The Indianapolis journal., 1895-08-18
Sporting Notes.

Inc games here, commencing Tomorrow,
right field yesterday.
Gettinger. continues to line out the ball
for Louisville. Yesterday he touched Mr.
Ehret for triple and two singles.
st. Louis papers are urging Chris Won der
Abe to secure the release of Arlie Latham
from the Reds, even If it should cost a lit
tie money.
Kansas City put in pitcher Fricken yes
terday. The Saints sized him up in the
first inning and in the second proceeded
to do him up.
Motz and Mcfarland carried off the bat
ing honors for the Hoosiers yesterday.
Eacn made q double and two singles. New
ell got a homer and single.
Charley Gutenberg, the first baseman who
was with Louisville most of last season,
has learned to hit the ball on the nose
He 10 batting 1853 for the Torontos.
M In Yesterdays Philadelphia Boston game
thompson, DeIehanty and Clements each
made four hits that netted nineteen bases.
Sullivan and Hallman also hit the ball
The game at Detroit yesterday, though
scheduled as regular, was an exhibition
Saturday was played on Friday, which was
an open date.
Half a dozen National League pitchers
are now doing better work than Rusie.
pitcher ten times. while New York got
only four hits off Daub.
President A J. Reach, of the Philadel-
phia club, is jaunting about in the Penn
syivania League cities, armed with micro
scope and scoop-net trying to find some
pitchers who can pitch for the Phillies.
Nine National League clubs are 500 points
or better in the percentage column. Cleve-
land is only tive points above Baltimore,
and Is above Pittsburg, but is 120 above
New York L50O. and $50 above Louisville,
the tail-enders.
Catcher Bolan. recently released by Mil
vafrLr hos hoox7 c-or f,x-C Do,
IL Bolan will take care of himself he has
few superiors in the League. but his we'll
known weakness. which generally crops out
at the most inopportune times, destroys
much OF his usefulness.
Clark Griffith, Chicago's crack pitcher,
lost his head, the other day, and threw
ball at umpire Jevne. who lodged The
game went on and he was not fined for the
break. This would be good opportunity
for President Young to put one of the
much-talked-ofs and seldom-seen 500 fines
on the umpire for not maintaining the
proper order on the ball field.
Indianapolis has done great work the past
week Three out OF four from Detroit on
sster sne ai1ss tbsn grounds L shOwng
grounds the week previous Then. too, the
team has been crippled by the absence OF
Fisher and Hogan. Manager Watkins want
ed seven out of the nine games with De-
troit. and that's just what he got.
Mcbride. the new outfieiier secured by
Captain Anson, has been captain of the
Austin (Texl club. If records count for
anything, Mcbride Is promising enough. In
ninety-six games this year he has fielding
average of 1882. Even making allowance
for liberal scoring, this is phenomenal
record. At the bat McBride's mark is .427.
not counting the extra steam required to
pound out eight home runs, fourteen triples
and twenty-nine doubles.
To-day Indianapolis will meet Anson's
Colts at Chicago. II the game would bring
out the strength OF both teams ii would
prove very interesting as 1t would give a
line on the relative playing ability of the
two organizations. But the trouble is that
in these exhibition games the dollar. and
not the victory, is the chief interest at
stake. and while they are always on the
square, neither team will make any extra
effort to win out for fear Of injury to a
player.
Manager Connie Mack. OF Pittsburg. is
for his Pittsburg team, and says that with
him the Pirates would land at the top in
the League race. His latest offer to Man.
ager Manning Is $500 for Hastings's re-
lease, provided he can get him at once.
Mack might just as well get up reputa-
tion for liberality among his constituents,
as Manning would not let Charley go before
the end OF the season for $5.000.-Kansas
City Star
There has been q decided sentiment In
Milwaukee all season against umpire cush-
man, on the ground that his trouble and
dismissal from the management OF the Nil
against that club. All doubts are now at
rest He succeeded in convincing the most
skeptical that he had nothing in his heart
but charity for the Brewers. but to do
this he lost the friendship OF every Kansas
City player--Kansas City Star. Yet this
same paper Is continually railing at In
dIanapolis for kicking on umpIres. When
clsions. the Star Is satisfied, but both the
paper and Mannings team can put up as
loud howl as ANYBODY when they take an