The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-04
Sporting Notes.

Hogr1ever Will nelp WIN many game
from now
Cross will pitch at Grand Rapids to-day.
All the players went on the trip.
Detroit comes next Thursday for the clos
ing series. There are two postponed games
to play off.
The Toledo Blade makes the extraordi-
nary statement that Indianapolis has re-
leased Newell.
,Comlskey recently signed Burns. and will
work and play Camp on first.
Hogan viii sprint again His adversary
will be Reeves, local Splinter.
Dahlen is doing superb work at short for
Chicago In his last eight games he has
had Sc chances, accepting them all.
1t has been said by a man who knows
that Cleveland Will not play any more Sun
day games after this season, Cleveland
will have a Sunday rest for the first time
In four weeks next Sunday.
Wittrock has been released by the To-
rontos. He was playing good ball. but he
that the team could not pay salaries out of
the gate receipts, and shortly after drew
his release.
Joe Battin. the erstwhile Western League
world. After his disastrous experience as an
umpire he signed TO pay second base for
Little Rock. and now that team has thrown
up the sponge.
Captain Doyle of the New York team,
says. There are two cities in the West
where we get the, worst of 1t. One is at
Louisville, where the crowd does not turn
out at all. aid the other is at Pittsburg,
where the crowd runs the umpire
Indianapolis ''rooters'' are said TO be mild
compared with those In the Western cities.
Out at Kansas City they make more noise
over base hit than the indianapolis crowd
does over a home run. At ST. Paul, Nh ne
apolis and Milwaukee il Is even worse.
Walter Preston has been blacklisted by
the National League. Preston was farmed
out TO Memphis by Louisville, and on the
disbanding Of the Memphis club signed with
Indianapolis. The indianapolis club will be
compelled to refuse TO let Preston play.
-Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
The rain yesterday afternoon prevented
the final game with Terre. Haute. There
o'clock, but the grounds were not fit 10 play
on, and the prospects were good for more
rain, so the game was abandoned. The In
dianapolis team left for Grand Rapids at
705 last evening.
An Indianapolis man who saw all three of
the Milwaukee games says Roat llayed
the time; that he worked harder than any
body, and his voice was lifted louder and
longer than. that of any player on either
OF the greatest players in the Western
League. He never coaches at home. but is
said to be regular Hogriever while on the
trips
The announcement of Jack Glasscock's re-
tirement is q bit premature. He is no diff
ferent from the other kings of the diamond,
duu 80 long dS tnefc Is dn engagement In
sight. no matter how small. he will prob
ably cling to the game. Immediately on his
release by Washington he signed to play
first base and manage A. c. Buckenburger's
Wheeling team in the Interstate League.
Wheeling IL Glasscock's home.
Comiskey, Manning. Van Derbeck and per-
haps two or three other Western League
managers will take their teams to the Pa
clfc coast this winter and play champion
ship series. San Francisco. San Jose and
Los Angeles will be the homes OF three of the
TEA ms wi no 70
this course will keep the players in better
trim than six or seven months at indoor
work. The managers believe ii will prove
profitable experiment all around.
Manager Van Derbeck attributes the poor
work of his team on the recent trip to the
as they should. The players are all I'm good
condition and the pitchers are doing ex-
celient work, but the whole team Is In a
rut where base hits are very much at a
thize with Van Derbeck, for Kansas City
passed through a siege of this sort earlier
in the season that proved very exasperating
both to the players and the local cranks
Veteran Jack Glasscock is now with the
Wheelings, OF the Iron and Oil League. To
a Pittsburg newspaper man he told the fol-
lowing brief STORY of his life:'' IT left
Cleveland in 1884, went to the Unions, Of Gin
cinnati: finished there: went TO. 81. Louis,
where played two years. Then went TO
indianapolis, where I managed the team
was bought body and SOUL Burkett, Denny,
Buckley and myself went to New York.
staid in New York two years, then went TO
ST. Louis: from there came 10 Pittsburg,
and YOU know the res' u dom tt
fngton and from washington TO wheeling.
and here am to-day.