The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-06
A CLOSE GAME
MINNEAPOLIS shifts PITCHERS AND
WINS OUT BY A RUN.
Cross Effective and His support Good,
but indianapolis Fails to Reach
Results in Other Cities.

The Indianapolis team came back from
Milwaukee yesterday and ran against an
other snag from the Northwest. The Min
neapolis club is a very different organiza-
ton from that which played here during the
exhibition season The heavy hitters started
out as IL they were going to make the game
safe in the early innings. but they found
Cross a pretty hard pitcher to locate, and
the result was that it was anybody's game
up to the finish. The hits and errors were
about evenly divided, and the fielding of
both teams was, for the most part, bril-
liant. A wise move by the visitors in the
seventh inning probably saved the day for
them, Duryea had been touched up pretty
hard In that inning and showed signs Of
going TO pieces. whereupon they took him
out and put in a long, lean, hungry look
ing pitcher named Parvin, who had so
much speed and SO many curves that the
Indianapolis men failed TO gauge him.
Even Moez succumbed to this ~attenuated
wonders superior prowess in the box, and
when Motz strikes out there isn't much
hope for the rest OF the team. Parvin has
such a peculiar hardworking sort of de-
livery that. as one of the spectators put it,
he seemed at times about to fasten himself
to the ball and go over the plate with it.
Henry had a great catch in the second,
when he picked Visner's terrific drive al
most off the clubhouse. Leidy and Dali
rymple were also on hand with some SUI
perior work in this line. while Burns. the
fielder Minneapolis just secured from De-
troit. spoiled a beautiful hit from Gray's
bat in the sixth by a wonderful running
catch. Hulen's work at short was very
fine. and, in fact. the fielding all around
was good to look at.
Indianapolis should have had more than
one run in the first, for. after Dalrymple
had gone out, Murphy and Gray hit safe,
but the former was caught at third on a
laundering attempt to steal. Motz went to
first on balls and Leidy's single to center
sent Gray in. but Mills flew to Crooks. re-
firing the side. In the last half the visitors
scored three on Hulen's base on balls, sin
giles by Crooks. Hines and Burns, a life
and a sacrifice. Burns's hit was a scratch,
Cross got it. but slipped and fell before he
could field it to first. In the second, two
bases IN balls and singles by Hulen and
Werden yielded two more. This and the
next inning were marked by the unpleasant
frequency Of stolen bases, caused mainly
by Cross's slow delivery. He was very eff
~fective, however, striking out both Hines
and Burns.
In the third inning Wilson's single, a
stolen base and Visner's safe hit gave Min
neapolis another run. With this lead to
overcome, Indianapolis started in and made
two runs in the fourth on bases on balls
to Leidy, Henry, Dalrymple and Murphy,
and a single by Cross. Duryea was very
wild in this inning, and Dalrymple and
Murphy were hit by the fourth bad ball.
The latter had his hand hurt and retired
from the game, Camp going to short ana
Westlake behind the bat.
In the fifth inning Motz and Mills hit
safe, and, aided by Leidy's sacrifice, a run
was scored. The prospects for several more
seemed good, but Burns and Hines pulled
down long flies. interfering with the pro-
gramme. In the seventh inning Sharsig's
men hit Duryea to good advantage and
pulled alongside the visitors. tying the
score. Motz led of with a single to- center
and kept right on to second, reaching the
ball. Leidy sacrificed, but Mills hit to right
for three bases, scoring MotZ. Henry dis
appointed everybody by fouling out, but
Westlake drove in the tie run with a nice
single to center. He was forced out by
Cross hit to short. In the last half Wer-
denis two-bagger to the left field fence,
Burns's sacrifice and Wilson's single to
center earned the visitors what proved to
be the winning run. They were foxy"
pitchers on the HoosierS, and by substitute
ing Parvin for Duryea BANKED the home
team in the last two innings and won the
game. The attendance was 800. Score: