The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-10
But THE CHAMPION TEAM WAS
EVEN GLAD ENOUGH TO GET HOME.
No More This Season VIII Cruel. I'm
piricaI Robbers Hold Up Wattyrs
Suffering Aggregation.
How the Clubs stand.

The indianapolis ball team returned home
last night from the Western trip. While
gone the team played thirteen games and
won five OFT of the numb er This loss, with
the gains made by Minneapolis. gives the
Millers a decided lead on the champions
but 1T is not yet so great that IndianaDo-
lis has not a faint chance to win out first
place and the pennant. The team will play
nineteen games at home, beginning to-
n orrow with two games with Milwaukee,
and while the champions are having the
advantage which is generally conceded to
lie in being at home, the Minneapolis team
will be playing nineteen games away from
home. 1t is therefore possible that the
H6osiers may again climb to the top of the
percentage table.
Manager Watkins in speaking of the trip
last night, said that although the club lost
eight games and won only five. he had nc
complaint to make of the work of the team.
Three of the games which are in the lest
column were stolen from clearly he
said. AT Kansas City O Brien, the substi-
tute umpire, gave the Kansas City team
two games by his unfair decisions. Then
again, at st. Paul Comisky tried March as
an umpire, and he gave us a fair deal,
but in the next game Twitchell was put
in to umpire and he robbed US of the game.
He did it by calling one of their men safe al
first who caught by fully ten feet,
and again by calling Stewart out at the
plate when he had scored. The two cases
| refer to were so very rank that anybody
who saw the game must agree with me that
1t was a steal. In fact, the ST. Paul news
paper admitted that the decisions in
question were outrageous.
With such trea tment from the umpireS.
we did well to get many five games.
When the CriDnln6 condition nf tba tea m il
considered the work was excellent. There
are Phillips and Monroe, two of our best
pitchers, who have not been able to get into
the game at all for long time. Monroe
won thirteen out of fifrnen games before he
was dis abled, and Phillips was winning ev-
cry game in which he played. Then there
is Roat, another of our strong players,
who is laid up. Buckley, too, is crippled.
and Wood, who is catching nearly all the
games now. is doing so with a broken fin
ger. Mccarthy. our best batter, is in bad
&C ndition, and has not been able to take his
place for several games. 1t looks like pref
ty hard work to go into a game with all
these best men on the sick list. but we have
been able to put substitutes in tn cir places
who have done we'll Yet even the substi-
tutes have not escaped the epidemic that
seems to have overtaken the team. l
think the boys have done well, considering
the fact that many Of them crippled
The team. 1 think. will be able make
the season. Phillips / fear, will not be
able to play any more this year, but We
have other good pitchers, and, with the
the other players, there is no reason why
we should not win right along at home
and mako a red-hot finish of it,
The team will close the season during this
stay at home. Nineteen games will be
played, beginning with four with Milwau-
kee, two of which will be played Friday
ard two Saturday. Kansas City will come
next for five games, and Minneapolis and
St Paul will follow with five each.
Damon and Davis will pitch tomorrow s
| games, and the first one will be called at
! p. m. O'Day will be here to umpire for
| the remainder of the season. All the UNI
pires want to be assigned to Indianapolis,
| as it is an easy city in which to officiate.
| They are never mobbed here as they are
| Indianapolis team should receive just treat
ment at the hands of umpires at home, if
! tt ey do not get it abroad. ODay has never
umoired here. 1t is hoped he will realize
| that the Indianapolis crowds want "a run
| fo1 their money in every ser Sc of the wore
! and be prepared to umpire gilt-edged bali.
Indiana polls is tired of getting the worst Of
| it all around.