The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-24
BASEBALL THIS WEEK
FIRST GAME OF THE SEASO WILL
BE PLAYED SATURDAY.
Twenty-One Games Will BE Played ON
the Home Grounds Before the
Championship Season Opens.

The baseball season will open here next
Saturday with the Light Artillery team,
and, with the exception of seven games
away from home, there will be a solid
month Of playing on the home grounds,
after which the championship season will
open on May /, with Grand Rapids. in this
city. The action of the college presidents
in refusing to allow the college teams to
play with professionals necessitated an en-
tire change of the exhibition schedule. All
dates have been filed since that time. The
exhibition schedule is IS follows:
At aoms-March 80, Light Artillery;
April ), westerns, a local team; April !. s
and 6, st. Louis; April s, Cincinnati; April
3 and 10. Page Fence Company Giants:
Is, Cleveland; April 20. Jacksonville, ILL.,;
April 2, 2 and "a. Peoria; April 20, Cincin-
Away from Home-March 81 and April /.
in cineinnatD; April Is and Il. at Evans
vile; April Is and 49, at Terre Haate;
one games at home and seven ava from
home during the month.
The players win all be here next Tuesday
and active practice wifi begin Wednesday,.
The new uniforms for the team have ar
rived. At home the men will wear white,
trimmed in brown and brown stockings.
Away from home they will wear blue-gray,
trimmed in brown and brown stockings.
They will also have white coats and brown
The Philadelphia Times quotes McKean
on the National League race. His opinion
is this:
II believe that New York and Baltimore
will have a fight that will keep them guess
ing from the time they begin until they
finish. /. doubt very much whether either
team can win the rennant. You see, there
are other teams in the League that are
practically as strong as either New York
or Baltimore.
while those two organizations will be
/ he rim III tho hrr1pf nf the UyOrE- tho nfhnr
strong teams will be pegging along and well
up in the race. The first thing you know
lead, and the fact that the teams are fin
ished by sections this year will aid the
foe ter an 1eam ra 1nas h has the e N g2od stand STANDING e.
be easier than those in the East.
II that schedule was made to give the
something of the kind was attempted, L
think there will be mourning and wailing
before the East hears the last of it."
The New York Sun thinks the National
League will break up before the close of
the season of 1895. The trouble which
| cropped out at the recent meeting is as
signed as the beginning of the end. Man
ager John t.. Rogers, Of Philadelphia, does
not share the opinion. He says he doubts
.if there is anything but smoke behind the
talk of breaking away from the League"
ton in regard to the threat of Pittsburg and
st. Louis to secede. The treatment of the
Western clubs in the making of the Sched-
ule will not soon be forgotten by them and
it would not surprise the baseball world to
| see the National League split in twain,
divided by the Allegheny mountains.
Manager Selee, of the Bostons, is out with
his usual boast that his team will take the
| pennant to the HUI next fall. He says, in
a most self-satis1ed manner: '-Of course,
I think we shall win, but it would be very
| unwise in a twelve-club race to claim a
cinch on the p~ennant.' He follows this,
however, with a statement of the wonder
full ability of his players, taking them one
by one, but when asked of the other clubs.
with the exception of Rusie and Meekin,
he seems to think they have no players
worth a contest.
The immense bat which MOTIFS admirers
presented him before he left Akron is now
| on exhibition in the window of Neuneyer's
sporting goods store, opposite the Bates
House. It is seven feet five inches long and
eleven inches insdianeter. It will be carried
in the parade on the opening day of the
championship season, and will be the clubs
mascot.
Philadelphia has brought the last of her
last seasons flock into the fold. Cross and
Hamilton have signed contracts. They held
out for a long time, the difference being
the price of uniforms, $50.
Sporting Notes.
The Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders
| Association offers kentucky's Futurity, &c.,
| geo, for foals of 1895, colts, FLIES and geld
March Is, 1895, or their substitutes, as pro-
vided for hereafter, 5000 to go to the two
| year-oIds that trot, 81 GOO to go to the two
year-olds that pace at fall meeting, 1897,
and $40, 600 to so to the three-year-olds that
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