Omaha daily bee., 1889-07-08
OMAHA SEVEN RUNS AHEAD.
The Result OF Yesterdays Game
With st. Joe.
1T WAS A VERY LIVELY BATTLE,
And Was Only Interrupted Long
Enough for the Presentation
OF a Gold Watch to
Joe Walsh.
Omaha is. 81. joseph y.


Despite the excessive torridity Of the
weather, there were several thousand people
at the bali park yesterday afternoon, and
yet some people say that base ball is on the
wane.
Again the attraction was the Omahas and
the ST. .osephs, and the game they put off
was of that lively. hustling, exhilerating
kind that all ardent admirers of the great
sport love TO behold.
For two hours and moro tickle fortune
toyed with the crowd. Now she raised their
hopes, now she lowered them, then up they'd
go again, only TO fall moment later, but
finally they were hoisted to stay, and the
swelling crowd shouted forth their feelings
In wild acclaim
But utrcally IL was lively BATTLE one of tho
best and most thrilling,that has be en- played
upon the grounds in a month.
How did it happenl
just wait and iii tell you.
The White SoX were first at tho bat.
Scrappy Jack thought he saw one That suited
him. lie was mistaken. 1t got DO further
than the little bird who plays short for the
Grays, and he slammed Jack out Mt first.
Cleveland, too, is summarily disposed of, but
Jakey Strauss had his ''good eye" open and
ambled TO first on four wide ones. A passed
ball let him TO third. Willis was then given
life on McGarr's bad tumble, which made
Chippey so red headed That he allowed Mes
sltt to score before he could recover himself.
Then he was hot, and the bleachers guyed
him numerically.
Walsh now stepped to the plate, but before
he could throw his Cyclopian form into q
smashing posture, Umpire Briody called
time.
Everybody wondered what was up, except
few who wondered what was down.
The denouement was quickly Forthcoming,
however, for Briody drew from the folds of
his polonaise plush case in which nestled n
handsome gold watch and chain.
1t was from Joes many warm friends, a
little token Of their appreciation of the brill
liant bail he is playing.
Happy youth
He dofed his hat again and again to the
applaudng crowd, and then the game was re-
sumed.
Joe smashed out whl2zing liner 10 center
and somebody in the stand yelled "Give him
another watch!"
OF course this made the crowd laugh.
But no more runs got in, Andrews out
retiring the side.
ST. Joe then came in for her whack at the
ball.
Cartwright made hit; Curtis got to first
on dizzy nuff by Canavan, and Ardner fol-
lowing with o safe one, big Cartleft came
toddiing home. McCarr went out, but King
and Petite Hotaling followed with singles,
and both Curtis and Ardner crossed the
rubber.
The next two men struck out, but three
runs had come in and everybody said that we
were doomed to get it in the neck again.
But everybody was mistaken.
In the third, on Walsh's dandy three
sacker, Nages base on balls and Canavan's
long drive for four pillows, the White SoX
Tailed thrice, and were one ahead.
Then maybe the crowd didn't shout.
In their half the ST. Joe's tied the score
King made single, reached second on the
return of the bail, and home on Hotaling's
drive.
In the fifth the White Sox again electrified
their friends by pounding out three more
runs, and in the sixth they scored still
another.
This gave them lead Of four runs, and
victory seemed certainty. But again in
the seventh did the sturdy, sluggng St. Joes
tie the game, for on singles by Klopf Cart
right, Curtis and McGarr and threc-sack
drive by Krieg, they piled up four runs.
1t made the people sick-two defeats ut the
hands of the Pukes in succession was more
than they could endure
But they didn't have to.
In the eighth the Omahas made up their
minds to cease monkeylng and show their
friends what little real, genuine batting
was.
Nichols began by striking out, but Messitt
got his base on an error by Ardner Then
Cleveland thought he saw one that he liked,
and he hit q smash that sent Messitt across
the plate and landed him on second. Strauss
followed with ttree-bagger, and this, to-
Adrews, and thrce-sacker by Nagle. netted
six runs and won the game beyond all dispute
or word. Then just for a cllncher, Cleve-
land knocked out Il homer in the ninth, and
as the Grays failed to do anything further,
the struggle ended with Omaha seven runs
ahead.
The score: