The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-10

That lead is growing.
Last double-headera oftthe season to-day.
st. Paul and Minneapolis rested yester-
day because rain fell
Cincinnati and st. Louis were not schcd-
ulel 10 pay yesterday.
Mcfarland was like a stone wall yester-
day. Nothing got by him.
The Spiders" yesterday won their first
game in Chicago this season.
Canavan's two stops in the ninth inning
of the first game helped save the day.
The Washington club management has
pitcher. ss9
The Detroits make their last appear
ance here this season to-day. They are
hard people to down..
McCarthy's phenomenal fielding in the
ninth inning just about saved that second
game for the leaders yesterday.
Gettinger was four times at bat yester-
day, made a triple and two singles, scored
one run and put out three Pirates"
In the first game yesterday Kelley made
four hits for Baltimore, one netted two
bags. In the second he got two doubles.
Tommy Smith, Philadelphia's boy pitcher,
puzzled the Brooklyns to such an extent
that they were able to make only seven
III. S ard one run.
Hamilton, Hallman and Thompson made
nine Of the eleven hits secured by Phila-
delphia yesterday. The last named got a
triple and two singles.
II looks ike D0eDOiH ndWiey ndQ lOSt
his grip. Yesterday the t~ail-enders found
him eleven times. while the Pirates" got
but five hits off Wehying.
Congressmen-elect Watson and Heming-
way were in the city, yesterday. They were
dianapolis at the ball game.
Newell, Roat and Canavan covered lots
of Pround Yesterday. They are playing re-
markable ball these days. cutting off base
hits right along. and an of them lining out
the ball opportunely.
The amount of ground covered by the
eaders yesterday was remarkable. They
went after everything with a rush. The
crowd likes to see a man go after the ball
whether he gets 1t or not.
Hogan was the hero of a great double
play in the second game yesterday. when.
fly and got the bail over to Motz in time
to cut off Nicholson.s retreat.
Hogriever made one OF the most sensa-
tional catches of the season in the seventh
Twineham..s snort ay after a desperaIe
run. getting the hall at his knees.
That double play which Mccarthy en-
gineered at the close of yesterday after
he followed it with SMOTHER wonderful
catch that wound up thu >ey in a blaze Of
glory.
The Herculean baseball team added an
S by defeat tins ' the Reserves by a score of p
TO IL. The battery for the Herculeans was
White and Cline and for the Reserves,
Sowders, Doiley and Quiser.
Raymond and Pears made star plays yes
terday in the first game. The former shut
off two Indianapolis runs In the eighth In
ming by a remarkable stop or one OF Nc
Farland's savage grounders. Jack Newell
made an equally fine stop of Twineham's
grounder IN the eighth inning of the sec
ond game.
The London Sportsman says: IF crum.
the Iowa University Splinter, who has
Joined the New York Athletic Club. shall
be in his 4-5 seconds form, the English
men tof the London Athletic Club will OBJ
viously have no certainty of winning the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES dash In the international
contest" 3
A party of amateur baseball players.
called the Boston Amateur Baseball Asso-
CATION, will sail to-day from Philadelphia
on the American-line steamer Ohio, which
is due at Liverpool Aug. 10. They have
booked Twenty-Five games which will be
played in all the principal In Eng
Princeton. Harvard and Yale colleges.