The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
Baseball Notes.

rifce hit - Shoch. Time - 1:45. Umpire
Emslie.
Baseball Notes.
One more whack at the Saints to-day and
then for the Mlllers.
Mccarthy and Wood secured eight of the
Indianapolis hits yesterday.
Comiskey may sign Denny LYONS. re-
leased by Pittsburg some weeks ago
Syracuse has signed Ollie Beard. who is
now playing short, and Shiebeck is plaving
the outfield in place of Bannon.
Amos Rusie has won seventeen out of
tWenty-one games in which he has pitched
TINS season. giving him a percentage of 696.
BENEFITS fine for, assaulting Umpire
EDrlght has been reduced from 800 to S25
this week wa
Mines representing the Knight & JiIlison
ana McElwaine & Richards supply houses
| defeated the master plumbers by a score
Oh ~ to IA yesterday.
AS Miller and Letcher made seven of the
twenty Minneapolis hits off Keener Friday
thelr collision does not appear to have in
Jureo their batting abilities.
Detroit is going to see that Pitcher Eli
OF pays there or not at all. Van Derbeck
claims to have bought him from Jackson.
Gfand Rapids also claims him.
Shugart has not made a hit with Phila-
delphla audiences at short and there is a
likelihood that Lave Cross will be called
on before very long to get into the game.
The Cleveland club has released Pitcher
Henry Clarke the Chicago coIlegian. He
may be signed by Manager SeIee' of Bo 5se
ton who fancied him early in the season.
Frank Pears, the ex-Detroiter, plays out
! field for Quincy when he is not on the slab
and the way he is hitting the ball is a eau
| ton two or three safe drives each game
! pelng his customary contribution.
Frank Selee, manager of the Beaneaters.
00nered Won Der Abe a fancy price for
| Twirler Donohue, but Chris refused The
pail baron Of the Mound City has refused
four offers of $4,000 each for Donohue.
(v~l4-
tlon Tomorrow they will drop off the
Baltimore q Ohio at Deer Park. Md, in
| the mountains, for three days rest before
| starting on their hard Eastern campaign
| Steinfeldt is probably the only player in
! the league who wears pair of shin-guards
| during a game. 1t is a good idea, and the
| wonder IS that more third basemen do not
| I0lloW MS example, says the Milwaukee
! Wisconsin.
Pitcher Scott of the Grand Rapids club is
! seriously i'll with typhoid fever. He has
ms absence greatly weakens the team.
| Manager Campau expects Pitcher Hager-
man will join the team to-day.
| Grand Rapids tried to get PEARSON" Mich
| ago. Campau thought the parson was re-
| leased, and began negotiations with him,
to find that there was still a prospect Of
| his finishing the season with Kansas City.
| Without Bill Phillips the indianapolis
| team will have to hustle all the harder for
games; 1t will throw more work on Goar
| tackle 1t with the same success Foreman
| and Phillips had here some weeks ago
| while Goar was laid up
Stencils Improvement in capturing
| pounding and ground balls, and in clnging
! TO lily on forward run, is a marked con-
| trast to his sloYenly and uncertain work
last season, and sort of corroborates the
! beWhiskered saw to the effect that associa-
ton Will either make or undo a man.
Egan, who has been receiving $3.50 per
Inohth from Detroit until released recent
mat salary that he will quit the game
first. Rip will find that baseball can get
along without Egan with much less embar-
rassment than Egan will experience with
out the $l6O per month.
The Kansas Cttys played fourteen games
on the trip just closed and barring the
three straight defeats at Indianapolis, held
their own. They won two out of three
championship games at Detroit two out of
three at Grand Rapids and split even at
Columbus winning one, losing one and
! drawing the third game,
Valendorf the Jackson, Mich, pitcher
who was wanted by Kansas City has taken
Lafieur, his catcher and Joined the Manito-
woes. He was. getting $50 per month at
jackson, but when Manning asked him for
terms named $500 as his lowest price and
would not sign for that unless Laf1uer was
taken on to catch for him.
Van DerPeck hopes to retain Hahn until
| the close of the season. Several clubs are
bidding for his services. Boston is said to
want the southpaw. badly. If the Detroit
club owner gets his price he will part
with his star twirler before the season is
over. 1t IS also among the probabilities
that Steinfeldt viii be sold before the sea-
son ends.
Pythagoras Lodge, No. $50, X. of P. will
put up ball team to play against nine
next saturday at the East ohio-street
grounds. The proceeds will be for the bene-
tit OF the knights of Pythias. Chief Bar
rettS young son TOD" who. in anticipa-
ton of the event, has hardly been able to
sleep, will serve as a mascot.
Tomorrow afternoon at the Grand the
little Indians" will begin showing the In
dlanapohs games, and will play all the rest
OF them during the present trip. The OPEN
ing game at Minneapolis tomorrow is like
ly to prove exciting, as the Millers are put
tlhg up strong bail now that they are back
home and Miller and Letcher are again in
their old places. To-morrow's game at the
theater will begin at 1880 and every play
will be shown.
Your Uncle Arson will have that silver
trunk full of new clothes at the close of the
season if his debtors pay up. Two months
ago when the Chicagos were having q race
with st. Louis for twelfth place, it was the
proper caper TO josh the old man about it,
TO one and all Anse made reply: BET Won
suit of clothes we finish in the first div-
sion?' This was regarded as a cinch and
Arson estimates that he has about 200
Wagers upon this issue. For a month the
Chicagos have been creeping up, and are
already in the first division.
Nick Young's new and husky Indicator
handler, Kelly, is as unyielding as a hickory
tough as a sailors boarding house sirloin
III point of anatomy. Il never used a wind
pad in my life, either as an umpire or a
catcher" said KEEL I'm fact, | very seldom
used mask when | worked behind the
bat an umpire. Old Bob Ferguson was
one of the few umpires who never donned
the inflated pad. Pulling off the pad and
putting it on is a nuisance to me, and
though ] have stopped many a foul with
my chest and stomach, never could get in
the habit of wearing a pad"
Though the average captain will instruct
his players to overlook the first bali
pitched and take a strike. this theory of
batting is slightly contradicted by Delehan-
ty, who in the minds of many of the crit
les is the best natural batsman that ever
stepped up to the plate. What difference
does it make whether ii is the first ball de-
liVered the last one, so long as the bats
man thinks he can connect for a safe hit
is Dels idea, Il have managed to make a
pretty fair showing Wiz. my bat in the last
eight years, and l didn't build up a good
batting average by waiting and overlook
ing the first ball If it came over the plate.
If | see that a pitcher has a pretty good
command of the ball, l swing at the first
ball he feeds me on providing, of course
| think / can do business with the ball by
forming a connection for hit. If a
pitcher is wild and uncertain, i will occa-
sionally overlook the first one. In Chicago
last season l made four home runs in one
game and three of these We're off the first
ball delivered by Clark Griffith. There are