The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-10

The Indianapolis baseball team con-
templates a transforming trin after
the close of the season in the Western
league
''Vic Willis is the hardest nitcber t.,
coren.
Cincinnati Enquirer: You can tell
when team has just come from Louis
Ville," said Heinie Heitz, looking over
at the Philadelphia bench. They in
variably bring along new stock of
bats with them. Nearly all the bats
used by the National league PLAYERS
are bought of firm in Louisville"
The Brooklyns have done better on
the road this year than any other
league team. But the attendance at
washington park, while a, source of
pront' mas not come up to expecta-
tlons.-Sporting Life
There's no discountng the honesty
of the players. The Cincinnatis to a
man are pulling for Boston to win the
pennant. yet bea. them three out of
four games last week without COM
junction.
Hugh Jennings says ii is not true
that he hurt his arm making fancy
throws in practice. He says the trouble
"a contracted muscle near the elbow
came on gradually and will probably
diappear just as slowly
AS the season nears its finish the
players become harder to control and
the work of the umpires is doubled.
LOOK at Sundays record as an ex-
ample. Player after player was re-
moved from the game for Directing to
the decisions made. The funniest thing
OF all, though was the bitter comment
passed upon the crowd in Louisville by
the visiting Baltimore newspaper men,
The idea of anybody in Baltimore abus-
nf nth 70,
their treatment of visiting players!
You are lucky in Baltimore to get
away from the grounds without carry
ing along a stone quarry with you.
Ii your head isn't knocked off your
back is likely to be caved in, and your
race will look as though it had been
through a Hamburg steak machine
New York Telegram.
Perhaps / shouldn't say it because
l am his business partner, but l be-
lieve It, nevertheless, that John Nc
Graw is the best ball player in the Ma
tlonal league" says Catcher Robinson.
All of last season Ed Delehanty made
head-and-head fight for the cham
pionship honors in base running. He
led the league most of the season, and
at the end was second in the league,
with 65 stolen bases to his credit. This
season Delehanty is one of the poorest
base runners in the league. He has
not over 10 stolen bases to his credit
so far. Delehanty is too busy looking
after the top-notch batting honors of
the parent organizat ton to bother with
the base running Exchange.
A wild-eyed special from Boston,
probab bly, written by patron of a very
bad laundry, is to the effect that the
Boston club is tired of its old players,
and will release Billy Hamilton, Martie
Bergen, Herman Long and Hughie
Duffy this fall to make room for an in
voice of young blood.
Buck Ewing complains that Cunning
ham and Bowling of LOUISVILLE are con-
tinually baking and get away with it
to the detriment of the opposing base
runners.
Jacob c. Morse, the able baseball
critic of the Boston Herald, believes
that baseball would be more popular
if the big gloves now used by most of
the outfelders and infielders were abol-
ished. A great many more persons are
of the same opinion. The fact is that
with those large gloves it is almost i'm
possible to miss catching a fly If the
hands are anywhere within reach of the
ball. If the gloves were eliminated
from the game there would be muff
now and then that would help to en-
liven matters. Any one who takes the
trouble to notice will observe that the
average of players have improved
steadily in the last two or three years,
and It is not due to the fact that the
f1elders are SO much more clever, but
to the skillful manner in which they
handle their gloves.
Goeckel of the Philadelphia team.
who was formerly leader of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania Glee club, has
organized aquartette composed of Don
ahue, Lauder, Cross and himself, and
will entertain his comrades on the road.
with the outfielders hitting above
$50, with every man on the infield hit
ting above .300 and our catchers doing
the same thing, how are you going to
beat us for batting?" says Chick Fraz-
er. THAT is what the other teams have
got to go against Just think of team
having everybody hitting above 800 per
cent, except the pitchers. 1t does a
pitcher good to be on the slab with
such hitting team behind him.