The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-04
SHREyE WINS, HEALY LOSES
Indianapolis and Pittsburg Quit Even
in Their Two LabOr-Day Contests.
Philadelphia and New FORKS Great Game
Boston Wins Twice and Chicago Once
Proctor Knott Takes Futurity Stakes.

The Indianapolis club won one game yesssr-
oay and should have won two, but it lost
courage in the second contest and allowed the
visitors to pull out a victory when ir had the
game well In hand A little more backbone on
the part Of one or two members of the team
would have saved it. The experiment Of q morn
ing game did not work very satisfactorily in the
matter Of attendance, as only 400 people saw the
forenoon contest II the afternoon. however,
there was Q crowd Of about 900, 90 that the re-
oeipss for the entire day were very good The
fact that the parade occurred in the morning at
the very time that the game was going on inter
fered considerably with the attendance. The
strset-ears were also blocked in some instances,
and those VINO wanted to go could not find trans
rortation.
of the home team. For six innings the. game
vas full of excitement. inasmuch a. the home
tam had but . slender lead. but in the fatal
seventh Calvin was touched up for three runs.
although none Of them would have counted had
Sunday accepted . chance for Q very dific1lt
fy which was offered him-so difficult that he
could not be scored N error for missing it.
After that the game was tame. Shreve pitched
finely throughout, three Of the hits made against
him being weak drives. At one or two critical
periods he did his moss effective work. vindicat-
ing Manager Spence's opinion of the young
msn-that be is brim full Of ''sand.' The Penn
syivanians did not put up quite the brilliant
fielding game that they generally do. Sunday
nuned two fies. although in both instances he
was running at full speed. aud Miller made
ssssrsl overthrows to second. The home
teams work was excellent. Dsnny's three
errors being excusabls in a great measure
There was the continual talking by the mem
'bers OF the two Teams, with occasional contribu-
tons from the bleaching boards. Miller acted
Is end man for Pittsburg, and Glasscock for
Indianapolis, with umpire Daniels as q kind Of
interlocusor. The latter N ade no attempt to
stop the talk, as both players and audi ence
seemed to be enjoying it Calvin and Bee kley
lent valuable assistance TO Miller, although the
little fellow did nos appear to need il, and Me-
Geachy and Shrevs acted Is Glasscocks lieu
tenants IL the lively war OF words When
Glssscock was thrown out at second in the SEQ
ond inning, the Smoky City battery gave him q
great turning over. Calvin shouting with AZ
fscted disgust. "Pshaw. you can't run as fast a.
lean and when Calvin, later in the game,
struck out twice, Glasscock insisted that the
umpire was not giving him IGalvinl . fair show.
Inv Dl7aCuoIe k6Rb <nA1cEo tO1kko k0tDS, anu
thu little fellow always had a reply ready for
any ora Who spoke to him. He u q great favor
lite here, or the method Of coaching which he
sometimes adopts would be aggrayating to the
crowds.
In the frstinuins Hines and Denny furnished
easy outs, aud Galvin's smils had on full, sail
until Seery made . little hit over first base.
The deet outfelder stole second, and persuaded
Miller to throw so hard that the ball was not
even stopped by Sunday; Seery speeding all the
way home. This was q cheap run, and gave the
home team q decided prestige, although the
visitors started OF ~ II they might do some
thing. Sunday got In just such . hit as Seery--
q slow fly over frat he made fully q half
dozen starts 20 steal second before the batters
would give him q chance, as they kept hitting
fouls. but when he did get away he crawled mp
out OF the dust at second base and heard Daniels
say 'safe.' There was, however, one out, and
Sunday then stole third in order to come in on a
sacrifice, but Smiths fly to Hines was too snort
for him to take the risk, and he stayed at third
and watched Becklsy send . longer fly into the
same field. After that the visitors did
until the fifth In the meantime
the tail-enders had added a run. Glssscock, in
the fourth inning, after one out, sent q liner TO
center field which Sunday mnffed after a des-
perate rue Beckley made . failure in trying
to stop McGeachy's grounder; on Schoeneck's
erouuder TO Kuehne the Pittsburgs tried to
make q double play, but Smith threw low to
first, which put Glasscock a. third and the giant
ufsb oaSeman on urst, Win hcde6cDy IorCeu
out at second. Schoensck stole to second, and
when Miller threw to Smith Glasscock came
homo. This gave the home team q lead of two
runs. In the Eth Kuehne began with @ hit and
Coleman subsequently, reached first on Dennyis
error OF judgment, but Cleveland and Calvin
struck out and Sunday few ont to Hines. The
local club made three runs ia the seventh on
hits by Sctosneck, Buckley, Shrevs ard Denny,
and Illness sacrifice. Sunday made Pittsburg's
only run in the eighth, when he beat the ball to
frat n n 0ponnSop In naflu want IN aaannA nm
9 wild pitch, to third on Miller's hit and home
on Beckley's sacrifice. Score: