The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-14
Baseball Notes.

Goar Will pitch this afternoon in the OMEN
ing Kansas City game. The INDIANAPOLIS
team leaves on a ten-day trip next Thurs
day night, going to Detroit, Grand Rapids
and Columbus.
Mannassau has partiality for balls that
cut the inner edge of the plate, and in nine
cases out of ten allows them to the pitcher
Balls that cut the outer edge of the plate
however, are invariaDIy called balls This
is hint for indianapolis batters
Sandy McDermott AYERS his intention of
turning over new leaf and becoming mas
ter OF . the he field. 1t is not that lack
away a ball players money Hereafter
though, / am resolved to serve notice that
all players must keep away from me-
Ed Cartwright, the big first baseman re-
leased last week by Washington, Joined
Minneapolis yesterday at Columbus. Last
year Cartwrights batting average was .274,
ana he stole twenty-nine bases. He ac-
cepted more chances than any other first
baseman in the National League outside of
Tebeau, his fielding average being .977. He
infield.
Every member of the Detroit ball club
on Friday last signed card which reads
as follows, and is a refutation of the story
that they are dissatisfied with the salaries
paid by President Van Derbeck: ITO the
patrons of ball of the city of Detroit We,
the undersigned members of the Detroit
club, do hereby state that we are satisfied
with the terms of our contracts signed to
play in Detroit, otherwise we would not
have signed there, and any statements to
jury to the club"
Kelly, of Baltimore, leads the league bat
ters with .42S, Mercer, of Washington, being
next with .405 and Duffy, of Boston and
lexis, of Cleveland, and Schriver, of Cincn-
natl, are tied at .351. Ritchey, of the Reds,
is 81. Burket of Cleveland, who led them
all at the close of last season, is only .29l.
Camel of Boston, leads the league
catchers, with an average of 1000. Hill, of
Louisville, has done the most effective
pitching to date, Seymour of New York
coming next; then Tannehill, of Pittsburg;
Nops of Baltimore; Hawley, of Pittsburg;
Doheny, of New York; Cqppy; of Cleve--
land; Rusie, of New York; Mercer, of
Washington, and Dammann, of Cincinnati.
Tebeau leads the first basemen, with .995;
McPhee the second basemen, with .972;
Ritchey, the shortstops, with 1883; Selbach,
the left feeders, with 1888; Blake, the CEN
ter f1elders, with .976, and Keeler the right
helders, with 1888.
adelphia club receives the special financial
dispensation from the league. And every
club in the league is happy, and declares
that never again will ii allow itself to be
were given the Philadelphia club. 1t will
be remembered that in the fall of 1894 the
grand stand and the entire seating capacity
of the Philadelphia grounds were destroyed
by fire. At the following league meeting
Colonel Rogers, of the Philadelphia club,
hoiSted the signal of distress and asked
the assistance of the league to make good
the loss the Philadelphia club had suf-
fered. Colonel Rogers's plan was to give
every visiting club 1912 cents for every per-
son who purchased a ticket, the remainder
going to the Philadelphia club. This was
done, and the Philadelphia club, with it's
25 50 and 75-cent admissions, was in a po-
sition to give the other clubs the merry
'ha ha" The ''cinch'' ends after this sea-
son, and the Philadelphia club will have to
elusive of the % cents extra charged for
grand stand seats, to visiting clubs