The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-31
RACE is CLOSE.
Much Depends on the Coming Louis
Vile Series This Week.

lO-HlOIIOM anu aSo VI 80 0N
wednesday! 1t is possible for the Indi-
annapolis team to be leading the American
Association by tomorrow night, but for
this to occur the Columbus team will have
to win again at Louisville to-day and In
~dianapolis will have to win both the morn
ing and afternoon games from Louisville
at Washington Park tomorrow. The race
is getting closer and more exciting. Inc
Hoosiers won two games yesterday. Whlle
Louisville lost one, and indianapolis Is now
only two games, or seventeen points. De-
hind the leaders. If Louisville should win
to-day IT Will require three victories on
the part of Indianapolis TO place the
HoosierS in the lead. Everything has leo
up TO the coming Louisville series in lndi-
annapolis beginning tomorrow morning and
this series will be the last games or the
season in this city. Much depends on the
outcome OF these games and the fans are
at fever heat. With good weather to-mor-
row all records for attendance in this city
will be easily broken. The largest morn
ing crowd in the history of baseball in In
dianapolis will be at the park tomorrow
morning, and IL is doubtful IL the park
will hold the people who desire 70 see the
afternoon contest. The morning game win
be called at 10:15 and Williams Will be on
the slab for indianapolis. The afternoon
game will be called at $3.50 and probably
Sutthof. If he is in the best of condition.
will do the twirling for the Hoosiers.
There will be more roofing at these games
than was ever heard before in one day in
this city. Secretary Ruschaupt has ar
ranged TO place 1000 chairs in front OF the
stand and near the bleachers TO accom-
modate part of the overflow. The space un-
der the grand stand has been arranged 10
accommodate a large crowd and every
available space will be utilized. Every
body will root for indianapolis with the
exception of the excursionists who come
from Louisville, but their kentucky cheers
will be drowned out by the tin horns and
yelling of the Indianapolis people. The
Hoosiers are determined to take a majority
OF the four games and will fight hard TO
make a clean record from the Colonies.
The street-car company has romise
park early in the morning and beginning
at o'clock in the afternoon. Let every
body go to the games and root for 1ndi-
annapolis.
The championship baseball seasons are
rapidly drawing to a close. 1t will not be
many weeks before the schedules have all
been completed. P%ittsburg has the cham
pionship cinched in the National, Philadel-
phia is making a game stand to hold first
place in the American League and Louis
vile and indianapolis are fighting 1t out
for first honors in the American Associa-
ton. The next few weeks will end all doubt
and settle the questions. The end of the
playing schedules will be the signal for
fresh efforts on the part of the warning fac
ton in the great national game to renew
their cut-throat methods. Peace rumors
float about the country spasmodically, but
III ever COtlcS u l0tHl. II mas alNdHE
been commended in these columns that there
was no chance of an amicable settlement of
the difficulties of the National and Ameri-
can leagues. 1t will be war 10 the death
and the coming fall and winter will bring
forth many interesting baseball stories. The
American League has renewed its war
against the National by striking at the
Pittsburg club and securing some Of the
champions best players. Other National
clubs have also been hit recently and Others
will feel the blow of the johnson bandits.
Az ofArrv H. -
begun a quiet warfare against the Ameri-
can that will bring out many sensations be-
fore the playing season of 1903 is opened.
The National clubs have invaded the Amer
lean ranks and while Ii may be the PLAYERS
will not jump to the National this season
there Will be many peculiar moves on the
baseball checkerboard this coming fall and
winter. Ball players in the two big leagues
are now holding off to secure the highest
bid for their services for next season and
the club that offers the best inducements
to the bidding block with rolls of currency
large enough to start a national bank and
VIII bid the American on the boards. Many
of the stars in the American this year will
be found with National League clubs next
season.
Ban Johnson seems determined to force
his way into New York next season with
an American League club. The Baltimore
franchise will probably be transferred TO
that city and Clark Griffith has been slated
as manager for the Gotham team. The New
York National club is already making
strong efforts to strengthen it's team for
next season and under the guidance of John
T. Brush the Giants will nave many new
faces next year and should be in the run
ming. If the American League is repre-
scented in New York in 1903 it will have a
good club and the National club will have
TO stand better in the race than it has done
this year in order to hold any prestige.
The twelve-club circuit idea has again
been forced upon the public by Ned Han
lon, who recently gave out a statement that
John 7. Brush was really foolish about the
twelve-club idea and would force il to an
issue when the National meets this fall.
John T. tells another story and has made
the statement that there is little likelihood
of the National returning to the twelve
club circuit. The matter will be settled the
coming fall when 1t is likely that John T.
Brush will be made president of the Ma
tional League.
One of the funniest baseball pipe dreams
1oated around the country the latter part
Of last week. Just where it secured its
start is hard to tell, but it was about the
limit. The dream had il that Minneapolis
and st. Paul are TO be dropped from the
American Association and Memphis and
Nashville, the Southern League clubs. add
ed to the circuit. The two Southern clubs
have made application for membership in
NiAt aSsOAh0AADAis b0N ~ 10 sale u saw I0HV
will not be admitted. The association will
never go south of Louisville for a member.
Then there Is another obstacle TO prevent
such a change. The Minneapolis and ST.
Paul clubs have franchises in the American
Association that cannot be declared null
and void or shifted about the country to
accommodate Southern League gentlemen.
From present indications the circuit of the
American Association IN 1903 will be the
same as this year. but there may be
changes elsewhere in the association. The
association next year will have to hustle for
players the same as 1t did last spring, but
the club owners viii begin early to secure
good teams. The club owners promised the
people a good article Of ball this year and
the best ball outside the two big leagues
has been played In the association. Before
the season opened the associations enemies
predicted that the association would not go
through the season. Ii has really pros
pered, everything considered, and nearly
every club in the organization, with two or
three exceptions, will come out to the good.
Milwaukee and Kansas City will lose. but
their losses are not as heavy as those sus-
tanned by the opposition clubs in those two
cities. Ii is almost certain that the Western
League will back out OF Kansas City and
Milwaukee next season and leave the asso-
citation with no opposition.
WbolesaIers and Nauufaefurars