The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-02
won FIVE OUT OF SIX
HOLSTERS MADE A GOOD RECORD In
GAMES LAST WEEK.
st. Paul Comes This week for Five
Games I'm Four Days-General
Baseball Gossip and Notes.

The indianapolis team, since returning
home has won five out of six games, three
from Kansas City and two out of three
from Milwaukee. The record should have
been six straight, but Foreman ruled other
wise and prevented the Hoosiers from win
ming last Friday. Manager Watkins said
his team would try to win four out of five
but the record it has made so far Is even
better. 1t is very encouraging to the spec
tators to see the manner in which the team
fights for every game and this is half the
battle.
The Hoosiers will have another hard
series the first of this week when they meet
st. Paul, the leaders of the American AS
sociation. ST. Paul is scheduled here for
four days and five games will be played, a
double header being arranged for either
Wednesday or Thursday. Following ST.
Paul Minneapolis will be the attraction the
last two Gays of the week.
he game tomorrow afternoon will be
called at 3:45. Newlin will do the pitch
ing for Indianapolis. Chech will PROBABLY
pitch for st. Paul
The attendance yesterday was the largest
of the season. 1t will take few crowds
like that. however, to pay the Indianapolis
ciup lOSSeS Oh the last w eStern trip. Inc
local club did not get enough as its share
OF the receipts IN the Western towns to pay
hotel bills and railroad fares and the SAL
aries had to be paid out of the treasury.
1t might be good idea for I. j. Hickey,
president of the American Association, to
adopt a new plan regarding umpires for
next season. The association cities have
been afflicted with some very bad umpiring
this season and it Is injurious to attend
ance. The work of Umpire r brennan In
olanapollS last week oisgusted the fans
even more than poor playing by the home
team would do President Hickey caused
the best umpire in the association, Haskell,
to resign by imposing fine on him when
he was sick in Columbus. Next season the
worthy ASSOCIATION president should secure
the best talent to ofticlate at games and
require each of them to furnish a diploma
from a gold-cure college showing that he
is immune from the desire TO daily with
the destructive amber liquid or rye juice.
1t appears that the Players Protective
Association is beyond the hope of resurrec-
ton, as less than dozen delegates at
tended the recent meeting in New York
called by Secretary Harry Davis. In fact,
the association may be dead now officially
for all President Tom Daily knows He
was perhaps more surprised than anybody
else over the fizzie In New York last SUM-
day. Il would not be surprised to see the
organization fall through" said he to-
day. "A great many of the players seem to
care naught for the organization. The
American League players displayed the
greatest concern, however l had heard
them talk and know how many of them felt
about keeping the organization going.
suppose Secretary Harry Davis will in
form me of the exact situation by letter
of ha rla rr1aV fool f1xxr
is no occasion for organization now, but
may be later" Mr.. Daily says there is sew
eral hundred dollars in the treasury and
there is no mystery about funds, as has
been suggested.
The recent meeting of the National League
and the reports that another war seemed
imminent had one bad effect and there
might have been trouble had it not reached
the ears of the club owners that the play
ers, anticipating another war, were active
ly engaged in laying their plans not only
to continue the big salaries they are now
drawing, but some of them even were or
the verge of demanding greater salaries
than they now draw. II the players had
only played their cards silently there might
have been longer period of wartime
prosperity. but they could not keep quiet
and have thus lost whatever chance there
might have been TO keep the owners OF
both leagues in a battle with each other
On the other hand, the magnates will agree
upon some saary-cutting plan. 1t is claimed
that the first move tor a meeting on the
salary question came from Ban Johnson
and this is no great surprise, for the rea-
son that the American League is carrying
more high-priced players than the National
and 1t is a well-known fact that but few
of the American League clubs are making
any money this season. The club owners
have not been getting what they consider
g.. t..xsx for h. hax- hnx-- -.
vested in the game and 1t has been claimed
all along by them that the players are the
only ones making any money.
That the scheme that was Matched up in
New York last winter for twelve-clut
league, with consolidation of interests, is
not dead, but sleeping, was shown during
the last few days, when a story was pub
lished in the East purporting to come from
Stanley Robson, of the st. Louis National
club. A story from ST. Louis had beer
printed I'm which il was stated that there
was a probability of the consolidation OF
the two Mound City teams because the
owners of both clubs realized that two
teams would not pay in that town. After
denying the truth of the report, Robson
said that to his notion the twelve-clut
league, with a consolidation of interests in
the towns where there are conflicting clubs
is only a matter of time, but IL was moi
now. He admitted that the plan was under
con<ideI alton by the majority of the ciut
owners in both leagues. and that sooner oil
later move in that line would be made
To his mind there was but one town in the
country that could properly support two
clubs, and that was New York. and ever
that was still a problem The experiment
in attempting TO make two clubs pay In one
town has been costly one for certain pro
moterS, who are ready 10 cry quits. That
there are stirring times ahead for botl
the club owner and the player seems GER
tain. and the politics of the game will b,
pushed to their limit during the next month
With the possibility of a twelve-club league
will come fight for the leadership of th'
big league. and the war will be merry one
1t is not fair to saddle indirect blame