The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-30
Baseball Notes.


The Hoosiers have tumbled to fourth
place.
Both New York and Brooklyn made triple
plays yesterday
Columbus is playing good ball. Yester-
day the Senators humbled the Saints.
Morning games We're to have been played
at st: Paul and Minneapolis yesterday, but
rain interfered.
Little Jessie Tannehil, of the Pittsburg
club is one of the gamest pitchers who
ever fooled a batter.
The Wabash College team was defeated
Friday by the Oberlin College team by a
score Of IA to at Crawfordsville.
Keep your eye on the Brewers. 1t begins
to look as If the championship lay between
them and the Saints with the Buckeyes d
possibility.
In the afternoon game at Pittsburg La
chnanGe had twelve chances and accepted
ALL He was at bat five times, made four
hits and scored three runs.
The Bostons got about $50 as their share
in st. Louis one game. Just enough to pay
their board bill indianapolis got $23 as its
share one game at Minneapolis.
The Indianapolis Club has too many good
players in the hospital. No matter how
effective the pitchers if they have not good
support they cannot be expected to win.
Marty Hogan is playing good ball for
Dayton in his old position (center), but is
not hitting. He cannot acquire the knack
of lining EN-. out safe even in the slower
company of the Interstate League.
start for this city Immediately after to-
morrow afternoons game in Manning S
town. Ihe opening game here is Tuesday
afternoon and it will be called at o'clock
President Won der Horst, of the Balti-
mores, commented severely Oh the mobbing
of Hurst at Pittsburg. He said: "A few
base hits by Pittsburg would have taken
away the necessity of mobbing the UNI
Dire."
Dad" Clarke, in the role of a live pitch
er again, is one of the events of the season.
He actually struck out six tail-enders yes
terday. The Giants were so much sur
prised that they forgot to support him, and
made six errors
Dick Smith, the Columbus pitcher who
didn't hold up, is pitching for Dubuque
He was only good against Indianapolis and
would scarcely have stood return engage
ment here, for Watkinss men were only
waiting to get even.
William Damman, one of the pitchers of
the Cincinnati club, who was with Indian
apolls last season. IS seriously i'll, being
threatened with typhoid fever. He will not
go East with his team and it may be many
weeks before he can play again.
A baseball trade by which the Phiadel-
phia club secures the services of Dowd of
man, Grady and Harley has been consum-
mated. The three Philadelphia men were
yesterday ordered to join the st. Louis
club at Boston on Monday.
Given up the pennant? 4 should say
not" said o. p. Tebeau. "Why, me boy,
I'm sure of wearing that pennant at the
ten a letter of acknowledgment of congrat-
ulatons 1t is now being engraved and will
be ready at the end of the season"
But two games remain to be played at
the Grand Opera House by the little wooden
teams-to-morrow morning and afternoon.
These games win be the closing ones of the
Indianapolis teams trir and Watkins is
sure to land one if not both Of them. They
will be called at the theater at 10 a. m.
and p. m. and. being holiday games, will
attract big houses.
Of bn 1ThS
Eastern exchange, are now acquiring ex-
perience over the new player problem in
their preparations for another year. This
| season has furnished them with plenty Of
food for reflection. and in some cases with
lessons which they are not likely to ignore.
one of them is that it does not always ray
to secure star" players at large salaries
unless they are to be under capable man.
agement. The value of united play and
thorough field discipline has never been
more apparent. The officials realize this,
and are regretting the fact that they did
not give the subject more consideration in
making up the teams of 1897. All-star ag-
e,regationS never win steadily