The Indianapolis journal., 1902-09-25
WATKINS Is HOME AGAIN
BASEBALL MANS SMILE is SOME
THING GOOD TO SEE.
He Has Added Another Pennant 20
His Belt and Is Happy-Recep-
ton for the Club.

Watty is back. Watty was accompanied
by Charles Ruschaupt, and they by two
very wide smiles watty's smile was the
widest, the most meaning. This was be-
cause watty's smile gets bigger the more
annual pennants he hangs on his belt.
Ruschaupt is young in the baseball pennant
business. while Watty has been crying for
them ever since he was baby.
1t is useless to mention him as Mr.. w.
III. Watkins. There are others of that
name, while there is only one Watty. The
exuberance of his eye, the thrill of en-
thusiasm in his voice, and the general air
of conquest that surrounds him, told elo-
quently that Watty was happy. He leaned
back in his mahogany chair in the pennant
office in the Majestic building and illum-
mated every part of the room with his
sunny countenance. He was in benign
mood, loquacious and enthusiastic.
1T was a great chase" he said. I'VE
have been three months reaching after the
American Association pennant and have
won by the most determined and consistent
work. The credit of this victory belongs
to the players of the Indianapolis team. No
one may contest this. They never faltered
Many teams would have lost courage after
they had lost thirteen games, any one or
which by winning would have put them
first But the Indianapolis team didn't 1t
met every reverse with renewed confidence
and even when we were thirty points be-
hind 1T worked just as hard as 1t could.
On this last trip, of course, the tension was
great. The men went to the field eager to
renew the conflict.
A PERSONAL NATTER.
1.-THE success of the team became a per-
sonal matter with each one. There were
happily no personal differences and the
work was always frictionless. The team
was a happy family. Before leaving on
the last trip the fourteen men who COM
posed 1t agreed and bound themselves that
they would permit nothing to distract them
from their work. They kept their agree
ment like gentlemen and in doing 1t kept
themselves always prepared for critical
pennant fights, have watched others of
an exciting character, but they were moth
ing compared to this If 1 could 1 would
season.
1.-The team has been great in field work,
in team work and In its pitching depart
ment. We always had good pitcher in the
box no matter who We played.
How about the three games played at
st. Paul the last day?"
1--WE found that Clymer, of Louisville.
was depending on this trick to win the
games and We lost the two We were ex-
pected to play, and the association direc-
tors gave the protested game at Louisville
to the Colonels they would win the pennant
by the fraction of point. We had post
poned games with st. Paul and could play
three as well as Louisville could play three
with Minneapolis. The rules require a club
to play two games in one afternoon and
more by agreement. st. Paul agreed, so
we played three and won them. We were
watching every point just as Louisville was
md haof har at fhoir
Mr.. Watkins said IL was too early to dis
cuss next year. While he did not say So,
it seems to be taken for granted that
his appetite for pennants is insatiate and
that along toward the tail end of winter
his NAV will be ready for another. Mr..
Watty's speciality Is not prophecies. II
is performances.
TEAMS HOME COMING.
The Indianapolis team will reach home
Tuesday night OF next week. On the return
trip the team is stopping to play exhibit
ton games, the entire portion of the Indi-
annapolis teams financial interest being di-
vided among the players.
Watkins says he is satisfied with the
American Association during the past sea-
son. Indianapolis finished fifth in point of
attendance, but had risen after Labor day
from seventh place. This was not disap-
pointing, because the city had no Sunday
SdfntS, WHICH were the Dig enQ OF the at
tendance elsewhere. The league as a whole
was prosperous. At Milwaukee the Ameri-
can Association club lost little money by
reason of its conflict with the Western AS
socation team of the same place. But the
loss. Watkins thinks. is not enough to be
considered. At Kansas City a similar fight
caused another loss. In both cities the
Western teams sustained big losses.
A meeting will be held at the Elks' club
rooms tomorrow afternoon at o'clock &c
arrange for a reception to the team on it's
return next Tuesday. Those most inter
ested in the meeting are: j. w. Hale
c. b. Fawkner. James A. McCrossan. Emil
Fertig. Ben Brown. Ed Smith, G.. w
Kevers, Sol Munter, James d. Posey, T.
]. Seaman. John McGregor. Ed Rauh
Mayor Bookwalter. Joseph Kealing Bert
Feibleman. Joseph Casper. Judge Sullivan
Judge Carter. Paul III. Krauss, and Louis
Newberger. Subscriptions will be received
h< Emil Fertis and others mentioned.