The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-10
HOLSTERS GOOD RECORD
JUMPED INTO FIRST PLACE WHILE
ON THE PRESENT TRIP.
Series at Columbus Before Returning
Home-Long Western Trip Ahead
Baseball Gossip.


around the Eastern crcuit-Louisville, To-
ledo and Coumbus-they had a record of
seven games won and two lost, and occu-
pied second place in the Association re- zee.
The two games lost up TO that time had
been charged against Indianapolis while
away from home, as the Hoosiers have not
lost championship game at Washington
Park this season.
The champions have played fast and con-
sistent ball and jumped into first place
while on the present trip. They have so
far won four of the six games played since
leaving home last Sunday, the record show
ing two victories at Louisville and two vic
tories and two defeats at Toledo. 1t speaks
well for the entire team to go into first
place while on the road and every day
strengthens the belief that Indianapolis has
faster team than last year. The Hoosiers
have batted and fielded well in nearly all of
the games played this season, and the work
of the pitchers has attracted great deal of
attention.
The scene of conflict shifts to-day from
Toledo to Columbus, and the Hoosfers will
begin four-day series in the Ohio capital
this afternoon. indianapolis should do as
well as split even and three out of the four
would not be surprising. Indianapolis comes
games with Toledo, and will then leave for
the first trip over the Western circuit.
Milwaukee, Kansas City, Minneapolis and
St. Paul will be visited in the order named.
The HOosiers will be away until June 5,
when the Western teams open here for
the first games in the East. Indianapolis
is scheduled at home from June to
June IS.
The friends of Sunday baseball in In
dianapolis are anxiously waiting for final
decision in the injunction case now pending
against the Indianapolis club to prevent
ii from playing Sunday baseball at home.
Attorneys for the club filed a demurrer
last week, asking that the injunction be
dismissed on the plea that the plaintiff had
no just ground for action. The attorneys
for Jones, the plaintiff, will soon file
brief when the case will be argued orally.
The injunction against the club is still in
force until final decision is given by
Judge Carter.
Pulliam, Johnson and Powers have not
yet formulated and approved the proposed
new national agreement between the two
major leagues and the National Association
of Minor Leagues, although the matter was
to have consumated before May 1. They
are evidently in no special hurry to arrange
an agreement, as there seems to be a dis
position all arooud to act fairly and in &C
cordance with the dictates of square sports
manship. Nearly every case that has call
for adjustment has been satisfactorily set
tied by mutual agreement without recourse
to a board of arbitration, and the very few
cases still pending will no doubt be likewise
amicably settled. The only case that has
affected the American Association in the
last few days was the trading of Clingman
to Cleveland by the Columbus club, but it
is believed that under national agreement
with the arbitration board knowing all the
circumstances of the Clngman affair the
Columbus clubs action would be upheld.
Since Clingman has been traded to Cleve-
land little of the inside history of the
entire affair will be interesting. Clingman
placed his name on the Milwaukee reserve
list just to help the Milwaukee club as he
had an understanding with the club owners
that he was not to be reserved at the close
of last season. This came out at the re-
cent meeting of the board of directors of
the American Association and caused the
directors to make the decision they did in
the case 1t also leaked out that there was
q private agreement between the Milwaukee
and st. Paul clubs whereby Clingman was
to be traded to st. Paul and later sent
back to Milwaukee This was done as the
Milwaukee club realized that it's claims
to Clingman would not hold, but hoped to
circumvent the matter by trading him to
st. Paul and then securing him later. But
Clingman had personal rights and being
free to sign where he pleased, he signed
q Columbus contract. When President
Hickey ordered Columbus not to play Cling
man he did not know of the private agree
ment between Milwaukee and st. Paul.
deal came to the surface the directors or
dered st. Paul TO offer Clingman a con-
tract for as much salary as he received at
Columbus or the player would be permitted
to play with Columbus. To avoid any COM
plications, however, Columbus traded
Clingman to Cleveland.
But to return to the question of nation
al agreement there is no telling when or
how some peculiar unprecedented cause
of dispute may arise which may cause fric-
ton that could only be allayed by the
strong hand of constituted authority. Then
the need of a treaty of national scope and
power would probably be sorely felt. How
ever, if the major leagues are satisfied with
the present tentative status the National
Association may well be. 1t is better to go
ahead under present conditions than to
have national agreement not entirely
fair TO all parties in interest.
Under complete caption of Baseball
Wonders the Chicago Tribune published
many interesting little ball stories, one of
them telling of the longest hit on record.
The story follows:
1.-The longest hit on record was one which
carried the ball from Staten island to Liv-
erpool, though all the wide Atlantic rolled
between.
Chicago was playing New York one day
in 80. The e-hundred-and-tenth street
park of the New York team had been ruined
by the opening of a street and temporarily
a park had been built on Staten island,
right on the shore of the bay. The center
field, in fact. was built out on boards over
the water, and the man who fell out of the
center field bleachers had nothing before
him but an ignominious death in the ocean.
with the score tie in the last inning
Jimmy Ryan came to bat. He hit the ball
a ponderouS swipe, and 1T went sailing out
over the center-field fence into the Vastly
deep.
.Ryan's hit and his ensuing home run
were forgot when, one day month later
he got letter and a small package by mail
from Liverpool The writer said he had
sailed for Europe the day of the ball game
and had been struck by the ball as he stood
on the deck of the liner. After he got to
Liverpool he read an account of the game
in the New York papers. and concluded that
he had found the missing ball. Jimmy still
has the much-traveled sphere To show as
proof of his holding the record on long hits
In the same collection is another inter-
esting story of Delehanty's wonderful bat
ting in a game in 1897. The story as related
follows.
THE most remarkable thing that ever
happened a ball field is. by common
consent. the batting streak which Ed Dele
hanty, left fielder for the Phillies, showed
in a game with the Chicago nine out on
the west side grounds in 81
"Adonis Bill Terry was pitching for Chi
cago. Altogether the Philadelphia made
just eight hits of Terry, and of the eight
Delehanty made no less than five out of
five times at bat
The first time up Delehanty lined out a
-. he 1aft Hal1 rl