The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-22
Baseball Notes.

Kennard won from the Sugar Grove Stars
Sunday by score of II TO 16.
Indianapolis will lay off tomorrow and
Thursday, both being open dates.
The Hill Blue, Jrs., defeated the Centrals
by a score of to ! yesterday. batteries
Stiles and Lowell; Kern and Sample.
Billy Shndle, Brooklyn's third baseman,
whose hand was badly spiked In a recent
Arson says he will surely recall Danny
Friend when the Colts return to Chicago,
and if he keeps his word the blow will
nearly kill Manning.
Modoc defeated Winchester at Modoc
Sundey by score of to 2. Batteries
Modoc Bowerman and Butler; Winchester,
Seamans and Huff. Modoc is looking for
other victims. Charles Williams is the
manager.
The Orioles took double header yester-
day and when they recovered conscious
ness, found themselves in second place.
Giant Rusie clipped their wings in the first
game, making it easy for Meekin to tum-
BILE the disheartened champions in the
second
According to the Detroit Free Press, some
business men of that city have made an
offer of 500, 900 for Vanderbeck's team and
have given the owner until July to make
up his mind whether he cares to part with
a good thing or not. Vanderbeck will scarce
ly sell, when he is making money, even
with losing team
The Yale baseball. team has played TWEEN
ty-five games 50 far this season, winning
nineteen and losing six. The games lost
We're one to Wesleyan. three to the Giants
and one each to the University OF Virginia,
| Lafayette, Brown and Princeton. Yale made
262 runs to her opponents 1861 one hum
dred errors to opponents l47 and has scored
siXty-nine earned runs to thfty-siX by her
| opponents.
Says Captain Arson: I'm the old days
baseball was played with bat and ball. Now
adays it is chiefly played with ones mouth.
Disgraceful kicking, bad language and dirty
ball playing generally would not have been
tolerated in the big League cities ten years
ago. That sort of play originated in the
American Association, and has gradually
crept into the League until the game is
surely suffering in consequence"
Charley Nyce, whose name is the great
est missioner of the age, is being industri-
ously Missed all around the circuit. He is a
though off the field he has the reputation of
being very gentlemanly sort of fellow.
| over at Columbus the other day he came
near TO having a personal collision with
Dick Buckley, but the other players pre-
vented a tistic soiree.-EXchange.
To-days BAH game at the Grand Opera
House will be the last at the theater until
Friday for the reason that the Indianapolis
team is not scheduled to play tomorrow
and Thursday. To-day is the last game
at Grand Rapids, and Watkins will prob
ably put Goar in the box in order to make
sure of winning and holding it. The game
will begin at 1 o'clock. Next Friday and
Saturday indianapolis plays at Columbus,
and the theater Will be filled for those
games.
Frank Sheibeck. who is playing short for
the Syracuse team of the Eastern League
has a batting average OF .236 and fielding
ACREAGE of SOL Bannon, released by Jim
my Manning Il few weeks ago, is hitting at
$40 and has played good left field since
joining Syracuse, accepting forty-four out
week Manning said the Eastern League
must be good bit slower than the West
ern. for the Bannon he released was not
nearly SO fast as the Bannon now playing