Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-06
NEAT FOR THE MILWAUKEES.
First Defeat For Omaha in the
Championship Race.
BUT 1T WAS A VERY HOT GAME.
The Visitors Earn Their Three Runs
in the First Inning by Hard Hit
ting-Other Interesting
Sporting News.
Milwaukee 9, Omaha 2.

Just about as hot and close a game as one
would wish to see was played on the local
grounds yesterday between Omaha and Mil
waukee.
There was only one disagreeable feature
about it, and that was that Milwaukee won
But she had to fight all she knew how, and
Omaha died awfully hard.
The Cream City boys were more surprised
than anyone else. They knocked out the
game in the first inning. They punched their
hits, and punched hits are a demoralizing
factor in this great American game oil ours.
About one thousand people witnessed the
struggle
Burdicl pitched splendidly, all but the first
inning and how they did punch him in that.
Oh, mama
Homer too, twirled as il his life depended
on it, and Just when hit was most needed
he'd fool the Omahogs.
The game teemed with pretty pieces OF
fielding and some poor ones, too. The batting
light and base running hazardous unoer-
taking, so agglutinative was the soiteneu
soil But the strife was thrillingly uncer-
tain until Burdicl made the last out on
throw from short to first, and the audience
was worked up to pitch OF excltemehU por-
But this is the way the catastrophe over
took our pets .,
When the umpire called play Burns stepped
up to the plate, but sat down again almost Li
immediately on a weak drive to the pitcher,
who tossed him out at first. But there was
great roar went up when Sowders smashed
the ball to left field for two bags. Then
everybody cried 'ho hop' when Horner MT
Annis with the ball, and fairly yelled as II
they'd crack their throats when O'Connell
lined out safe one, on which Sowders
ambled down to third. But that ended the
fun: moment later O'Connell was caught
at second and Miller was extihBuisheu Wy
Fosters throw to first. ;,
Then the Milwaukees came IN, ana IL
seemed as if they never would go out again.
Foster set the ball rolling by foulng out 10
Burns.
iubilautly cried '.ah there ~
But Lowe he knock all the happiness out
Of the crowd.
The second ball Burdick fired at him he
caught it fair the end OF his bat ana u
went like rifle shot out, out, out, until u
went over the right field fence and actually
ricochetted from the caves of the roof OH
into the mud in the alleyway. 1t was the
longest nit made on the gro9naS l9r ,,o AZ :,
these many moons, and proud MIR. Lowe
strutted home with a at-do-you-think.o k.ol-
me smile on his face that made many of the
audience sick at the stomach.
But this was not the worst OF IL. loves s
grand drive seemed to weaken Burdlck
good right arm for moment, and Strauss
hit him safe; then he stole second by a
shave and came home on Davin's hit 1T now
came fast and furious. Masltrey raped out
safe one, Petite hit to pitcher and made
first while DAWN was being thrown out at
third, Maslxrey, of course, reaching second on
the play Just here Cusick happened along
with the fifth safe hit in this inning and
Maskrey score, what proved to be the WIN,
ming run of the game. Homer terminated
the torture by fouing out to Gastheld.
In the second Shannon obligingly flew out
to Petite, Doran was retired from second 10
first, Burdick got his base on balls, and Cast
: field was hit by pitched ball, but this avaiied
the home team nothing as Burns was easily
suuelched by Foster 10 Cusick.
OF course the Milwaukees did not do any
thing in their half, only Warner made
scratch safe hit, the last one they MADE IN
the game Just think of it. Burdick was hit
safe five times in the first, and but once In
the whole game afterwards.
In the third, after Sowders and Annls mao
been retired, O'Conuel made his second hit
and came home on -bagger by Miller.
This ended getting, for try as hard as
they might the Omahogs could not get an
other man across the plate.
Aggravatin, wasn't it,
And then 900 people went away from tht
park sad and disprited. They had seen
hot and stubborn game, but what consoatlor
is there in that when the other fellows
win it!
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