Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-05-17

Here we are, down at the bottom of the
column.
One year ago to-day the Blues were in
/ second place.
Baltimore earned eleven runs off St.
Louis yesterday.
Big Perry is still the life of the team.
He is jolly JOllier.-Louisville Post.
A Deroit paper says Arlie Latham has
| been appointed ar umpire by President
Ban johnson.
The st. Cloud Reds defeated the Schmelz-
ers. of Kansas City, at PertIe Springs
park yesterday by a score Of IS to 3.
Umpire Lynch lined John Boyle $40 in
Philadelphia Saturday. Boyle says it was
for looking at the umpire when he called
a strike.
There is Grape upon the wigwam,
There is silence all about;
Roaring Bills the man who scalped him
Brooklyn Eagle.
The entire Des Moines team is under
bond. charged with disturbing the peace
by playing ball on Sunday. A test case
will be made. and it is believed 1.-The Law"
will be knocked out.
ACTORS are supposed to have a good deal
of nerve" said President Hart, but they
are not in it with ball players. a few
years ago when l was with Louisville we
gave Pete Browning a gold watch in ap-
probation of his batting. l presented the
watch to Pete He gazed at it a moment
the chain?'"
Uncle AnSOn Is not uOWnledTIeu at lile
fact that his team is among. the ~tailenders
IN the pennant race. He say he has the best
team that has represented the Windy City
a en- yS3rf sRd PPein5s t 8r his arf psnz Sl pi can
lahan and Friend. In Chicago they have
dubbed the Colts the 'lose-by-one-run' ag-
gregatiOn.
Whenever it comes to the point when a
base hit would win the game for Grand
Rapids you might as well give up all hope,
as it is never forthcoming. In every game
lost En far this GnaEnn mn the home
grounds just such an emergency has arisen,
and it has always proven TO be another eX-
p%erience of Casey at the Bat-"-Grand
Rapids Democrat.
What's the matter with the Western
League presenting a testimonial to An
son? asks the St. Paul Dispatch. He has
strengthened Milwaukee with Terry; Kan
sas City with Friend: st. Paul with Pres
ton and Mcbride. and still within a week
he has been visited again by Killilea, Man
ming and Wilmot. Now Comiskey is in Chi
cago. VIII he call on the old man?
The first cushion fight at Chicago was
successfully pulled of. As soon as the
spectators arose from the bleaGhers the
ing and swirling into the field. The green
swlrd was quickly dotted with black spots
as thickly as a leopard,s skin. A hundred
hurl the cushions back into the bleachers.
This aroused the combativeness of the
spectators. who fired the projectiles back
at the youthful artillerymen.
Have Minneapolis baseball fans a yell
low streak? Now they are continually
bowling about the weakness of the Mill
ers. or what they think is weakness. and
yet only 200 or go of them get out to the
games, and perhaps one-third of these are
on passes. How on earth do they expect
any man or men to hold up a ball team
such as the Millers had last year when
the management takes in hardly enough at
the gate to pay salaries? II requires money
to run a ball team successfully, and to
bring about such a result the fans must
go to the games. 1t will be a long time
before the Western League will see such
a ball team as Minneapolis had last year.
Minneapolis Tribune.
Outfelder Mcfarland played with Des
Moines in the Western Association before
being drafted by Louisville. from which
club he was sold to indianapolis. and he
relates the best story of the decade on a
Western scorer. 1t was at Jacksonville,
ILL.,. in 1894, when Con Strouthers was man
aging the team i'm that city. and Des
MOines opened the season there. The game
was a veritable smuggling match. six home
runs being made. while the score was 10
to Is at the end of nine long innings. The
Dies Moines players Were all satisfied. as
each man secured two or more hits, but
their surprise can be better imagined than
described when they read the score in a
Jacksonville paper the following day. The
scorer gave each man a hit for as many
bases as he made. and the player who
made two home runs and a single was cred
tied with nine base bits. All of the others
figured on the same basis, and if some
kindly disposed player had not corrected
the scribe the batting records in the West
ern Association would have been the won
der of the baseball world.
Joe Campbell. of the Washington Post,
is aspiring to rival Tom Parrot as a pro-
fessOr of baseball English. This is the way
he expresses himself: With three on bases
in the ninth at Boston yesterday for the
Senator'S, Old Inability to Hit made a
Svenga pass at Charley Reilly's lamps
whereat Charley carved three hicks in the
weather" Psrrott. however, Is still IN Il
class by himself. says George Singleton.
Last year while st. Louis was in New
York, Tom met Homer Davenport, the
cartoOnist. Both hail from Port Townsend.
and Davenport took PARROT to call on an
other ex-Oregonian. a wealthy retired mer-
chant. On the way out Davenport said:
Tom. don't use that baseball talk of
yours. The old man don't understand the
game" PARROT promised that he would
not. When they had been seated the host
turned to Tom and asked: Mr.. Parrot,
what brings you East?' Tom responded:
20. I'm lobbing them over for the Browns
this year. and | tell you my old whip is in
great shape. l turn EN- loose and they
burn the air around the pan. It's a case Of
zip. zip. zip across their old gazoozalums
and to the bench