The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-25
COLUMBUS HERE TUESDAY.
Indianapolis Returns from n Success
full Trip to Play Eastern Clubs.

The Indianapolis team will return home
Tuesday after very successful Western
trip. The team has done better away from
home than it did in the first series at home.
This can be accounted for by the men get
ting down to business and playing the game
in the field, at the bat and on the bases.
Part of the games lost at home were the re-
suit of dopey playing and not being in the
game at all stages. The mist has evidently
cleared away and Indianapolis has a good
chance to secure a foothold on the first
rung OF the ladder this week. The Hoosiers
play at Kansas City again to-day and will
travel home tomorrow. On Tuesday the
Columbus team. which has been heralded
as the fastest in the association, comes for
a series of three games. This will be the
first appearance of Jack Grim's aggregation
in Indianapolis this season and there should
be large crowds at all the games. The first
ladies' day under the new rule will be
Tuesday. Following Columbus the attrac-
ton will be Louisville for two games on
Decoration day, morning and afternoon, on
Saturday and the Sunday game will be
played at Marion. Indianapolis will then go
TO Toledo and Columbus for series of four
games I'm each city. On returning home
dianapolis will then go 10 Louisville and
will return home to meet the Western clubs
again. The future games at home will be
called at 3:40.
The work of the Indianapolis pitchers on
the Western trip has been more satisfactory
than the records they made at home when
the season first opened. Killen, who was
not in condition to pitch any of the games
at home owing to an injury he received in
the first exhibition game of the season, has
rounded into good form, and, judging from
his work on the trip, he will be one of the
strong guide ropes OF the Hoos1er stan
Kellum, Williams. Sutthoff and Miller have
also done very good work. If Manager
Watkins decides to carry but four pitchers
II will be difficult matter to decide which
TO let go.
The Cincinnati Club has made numerous
efforts to strengthen its team for many
months. When Parent and Winter signed
agreements last summer to play with Gin
cinnau this year it was believed that the
nucleus of stronger team was to be had
but Parent and Winter jumped their con-
tracts. Efforts to secure first-class material
have proved of no avail, two of Cleveland's
players refusing to accept offers to become
Reds. Now it is announced that Mike Dom
Jail for brutality assaulting a young woman,
has been signed TO a Cincinnati contract
The act of the Cincinnati officials TO secure
good material will be criticised by the base
ball public in the signing OF Donlin. He was
censured by everybody in the country for
his brutal act and the American League
blackliSted him at once. 1t was hoped that
he was TO be more severely punished by
never being able to secure an engagement
in organized baseball, and TO think that the
Cincinnati Club is the one TO offer him
contract does not seem to meet with gen.
eral favor. 1t is true that DOnltn has fully
repented and many may forget his past rec
ord, but it seems that Cincinnati could have
made more popular move by ignoring him
as other clubs have done. If he does get
back into baseball it is 10 be hoped that his
mouth will be padlocked and his hands tied
behind him when he is not playing ball. One
thing in Donlin's favor. however. is the fact
that he has always supported his mother
and sister.
Some one in Chicago, who evidently con-
trolls dove incubator, is again talking of
peace between the National and American
leagues He is quoting President Hart, of
the Chicago National League club, as say
ing that he (HarD is as much in favor of
peace between the American and National
leagues as ever. 1t must be, however, on
conditions that the arrangements are made
between substantial parties whose word will
be good through thick and thin. The same
peace agitator says President Johnson is
said to be in danger of being undermined in
his own camp. For some time the relations
between Johnson and Charles Comiskey
have been strained, Comiskeys utterances
at the American Association banquet in
Chicago being the strongest evidence of a
break in their friendly relations. 1t is said
that If the plans now being carried out in
secret are consummated it is believed the
leadership in the American League will
pass from Mr.. Johnson. Johnson has "A
strong following in the American ranks and
the opposing faction will have TO show
great strength TO Dust him. The peace talk
is nonsensical at this time peace be-
tween the Western League and the Amer
lean Association would be.