The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-23
Standing of the Clubs.
League
PLAYED. Won. Lost.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.

DAYTON, o., April 22.-Between frequent
showers this afternoon the Indianapolis
and Dayton teams played exhibition
game which resulted in victory for In
dianapolis only after the most exciting
kind of finish. The threatening weather
early in the afternoon caused many people
to remain down town who would other
wise have gone to the park to see the
contest. After the game was called there
were frequent showers and once the play
ers had to be called off the fed until it
stopped raining. This caused quite delay
and in the seventh inning. with the score
standing to in favor of Dayton and
the clock pointing to Ass. 1t was announced
that the game would be called promptly
at 5:15, to allow the visitors to catch their
train.
1t was then that the Indianapolis players
got down to business in order to win out.
Neither team scored I'm the seventh and
in the eighth the home team was BANKED.
The twenty minutes were rapidly flying
by when Indianapolis came to bat in the
last half the eighth inning Madison
went to bat and hit to third. being thrown
out at first. The next man up was Kelly,
who put one at the same fielder. who
fumbled allowing Kelly to reach first.
Moore then hit Heydon sending him to the
| base. Magoon went up and struck out.
| Hickey reached first on Rieman's error.
while Kelly scored. Barnes tried hard to
size up good one. but Moore allowed him
| TO walk, preferring to take chances with
| Sanders. Before going to the plate Sand
ers remarked
Boys, L will win the game right here
with three DAGGER
| He kept his word for the first one that
came near the plate was sent on hard
| line drive to right field fence bringing In
| the two runs necessary to win. His hit
was made just as 5:15 was called.
The trip was a sort of junketing expe-
| dition for the indianapolis team, arranged
| to give the HOLSTERS a little practice. Man
ager Watkins had cautioned his men not
| to work too hard as he did not care to take
| chances on any of them getting disabled.
| Magoon, the new acquisition at second for
the indianapolis team, was in the game
| for the first time this season. He showed
| lack of practice while in the field, but his
eye was true as II he had been playing
| for months. He made two of the prettfest
hits of the game. II the first inning a
hard one was hit to him, but he was I'M
able to reach ~ because of the knots sud-
| denly tied in his muscles. He accepted
| one chance, catching a man attempting to
steal, but made an error on his other
| chance. His work was clean-cut, notwith-
| standing the error. and when he gets into
1
| man for the Indianapolis aggregation.
Sanders was the first Indianapolis man
| to enter the box and he did well for three
| innings, but in the fourth he began to
weaken and his arm got sore resulting In
| the home team lamba sting his slow balls
for four hits. He was sent to right field,
| as there was no one on the bench to fill in,
as the remainder of the Indianapolis team
| played at Fort Wayne. Hogriever was
| moved TO center field and Barnes sent to
| the slab 1t was also his first day in the
| pitchers box and he applied the brakes to
| his speed, lobbing them over in a fashion
/ that was solved in two innings by the Old
/ Soldiers. After the sixth, in which the
| home team made three, he changed his
/ tactics and not another Dayton man
| crossed the rubber.
| The home team was the first to score.
getting four in the fourth. Hardesty
| singled and this was followed by Sanders s
| error in throwing to second and two bag
/ gers by Miller, Gochnaur and Swain. Two
| more were made by Dayton in the fifth off
| Barnes. A triple. Madison's error and a
! single did the work Then Indianapolis
/ came to bat in their half of that inning
| and went one better by scoring seven
| tallies. Three bases on balls, wild throw
| by Gochnaur. singles by Madison Hickey
| and Hogriever and Magoon's triple were
responsible The Daytons forged ahead
/ again I'm the seventh by making three on
| two scratch singles, Magoons error and a
| double. Then Indianapolis won out in the
| eighth. The score: