The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-06

easy. So the prospect of again landing the
pennant is not at all fiatterng. Still Sec
ond place is not bad. considering the mis-
fortunes of the season in the way of Grip
pied players The champions can then
take SOLID satisfaction in beating Minnea po-
lis out in the Detroit Free Press cup series
and thus demonstrate to the world that
they are still the real head of the Western
League. Three of these games will be
played in this city.
baseball Notes.
Carey is hitting the ball for Syracuse and
his fielding is above par
1t is reported that pitcher Denzer, of st.
PAU, has been sold to Chicago.
Milwaukee has made Arthur Irwin an Of
fer to manage the team next season.
LoWney the Grand Rapids short stop, is
SAID TO De one of the corners of the season.
- IT is definitely settled that Selee will con-
tlnue TO manage the Boston club next sea-
son.
Ed Hanlon has wager that the Orioles
VIII nnlsh with $50 average points to their
Cooney who was the crack short stop
of the Oshkosh club in the early days, is
doing good work for Providence.
Decker &c rs will !, never be the same man
again. The injury to his arm is much
more serious than was at first supposed.
McCormiclxs work at third for the Chi
Cages stamps nm as a very promising
youngster-PItsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
The squirt of the Giants since Scrappy
Joyce took charge is due in a measure to
one great effect--every man on the team
10 HIlllnS the pail.
Talk about distinguished names of play
ers. says the Philadelphia Record, how are
Lafayette Cross, Virgil Garvin and Ma
poleon Lajoie fer a list?
Lajoie is unquestionably the biggest
find" of the year. Though only in the
major League a few weeks he is the most
valuable first basrman in the country.
Manager Manning, of Kansas City, has
Watkins, of Hopkinsville, KY Menefee will
be played in left and Campau in center
The Wilkesbarre Pa, club has suspended
Manager Howard Earle and he will be sue
ceeded by Golkee, the famous first base
man of the University of Pennsylvania
team.
The Grand Rapids team is said to be
thoroughly demoralized and dissatisfied
Captain Carneys disagreeable methods Of
Detroit Tribune.
The game awarded to Milwaukee by UNI
pre- Mcdonald will not count, as it was
Rapids stopped, over there day on the
way across the lake.
Joyce and Tebeau helped each other out
defeats of Cincinnati put Cleveland almost
IN seGend Place while Csyeands victories
York into ninth place.
The st. Paul Globe says: 'Twitchells
umpfring is fair and clean. He has good
eeons a on end a ana and ms 9ase
He will make success as an umpire with
just little more experience"
One never knows how many left-handed
people there are in the world until one
sees a baseball game. In these days more
than than, half ar the men composing each club
some other old thing different from right.
Dwyer is Cincnnati's winning twrler
Or the thirty-two games in which he has
has hit only seven men and has made five
wild pitches. He generally gets touched
for ten hits in game. but they are well
scattered.
Ewing grieyed more over the last loss a.
Philadelphia than any of the eleven. THAT
is the fourth game that has gone wrong in
the ninth inning" said ne. 1T looks as if
our pitchers couldn't get through a full
game. I blame Dwyer for the loss. He
Ortiz"
President vanderbeck, of the Detrots,
went to Milwaukee Friday to endeavor if
possible to have next Tuesdays Milwau-
kee-Detroit game transferred to Detroit
Secretary Gross declined to accept the prop
osition, however, although he was, offered
half of the entire receipts induce
ment to give his consent
The farm hands in the minor leagues
who have fallen from the big league are as
dissatisfied with their lot as theatrical stars
who failed to twinkle and are obliged to re-
turn to the ranks Is it any wonder. then
that the managers of the minor league
clubs have their troubles with these dis
gruntled farm hands?-Waslington Post.
Jack Doyle will accompany the oriole
ing his stay in Great Britain he will pay
a visit to his native land. Jack was born
near Dublin, Ireland. He is one of the few
ball players the major League diamond
of foreign birth, though the majority Of
major Leaguers are of Irish-American ex-
traction.
Bill Lange: Mature has been kind to
Lange. FOR she has fitted him for an ideal
reach. There are other fieiders Sc just Jus f'i as
brainy, perhaps, as Lange, but they are
not so fast nor so rangey. They cannot
far as BILL.
Padden, Pttsburgs new second baseman,
was a fielding wonder. at least three
made a simply. phenomenal scoop of
Boyle's base hit in the fifth, and shut off
Ieahs 6y 1e sYa
and making quick double play.-Philadel-
phia Ledger.
The Tebeau and Rusie cases will cost
will pay about $500. while the balance.
$500. is the amount it took to settle the
to League ruling, though in the event that
Amos and Freedman strike compromise
it is probable that the New York club will
lear the expense.
Bill Hassamaer is giving an excellent i'm
itation of one-night stand show by fit
ting about the country. From Newark N
addressed care of thestrand Rapids (Mich.)
postoffice will reach him now, Where do
you go from here, Bill?' is the theatrical
interrogatory flung at the roarer by the
Western League bleachers
LAS a third baseman Oliver Tebeau is
very much Arlie Latham, writes Rem Null
ford 1t must have taken a wide stretch
of Ren's ina ination TO draw this compar-
ison. Latham covered about as much
ground AZ an ant hill, and has often been
known to duck to avoid punishment when
warm one came his way while Tebeau
would go after everything in sight.
Yesterday afternoon about 100 people went
to the baseball park expecting to see the
Brewers and Captain Carney's Gold Bugs
play Il game. but the day preceding
they were disappointed, the gates being
locked with paddock about the size of kid
Spears mitt. The newspapers had been
unable to find any of the officials of the
Milwaukee club Thursday evening to ascer-
tain whether a game would be played but
yesterday morning the large white flag or
nament in the center with q circular patch
of red signifying that a ball game was to
be played in the afternoon. Haunted from
the staff fixed the dome of the Pabst
building. The remarks made by the people
around the 6ate were anything but compli-
mentary to the Milwaukee mana cement
and a number of regular patrons declared
they would 60 TO games no more this year.
The experiences of the past two days indi-
cate lack of system and screw loose in
the official makeup of the Brewers which
cannot be remedied too soon IL the manage
ment expects to continue business at the
old stand at proflt.-Saturday' M.lwau-
kee Sentinel.
Would Wed His Hother-in-Iaw
FALL RIVER. Mass. Sept. 5.-widower