Telegram-herald., 1890-06-29
ONLY ONE LONE HIT
Grand Rapids Shuts Out Montresl
d Second Time.
KILLEy PITCHES A GREAT CANE.
Fun of Exciting and Thrilling Ciamaxes
-oaly one EFroF Made aad oar
Boys Must Plead Gaiity ty-Goose
Esss Jntii the NIBth.

Yesterday afternoon the entire Mon
treal aggregation OF ball players were
sitting on the porch Ia front OF the
the Brldge-street House, when their
manager put IN al appearance. The
boys appeared very comfortable indeed.
They were enjoning the delightful cool
breezes which blew ever and anon, from
Grand Rapids beautiful u river. The
manager disturbed their happiness,
however, by ordering them 10 accom-
pany him 10 the Arcade, where, he said, +,
he had just made the discovery OF an
artesian we'll, the waters OF which,
when once drank, would serve as an
ellxer OF life. The players were fam
10 dlstrust INN, however, and At first
several denurred, but the word OF
the manager was all powerful
with them, and soon they were
travelling, like the company Of
Three of Kind. tOwar ds
the place of reiuyenatlon. They all
partOok OF the woudrous water. but
they did not seem 10 appreciate il.
Several began sputterng and when
declared they had been poisoned. They
were all unanimous IN declaring that il
was entirely too warm 10 play ball.
Excuses wouldn't go, however, and
soon they were all being wheeled up
the hill towards Fountain-st., park.
BY the time they arrived there the
water commenced to operate and when
they got on the grounds they felt as
gay and frisky as young colts on a new
mOwn lawn.
The result of the elixir was that
they put up one Of the finest games of
the season. There was one trouble,
however, and that was, the Grand Rap
ids boys must have visited the same
fountain and Killen have partaken OF q
double dose. The fact Is, he pitched the
game of his life. He was invlncible
and the team from the proposed an
nexatlon TO the United States only made
one poor lonely hit off his delivery. He
proved himself to be n regular snake
charmer, as Michael Jag Kelly once
called the only ClarksOn. He was q
little wild at times, but when neces-
sity required, he seemed to regain con-
troll of the ball III an instant.
The least that can be said IS that it
was grand game, full Of exciting
situations and thrilling climaxes. The
only error was made by Sippi III the
fourth inning, when he made an ex-
cusable mutf of a thrown ball, missin z
a chance for a double play. Grand
Rapids batted well, but at inopportune
times. They could not bunch their
hits. Montreal did not have many hits
10 bunch, but they came near scoring
several times. Petty made beautiful
One-handed stop Of q line ball in the
third inning. In the same inning
Andrus made as pretty play as ever
was seen IN tins city. 1t WAS 4 line
play to right field which would have
been good for two bases, and would
probably have meant a run. Andrus,
however, ran for it and captured
it with one hand. He then threw
the ball to second base, but Sppi
mutfed 1t. Andrus also did some re-
markable base-running. twice reaching
first base on infeld hits and again max
ing n clean steal of second. In the
eighth inning Whalen made hit that
came within two feet of going over the
left field fence, but as II was, he only
made single out of it. Mcmahon fol-
lOWbu MIN WIFI CIcd0 LNO-DigHeT
which struck the centre field fence, but
Grand Rapids did not score, as Sjppl
hit an easy one TO DOwie, and he was
tie third man out. FUlmer be-
came desperate in the same
inning, and thinking that
perchance he could WIN the game for
the Montreals, he attempted TO steal
from third base home. For moment
Killen stood petritied, looking at him,
but he recovered IN time To throw the
ball to Mcmahon. and Mr.. Fulmer pro-
ceeded 10 the bleachers with look of
disgust on his usual mobile counte-
nance.
Everything was gOose-eggs until the
ninth inning. 1t was then that Grand
Rapids demonstrated its ability NJ win
the game. Andrus made a hit TO the
lntield and reached first. He tired to
steal second aud the umpire motioned
for him to como IN. Burke next made
two-bagger to left field and Newman
brought in the only and winning run
with single. The score: