The Indianapolis journal., 1890-02-16

an extent that Pittsbure's pitcher tainted
with fright He soon recovered. however.
and went safely through the balance of the
ordeal.
Hanlon does not favor exhibition games,
probably. because he cannot get any TO
favor. The Pittsburg Brotherhood club
will play at hand-ball until il can get
action on ball team. and that will not be
until the championship season opens,
April 81.
Manager Hackett. of Kansas City. was in
Chicago yesterday arranging with Presi-
dent Spalding for a series of games in the
sprina with the Black Stockings. Three
games will be played between Anson's colts
and the Western Leaguers at Kansas City
on April IA. Is and 10.
While practicing at League Park. q few
days ago. John Sowders the weli-known
hand SO badly that the hone protruded.
The accident will cripple him for some
time. Heis on Kansas City's reserve list,
but has not yet signed with that team.
Veach, who is to play first-base for Cleve-
land. is one of the heardest hitters in the
baseball business. so Hart. of the Boston
opposition team, says. AT Des Moines."
says Hart, 1.-The grounds are about like
those of the Cleveland League club. In the
first game that Veach ever played there. he
lifted the ball over the fence for home
run. think he is as hard hitter as Buck
Ewing. That home run wasn't his last,
either"
The managers of the Hackett, Carhartl ~
20. baseball team, which last year won
the championship of the New York Com
mercial League. have decided to stick to
the national agreement organizations and
play no games with the Brotherhood clubs.
Manager Perkins bad arranged dates with
both of the local brotherhood teams, but
Friday he Cancelled them and secured dates
for exhibition contests with the New York
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the Atlantic Association.
1t is the present intention of Manager
Wright, of the Philadelphia League club,
to play Delehanty at first base. with Ham
ilton, Burke and Thompson in the outteld.
McCauley, one of the latest acquisitions, is
as large q man as Sam Thompson. He is
left-handed. and is said to be very good
batsman. 1t is just possible that he may
prove good enough to cover first base regn-
larly, and in that event Delehanty will be
transferred to the outfield, dlsplaclng
Burke.
President Spalding, in speaking of Ad
Gumbert, said that he understood the
Brooklyn Brotherhood club was to pay him
$500 per season for his services. when
Gumbert told me-" said Mr. Spalding, that
$500, said to him that thought the best
service could do the League was to per-
init the Brotherhood to sign HIM ut that
figure. Last year he was practically an un-
known man. If we can develop men in one
season SO that they will be worth $500.
think we should have no fear of picking up
an excellent team from the material already
under contract"
New York Herald: There has been a good
deal of talk hereabouts of late about pos
sible transfer of the players of the Indian
apolls Baseball Club to New York to ill up
the gaps in the local League team. 1t is
all bOsh-that is. if the positive statements
of the gentlemen most interested in any
such transfer are to be accepted as true.
says without qualification that he is in the
League to stay, and that means that he
proposes to hold on to each and every one
of his players. President Day, of the New
York club, says that he does not cOntem-
plate securing the Hoosier hard-hitters and
aIl-round performers on the green diamond,
and that Onght to settle it.