The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-13

with MIN. InlS Is a goou brace uo"dru tue
1904 team.
Pitcher Kissinger, of Detroit, Is to enter
Michigan University In the fall as soon as
the baseball season ends. He wants to be-
come a civil engineer.
Catcher Bob Wood. of the Brewers. has
gone to his home at Girard. o.. with a frac-
tured rib, which will keep him out for the
balance of the season.
Lajoie and Wagner are running a neck
and-neck race for the batting honors of the
country. Lajoie having the more effective
pitchers to go up against.
Pitcher Fred Falkenberg, released by
Pittsburg, will return TO his Chicago nome
1t is said he will become a professor In a
Chicago college this winter.
When it comes TO pitching, pure and sim
pie. the fact remains that Rube Waddell Is
the best left-hander in the country, and is
fairly in a class by himself.
Frank Selee is reported as having secured
Jake Gettman, of Buffalo, and a Hobart
College pitcher named Farley. The latter
will not report until next spring.
Arndt, Clingman. Gleason and Fox are re-
| garded as practical certainties for next
years Columbus team in the field. and Dor
ner, Berger and Wagner in the box.
According to Manager Fisher, Of the
Nashville club, the great Lajoie was once a
cab driver at Woonsocket, X. l., In the WIN
ter time, playing semi-professional ball In
summer
Jesse Tannehill. Topsy Hartsell and sew
eral other players will spend q part or the
winter on a houseboat on the Mississippi,
floating from one point to another, cunning
and fishing.
Jimmy Collins should have held a string on
Kellum, the left-hander, who failed TO make
| good the first season of the Americans. lie is
doing great work for the Indianapolis team.
Sporting Life.
The Louisville Post reads Manager Joe
CantillOn a lecture for his anguag toward
umpires and players, and adds that ne Is
one of the class that does much TO Marin
the national sport"
George Davis seems to have dropped out
of the baseball world completely. one sell
dom ever hears his name now. and yet 1t
was only a few weeks ago that he was the
center of attraction.
There is one satisfaction about the pro-
posed series between Pittsburg and Boston
| Americans. One of the two teams which
have been high-handedly dispensing defeat
everywhere must get its bumps.
Waddell holds a record for strike-outs
| never before accomplished by a pitcher in
the history of baseball. The erratic stage
struck twirler has officiated in thirty-seven
games this year and famed Dol batsmen.
The Reds are grumbling because Bancroft
and Armour nave increased the Cincinnati
| Cleveland poSt-Season series from seven 10
ten games. The Reds had figured on barn
storming on their own hooks after Oct. 8.
Pitcher Flaherty says he is now sorry that
he did not join the Reds instead OF the
White Socks, as he finds that the wealth
er Of the Windy City does not agree with
him, and that he has not been able 10 90
himself justice there"
Beville, the young and stocky Invader
catcher, is looked upon as a coming LaJoie
with the bat. He has the strength of the
great Clevelander and is able TO send a hot
shot bali which is safe, even If an infielder
manages to touch it. Since O'Connor was
suspended he has been doing the major part
of the catching and has done well.-New
York Mail and Express.
There will be plenty doing W on Wash
f0Ofou HaiOhfS before next season. saws the
New York Daily News. The Greater New
Yorks want a pennant winner. They need IL
in their business. and Frank Farrei, VINO Is
backing the local American League ciup, Is
not afraid to spend money when he mas a
goal in view. All very nice, but money does
not secure pennant winners.
The case of Miller Higgins, second base
man of st. Paul, is different from most
players. The average player can be pur-
chased from a minor league club, and must
go where he Is sent, but Higgins has a con-
tract which specifies that he can go where
he pleases at the end of the present season.
He feels, however, that he has been treated
so kindly by the st. Paul club owners that
he wants them to be paid for his release,
and he will not sign with any club unless he
feels that the st. Poul club has received a
cash equivalent for him.
A series between Boston and Pittsburg Is
already practically assured. and this will
come in for more attention from the fans
than any similar event in recent years, says
the ST. Louis Globe-Democrat. Boston is
generally conceded to have the best pitching
staff, while the advantage in heavy hitting
lies with Pittsburg. For aggressiveness
Pittsburg Is an easy first, but when II
comes TO clever inside work Boston has, II
anything, the edge. This Is particularly true
of the infeld work of Boston on the de-
fensive. With Jimmie Collins to run things!
the defensive work of the Boston 1nfleld
has been little short of marvellous. and the
Browns have good cause to realize this. Sc
far as betting on the games Is concerned,
even money is all that can be looked for.