The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-21

MILLS sPOILs THE FIRST GAME, But
THE SECOND WAS EASY.
Indianapolis and Toledo Broke Even
Yesterday, Shar~iG's Men Taking
the Seasons Series-NOtes.

picked UP Hughey's grounder and, after
taking good. hard look at Pecord, who
was sprinting for home, deliberately threw
the ball to first. He might we'll have
thrown il over the fence. or put it in his
pocket. The truth is, Mills lost his head
completely, but that is not the slightest
excuse for his mistake. He is an old player
and the play was simple There moth
ing in it TO give him the "rattles." The
hit was sharp one. we'll and cleverly
stopped. and he had his man at the plate
easily. Murphy was waiting for the ball
and had the runner well blocked off when
Mills turned away and made the throw
that caused the mischief and. in all likeli-
hood, lost game Ii took the crowd some
moments TO recover from the shock. A hit
or an error wouldn't have been half the
blow To wind up hot game in such
fashion was the worst sort Of disappo;nt-
ment. The crowd felt as if they handn't
had a run for their money, though the
game had abOunded in brilliant catches,
principally by Henry and Gray. These
fielding features were fairly smothered by
that nightmare play of Mills. which was
about all the spectators could talk about
during the brief intermssion.
The two concluding games with Toledo
drew out over two thousand people, and
aside from the unfortunate termination of
the first contest, they were RECALLED with
some great ball playing here and there.
Gray had two catches that were simply
marvellous and set the crowd fairly wild.
One was from McFarland's bat in the
third inning of the first game, and the
other was a ball hit by Hatfield in the
fifth inning of the second game. Either
would have been good for a home run,
and the fastest outfielders in the country
never make prettier catches. Gray took
them in on the jump after a hard run to
the side, the chances appearing in both
touching the ball They were easily the
star catches OF the season, and too much
credit cannot be given this fine all-around
young player. Henry had eight put-outs in
the first game, three Of them very diff
cult chances. His return to the team was
given most of the work in the first game.
he covered lots of ground and his few
d 6ay rest sen seemed TO improve him. IN
OF line fly from Gilkss bat in the fifth
inning of the second game another
brilliant one He took the ball after
hard run and about six inches from the
ground. He also picked a foul fly almost
off the bleacher rail in the second game.
Mills made a good catch of Hughey's foul
| fly near the bleachers in the fourth inning
| or the first game. Aside from some clever
work by Miller in center and Connor's fine
| second-base play the visitors did not dis
| tinguish themselves in the field. They had
| three pretty double plays in the first game
! Their batting was weak, both Pepper and
| Phillips proving even more than ordinarily
| effective. indianapolis outbatted them both
| games, but practically lost the first by
| three successive bases ON balls in the sec
| ond inning. Umpire Peoples gave Pepper
| much the worst of it in these three in
| stances, in each OF which he had two
| strikes on his man. Then. to clap the CHI
| Peoples couldn't see it, the result being
that he hit for three bases and won the
| game He is the weakest batter in the
| League, and Pepper put them over for
| MIN, as two hands were out, but Peoples
| after Hughey had missed the ball twice
couldn't see anything but bad ones, and
| prised MS team with a long hit that did
no end of damage TO indianapolis
| THE FIRST GAME.
The first game was called promptly at 2
o'clock and was hot argument from start
| to finish. With two out Tin the opening
| inning Gray placed a bau in center out
Of everybody's reach, but was caught on
an imprudent attempt to make another
base on what he thought would be a wild
throw. INLAND backed up the throw from
the field and Gray was easily put out be-
fore he could get back to first A fine
running catch by Henry of Gilks's foul
NY marked the last half, Toledo failing to
get anybody to first base. Motz started the
second with a two-base hit to left reached
third on Mills's sacrifice and scored on
| MurphyS single to left. Roat drove a
liner near Common, which that active player
| pulled down in fine style and threw to first
IN time to double Murphy. who had started
In the Toledo half Mcfarland, INLAND and
common We're given bases on balls by the
comfort OF the crowd. Even then Sharsig's
men made game effort TO head off runs
balls would have succeeded i'm the face o1
Dig ODDS. With the corners filled Berryhill
the nsc Lebanon pa player who took MoGuckins
Pecord lifted a short fly to right, which
Henry caught on the run, and threw Sc
at third. indianapolis now had more thar
/ an: even chance, but. after Hughey hae
the umpire gave him SO much encourage
ment that he hit to left center for three
eaSes Three rGnS came in and HggheE
intield single. Gilks flew to Mccarthy
With one out in the fifth Pepper hit on
Carthy dumped the ball into right field TO
a base and Berryhill let 1t go right through
reached third cenner failed n to STOP Hen
| rvs grounder and Mccarthy scored Ora,
hit to Connor and was doubled with Henry
when Motz opened the sixth with three
base drive to right and scored on Mills
single i'm the same direction. everybody wa
| sure indianapolis had struck a winnin
gait and would settle the game right there
Murphy ny fopled out out, to Hatfield however
he was doubled at second with Shields Of
the latters hit TO Hatfield. The score wa
| tied. anyhow, and the crowd settled bac
| with more comfortable feeling than
had experienced since that unpleasant sec
ond inning.
Indianapolis could do nothing more wit
Hughey, however. and retired in order i
the last three innings. Three times di
Toledo look dangerous, and Sharsig's me
had to sit on the visitors pretty hard I
keep them down. The bases were file
again in the fourth, but no damage re
suited. Miller hit safe and stole secon
in the fifth. but the succeeding three bats
men were retired, leaving him at third
After Murphy had dropped his foul fly i
the seventh, Miller hit TO right center fo
three bases, but was caught at the plat
trying for a home run. Mcfarland got
double in the eighth and tried to score o
Connors single, but cut off at tn
plate by McCarthys good throw. McFal
land made a long slide for home, and tn
decision Questionable, Peoples calm
him out, possibly TO even up little. TC
ledo made a big kick" and the umpir
had 20 order Manager Long TO the bench
He tried 10 read the riot act to Peoples
but the latter wouldn't have il and cale
him pretty hard. In the ninth, hoWeve
Longs team won out through the Mil
episode described above. PecOrd led wit
q triple TO left, and would have been n
tired at the plate on Hughey's grounder
Mills had-but never mind Score:
IpdiananOlfS A u u II N