The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-13

Nashville ....$ . Q 8 3 Q Z . 10 il )
Batteries-Wilson McGrew and Mccoy;
Veach, Belts and Belt.
intercollegiate Games.
At Cambridge, Mass.-Harvard, 9; Uni
versity Of Virginia, 3.
AT Observation-Disclosures of Pennsyl-
vania. 27, Lehigh, l.
At ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, 8; princeton, 6.
Baseball Notes.
Colt Lange secured three Of the ten hits
off Ehret Yesterday. One was a triple.
Shortstop Long carried off the batting
honors for Boston yesterday with a triple
and two singles.
Comiskey will turn either Billy George or
Sammy Nicol adrift in a few days. He has
a surplus of felderS.
Maui is losing the use Of his arm and
may be compelled to return from the
pitchers box for good.
In the second game at ST. Louis yesterday
Quaker Delehanty secured four hits-a
double and three singles.
Pitcher Callahan, of the Colts, yesterday
covered the whole infield, and when the
game closed he had four put-outs and six
assists to his credit.
Klobedanz sent five Pirates, to first base
on balls yesterday, but pitched so well
otherwise that only one run and four hits
were made off him.
The game which was scheduled between
New York and Louisville for yesterday
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wet grounds, and both teams saw the Ken
lucky Derby run in the afternoon.
Wilson up to date leads Louisville in
batting with an average of .3Sl. Werden,
McCreary and Johnson follow. Pickering
has not yet got his batting eye, and has
only hit UP to .2l9, while Captain-Manager
Rogers trails behind at .097.
Had Wolters pitched the entire game yes
terday indianapolis would almost certainly
have won it. That second inning did the
b %slness, Goar being wild and ineffective;
ANnlfaRc Hifnh0h tho Loot caXTg1 I n \ n 90 a mn
Columbus scored but once in that time.
Center Fielder Griffin, of the Brooklyns,
was assessed SO and put out Of the game
for disputing one Of Umpire O'Day's deci-
sions. Obstreperous players will learn be-
fore long that Mr.. Umpire is this year Il
Verltable car during the progress Of a
game, his power being practically Hmltless.
The Kansas City fans have. good grounds
for complaint. Manning's men had the
Brewers beaten s to p W to the ninth inning
Tuesday and then let the game slip away
ninth is as good as double that lead along
about The middle of the game, and the
Blues should have had the game easily.
Foreman and Phillips arrive last evening
IN advance of the team and one of them
probably Phillips-will pitch to-day. Me-
Carthy will resume his place in left field
and Flynn will be moved to center, while
Mcfarland is likely to decorate the bench.
With MCCARTHY back on the team, there
will probably be a revival of hitting.
Staggering under the burden of those
three straight defeats, the weary, one-time
champions will be found at the Ohio-street
grounds to-day ready for another whirl
with the husky men who hail from Ohio's
capital. Now, if Watkins will only spur
them on to victory for the next three days
time-tried rooters to help win out it is
likely Indianapolis can get the much-de-
sired revenge.
Mike Kahoe is out of the game for a few
days with a badly bruised foretinger, which
was injured in a peculiar manner. In the
game Monday OMeara was at bat and
three balls had been called, when Phillips
made a wild pitch. The sphere went behind
the batter, who had his bat over his Shout
der, and as Kahoe reached for the ball it
caught his finger against the bat. Stranger
still, the ball rolled on fair ground and
OMeara was thrown out at first before he
knew where the sphere was.
When Con Strouthers was managing the
Jacksonville 0lI) team in 1894 Des Moines
opened the season there. The game was a
smuggling match, six home runs being made
and the score was - to Is at the end of
nine long innings. The DeS Moines players
were all satisfied, as each man secured two
or more hits, but their surprise can be bet
ter imagined than described when they read
the score in a Jacksonville paper the fol-
lowing day. The scorer gave each man a hit
for as many bases as he made, and the
player who made two home runs and a. sin
gle was credited with nine base hits. All of
the others figured on the same basis, and if
some kindly disposed player had not cor
rected the scribe the batting records in the
Western Association would have been the
wonder Of the baseball world.
Whatever else may be said of the Millers,
it is a fact that they are the most artistic
kickers in the league. B~ullyragging the
umpire and trying to work themselves into
a white heat of frenzy is to them a science
and an art. To them there are two distinct
classes of ~kicks-those when they are ex-
pected to bluff the umpire until he won't
make a close decision again, and those
when they don't expect TO gain a blasted
thing. The latter consists of the pitcher
slamming the ball down, pulling off his left
glove, looking sqUarely at the umpire, and
the Ipfiel0GrS setting ND n crV. The real
thing is seen when the pitcher turns around,
steps aside, and while jawing the umpire
waits for Willie Wilmot to come on. Wilmot
galiopA, the infielders and the outtielders
surround the decision maker, turn him this
way and that by grabbing a shoulder, and
yelling like a band of Comanches.-Kan-
sas City Times.
The Hoosiers We're very much cast down
by their two defeats, and after Tuesdays
game denounced the umpire in no uncertain
terms. They claim that he was so bad on
balls and strikes that they had no chance
to hit the ball, and assert that they We're
robbed of the game. 1t is not generally be-
lieved that ManasSau is the best umpire
that ever happened, but when they talk of
robbery in a game where Columbus secured
twelve clean hits and they could make but
one it causes the robbery plea to look eX-
tremely gauzy. Columbus outplayed the In
dianapolis aggregation in all three games,
and with any kind of pitching in the fifth
inning Sunday that game would not have
ended in a tie. Manager Watkins has a
strong team and one that is sure to finish
we'll VI in the race if they do not land the
bunting, but outside of pitching talent they
have no particular advantage over the SEN
ators, and when pitching like that which
Daniels and Smith have put up the past
three days is against them it is no dis
grace for them to lose. Columbus has a
team Of good hitters, but any time opposing
tWirlers let them down as neatly as the
Hoosiers were there will be no "holler'' if
they lose. No one looks for the Hoosiers to
go ~scooting down the %toboggan like the
Reds do as soon as another team gets a
slight advantage over them, and some cub
will nov dan rlU for the ora mas which fh.tr
have lost here. 1t might be the Senators.
They have made Q plucky fight and have
more than held their own while playing
away from home. Games will be lost, es-
pecially when the pitching staff is in such
an unsettled condition, and indianapolis
may be able to obtain the desired revenge
within "a few days. At any rare, nothing
can keep the Senators from starting on
their trip in second position and the other
teams will nave to play fast bali to knock
them out of the first Observation-Disclosures
Journal.
GOOD BALL WEATHER.