The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-12

weeks. These three games, beginning to-
morrow, will therefore be the only ones
here this month.
Mr.. Umpire Hurst closed a brief discus
sion with Oriole Doyle yesterday by order
ing him out of the game. Nearly all the
umpires seem TO be we'll supplied with back
bone this year.
That home run of Gray's saved Indianap-
oils the humiliation Of being shut out with
out a hit or a run. 1t was a very close
call, however. and the fans have something
to be thankful for after all.
Sockalexis, the Indian. is one of the best
all-around players in the big league. His
record yesterday was three times at bat,
Two hI IT'S TWO sn1 T tbfs,A t stoldPn Ht 6asss TWO SAT-
1t begins to look as though what Louis
Vile didn't want is scarcely good enough
for Indianapolis Mcfarland and Eustace
were not fast enough for the Colonies and
they are pretty slow in this league. They
hit away down when with Louisville and
are at about the same notch now.
To-day will be ladies' day at the Grand
and all ladies will be admitted free to the
last Columbus game at the theater. VOL
ters will probably pitch, though Goar may
go in if Watkins is afraid of the eX-Grand
Rapids man. The game will begin at 3:15
and will be the last at the Grand until next
Tuesday, when indianapolis opens at MIN
neaDDoliS.
Instead of Indianapolis having the crack
pitchers of the Western League it looks as
if Columbus was the fortunate team one
hit off Pete Daniels yesterday and SIX OIL
6IlllLn 1OItldN-WId n vi
lis needs some batters and needs them bad
ly. Columbus had little trouble hlIting
Phillips and Foreman wasn't much Oh d
puzzle after the fourth inning.
President Ban Johnson was a visitor to
the press box and watched the game with
interest. At the close of the game ne re-
marked to ManasSau: You umplred q
good game of ball and one that was hard
to handle. 1t was a hard and exciting
game, but you did we'll" In replying to the
compliment Manassau said: I tried TO pc
square, but the crowd was hard to handle,
and | may have made some mistakes.
Manassau may get wrong some tlme, yet2
so far on the home grounds, ne mas not
often been very much Wrong.-MOnday S
Columbu Press.
The Western League has started off every
season with a sad experiment IN the form
of the corps of umpires. This is one or the
leading features Of the game and IL is a
duty the president owes TO secure the pest
umpires he can. Even II the salary mas
to be raised the league should see TO TINS.
for bad umpiring will keep more dollars
from the gate than the difference in salary
between the umpire and q hathead; There
are several changes in the rules with when
neither Ebright nor Manassau seems to be
familiar, therefore there is unnecessary
%Wrangling from the start to the nnlSn OF
each ganle-Detroit Free Press.
A peculiar decision was made yesterday,
and at the time 1t seemed to taVor the
Hoosiers, VINO insisted that the umpire was
right, but a moment later they probably
wished that it had been decided the other
way. Tebeau was on second base IN the
eighth inning ana TWO CcluHlDuS DdlSilSil
had been retired when O'Meara hit one high
in the air, which Gray finally settled un de
ground when he muffed the ball, but the
umpire called it a foul and the catcher was
on the decision by Tebeau, but like all other
kicks, it did no good, and then oM M ara
more than made up for the mistake by MT
ting the ball to left center for three bases.
Tuesdays Columbus Journal.
There is no use talking, we can't play
.,f- ;rofno ha1 until the h0VS get 10
hitting together said Manager Allen, OF
Detroit, recently. We hit hard enough,
but did not bunch the hits, and there IS
where it all lies. There is no good reason
why we should not do more good hitting,
as the material is at hand Look at Deadly,
| Steinfeldt, frost and myself to-day. We
hit the ball hard, but right at somebody.
You know that can't last forever, and when
we start placing them safely L look for
different scores. L feel as though l could
hit as we'll if not better than ever In my
life, but luck has been against me right
along. 1 seem TO point 1t right at some
fielder every time l land hard on the pail,
but | have not given up by any means.