The Indianapolis journal., 1889-09-09
RANK FIGURES GIVE THEM
How the Home Players Stand in Tables
Of Batting and Fielding Averagds.
The st. Louis Team Refuses to Play at Brook
lyn on Account Of an Umpire's Decision
Sunday Games and Baseball Notes.

The latest averages place New York first
as to club batting, with .279. indianapolis
is next, with 81, but that percentage Bos-
ton also has. Chicago and Philadelphia
are third, with .267, and Washington, Cleve-
land and Pittsburg follow in the order
named, with .252, .24S and .246. Cleveland
is first In club fielding, the percentage be-
ing 1888, with indianapolis second,
with 1888. Boston and Pittsburg are
rank third with .92s, Philadelphia is fourth
with .924. New York fifth with .922, Chicago
sixth with .916, and w Washingtonseventhw with
.90l. Brouthers leads the individual batting
averages with .376. Tiernan's 81 puts him
second, and Glasscock is third with .349;
Ewing 1856; Sowders, Pittsburg, 1888; Gore.
1892; Connor .33I; Carroll, .329; Sanders 1923.
and Mack, .316, in the order named, being
the list up to the tenth rank. An Indian
apolis player does not appear again until
the fourteenth rank is reached. That
is held by Hines, whose percentage is 800.
Seery and Fields, of Pittsburg are in nine
teenth rank, with 300. Sullivan is twenty
fourth. with .2S9; McGeachy twenty-sev-
enth. .2SS; Andrews thirtieth .2IS; Denny
Buckley fifty fourth, .240; Bassett fifty
seventh. ;Ss5; Boyle sixtieth, .227; Get
zein eighty-first, :157; Rusie nine.
tieth, .Os2. AS catcher, Buckley's 1908
xtssDiS gvss him ,.NS twelfth and Tank Dss s s
twenty-second rank. Bennett. -.965; Zim-
mer, .943, and Schiver, $40, in order named.
lead the catchers. Hines is seventh In the
list of first basemen, with 1868, which is led
Anson and Morrill, are in second rank, with
.97S. Bassett is third among the second
basemen, his percentage being .941.
Meyers and Dunlap are ahead of him,
with s.9os. is third as third base
man. Nash and White come before him.
with .9O6 and 1908, respectively. Glasscock
is third as short-stop, with .911. Mexican
ond, with :9l4. seery has fifth place, and
.9l2 as left fielder. Richardson. of Boston,
is at the top of the list with .973, and Maui
second, with ;;944. Those or the home
club who have played in center
head of the list. Andrews fifth. with
$685. Myers seventh, .915; Sullivan eighth,
.912. McGeachy is second among the right
felders, with .951, Maui being first, with
.959a< Boyle is nineteenth among the pitch
ers, With .267 on tirst-base hits to times at
bat by the opponents; Rusie twenty fourth,
with .2S2, and Getzein last, with .2S0 The
average earned runs, per games. by Oppon-
ents on Boyle, 2.69; Rusie, 800, and Get
zein, 3.A.
st. Louis Refuses to Play at Brooklyn.
BROOKLYN, Sept. s.-The ST. Louis Brook
lyn game was not played to-day. the st.
Louis club absenting themselves. The um-
pire gave the game to the BroOklyns. The
st. Louis club refused to play on account of
the umpre's decision in refusing to call yes
terday's game on account of darkness.
G. H. Byrne, manager of the Brooklyn
team. was highly indignant at the action of
the st. Louis club. and will do everything
In his power to make the Western cham
| pions suffer dearly. "Von der Abe has no
right to set himself up as judge and jury in
| this case," said Mr.. Bryne tonight. "His
ing of the Association will be held in dsy
or two, and then the matter will be set
| tied. At IL p. NJ. on Saturday. Mr.. Bryne
| received the following telegram:
| c. H Bryne President Brooklyn b. B. Club:
refuse I to allow my club to y play any more
| On receipt of this telegram Mr.. Byrne
Immediately wired to President Wykoff, at
| Columbus. as follows:
Won der Abe refuses to allow his club to play in
| Brooklyn. Please notify him that If he fails to
| play games as scheduled he subjects himself to
| expulsion. We have tribunal to which he can
appeal il any injustice has been done him. Tele-
| graph him to Grand Central Hotel, New York
| city. ~
| Mr.. Won der Abe, president of the st.
| Louis club, was seen tonight, and said
| that he had good reasons for not taking his
team to Ridgewood Park. He said he un-
| derstood the rulings in the case perfectly,
and was willing to abide by the decision of
| the Association. He seems to think that he
has been unjustly treated, not only in
Brooklyn. but in other cities and he pro-
| poses to make a test case of it.
IF with their police arrangements at
aohs Do So< do hax,
not protect us. how would they do it at
RidgewOod without pOlicei l was stoned
at RidgewOOd last year, and don't want
any more of it. NV players told me last
night that they would not 90 to RidgewOod
for 8, 900 each. They were afraid of their
lives. The crowd assaulted Mccarthy,
| Robinson and Comiskey on Saturday, and
! things looked dangerous for me at one
! time. If / had had a pistol | might have
been tempted to use it. Goldsmith ac-
| knowledged to our men that he knew il
was too dark to play that game on Satur-
day"