win games"
Cincinnati Enquirer: Indianapolis made it's
''hold-off" players, McGeachv, Hackett and
Arundel. sweat blood this spring. The men re-
fused to sign at liberal salaries. and now two of
them are looking for jobs. while McGeachy is
ready to sign at the clubs terms The game of
freeze out" worked the wrong way that time.
At noon on Tuesday a train the Delaware.
Lackawanna & Western railroad thrown
of the track by a baseball. which fell under
rail and plank of street crossing in Newark.
The train was puIling out from station. and
was going slowly, yet both trucks of one
left the track.
An Eastern paper says: s'The managers of
the Boston baseball nine show commendable
enterprise IN buying expensive men from West
ern clubs They would display better iudg-
ment, however. if they could tell good player
before he had been tested by other managers
and all of his peculiar strength and weakness is
known to them. To sell extensive men to Bos-
ton and get cheaper that can beat them is
getting to be a thriving Western industry
st. Louis Post-Dispatch: The present de-
moralization of the Detroit club Mr.. Schmelz at
tributes to the row with Watkins and the de-
sire of the plavers to have their own way He
was in the team out of them Last year, and that
Detroit's success was owing to Watkns's mau-
ngement. Watkins should be given full charge
of the club and all the players should be made
subordinate to him. IF this were the case in
stead of the very scattered power that now
regulates the management of the team Detroit
would in all probability have appeared to better
advantage than it has thus far.
Billy Sunday. the lively ceuter-fielder of the
Pittsburg team. Intends to become a member of
the First Presbyterian Church there next Sun
dav. He ia awaiting his credentials of mem ber-
shin from Chicago. He attended Sabbath school
last Sunday and was given charge of a class of
young men. One or two OF them. knowing who
he was, asked two three questions regarding
baseball He answered them and questions
became more numerous. He finally said:
young men, play bali on any other day but
Sunday, and on that day attend to my church
duties All or you who want to know about
baseball come to me during the week"