The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-01
Base Bali Notes.


nineteen times this season.
ST. Paul plays a. Chicago to-day and re-
turns here for another game tomorrow.
Kline is big enough to hit hard but be
doesn't. He struck out twice yesterday.
Kansas City will follow st. Paul, playing
here next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day.
GIasscock was the only Saint Goar could
not fool. The old man had his eye on the
ball yesterday. He didn't miss it once.
That was a tremendous drive by Goar in
the third inning yesterday. A good runner
would have made homer of it very nicely.
Tomorrow it viii be Phillips and Den
ger, in all probability. 1t will be the last
appearance of COmiskey's men here for a
month or more.
Thirty-two hundred people at the bali
park yesterday-that substantial well
come for the leaders, though not bit bet
ter than they deserve.
The high fence erected in Milwaukees
left field to shut out the view Oh the OUT
side stands robbed DAILY and Stanford or
home-run hits Thursday.
Fricken goes through a good many con-
tortions while pitching, but he has any
quantity of speed and his delivery is so
quick that it is difficult TO steal on him.
Glenalvin is visiting Chicago, St. Louis
and Cincinnati in search of new timber and
says he will not return to Grand Rapids
until he has a winning team-a rash declar-
alton.
In a game of ball yesterday between the
employees of the Carmody- Morrison Candy
Company and the Elmer e. Nichols Com
pany the latter team was defeated by a
score of 10 to S.
Wood had Fricken sized up in great
shape yesterday He hit him safely three
times and gave Billy George line fly the
other time that had an ugly look. IL was
very hard drive.
The Brewers have been remarkably for
tunate on their own grounds since June H.
and out of the thirty. games played, have
won twenty-three and lost seven. Indian
apOllS won three OF those seven.
Connie Mack has finally released Joe
Wright, good fielder but a failure at the
bat. Wright came to Milwaukee from 10
ronto and has been slated for release ever
since Blake was secured from Cleveland.
Deadly has not been released outright to
Minneapolis. He will simply finish the sea-
son with the Millers and return to lndi-
annapolis next spring. The local manage
ment thinks too well of him to let him go.
In the seventh inning yesterday Shugart
called Warner a dummy and the umpire
fined him IS. Then the shortstOp called him
a robber and Warner fined him another
five. he should have been put out of the
game.
If the Blues can only manage to get one
from Columbus all will be We'll: Detroit is
likely to take a game from the Brewers to-
day or tomorrow Another from St. Paul
tomorrow will then put indianapolis IN
nice shape.
The Detroit Tribune says Pitcher Clark
son has sore arm, whereat the Milwaukee
Sentinel remarks that he must have dam
aged his wing drawing his salary he has
not pitched in a sufficient number of games
this year to injure the arm of society
belle.
The Milwaukee bleacherites sang the
Midway for the benefit IF "Bumpus
Jones Thursday, and the Brewers SUISSE
quently treated him to a series of songs
that had the effect of rafting him. Bum
pus' is a good pitcher until he becomes
ratified.
More people have attended the games at
Indianapolis and Milwaukee than anywhere
in the Western League this season. ST.
Paul comes next in point of attendance,
then Columbus, Detroit, Kansas City
Grand RAPID and Minneapolis in the order
named
Says Pink Hawley, the Pittsburg
pitcher: Pitching is like a poker game.
Some days they can't beat me and others
1 get hit all over the lot. You know your
self that often a man scoops in ali the
chips. Next day he is unable to even win
his ante"
A game of ball was played at the state
field yesterday afternoon between the
Charles Mayer & Co. and the Layman q
Carey mines, which resulted in a victory
for the former by score of to l. The
sharp infield work of the Charles Mayer q
Co. boys was the feature of the game.
The Columbus correspondent of the Sport
ing News makes the extraordinary state
1900 on week days and 5000 on Sundays.
He should count EN-. The cold facts are
around 800 while the Sunday crowds have
ranged from 1,100 to $500.
Milwaukee has signed Pitcher Vallendorf
of the Jackson club of the Michigan
League, and will give him a trial against
either Kansas City or Grand Rapids. Val
lendorf is a southpaw, and out of eighteen
games at Jackson he won fourteen. He
was highly recommended to the MilWaukees
by Manager Cushman of the Jackson club.
at Pittsburg in recent game Billy Mer-
rift was given a base on balls He stood
still at the plate until twice told by Ems
lie, Take your base" The crowd coached
Billy after that. Now they yelled
when you hit the ball. run to first base
If the next man hits it, you run to second
base 'Oh, for team of Donovans!"
signs the Ptttsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
Umpire Haskell has been lamentably
weak in calling balls and strikes and rem
lumbus series the Brewers were badly
handled by him, and in yesterdays game he
deprived LeWee of a tWO-base hit and sub
sequently gave Genins a tWo-bagger that
was clearly foul, as McGarr of the Column
bus team afterWard admitted. Haskell has
heretofore beon held in high esteem by
local patrons of the games, but in the last
three contests they numerically roasted
him.-Milwaukee Sentinel
Thomas Burns, the old third baseman in
the 'stonewali infield' of the White Stock
ings, writes a friend that he would like to
re-enter the National League and believes
that his days of ball playing are not over
IF Ans lives to be as old as his father"
writes Burns, "he will never see team
like the old White Stockings. "A man who
cannot play ball for Arson cannot play
good ball anywhere Burns wired Arson
that he had a to name after him, this
being the first-bOrn of the old Chicago
favorite, who was married about d year
ago.