The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-06-10

Baby. and will play the similar line Of character
90 IL that runs through the Hoyt pieces This
engagement 10 bona fde, and rival managers
look upon il ~ . masterstroke Of business on
the part Of the enterprisipg thsatric 81 hrm OF
n ct
n. T. L., Rockville: The Chicago club re-
turns home on the evening Of June 10. the day
on which the Republican national convention
begins. and viii play Pittsburg on June ~, Il
and p; they then 60 to Detroit for three
games.
Charley Bassett does not bit the ball often,
but his hits generally come BIN At the right time
On that accounthe 10 worth much more rs Dat
ter than one or two other members OF the team
Who have better averages, but are helpless when
hits are needed.
Gleason. Of the Athletics, was put out Ia an
odd way Decoration day afternoon He drove
erounder st Latham. hitting him on the knee
The ball caromed clear across the diamond 10
McGarr. who picked it up and threw Gleason
out ct frsg base.
The tumble taken By the Cincinnati team is
not due TO hard luck. ONLY one player was lald
of. and while that was McPhse. the crack sec
ond baseman, it had one OF the best substitutes
in tho country TO take his place In kappel- NO
club goes through the season without having
regular player laid of time and again. lac
trouble with the Cincinnati club is its bai-
heartedness. II anyone shakes stick at tse
70 win championships.
Anew feature. but one of no great value, has
been introduced on the Boston grounds IN the
shape Of q baseball register. A board partition
was erected on the eenter-feld fence, o little 70
one side of the tiag pole. By means of electric
wires which run from the board along the fence
to position In the pavilion, an operator sitting
In the latter by touching kno8, registers on the
board the decisions of the umpire to balls and
strikes. giving the number Of each, and also
whether ,s batter or runner was OUT or wnen the
ball hit was = foul Ills will prove al advantage
TO those people who. in case of unusual noise.
cannot hear the umpires decisions.
Comiskey thinks well of Gaffney's new method
of umpiring. but still gives the double umpire
system preferences. Says he: II want 20 see
that system adopted because believe in base
running. There is nothing so discouraging TO
player or anything that will SO soon break up
his daring base-running as to make good slide
into second base at the cost Of skinned hands.
torn uniform and the sodangerine of his limbs.
and then TO be called out by an umpire sixty or
hundred feet away. while the second baseman
did not come within foot of him. That thing
frequently occurs, but 1t could seldom, II ever,
come to pass with an umpire behind second
base" That other baseball general. Arson, also
still favors the double system.
When John Kelly the newly pointed League
umpire. was in Pittsburg. the other day, he
said: II would almost give my right arm 70 be
back umpiring again. 1 am tired of managing.
A managers work Is never done. If you have
winning team it's all good enough but the min
ute your players strike q streak OF bad luck the
trouble begins. / would return TO the League
fold to morrow II / could get away. but am
under contract for the season II the League
people will give me AZ much money is the Asso-
citation pays Ga6ney, you will likely 8 I'D me one
OF the League umpires next year. Fad q long
talk with President Nimick to-day, and he urged
me strongly to come back, saying he would do
everything IN his power to make the arrange
meut satisfactory
Both Keefe and Clarkson say that the secret
Of their success 10 . little head work. Clarksou
says: DO you know there never was q batsman
| who didn't have some one wsaknessl No matter
how good q batter. there will be some kind OF q
ball, in some one place. that he can't hit Now,
when / face Q player / have never pitched
| against before, begin experimenting until 1
find out what his weakness 10. / remember it.
and always afterward know how to work him
OF course, some days you can't put the ball
| scheme | 20 on and it has worked we'll. You
know I can pitch pretty we'll against the De-
troits. The main reason 10, l have studied
them more closely than most of the other play
srs, because they are such terrible sluggers."
During the first Louisville contest at ST Louis
| this season. White the Louisville short-stop,
knocked line bali through window of the
| Browuss dressine-room. The hole made by the
ball was az round a. dollar and barely ad-
| mittted ball One of tho Whites thought it
L q Vduo
with the round hole in it and replace it with
| other pane with hole too small to admit of the
| passage of ball. The arrangements were made,
| and ths trick worked for cigars, drinks. hats,
caps, shoes and gloves before it was discovered.
| The new hole was perfectly round, and although
| made with . diamond, il resembled the one made
by Whites liner early in the season. The name
| of the perpetrator OF this joke 10 withheld. as
some of his victims would feel like lynchiuR
| him if they knew that he had been working
| them.
| Tim Murnane writes that Arson is fine
| wrestler. He says: "We remember q bout he
had with Johnnie Dryer, the late pugilist, ia
| Johnnie Cark's place. at Philadelphia, in 1879.
| It was one evening after Steve Taylor and
| Dwysr had spared at Fox's Thsater. for purse.
Dryer was awarded the bout. After the show
/ was over quite a crowd gathered at ClarK's, and
expressed their minds very freely on the decis
ion of the referee. Arson thought Taylor had
the bes: of il, aud so expressed himself ia the
bearing Of Dryer. The pugilist got little hot
| and turned TO Ansop. saying. We'll. you're a
big fellow, but I'd like to put you on your back.
We'll, retorted the ball-tosser. you can't com
| menee any too soon.' The boys pulled off theil
| coats and went at it, catch-as-catch-can. Arson
bad his man fiat the floor in less than q
minute. Dwyer settled, and was introduced tt
| tho ball-tosser, and was much surprised wher
| he learned he had been up against Arson, whom
| he admired so much on the ball field
Last Day at Latonia.