The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-06

club.
The Detroit club has reserved all its players
for next season.
Mailman scored his second home run of the
season Thursday.
Worcester wants too much money for both
Stafford and Burkett.
Nichols, OF the Omahas, has agreed to sign with
Boston for next year.
Ii Is said that Conant has checks for 5000 o
with him for the purchase of players.
The bingham, Mass, Baseball Club, after pay
ing all Outstanding bills, divided sos.
The members OF the New Haven baseball
team were paid of, and reserved for next season.
Tom Corcoran. the crack short-stop of the New
Haven club, Is wanted by Boston, 1t Is thought.
Pres ident Young says there will be no ten-club
League next Dear, all reports to the contrary
notwithstanding.
Baltimore is going to make only two changes
in her team next season. Two outfelders tfat
can bat will be secured.
Chicago goes on record as having drawn the
smallest crowd in either League or Association
this year. The figures are 200.
The Louisville's late temporary manager, city
editor Brown, says he wants no more of manag-
ing ball teams, even Eat a dollar a minute"
Wilmot, as soon as the baseball season is over,
returns TO Minneapolis, where he puts in the
winter as a clerk in the First National Bank.
The Senators closed their home season better
than they began if. They commenced with a de-
feat by Philadelphia and ended with a tie game
with Boston.
In the League games postponed in the East
washington heads the list with 10 rainy days;
New York comes next with Is, Pittsburg 8,
Philadelphia 2, and Boston 3.
There are a few of thei old American Associa-
ton people in Washington who claim to be ready
TO put an American Association team in the field
II the club IN that city goes to the wall.
The champion Western Association team
Omaha-contemplates a post-season trip, for ex-
hlbftiOn purposes, to Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Brooklyn, New York ana other Eastern cities.
The greatest number of double games in the
League were played at Pittsburg-11; were
played at Boston, 8 at New York, 6 at Philadel-
phi, A at Chicago. B at indianapolis, 3 at Wash
ington, and 2 at Cleveland.
The record of William Moses, the crack anna
teur pitcher of Priceburg, Pa, for this season is
as follows: Out of thirty five games he won
thirty-one and held his opponents down to forty
three earned runs. Me struck out 29S men and
yielded but 100 hits.
Outside of the pitching department there will
Manning will play left field and Hamilton and
Burns will retain their present positions. The
infeld will be unchanged, except that Long will
be shifted to second base and Pickett will be sta
toned l. at short.
The Boston Globe, which recently offered to
divide 81 900 among the players of the Boston
baseball club IL they succeeded in winning the
championship this year, telegraphed the club at
Pittsburg last night that in appreciation of their
efforts to win, the 81 900 will be divided among
them just the same.
VIM. Z. Curtis. who is in charge of the dele
gates to the Congress of the three Americas, is
an ardent admirer of the national game. In
vey the foreign visitors in their tour of the
United States. Mr.. Curtis is figuring upon Civ
ing them an opportunity to witness the series for
the championship of the world.
Frank {. Bancroft Is working up n scheme for
forming an interstate league, to include clubs in
cities In New York, Connecticut and Massachu-
sets. IL may he only a siI-elub League, or it
mentioned by Mr.. Bancroft are: Albany. Troy,
Hartford, New Haven. Springfield and WOrces-
ter.
The Indian summers in st. Louis are long and
the weather delightful for ball-playing. To ill
the vacuum, a series OF games is being arranged
between the Browns and other league clubs. The
there says the Sporting Times. There Is a native
love there for Glasscock, Denny, Boyle, Nc
Geaehy, and other members or the team, who, In
olden days, were on the diamond OF old Union
Park.
TwO big baseball clubs lost this season on
their investment in high-priced talent. Kansas
City lost 5000 on Pickett and Sowders. Pickett
took cold In his throwing arm q week after he
Joined the Cowboys. and has been laid up since,
while Sowders has been drilled to all parts of the
lot by every team in the Association. Pittsburg
invested money In Conway, and he has scarcely
pitched a winning game this season. Conway ia
trying to bring his dead arm TO life with electric
battery shocks.
The nine-year-old daughter of John Hatfield,
once a prominent ball player and now n pros
porous bOok-maker at Chicago, was arrested in
Hatfield abandoned his wife and children sew
eral years ago. The mother did not want the
pretty little beggar and Justice German COM
mitted her to the care of the Sisters of st. DOM
mick. The father is said to be worth 100000,
and was an Outfielder of the old Mutual club.
His throw of 1873 yards has never been beaten.
The Washington. correspondent of Sporting
Life names the following as the winning players:
GARRISON. Buftinton and Haddock, pitchers: Tom
DAILY, Buck Ewing and Mike Kelly, ~catchers;
Mack, Denny. Richardson and Nash, on bases;
Glasscock, shOrtst0p; WilmOt, Hoy and Herman,
in the out-field. These men are selected for
their all-around playing ability and for the inter-
est they apparently take in the game. With such
a team, the correspondent thinks, Washington
could make a very strong bid for the penant.
The Western Association has only been fairly
successful. Minneapolis, which last year lost
$4,000 and dropped ont of the League. proved
the phenomenon OF the year. Sam Morton, its
Paul made $4,000, Milwaukee $4,000, and
Omaha $1,000. But for the sale OF Crooks TO
Columbus, however, for $1,750, the pennant
winners would have been losers. Denver quits
with 81, 600 in pocket. while Des Moines loses
81 Sioux City $4,000 and st. Joseph 49,
600.
Manager Selee laughs at the story that the
Omaha team has been sold entire TO Boston.
Says he: al know absolutely nothing about this
deal. and I guess it Il all a canard. / am agent
for the Boston club out here, and authorized 10
negotiated with a pitcher-which one 1 do not
care 10 state just now-and l guess that Is the
way the story started. They may have received
a proposition from Boston, but l think II hardly
possible, as I received a telegram from one of
The Boston men myself to-day relative 10 play
ers. Besides, I had an understanding before /
lett Omaha this time that il any players were to
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