The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-07

Syracuse has secured pitcher Horton
from Baltimore
Charley Snyder is having his troubles
umpiring in the Atlantic circuit.
The New York club may make some deal
yet with ST. Louis for the services of that
excellent ball player, Catcher Mcfarland.
New York Sun.
Bill Everetts throwing gear is out of
whack. Bill prefers the outfield. but he
must do substitute duty at third till Dab
len rounds to form.
his Brewers to commence series of three
games with Watkinss men. Phillips will
probably pitch for Indianapolis
John White of this city, is batting at
240 figure for the Toronto team OF the
Eastern League, and fielding well up
towards 1000. Toronto is well satisfied with
his showing.
Strange what changes take place in base
ball. Jake Beckley and Tommy
Tucker are now held in small esteem, yet
only little while ago they were considered
the best first basemen in the league.
There is a suspicion abroad that Messrs.
McDermott and Mcdonald are home UNI
pires, and there are players on the Cleve-
land team who will go bail that this sus-
picion can be OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES hlngton
Pest.
The latest story that comes out of Chi
cago is that Arson will take tour among
the Apache, Sioux, Dakota, Pueblo and
other Indian reservations to see If there
are any more Indians like Sockalexis lying
around idle.
Billy Dammann is well enough to be
about the streets of Cincinnati but is still
weak from the effects of the fever which
threatened to develop into typhoid. He will
be we'll enough to go into the box again
when the Reds come home, in two weeks.
Donovan saws that McDermott did not
give him sufficient time TO replace the re-
moved men in that forfeited game at New
York last week: That was a good and suf-
ficient cause for protest and Manager
Donovan will be supported by the Pitts
burg management.
One of the most remarkable games ever
played was Evansville's one to nothing vic
Yesterday Paducah got neither run nor
a hit and Evansville secured only one run
and one hit. Bailey pitched for Evansville
and Bowling for Paducah.
Now that Toledo has opened a first-class
park and really more central than Bennett
Park the Western League Is apt TO look
that way again. Toledo's trouble IN 1874
was poor park, but now with the diamond
almost in the back yard of the courthouse
and good Sunday grounds down the river
Toledo is better than two or three cities in
the present circuit.-Detroit Free Press.
Dusty Miller's slump this season is due
to prosperity, so Buck Ewing believes.
Dusty invested in oil property in eastern
Ohio last fall, and struck 1t rich. one deal
made him $40 900. In Cincinnati, on Monday
last, when Dusty returned to the bench
after dropping Cartw rig ny ,I BGck
were you counting up the coin you made
last winter in oil?
Van Derbeck isn't mentioning names, but
he has a line out for big hitting inhelder
from the Southern League and cracker
jack college pitcher. The helder IS thlFd
baseman, and If he comes TO the Ilgers ne
will relieve Stenfeldt, Harry will return to
second, and Hires will be sent out to take
Deady's place or kept as a general suDstl-
tute BY the way, Steinfeldt has not
muffed a fly since he has been on the third
base and made mighty few misplays.-De-
troit Journal =, s-.~f..
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Buckley arrived in
Columbus Friday morning and the best
catcher in the Western League made his
first appearance in a Columbus uniform In
the afternoon. And what a game the IA
nous catcher put up. The YentureSome
Brewers attempted 70 steal second pase ~
the first inning and he made show or
them He gathered everything that came
his way into the big nit, his catch of
foul fly off Stafford's bat in the eighth IN
ming being a feature, While with the pat
he was a. host securing three safe drives
out Of five times up ana making neat
sacrifice at the right time-Columbus Jour
nal.
1.-THE last shall be first and the first shall
be last" but not this year. Kansas City
has after wears of baseball q simon-pure
tail-end team 1t is the real article. None
of your hard luck stories or time-worn tales
of robbed by the umpire The Blues are
simply a pudding" for any team lhat
pIavs ball with them When the Bobolinks,
who compose about as weak a ball team as
ever stepped on a diamond, can wallop the
Blues and take five out OF seven games
pl~ !, it is about time for Manager Man
mig to enter his champions in bean-Dag
tournament with lot or old women whose nose
throwing arms have long since given way
to the ravages of old age and rheumatism.
Even then II is no ''cinch'' that the Blues
would win-Kansas City World.