The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-06
Baseball Notes.

st. Paul will divide 81. 600 among the men,
bers OF its champion team.
ICY" Young's stick work this season is re-
markable.
the release by Ban Johnson of Umpire Jim
Hassett a mistake.
Pitcher Al Orth has this season played
every position on the Washington team ex-
cept catcher.
Just now Willie Keller is playing fast ball
for the Invaders. He has struck his old hit
ting clip.
John McGraw has held the New York
team in form this season better than ex-
pected.
Barney Dreyfus is said to be after Bir-
mingham's crack pitcher, Frank Smith.
Manager McAleer is trying to get Catcher
Shannon. of the Wheeling club, of the Cen
trail League.
Washington is the only club that has won
a majority of games from Boston on its own
grounds.
Mathewson's season record is nine consec-
utive victories. The Bostons broke his win
ming streak.
Fred Tenney will nave one of the lowest
fielding records among the first basemen
this season. He has made a lot of errors.
Comiskey is casting his lines for RED"
Kleinow, the Toledo backstop. The red
haired boy is a good sticker.
Joe CantillOn's Brewers are planning a
trip through the northern part of Wiscon-
sin and upper Michigan after the season
closes.
Claude Elliott will not join Cincinnati un-
til spring. The Milwaukee club balks on let
ting him go just at present.
The Boston rooters are getting UP an ex-
cursion party TO go with the Boston Ameri-
cans on the post-season tour.
Rumor has ii that Manager Barrow con-
templates three infield and two outheld
changes in his Detroit team.
Pitcher Bill Donovan is reported as being
tired of Detroit. He wants 10 get with a
team that can make a few runs behind him.
Manager Kelley is positive that Pitchers
Elliott. Kellum. Walker and Reagan, and
Catcher Foil have been added to the Reds
for next season.
Wiley Piatt. formerly of the Bostons. has
a soft snap in Lebanon, N. H., where he re-
ceives $50 a week and expenses To pitch
one game of ball.
In Young and Farrell the Bostons have
not only the oldest, but the largest battery
in the business. Between them they weigh
about 450 pounds.
the wagers he has that he will beat out the
New Yorks, but he has a good chance and
will work hard to get there.
Harry Clark. the crack third baseman of
the Dallas CTex.) club, has been sold to
the Chicago club for $1,000. Clark is to join
Comiskey's team on Sept. Z.
a report from Brooklyn says that when
Hanlon starts on the next Western trip he
Will take ltIIN NlCOONtIn dlOHS L play
right field for the Superbas.
Comiskey is unable To understand why
the Association clubs can make money pay
ing the salaries they do. he says that the
salaries of players are entirely too high.
New York critics do not expect much of
the Giants on the coming trip West. The let
down in the work of Taylor, McGinnity and
Cronin has been a sore disappointment.
Freeman and hickman are the heaviest
American League hitters. Bradley third.
4 SnVhn16 fourth Parent fifth Davis Sixrh
and Collins and Ryan tied for seventh.
Cleveiand's new south-paw pitcher. Ed
ward killian, Is a youngster who, when
signed by Manager Nicol a year ago last
spring. was working for sl-25 a day in a ma
chine shop in Racine, Wis.
Catcher Bowerman is in the hospital at
New York with a crushed bone in his leg.
The injury was caused by a curved ball
pitched in Boston by Leon Ames. the like
OF which has never before been seen.
A prominent specialist on nervous dis
eases has assured Manager McGraw that
his Giants have gone stale and need a rest.
McGraw Is now figuring how TO sandwich
in a few days in the woods for his boys.
The real cause of Catcher O'Connor's fric-
tion with Manager Clark Griffith, of the
New York Americans, Is said 10 have been
his failure To keep himself in condition.
Manager Joe Kelley attributes Cincinnatis
failure 10 stand high In the race TO the de-
feats administered by Pittsburg and st.
bette noir" 10 the Reds.
Andrews. an infieioer. signed by the Chi
cago Americans, but who did not get "A
trial. has been signed by Strobel, and
farmed To Decatur. Ill. Andrews formerly
played with Ionia, Mich.
II there are any outfielders contemplated
for the Cincinnati try-out class for this fall
or next spring. their names have not been
! That gentleman Is Of the opinion that the