Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-05-06
MlLLERS STILL UNBEATEN,
THEY uIr DANIEiS HARD AND Won
WIN Runs no SPARE.
The Hlucs Also Did Some Good batting,
hut Their spurt Came Too Late
Mnlers Again To-day -Ucnerai
sporting News.

II the ola saw that a poor beginning
makes a gond ending has any foundation
iu fact. then the Blues ought tp win the
pcuuaut Of the Western League In a WAR.
They have certainly made bad start. but
the race is very young yet and therc ia
lots of time for them To put ON steam ana
pun NJ ~ the front.
Yesterday's game with the unbcaten
Millers OF Minneapolis. was witnessed hy q
crowd estimated at 5.cdo ana ,hoy saw the
Blues badly beaten. though the score in
dcatts that the game was reasonably
close. As "a matter OF fact the Blues were
never in the game and the runs they
swelled their score with In the hnal inn
ing came too late to give them any chance
OF winning out.
Smiling, Pete Daniels and EEypian
John Healy were the opposing twrlcrs
and Healy clearly had ,hf best of the ar
gument Though the Blues found his
curves tot sixteen hits. he managed TO
keep them well scattered ana when the
Blues ueeued hits the worst they found
them exceedingly hard to get. one Of
1lealeys strong points Is his close watch
ing OF the bases. lie made the hluts mug
first base go closely that IL was haft to
get start to steal a base and once by a
quick throw he caught Hernon mapping
and shut off a good chance for the Blues
to. score one or more runs.
Daniels was pounded hard by the Millcrs.
They went at him from the start aud kept
1t up IN every inning, pll Perry Nerltn
ssemed Sc 70 nave Sm LspS''h. m sbbnGsg #
Two corlting doubes and a great home
run over into the race track with the bases
column. Werrick also hit the bail over
the fence and all his comrades fattenod
Mhlers were very, sueeessful IN punching
their hits. while the Blues had no luck at
all that way. save In the last inning.
The Blues did not play their usual clean
game in the field. they are only charged
with four errors, but they made, number
S safe R MRc RsEGs sGou9 RaSS sS%nS been 'G rangR @ @an
as a whole. they did not play winning BAH.
great one-hand catch in left field by Her
The Afllers showed up very we'll in the
as strong In the fielding as In the batting
department.. Hulen put up rafting GOOD
OF everything that came his way in center
field while Wilson caught in excellent
form and threw to bases we'll
The game was simply procession from
the, second inning, the Blues never seeming
70 be able to get into the tight after the
the seventh and eighth innings the Mllers
pounded out seven runs and eHectually
The Millers started the run-gettlng in
the second inning, when successive singles
by kg9uhne. Werrick and wilson s., sent an an
inning they added a pair on hits by
strauss; WerdSn ara RHrns Iil and LII In the
the left field fence for homer. In the
sixth Hernon's muff and Wilson's three
bagger gave another and IN the seventh
runs, They ,'cinehed" the gang in the
every corner Perry Werdcn caught the
ball or the end of his wagon tongue and
sent 1t flying over into the race track
earning ticket emitting him to one con-
tinuous passage around the bases and driv-
ing the occupants of the bases in ahead OF
him.
Nichols two haEger and ManninE's single
gave the Blues "A run IN the fourth inn
ing and in the, seventh they scored. one
more on a triple by Rupert and a single
by Mattress, who batted in very good form
yesterday. Another was made in the
eighth on an error by keuhne and hits by
Bergen and Rupert In the ninth inning
the Blues made a great rally at the bat
and at least brought their score up 10
Respectable figures. Mattress led off with
a hit and Hernon and Connaughton imme-
diately followed suit. Nchol reached first
on helders choice, while Hernon was be-
ing thrown out at the plate and Klusman
went out on a fly to center. but Manning
and bergen found the ball for successive
three base drives and Rupert followed With
4 single, the hombardment netting the
Blues i've runs.
Tho