The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-09-14
HITS CAME VERY EASY
INDIANAPOLIS OWN KANSAS CITY
IN A sLUGGING MATCH.
ly, but Clean Field Work at Crit
zeal Times Saves the Day.

eryDOuy TOOK a shy at the Dali except
Cross. Westlake and Wentz- Some of them
got more than their share-Hastings, for
instance. piling up five, while Phillips and
Donohue followed him closely with four
each. 1t was nothing 10 make three hits
yesterday. In fact. they were SO common
that at least one hit was expected of
everyone, and Cross four strike-outs
stood solitary and alone like a desert in
an oasis of singles, doubles and triples.
Cross was not touched up so hard in the
earlier portions of the game, and his good
support for the first six innings kept the
Kansas City runs down to three. Hastings
also kept the hits pretty we'll scattered for
five innings, but in the sixth Indianapolis
cut loose on him and resumed the opera
ton in the ninth, which was the banner
inning of the day so far as smuggling went.
There were several brilliant fielding feat
ures in the contest, Gray having one of
his sensational jumping catches of a line
fly from Hernon's bat in the fifth, and
Nichols shutting off several drives that
looked safe. one from McCarthy's bat in
the third being an especially brilliant
catch. Despite his two errors, Roat played
a pretty game and kept his end of the
hitting well up. Henry was taken sick in
the first inning and Phillips took his place
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Wentz was ordered from the game by
umpire Sheridan In the seventh inning be-
cause of persistent kicking on a decision
at second whereby Nichols was declared
out. WentZ had forced Nichols by hitting
to Roat, and came pretty near being doub-
led himself on the play. 1t was a sense
less kick that he made, because Nichols
was easily out. He kept up his talk a
little too long and Sheridan stopped the
game and told Manning to put a man In
his place at once. This Manning refused
to do. and the umpire called for a watch,
whereat the crowd began to boot and howl,
several individuals shouting that Indianap-
oils had had enough of that sort Of thing.
Before the time had expired, however,
Manning's good sense came to the rescue
and he sent Darby in to take the place
of the Objectionable second baseman. The
confusion incident to this row and subse-
quent change of players appeared to rattle
the Indianapolis men more than it did the
visitors. for Mccarthy and Gray gave an
other exhibition of letting a fly ball fall
between them in left center, which either
one could easily nave caught. This blum
der resulted in the two runs scored in that
inning.
second and Boards bad throw to first, in
an effort to double Mills, who had hit to
Wentz and forced Motz at second, resulted
III IL Jail kOlUS luIOuSn tie Dl6dCuGTS
and in letting Mills make the circuit on
the error. This was a starter for Indian
the opening inning on hits by Stallings.
Beard and Klusman, a sacrifice and Nc
Carthy's bad throw to the plate. Indian
a base on balls and was batted around
by Phillips and Gray. In the third Shar-
his single to left q a steal and shieids'ss safe
hit to right. They added another in the
fifth on MeCarthy's single to left and clean
hits by MotZ and Mills. In the last half
Kansas City filled the bases on successive
singles by Beard, Klusman and Nichols.
The Quilted work was exceptionally clean
just at this stage or the hits would have
been more disastrous. With nobody out
and the bases full, Manning-s men were
in high feather, but they only secured one
of Hernon's drive. which allowed Beard
to score. Wentz flew out to Roat and Dom
In the sixth Roat led off with a beautiful
drive to right center for three bases, and
S shleias fol ssUfinE with hfm a s shiaids in stole tas same asee
ond and Cross struck out, but Mccarthy
bit along the right foul line for three
self on Phillips's. scratch hit TO Wentz,
who slipped and fell while trying to field
grounder. but Motz hit to Beard and Was
the seventh Roat's miss of Klusman's
and singles by Donohue and Hastings gave
Kansas City two runs. The score was
| close enough TO make IL very interesting
when the ninth. opened. Motz led off with
a single to right and Mills followed with
one in the same direction, which Darby.
who was playing the fled while Stallings
covered second In VENTS place, let get
by him. Westlake reached first on balls
and Roat followed with a double to left
center. Shields flew to Nichols and Cross
struck out, but Mccarthy hit safe to CEN
ter and Phillips tonDed the inning with a.
hard hit to far right field for a home run.
The ball travelled so fast tina Darby failed to
see Ii and was a few seconds late in get
ting started. All this stick work resulted
in six runs, five of them earned, and all
needed, as was subsequently, shown. Gray
was retired at first and the visitors came
up or their half with eight TO tie and
nine to win. 1t looked like a hopeless
case. but they went to work with a will.
Hernon started things going with a sin
gle to left. Darby flew to Roat, but Don
ohue and Hastings cracked out singles,
Stalings a triple to right center and Niles
a single. With four runs in, only one out
and Beard at bat, the crowd began to
feel a bit nervous, but he went out on a
high fly to Mills and everything appeared
TO be comfortable once more. There was
a shout of dismay. however. when Klus-
man drove the ball to right field for three
bases, sending Niles home and coming in
himself a moment later on Roat's wide
this time Manning's men were yelling like
Indians. but 1t was no use. for Hernon hit
to Mills and was thrown out at first, end
ing the game. The attendance was 400.
Score:
indianapolis. ALB. r. H. o. A. F..
Mccarthy, l.....-...5 0 1
Henry q q q n n