The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-15

except when Brooklyn happens to use him
in the box against Baltimore and then its
different.
Cockman has been farmed to the Rich
moEd, Va, team, to play there the rest of
the season. Flynn will be retained by Man
ager Watkins as a utility man, he being
regarded equally good in the infeld as in
the outfield.
One noticeable thing about the Indian
apois team is that there is not the slightest
suspicion of a glass arm on any of the
men either in the in or outfeld. while the
pitchers and catchers all have strong
whips.-Columbus Journal.
Grand Rapids has claimed Tom Lovett,
the old Brooklyn pitcher. He has been in
the Eastern League for two years and
Catcher McCauley says he looks fine as silk
this spring. LoVett should be valuable be-
cause he has a good NOODLE"
Indianapolis used to be able to give
Daniels plenty of hard bumps when he was
with Kansas City. They will take his
measure again before long and then the
Columbus outfieid will have plenty to do.
1t is dollars to cobble stones he will never
come anywhere near duplicating his per-
formance of last Tuesday.
Gillen has caught on nicely in Philadel-
phia. The fans say that he reminds them
of Tommy Corcoran. He has Corcoran's
motions and fields like him. He has i'm
proved wonderfully under Stallings's man
agement, plays a deep short and backs up
second admirably. He is the best man
Philadelphia has had at short in years.
keener convinced Lotus that Detroit had
not given him a fair show. and Tom signed
him. Keener is right that Detroit did not
give him a long trial, but twice he declared
to Allen that he was in condition to pitch,
and twice he made a mistake about it. The
natural inference is that he does not know
when he IS in condition, and that is a con-
siderable defect in a pitcher.
In speaking of excessive filming of players
by umpires Manager Hanlon, of Baltimore,
said recently that it would surely injure the
game by taking all the aggressive or fight
ing spirit out Of a team as soon as the
financial strain on the players becomes too
great. Then the r%ooters will accuse the
team of quitting or of lying down" and
will withdraw their patronage accordingly.
Hogriever caught cold in Detroit last
week and has been in bad shape ever since.
1t was all he could do to get through Thurs
days game here and the rest yesterday did
him much good. He will be all right for
to-day's game. Phillips took cold the same
time and was sick several days on the trip.
It's a pretty difficult matter to keep
Hogriever out of the game. When he quits
he must be pretty sick, that's sure.
Pat Tebeau will probably have little to
say to Umpire Mcdonald on the field here
after. At the close of a game at st. Louis
Tebeau opened his mouth and let 1T run in
McDonald's direction. The umpire paid no
attention to the abuse while on the field,
but that evening he called at PatSyIS hotel,
and invited him to take a walk. Pat replied
that he preferred to save his muscle for
baseball fighting, and refused to go. Nc
Donald once had a scrap with Corbett in
San Francisco, and is said to have whipped
him. 1t must have been many years ago.
StdlllnSS Is a WOnQer1ul DdSeDau gen.
eral," said Sam Thompson the other day.
He has more things up his sleeves than
any manager in the business, He Will land
the QuakerS well up in the first division.
With the exception of Washington and 81.
Louis the league teams are more evenly
matched than ever. 1t looks as if Baltimore
would again win the pennant. Philadelphia
in three years has lost seventeen straight
games to the Orioles. The best we could do
with lannon's team was to tie them once
in 1895. The Louisyilles are putting up a
fast and scrappy game, and If they can keep
up their lick will keep the best of them
guessing. The Colonies play better at home
+ than on the road. / expect that the PhillieS
will win more games on their trip than they
did at home. The race will be a hot one"
The Western League directors have over
stepped themselves before, so it will not be
surprising if they take all sorts of action
next Monday when they meet In Chicago
for the purpose of disciplining Burnett.
This is one. of the matters which will come
up, according to an interview with PreSi-
dent Johnson, but just how the league can
act is a mystery. There is not a thing IN
the Western League constitution which VIII
allow action to be taken on such a case, al
though the National League provides for 1t.
The case of Pitcher Scott, who is now with
Grand Rapids, will come up, but 1t is not
thought that Detroit can win. In regard
to the Burnett case, Burnett says that
Ebright told him he would punch his head
after the game. and Steinfeldt swears he
heard him say it. Burnett said that was
what led him to make the mistake and
punch Ebright on the ball feld.-petroit
Free Press.