The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-07
baseball Notes.

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The Brooklyns elected Dave Foutz captain by
ballot.
George Barnum will umpire the ten Chicago
and games in this country.
Out of tw elve men thus far engaged for the
Hartford team, seven are left-handed batsmen.
One of the hits made off OF Rusie yesterday
was a gift, the ball being tossed over the plate.
Farrar, of the Philadelphia, has not been
fined or reprimanded in his six years of service
with that team.
have been three times as large had the Leaguers
cared to make 1t so.
1t is not improbable that one or two more new
faces will be seen in the Hoosjer team before the
season is far advanced.
The City League game at Brighton Beach be-
tween the Nationals and Unions will take place
to-day at $3.50 o'clock p. NJ.
Pitcher Sullivan. who was with the Allegheny
Baseball Club during the season of 1884, Is now
in the United States postal service.
Burdick's arm was much better last night, and
he thinks a few days rest will be all that Is
necessary to get 1t In good shape again.
Hines will play first base In to-morrow's game,
and he is cOrrespondingly happy. He Is very
anxious to play the position regularly.
Goodbye. Chicago Maroons: Come again
cam do o"v with the Grand Avenues at Brighton
Beach.
wagenhurst can not be released before the end
OF the season, unless he Is willing, as Manager
Mutrie, in his contract, agrees TO keep him FOR
the year.
Jesse Damn, the well-known Yale backstop, Sc
verely injured himself, and is now troubled with
walking around in a plaster cast, and says his
physician has forbidden him to do any heavy
exercise for at least two years.
George E. Van Haltren, Of the Chicago ball
O'Brien, at st. Patrick's Church, In West Oak
land, Cal.
Manager Trott, of Newark, has signed Shaw,
who pitched ball last season for Jersey City and
RaltimOrn- Tlta will give NaWark two pltchQra
named Shaw.
Atkinson, the old Athletic player, who jumped
to the Chicago Unions in 1884. Is with the
pitcher in the profession.
w. II. Lucas c~ontemplates starting q new
league, composed of cities like Oshkosh, Eau
Claire, Duluth, La Crosse and saltwater, with a
salary limit Of $500 per year.
The New York club has sent a letter to Mayor
Grant, saying that It would give $1,000 TO pub
lie charities If the Polo grounds were left undis-
turbed until next October.
1t costs something to put a first-class nine in
the field nowadays. The Brooklyn club rented
Washington Park five years ago for 50, 900 O
year. Now the club pays $4,000 a year, accord
The st. Louis and Kansas City clubs, and all
the other baseball organizations of Missouri, can
once more breathe neely, as the Legislature OF
| that State has refused to pass the law f0rbidding
Sunday ball playing.
Boston Herald: Arson is being outbatted by
almost every member of the Chicago team on the
UP "a WHICH, no kttc uOLuC dkdiu, dnQ q tuut
official scorer to help him, there will be none TO
get ahead OF the old man.
The North. Delawares defeated the North nli-
nois-street club, yesterday afternoon, by q score
of 81 to 5. Batteries: Madden and Morgan for
the North nlinoisstreets and Schwabacher and
Hoffman for the North Delawares.
Dan Brouthers says that bis brother James is
In splendid condition and would make a good
man for a minor league team. While practicing
with him this winter, Jim batted a liner that cut
big Dams hat in t~- A narrow escape that.
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sional ball-players are more interesting than that
of Sanders, the strapping Philadelphia pitcher,
who is paired with Clements. He comes of q
highly respectable family, and resides at Sudley,
Prince William county. Virginia, where he was
born. He graduated from Roanoke College with
high honOrs, and left there with the intention of
school for one year and joined the Philadelphia
in the spring of 1888. Last winter he attended
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn, where
he Is studying to become a civil engineer. San
| ders. who is twenty-eight years of age, made q
| a Virginia country nine, which defeated some of
the best amateur clubs or the country In 1885
and 1886.
Sporting Life: It was not long ago that the
crowd al q baseball game was of about the same
quality as that found at an ordinary variety
show. while now a good game draws as fair a
gathering as a first-class theater. However, de-
spite the dyspeptic growls Of a few pessimists,
baseball will retain its supremacy as our ma
tional game. and the outlook is decidedly prom
Using for u very prosperous season alike artist
ically and financially. The S~palding tour around
the world has created a new boom for the game,
and in addition the many changes in the various
clubs, the promise of close and exciting strug-
giles, the legislation of the winter, the discussion
and the changes OF the rules, have all served to
maintain the public interest in and what the ap-
petite for the king of outdoor games, and there
Is every indication of an unprecedented boom
for base ball in 1889.
Chadwick, in Sporting Life: What team will
this season win the Association pennant, is the
puzzle question which is troubling the problem
s0lvers OF the journalistic brotherhood. 1t is a
comparatively easy task to name four of the
eight teams which will not be in at the death.
end of the pennant hunt Is altogether @ different
nut to crack. Ii the Brooklyn team will carry
out the the st. Louis policy of going for the tail
enders as II they were leaders--sOmething they
lamentably failed to do last ~year-then 1 shall
feel inclined TO invest on them, but not other
wise. The st. Louis team promises to be decid-
eddy stronger than last year, and most assurdly
stronger. As regards the latter teams chances,
it all depends whether they will drop lushing or
not. Cincinnati Is comparatively an unknown
quantity this year. Captain McPhee-that was
a wise move. Mr.. Stern, in placing him in COM
mand-may lead the team TO the goal. At best,
have no shOw-will be close and exciting, and no
one can even give a good guess as to the ultimate
result. The fight in the second class promises to
be between Baltimore and Columbus, while
Louisville and Kansas City will have Ii out for
third class honOrs. That Is how 1t looks to me at
present. l would toss for the lead for the first
four; would try Ii on Columbus for the second
and on Louisville for the third.
The Coming Bicycle Tournament.
CHICAGO, April 6.-The programme of races for
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