The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-26
Baseball Notes.

Comiskey is likely to get Pitcher Hem
ming.
Kahoes throwing arm was not as true as
usual
Boston is still clipping the wings of the
Orioles.
Blake has not come up to expectations
at Milwaukee.
st. Paul got valuable player in par
SON. Nicholson.
Pitcher Fred Barnes, of Milwaukee, is i'll
with malarial fever
Baltimore has at last fallen below 700 in
the percentage column
Left Fielder Deadly had eight chances and
took care of all but one.
Hunt, who is playing with Grand Rapids,
is an eX-Nashville catcher.
Indianapolis dropped thirteen points yes
terday-an unlucky number.
Glenalvin would like to have either Cock
man or Reilly, as he has no shortstop.
Goekle, of Wilkesbarre is considered the
star first baseman of the Eastern League.
President johnson will probably be here
for the two indianapolis Columbus games,
July o.
Providence is feeling the loss of Caravan
very Greatly. Weigand is far from filing
his place at second.
Comskey lost $3.50 on a recent bicycle
race enterprise in St. Paul, and says he will
back no more wheelmen.
BY defeating the Saints yesterday the
Blues pulled themselves out Of the hole in
time to let the MIXERS drop into it.
The Topaz club defeated the Insane Hos
pital club yesterday by a score of II to s.
Batteries-Ivory and Dalton Morley ana
Austin.
There is some consolation in the fact that
the Saints fell with the Hoosiers 1t is an
moving to have rivals treading too close on
your heels.
Senators Wrigley and Farrell found Rusie
to be an easy mark. Each got three hits
the formers netting four bases and the
latter seven.
Washington hit Rusie safely thirteen
times yesterday, and the big fellow" gave
five bases on balls, vet the Giants won by
a wide margin q ~
Yesterday Hoffer gave nine bases on balls
and hit one man. f<lobedanz passed seven
men to first and hit two. Pretty wild pitch
ing for leaders.
Mcfarland took it easy yesterday. AL
though ne was four times at bat he made
neither hit nor run and not a ball came
his way in the field.
Stencil got four of Boston's eleven hits
yesterday-two doubles and two singles. He
also scored two runs, stole two bases and
had five putouts to his credit.
The story that Yanderbeck had been
offered $4,000 for the Detroit team and
franchise is gauzy The franchise is worth
$4,000 would be a good offer
This afternoon the machine at the Grand
will play the lndianapolis-Col game,
ter. Saturday is the favorite day of the
fans. The game will begin at o'clock
Rochester and Springfield, of the Eastern
League both want Rogers. His home is
in Bridgeport, Conn, and he would nat
urally prefer to play at Springfield. If it
is possible for Indianapolis to secure him.
he will be signed
An Associated Press dispatch from Co
lumbus says: foreman got smart in the
ninth inning, and Umpire Manassau put
him out of the game. The probabilities
are that Foreman objected to being COM
PEELED to split the plate every time he
pitched a ball.
"A striking evidence of Hanlon's policy in
the matter of pitchers is found in the fact
that among the pitchers of the Baltimore
team of to-day not one remains of the
champion team of three years ago. The
Baltimore pitchers for that season were
Mcmahon, Gleason, Hemming, ESper, Inks
Brown and Clarkson.
There are rumors of further dckers in
the Philadelphia club, and it is whispered
that shift in management is likely to oc-
cur. Two of the senior Quakers, Delehanty
and Boyle are not partial to Stallings' s
minor league methods, and there are other
players on the team who don't indorse
bench management on theoretical lines.
Ford Dix, manager of the Topo Chico
Baseball. Club an aggregation of young
MeXicanS, who desiring to travel and see
something of the United States. organized
themselves into BAH club to pay their ok
penseS on the trip, is in town looking for
a game or series OF games with some crack
amateur team. Mr.. Dix says the Mexicans
play fast ball, too, having won forty-eight
out of the seventy games played thus far.