The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-23
Baseba1i Notes.

RlIcnoY would III IN We'll at SIlOTL IOT III
dianapoliS.
Hamilton, Kelley and Keller are the
premiers in base stealing.
The Young Victors defeated the Young
Mohawks % to IA yesterday
Centerfelder Hoy, of the Reds, got four
hits yesterday for five bases in ALL
Watkins will make a stubborn fight for
the closing game at ST. Paul to-day.
Tony Mullane has been ST. Paul's main
stay in the box thus far this season.
The Indianapolis team has pulled it's bat
ting average up considerably during the
past week.
Pitcher Hermann, one of the Colonels' ex-
ira men, has been loaned to the Minneap-
oils ball club.
The National League clubs pay for sal
aries of players and other help and for
travelling over 100000 per season.
The Kansas City papers say Connie
Mack does not wear a uniform under false
pretenses, AS he is strictly in the game be-
hind the bat.
Hank O'Day has a fad of levying taxes
on garulous captains. Mike Griffin has had
$50 worth of conversation with O'Day thus
far this season.
Milwaukee is coming fast, and there will
be a great fight this week when Wat
kinss men and the Brewers come together
up in Wisconsins metropolis.
Two, out of three at st. Paul will be
able to take to-day's game now that Tony
Mullane is out Of the way.
Jake BeckIey was Internationally re-
leased yesterday by the New York club.
playing and hitting better for New York
than has Beckley.
LOTUS says that Tebeau fined Daniels
$40 for not reporting at a Kansas City
game in time. The Columbus manager de-
MES the story that his best pitcher was
fined for drinking.
Second Baseman Conner, of Chicago, is
doing good work. Yesterday his record was ::
three times at bat, one run, two hits
double and homer, one sacrifice hit, five
put outs, four assists and no errors.
Corcoran played shorstop for Cincinnati
yesterday and although he made two
errors, the only ones credited to the Reds
he hit the ball safely twice, once for a
double, and took care of five chances in
the field.
Jack Crooks got in one of his old-time
dirty plays yesterday when in the third
inning he blocked Carney on the base line
between second and third. Haskell allowed
Carney the base for the interference.-Kan
sas City Star.
McJames and Swain, of the Washington
team, have stipulations in their contracts
that they are not compelled to play Sun
day ball. Swain pitched Sunday ball in
the Interstate League last year when he
was with Fort Wayne.
The Chicago News says Pitcher Kobe
danz, of the Bostons, is the pitching Won
der of the age because he does not sass
the umpire, no matter how many times the
sphere cuts the plate and is called a ball
by the master of the field.
McFarland's regular home run came along
on time yesterday, and While it cut no
especial figure in the result it cheered the
dropping spirits of the fans at the Grand
Opera House. They have come to regard
a homer from Mcfarland as an everyday
contribution.
1t is announced unofficially that Umpire
Lally has been dropped from the Western
League staff. The force is now made up of
Ebrlght. Manassau, Graves and Haskell.
President Johnson is watching their work
every day. Lally helped umpire yesterday
but it was probably his last game.
Says the Cleveland World: "Sox is I'M
questionably the greatest hitter Cleveland
has ever had, from smuggling standpoint
He belongs in the same class of batters as
Delehanty Lajoie Beckley, joyce and
Stencil An admirable feature of the IN
dams batting is like Delehanty he hits the
ball equally hard to all parts of the field. -
Had it not been for Kansas City and De-
troit last wear the Senators would have
finished much higher in the race, as the
Columbus team seemed to have a hoodoo in
those two aggregations, while with the
other teams in the league they invariably
made a good showing. Can it be that the
same clubs are to be the stumbling blocks
of the Buckeyes this year?''-Columbus
Journal
In writing of the New York Club. o. P.
Caylor says: THE club needs the service
OF Clarke, and needs 1t badly Dad may
not be the most amiable fellow In the pro-
fession and the ea 1lest to control but he is
a pitcher who doesn't lose his head when
the score is close and lose the game that
way. Another reason why the New Yorks
do not win more games Is their lack OF
ness has been observed dozens of times in
their Eastern games
Tomorrow the Indianapolis team will
begin n series of four games at Milwaukee,
These games will all be shown at the