The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-20
Baseball Notes.

Detroit has signed Arthur Clarkson.
Five victories a week is good enough
New York has ten postponed games to
play off.
Now it is said that it cost the Washington
club $500 to get Tom Tucker.
Keller and LANCE are still having a neck
and-neck race for base-stealing honors.
Mccarthy is batting in his old form again,
and will be moved up TO his former place,
no doubt.
Bobby Gayle didn't last long. He has
lost his grip and was very easy for In
dianapolis yesterday.
The veteran Harry Staley is one Of Ar
thur Twins headiest pitchers this year,
and seems to be working up TO MS old ma
jor league form
Burnett is now playing a stiff game for
Detroit, and Deadly was given his release
Friday. He is wanted at Saginaw, but has
not accepted terms.
Indiana Chain Company beat the Atkins
saw works ball team, IA to 4, Saturday
afternoon. Batteries-Beu and Weber;
Dalton and Dalton.
Tom Tucker has been batting strongly
since he joined Washington, and the same
can be said OF Beekley, of the Cincinnatis,
since he left New York.
Indianapolis Drug Company defeated the
Ward Brothers baseball team yesterday,
% to 10. Batteries -Murbarger and Muir
barger; Portertield and Cooper.
billiard is filing the bill on Detroit's first
base. He has played three games, had
has made two hits in each game
Those twelve runs made by the Reds in
the second inning at Brooklyn wednesday
are the greatest number made In one in
ming in National League game IN three
years
In the recent games with the four West
ern clubs Mertes, of Columbus, got thirty
one hits out of sixty-six times at bat, an
was close behind him, with .427.
Indianapolis will play three more games
at Grand Rapids, and the ones to-morrow
Opera House, beginning simultaneously
with the actual games-at 4 o'clock.
The Western clubs made a very poor
showing on the trip just ended. st. Paul
did the best, winning seven out of fourteen
games, while Minneapolis won four out of
fourteen, Milwaukee four out of sixteen and
Kansas City two out of seventeen
date is only .294, very little better than that
of Indianapolis. Mertes leads the Senators,
with $50 Butler following with 1868, Frank
with .352 and Buckley with 1888 Crooks has
2S2, Genins 280, Tebeau .266 Hulen .256,
Daniels .255, Keener .244 and Fisher .219.
President Johnson has found a promising
umpire up at Detroit in the person of
George Daley, a resident of that city. His
work in Thursdays Milwaukee game there
so pleased the president, who watched 1t
from the grand stand, that he sent Daley
to Kansas City, where he of1ciated yester-
day. 31e
There has been big slump in the bat
ting of DUNCAN, and instead of the mighty
swipes of Sammy to the fences the few hits
does no more than pop fly to an opposing
fielder or roll an easy one along the turf to
a baseman or the Shortstop, all of which is
comforting news to Indianapolis fans, who
have always dreaded Dungan's turn al bat.
Deehanty and Jack Boyle are pair of
Quakers whom StalHngs never fails to
losing game Neither Del nor Jack could
stand for any oral superfuity, even from
Stallings, and the hot-headed manager is
obliged to have it out with those Quakers
who are more inclined to the thee and thou
ness than the big left fielder and the bellig-
erent Boyle.
Pat Tebeau taking a pointer from the
drawing power of Sockalexis has secured
a Jap, and shoves him out as a brother of
Matsada Sorakichi, the wrestler. Pat should
carry this scheme to its logical conclusion.
missionary-eating Hottentot, Burkett for
Chinaman, Mexican for a Senegambian.
thinner for a Zulu. and one would ever
question that Patsy himself is bowling
Dervish.-Detroit Journal.
Men now playing other positions and do
ing well, who were formerly pitchers, are
tren Herman, Gleason, Holmes, Houseman,
McCreary, Stafford and Elmer Smith Ex-
catchcrs are more numerous. The ex-back-
stops of the league are Cooley Lajoie,
Cross, LANCE, Jennings, Stencil, Doyle, Sell
bach Wrigley, Halman, Tenney,. Lowe,
Dexter, Lachance, Caravan. Meekin, and,
possibly, many others.
The desertion of Fred Lake is greatly re-
GREETED by the fans in Manning'S town, for
he was one of the the most popular men who
liked by all the patrons of the game, be-
cause he was never known to shirk and
when the tide had set in against the Blues
he preserved his usual good temper and en-
couraged the other members of the team
to greater efforts, He. had no superior in
his position in the Western League, and
rumor had it pretty strong that Uncle An
son had lines out for him next season.