The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-09-25
Sporting Notes.

At PatrickSOurg saturday clay lily ue-
feated Spencer by a score of to 3.
Indianapolis plays in Des Moines to-mor-
row and Friday and at Peoria SATURDAY
and Sunday.
June was the only month the champions
failed to win more games than they lost.
During that month they dropped one more
game than they won.
Turner, of Philadelphia, was five times
at bat yesterday and made hye hits; Keel
er, of Baltimore, hit the ball safely -FOUR
times and sacrificed once.
New York got but five hits of Wash
ington's new pitcher, Southern Lacquer
named James, but James gave nine Lases
on balls and the Giants" won.
Gayle won twenty-five of the thirty-eght
championship games he pitched for Detroit
this season. Whitehill won fifteen and lost
fifteen and Pears won seventeen and lost
eighteen.
Ninety-four Western League games were
won and lost this season by one rum In
dianapolis captured ten but dropped twelve
of these close games. Detroit won seven
teen. while Terre Haute lost seventeen by
indianapolis was the only team not shut
out during the season just closed, and also
holds the record for "blanking other
Kansas SsD City yaSa sh RaDS % Uh
'Bumpus" Jones in the box.
In the series between the eastern and
western clubs this season indianapolis had
i 1ortv games Fam from the Westerners. Detroit
came out second best, winning thirty-three
games from it's Western brethren. Terre
Haute and Grand Rapids made bad show
ing.
Tom Burns the ex-Chicago third baseman.
who managed the Springfield club. seems to
be now looked on as the ideal manager. At
least three League clubs have hopes of get
ting him next season. Freedman, of New
York hustled to Providence the other day
and made him a big offer to manage the
Giants"
Sullivan and Paddy Ryan, ex-champion
heavyweight pugii.sts OF the world, will
meet in boxing contest of four rounds
before the Cleveland Athletic Club on the
night of Oct. 3. 1t will be for scientific
points for good-sized purse, and there
win be- several other bouts in connection
with it,
Post season contests for trophies are be-
coming the proper caper. The League has
it's Temple Cup. the Eastern League the
Steinert Cup and the Texas League
special prize for the first and second clubs
to play for. In the Eastern League Spring
field has won three straight games for the
trophy. The games have been marked by
some excellent ball PLAYING PLAY triple play
players are gamers by the three games.
Three contests in Springfield netted them
$. 500.
Campau is the heavy hitter of the Detroit
team having made forty-two two-baggers.
ten triples and eleven home runs DUNCAN
ranks second, with total of lao bases. His
that sort falling to his credit. Gillen is the
third heaviest hitter in the team and ranks
we'll with the other two Newman, Nichol-
son and Raymond are almost tied. Strouth-
ers made nine home runs during the season,
which brings his total up considerably. Nc
Cauley and Delehanty have, good batting
records for the snort time they nave Deen
with the club.
Last night the men who have battled for
Kansas City all season scattered TO their
various homes. and the Blues of 1895 are
l,fv,o nf hn cf Only 90
Manning and Smiling Peter Daniels are
in the city to-day, and when Daniels leaves
on Tuesday evening for Milwaukee. Man
to Clinton, Mass; Bergen to Pittsfeld.
Mass; Hernon to New Bedford. Mass;
Hatfield to Hoboken = u Kluswap VI to
Hastings 10 Parkersburg. w. Va; Hines to
Elgin, H.; Zahner to Louisville. and Fred
goes to- Milwaukee on Tuesday. it will be
TO join the team which Larry Twitchell Is
getting up to play ball on the Pacific coast
this coming fall and winter.-Monday'S
Kansas City Journal.
No less than forty-three games were wen
during the Western League season by
twenty or more runs. In the National
were decided by long scores. st. Paul leads
the Western League, with Ten Of these fat
sames Indianapolis ,s, stands s, second With
sas City. Detroit and Grand Rapids won five
each: Milwaukee two. and Terre Haute was
content with one heavy-hitting contest The
banner smuggling game OF the year was
played at Grand Rapids June %. The In.
dianapolis crew touched up the "Deacon's'
pitchers for twenty-four hits, with total
Of ffty-four bases. ST. Paul made total
of forty-hve bases off Detroit's twirlers at
st. Paul on July "a. The third heaviest
Detroit on June i2 when the locals showed
under Grand Rapids by corralling thirty
three hits. with a total Of foriy-four bases
OF forty-rNo hits against Grand Rapids
In reviewing the Western League season
the Detroit Tribune slys Kansas City
jumped into the lead for q few days bar