The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-10

terized Schriver's stick work the result
Saturday might have been different. The
big catcher hit a triple and two singles.
OF all the sa~ffron-hued arbitrators of
lowest He is very bad on balls and
strikes and he is worse on base decisions.
and he doesn't know the rules.-Milwaukee
Journal.
Rep Milford says: Bob Leadley's Gold
Bugs licked Tebeau's Kickapoos twice in
practice games, and in the Western fight
they have lost seven straight. Now, get
ting down to form studies. in what class
does that put the Clevelands?"
Hereafter there will be four or five mem
bers of the Cincinnati team to go out to the
grounds for practice every morning. All
the extra pitchers and catchers who are
not billed for work in the afternoon will
practice in the morning on the road.
Ball players are wonders" said President
Hart the other day. Years ago, when l
was at Louisville, we gave Pete Browning
a gold watch in appreciation of his batting.
I presented Pete the watch. He took il,
gazed at it a moment, and said, Where's
the chain?
Says the Baltimore News: How some
baseball writer's would like TO see McGraw
out of the game for good! When he plays
all over the circuit they are compelled to
acknowledge him to be the brainiest, most
scientific and most daring ball player in
the profession. but when he is on the bench,
what a crop OF allegations spring up for
the fool killers cudgel!'
Mcdonald last Wednesday made a pecul-
lar ruling against O'Connor. Jack had
waited for three balls and what should have
been the fourth he allowed to hit him on
the back. Mcdonald refused to give him
his base and made him wait for another.
The ball that hit him was neither a ball,
strike, foul or anything else. According
to the umpire it was simply something that
is not covered by the rules.
McAleer will not be able to play with
Cleveland for some time. He left Saturday
for his home. in Youngstown, where he will
be treated for charley horse Here is a
question that is probably worrying Tebeau.
What will he do with McAleer when Jeems
gets over his charles equine? With Blake
batting as he has done in the past two
games, it would be foolish to replace him,
and, of course, SoX and Burkett are fix
lures.
Cleveland must be a lovely town in which
to play ball. The Press says: on no
other baseball park in the country are the
rooters so scarce as in Cleveland. On no
other diamond is it unsafe for the umpire
to give the home club the best of a decision.
1t has been claimed that the Cleveland
stands contain more knockers against the
home players at every game that the stands
on the other eleven league diamonds COM
bined.'
The game at Columbus to-day will be
reproduced at the Grand, beginning at 3:15.
The automatons make the plays almost
simultaneously with the actual plays on the
distant grounds. There is scarcely ever
more than a moments difference in the
time, and frequently, toward the close of a
game, the wooden fellows are only thirty
seconds behind the doings of their husky
counterparts far away. All three of the
games at Columbus will be shown at the
Grand.
Pace, the Detroit substitute catcher who
made a reputation with the stick here the
day he took Trost's place behind the bat.
has been farmed to Terre HaEte and played
his first game there on Saturday. The
Terre Haute Express says: Pace is one
of the fastest men ever seen behind the bat
in Terre Haute. He coached Rodman all
through the game yesterday and his work
infused new life in the other players. He
is in, the game all the time and never al
lows a chance to escape