The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-16
THEY WON IN FIVE INNINGS
indianapolis and Washington Teams
Have Joint Contest Against the Rain.
Darkness Stops the Game, with the Home
Club the Lead-ChicagO Defeated in the
Ninth lnning-New York Loses.

ABOUT one thousand people saw q game YES
'eroay IN which the rain and Umpire yaleutin.
were the chief contestants. The former threat.
ened at one time TO beat the home cInb IN. of
victory aud at another time to let than losa Il
Play was stopped four times before the s.n.
"as nnaiiy stopped, which occurred in the sixth
inning. The home club star;ed ON, 1, era 49,
and bad the elements interfered not At all Nth
mo sport would probably have convinced the
representatives Of tn national capital that they
stood poor show for seventh place.
Inc threatened rain kept the attendance
down. not over thousand persons being pres-
cot The sport was not very interesting INIT,
'he sixth inning, although McGeachy in tina
second made catch In right fold that vas s,no.
ply gorgeous, and Schoeneck won unbounded
applause by slide which he performed AZ third
base IN the fourth inning. Shrevs pitched wall
until the sixth, when the slippery bal, appsar.d
70 bother him ODay played with a very lame
; tne result OF poison from the colored stock
lhes when ne had been wearing. This haudi-
capped him considerably, but he got down 20
OeLter work as the game progressed
ne tnree Washington batiers sent flies to the
ou.neIo IN the nrst inning but when Hines
stepped TO the plate be sent the new white ban
whizzing against ths right field fence and STONED
AZ second. he went to third on an out and cams
home on Seery's stinging grounder through the
hands OF the Washington second basenan.
Seery TOOK 20 sprIntlng and stole both second
and third. Mack and Bassett go. into a dispu,e
ABOUT the formers throw to third the catcher
alleging that the batter held his bat
IN the way; Bessett presently batted for a sac
rlhee ano me second run came in. In the sec
ond inning Mack, the first batter got his hasa
on balls, and reached second on Glasscock's fail
ure to bold Myers's nice throw. Donpslly sent
the ball toward Tennessee street. and McGeachy
q 81 p hr k-nI
renee, reached up one hand and caught il. tax.
ing IL right off the fence. He hurt his hand
slightly In doing so The next batter made an
out.
After the visiting team had been retired in
the third inning, Umpire Valentine surprised
everybody by calling time. There was slight
drlzz ling, icy cold rain falling coming from the
northwest, but u was not considered heavy
enough to have stopped the playing. The
ground rule 10 that spectators do get their
rain checks n three innings have been PLAYED
and President Brush did not like the idea of hav-
Ing the sport called when, from the appearance
OF the clouds, play might have continued
Tor TWO or three more innings at least before
the rainfall became heavy The umpire explaiue Ell
that he was under the impression that the home
club took the bat and that three full innings had
been PLAYED. The drizzle kept up for nearly
thirty minutes, the crowd remaining. IN the
meantime, and shouting vociferously TO ''play
ball. President Brush was trying TO arrange
matters with the Washiugtons to consent to be-
agalE: Ne agreed That IL the rain ola
not cease he would go in and play nine full inn
ings. rain or shine. and the visitors APP
peared somewhat disposed to consent 10
the idea; but finally vacant lot among the
clouds settled over the ball park. and during
the cessation the umpire called play, the Wash
ington captain protesting. Two innings and a
half were played aud Just as the last Indian
apohs batter was being retired in the fifth the
rain came again. Valentine called time and
Manager Sullivan came running forward and
exclaimed, II thought you had agreed that this
game was TO be played out IL we began again"
NO, no; that was TO be the case IL we had to
start playing IN the rain" was the reply.
An angry colloquy followed. in which the
Washington captain and manager both took q
-, but it was OK no avail. However, i,
SO ped raining again, and Valentine made the
annapolis players out OF their club
house and resume work IL WAS by this time
half s. getting dark. and many of che
spectators had left. The grounds were in bad
condition, and Shreve had little control OF the
ball Hoy got IN a hit and went TO second on wild
pitch. Here 10 began to sprinkle aud time was
again called. the visitors, OF course. protesting
but the rain stopped presently, and the Hoosiers
we're forced TO the field the third time 20 see
the visitors make run on hass on balls,
scratch hit BY OBrieu and Masks fly TO Nc
Geachy. Men second and third, with
one out and two strikes called on Nilnot, wher
the playing was stopped for the fourth and las
time. As the inning was not comDlsted the
game goes back to the fifth. Score: