The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-14
will be ladies' day.

Tomorrow will be ladies' day.
indianapolis and Minneapolis have an of
day to-day.
Mathewson and McGinnity are fairly in
vincible on their own grounds
More bases are stolen on Harry Bemis
than OH any other American League catch
er.
John McGraw's nose is getting into shape,
and the manager says he will be back in the
game soon.
hunts with one hand and retiring the bats
man at first.
Minneapolis is now coming with a rush
and promises to be right up in the running
In a few more series.
Pitcher Bill Dineen is largely responsible
for the great squirt Of the Boston team. He
won six straight games.
President Gear is making plans for put
ting in thorough system of thing at AS
ISOLATION Park. in Kansas City.
Mercedes all-round play is falling off,
and the Brooklyn fans no longer think him
q star successor to Billy Keller.
Minneapolis is the attraction tomorrow
and Tuesday. Ford and Stimmel will be
the opposing pitchers tomorrow.
''Ducky'' Holmes was released by Wash
ing Saturday and Immediately signed with
the Chicago American League team.
Unofficial batting averages of the New
York Americans up to May inclusive show
the team batting average to be only I'll.
The Hoosiers could have won a game from
any team in the country yesterday. They
played ball from the first to the last inning
Bannon is proving wonderful player this
season with Columbus, his base running be-
ing phenomenal. while his batting is heavy.
1t is said that Charles Augustus Com
iskey has promised to turn Lee Tannehiu
back to Louisville the moment George Da-
Wis reports.
Billy Keller can be depended upon to hit
with the best of them before the season is
over. He has hit the ball to good advan-
tage OF late.
In Washington a fund is being raised to
provide tickets to the Fourth of July games
for all inmates of orphan asylums and all
boys of the street.
1t Is again reported that Walter Clark
son. the Harvard pitcher. will join the Chi
cago National League team at the end or
the college season.
They say the trouble with Elberfeld Is
that the cranks of Detroit touted him for
captain in 1904 and the Kid assumed the Of
flee before IL was ripe.
Lajoie has not only recovered from his
long siege Of illness, but the Cleveland fans
claim that he is playing better ball than
ever before in his career.
Barney Dreyfuss claims to have received
a tip that the Cincinnati players have nav con- on
indefinitely by spiking him.
The Brooklyn Club will, under no consid-
Grafton, waive its right to Pitchers Newton,
COrbett and Hughes, now playing In the
outlaw Pacific Coast League
Cancel of the New York Americans is
somewhat handicapped in cold weather on
account of rheumatism. He is expected to
improve when the hot season sets in.
The Philadelphia National League club
has purchased the hard-hitting outfielder.
Titus, from the Concord Club, and has
signed Pitcher Carrick. late of Toledo.
Curtis G. Redden, of Rossville, H., has
been elected captain of the University of
Michigan's football captain for next fall.
John T. Brush says he will build a new
grand stand at the Polo grounds next year
that will be the largest In the country.
Brush has fondness for building expensive
grand stands.
George Tebeau says that he has gone over
the Association circuit, as well as the West
ern circuits of the National and American
Leagues, and that good ballplayers are not
to be had at any price.
The Clevelands are physical giants. With
the bulky forms of Hickman. Lajoie, Brad
ley Walker. Wright, Dorner. Moore and
Joss looming up they are enough to over
awe an opposing team by their size alone.
President Hermann, of Cincinnati. is a
convert TO the Bancroftian doctrine that ex-
hibtion games do a team more good than
loafing and the Reds will be sent on the
transforming circuit few times during the
off days.
Fred Clarke. manager of the Pittsburg
team, and his brother, who own over 500
the aim of some oil man ere long. There is
an oil fever in Kansas. The greasy fluid
has been found not so far from Clarke S
place.