The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-12
Batteries-Horton, Walsh and Snyder:
Abbey, Hickey and Boland.
snorfinr Notes.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Abbey. Hickey and Boland
Sporting Notes.
1t may be vittrock at st. Paul to-day.
Cincinnati is playing good ball. and yet
cannot win.
Gettinger was back in right field yester-
day. He made two hits.
Canavan batted for Cross in the last inn
ing and knocked out two-bagger.
sam Thompson was in batting form yes
terday. He made two doubles and two
singles.
The fielding Of indianapolis yesterday was
almost perfect. and that, too. on soggy
ground.
phia yesterday by winning an eieven-inn-
ing game.
Pitcher Cross "got on to- the short field
at Minneapolis and took advantage of it in
one inning
Umpire Hoaglands decisions must have
been very rank TO have caused Captain Motz
to use insulting language
The Colts" punched their seven hits yes
terday and scored six times. while the
Brooklyns, with ten hits, got but two runs.
Poor Louisville got no runs and but five
hits in the game with Boston yesterday.
The Beaneaters earned nine of their eleven
runs.
Pitcher Hoffer. of the "Orioles," held the
Reds" down to nine hits and won the
game for his club by three-bagger in the
eighth inning.
Minneapolis has short field and the
| Millers are trained TO bat the ball over the
| fence This accounts for their seven
| ''homers" yesterday.
Colonel Cunningham yesterday gave the
Bostons sixteen hits. five bases on balls,
| and allowed six bases to be stolen. He
made hits himself.
Washington and st. Louis We'd with each
other in making errors yesterday. The
| Senators" made seven and the browns
| six, but the former won the game.
Rusie mitchell pennant-Winning ball YES
| terday. He struck out seven Pirates and
held them down to four hits. But for a
| blanked.
Tom Brown has not set the world afire
| by his playing at st. Louis He took Ho-
CAMS place on that team. Roger Conner,
| however, seems TO be having his third time
| on earth.
Three thousand excursionists came into
Minneapolis last Sunday for that ball game
which was not PLAYED Both Watkins and
| reached ten thousand.
Cross probably thought he couldn't play
ten men-the umpire and the Millers-and
didn't pitch with his usual skill The score
| shows Minneapolis made twenty-one hits
| for total OF twenty-eight bases.
Walter, r. Connette proposes to walk
against Lawrence Hill, one or the profes-
walk half mile While Hill rides mile.
Indianapolis goes up against Battin again
ing in Minneapolis. the boys start on long.
| hard trip TO Toledo, reaching that place
| Friday evening. They play there Saturday
| and Sunday, and then return home for
| three games.
A big roller has been run over left field
at the ball grounds. Mccarthy has been
complaining of a depression which made
him stumble whenever he crossed 1t; THIS
was filled in and rolled, and Mac will find
his territory in good condition when the
club gets home next Monday.
Jimmy Bannon leads the regulars of the
.40S and a total of $50. He has hit safely
in all but two of his nineteen games. and
teen games. He has made four doubles,
one triple and two home runs.
Caravans foot is still sore enough TO
handicap him to some extent in playing,
right Monday. The latter has been under
the weather since the Decoration day
games; Hogan is also 10 in;disposed. and Motz
day that they were all improving however.
Those Toledo games next Saturday and
Sunday will not be transferred here, but
will be played as scheduled. Manager Long
wanted half the gate receipts and all the
grand-stand receipts which, proposition In
dianapolis promptly refused. He was Of
| fered an even division OF gate and stand
but held out for his original demand, Sc
the deal for the transfer is off.
Some ambitious baseball writer in one
of the cities in the Interstate League de
readers, with the idea that the quality o.
ball in that organization is as strong as
one game between the weakest club in the
Western League and the strongest Inter
state team to demonstrate the error into
which he has fallen. The game would bc
a massacre. and the Interstate leaders
would be the victims. The clubs in the
latter organization are as far outcla sseC
by the Western League as are the Indian
apolis City League teams.
The great audience that saw Dan Mcleod
throw Herb Hale here three times II
NIT that he '' is by far far the most WonGerfu
catch-as-catch-can wrestler ever seen here
What he can do at Graeco-Roman remains
Wittmer in the catch-as-catcH S "d bou;
there is little If any doubt but the latter
claims the worlds championship at Graeco
match a pretty even thing. This struggle
of giants-for both are heavy weights and
magnificent physical specimens-will take
Opera House, and will be the most impor-
tant, wrestling event OF the season. Nc.
to match here next fall. but the latter
has not yet done So
When the Eastern clubs of the National
League attempt to reduce the circuit t
eight clubs next fall they will get most
F. De Hass Robson. president OF the Cleve.
land club. made that clear in some remarks
ing the circuit 70 eight clubs" said ne
of course that's the ideal League. if pos
os But in my humble bum opinion it
out? There would be a rival eight-clut
league IN minute. and another fight.
don't think the League wants any more
controversy. Louisville. l think. should re-
tire, and the League should buy it out II
an honorable way. Thete are other town:
for instance" AS the Spaldings are nat
urally strongly opposed TO dividing the Eas
ana Nest y, and wi not see the Ia latter sec
| fight at the next meeting.