Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-21
sioux City O, Omaha s.

oh my oh mel oh my oh mel
Three straight, and Sioux City got every
one of them.
Who would have believed such thing
possible a week agol
And then, worse, and more of it. yester
days game dumps the White Sox back to
third place, with two more strong teams to
tackle this week.
Verify, Omaha's lot is far from happy
one.
But she ought to have had yesterdays
game, rocky as it was but young Mr..
Proesser thought he was pitching against
some eleemosynary institution, and he gave
them everything they asked, and more too.
And that was the camel
Eight bases on balls and one base for
hitting a batter, is the way Proesser signal
lZed his debut.
1t is doubtful whether he will receive an
encore.
Of course he tried hard enough, and the
corn huskers found it exceedingly difficult to
hit hlm. That was probably however, be.
cause their bats weren't long enough.
But then you can't most always sometimes
tell, to use quotation from Gladstone.
The only felictous feature about the strug-
gle was the fact that there were only few
hundred of the most devoted fans on haad to
witness the cataclysm.
That last word was lasooed from patent
medicine advertisement, and it must mean
something awful.
Yes, there were but few there but oh
dear weren't they sOrel
1t was bad enough to see Omaha lose, but
1t was worse TO see her lose through the
wildness of her pitcher, after she had secured
what should have been a winning lead.
So it can not be wondered at that the spec
tators were sore.
But let's get right down to business and
get rid of this distasteful task
Neither side scored in the initial innings,
although the Huskers came within the shake
of a lambs tail of doing it.
1t only required four pitched balls to settle
OmahaS hash. Strauss went out from Burke
to Powell, Grover from Bradley to Powell
and Cooney on q high foul to Powell.
So Powell for a few minutes was quite
conspicuous, wasn't he!
Monkey Cline then came forward. Cline
is q dandy, and it's worth the price of ad-
mission to watch him through game.
Captain Brosnan says there's nothing
Cline can't do.
He can tie himself in a running moose
and spin around on the plate like whirl gig
on his chin.
He can run around the bases in four
seconds, jump over the grand stand, and
crawl faster than horse can trou.
He can throw Muldoon or Tom Cannon in
seventeen seconds by his Waterbury watch,
and make John l.. Sullivan jump out of u
four-story window with slxounce gloves.
He can lift L., 900 pounds, throw street
car over the new BEE building, ana stand
on his head for twenty four hours.
But Monk can't do one thing, and that is,
make u run when he most wants to.
Just to try him, yesterday, PrOesser pro-
ceeded to give him his base on four bad
balls.
BY elegant sprnting he stole second, and
went to third on wild pitch.
But there he stuck, for Glenn, Powell and
Genins were retired in quick succession.
Monk beat his breast and tore his hair as
he went doggedly out into the fields.
Omaha gathered in a couple of runs in the
second, and the crowd cheered tumultuously
1t happened thusly:
Crooks flew out to Genins, but Messitt was
given a life by Webbers bad juggle. On
Proesser's out from Burke to Powell,
Scrappy Jack nipped second, and on Walsh 8
corking single he scored, Joe taking second
on the throw in. Canavan went out and the
Huskers took their turn
There was some danger right here that
BrOsnan would fail to reach first; so Mr.
Proesser smashed him with the ball. He
was forced out by Burke. Bradley took his
base on balls and Crotty. got there on an
error by Proesser.
Things began to look delirlous. The bases
were full,
A hit wonld do the business and Webber
made it, way out to Messitts territory.
1t was just simply disgusting to see the In
dams scamperlug around the bases.
Burke crosses the plate, and so does Brad
No. he didn't, either. He makes long
dive for 1t and slides about twelve yards on
his wisnbone, and Cooney breaks his yertebra
with the ball
Messitt had got it in by magnificent
throw, and they only made one run after all.
Nobody cared for that, for the Monkey i'm
mediately retired the side on high foul to
Canavan.
"Good eye, Wallyl" cried Crooks, as An
drews took his position at the bat.
Then before anybody could realize it, biff
the big first basemans stick had collided
with the anhpra and ha tho
cushion before the ubiquitous Monkey could
return the ball.
"Welli well wellr' came those greasy
old words from Crooks ruby lips, as the up
roar subsidized
But did you ever notice how a little hitting
is catching.
Well. it's SO; let one man make fine
drive, and set the beachers to howling, and
the next man is liable to step up and do the
same
That's what the count did, only more of it,
No two-bagger for him; so he just smashed
outa home, and the small but select audience
got right up and yelled
No moro runs were made until the seventh
and Sioux City made three!
This tied the game, and everybody was
unhappy
Genins and Brosnan took their bases on
balls, and Burke lined out three-bagger.
This must be told in few words.
The next three men, Bradley, CroLty ant
Webber, went out iE order, Burke crossini
The White Sox drew a blank in the eighth
but the Corn Huskers made tally and tool
the ieadi -
After Burke's retirement Bradley reached
hrst on another error by Proesser, went u
secead on Crotty's sacrifice and Tailed or
Webber's hit. The Monkey ended the in
ming.
The Onahas came in for their last dast
out of the box, and by good, hard playing
they tied the score.
Crooks got his base on balls, stole second
and scored on Joe Wash's second splendiC
baser, Messitt and Proesser having been ex
tinguished In the meantime.
Walsh also stole second. but he was left
Jimmie Canavan going out on long fly Il
Cline.
or course this put everybody in a goot
humor again, anu they hurrahed right mer
gily.
Little did that devoted crowd suspect wha
rude shock their iubilation was SO soon L
receive.
The Corn Huskers very calmly YER
coolly, very deliberately went IN 10 make
three straight and they did it, too.
Glenn led of with hit and went to secon
on Powelfs out. Then Genins scratched on
q safe one and the blonde was on third.
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