The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-05-09
How the Clubs stand.
COLUMBUS, o; INDIANAPOLIS, 8.
Great Wonder That the McKinleyites
Didn't Make More Runs.

There have been some pretty yellow" ball
games seen here in years gone by, but that
put up by the Indianapolis team yesterday
was about the sloppiest on record. That
beautiful silk pennant hung dejectedly from
its staff as IL ashamed of its defenders.
There was scarcely redeeming feature in
the indianapolis portion of the game, unless
II was the good back-stop work of Buckley
and Hogriever's hitting. Wood tried to play
third and made a mess of it generally. He
was not the only one. The rest OF the in
field slammed the ball about in reckless
fashion, and Motz had all sorts of trouble.
He couldn't pick up short-bound throws, nor
could he stop grounders. 1t was night
mare all through, and twelve hundred peo-
pie left the grounds disgusted with base
ball. Hansen pitched pretty fair ball at the
start, but his support was 50 utterly
wretched that he evidently became discour-
aged, and in the sixth inning the visitors
pounded him very hard. The only wonder
is that with their seventeen hits and the
nine Indianapolis errors they were able to
score but nine runs.
Boswell, the hungry-looking reminder Of
old Minneapolis Parvin Of "a memory,
had the champions in trance after the
first inning. Those bats. once so much
feared. were powerless to do the damage
which last year made Indianapolis the heav-
iest-htting team in the Western League.
The crowd waited for the batting rally that
never came, and meantime was RECALLED
with job lot of the rankest errors mag
Unable. - IS
From the way Columbus played ball 1t
was quite evident that Tom LOTUS had put
the spurs in his men after Thursdays game.
miss Mss anything. All they had to do was to
shut their eyes and stick out a hand and
the ball lodged In the right spot. Bobby
Wheelock made some sensational stops. as
did Cantillon. and the playing of this pair
was decidedly the feature of the game. The
outfield work was good In fact, Boswell
preciate the fact.
1t looked as If the champions were going
to chase him out of the box at the outset,
for Hogriever. Roat and Mccarthy all hit
safe in the first inning. two earned runs re-
suiting. Mccarthy stole second, and tried
for third. but was nipped; Stewart flew 70
Cantilion and Motz struck out. Watkins's
men scored but once more during the game,
and that was in the seventh, when, with
two out. Hansen hit for a base and was
batted around by Hogriever's single to
right and Roat's double to left. Mccarthy
headed a hot one for right, of which Can
tillon made. great stop and saved two
MOTIFS tumble let Butler to first in the
Columbus half. and Cantillon followed with
a single, which he tried to scratch into a
double, but McCarthy's quick work nailed
him at second. Sharpe flew to Stewart but
HernOn's single to center scored Butler.
Browning hit to right for base, but Will
son ended the inning from Hansen to Motz.
After Mccarthy had caught Wheelock's fly
in the second Wood dropped an easy foul
| from McCormacks bat. and Roat gave him
a second life right afterwards by throwing
his grounder low. to first. Boswell forced
| him out at second, and Butler should have
retired the side, but Stewart threw badly to
| first Then Cantillon hit down in Woods
vicinity, and Boswell, crossing in front of
! the third baseman, ratified him so that ev-
1 erbody was safe. Sharpe followed with a
| safe hit to right, which Hogriever fumbled
| long enough to let two runs in. instead of
Boswells alone, as would have been the
| case had the ball been cleanly handled.
Boswelrs single, Buffers bunt nit, Cantil-
| Ions sacrifice and MOTIFS tumble gave CO.
| lumbus another run In the fourth In the
sixth the visitors had quite a merry time
with Hansen's curves. Mccormack and
/ Boswell hit for a base each, Butler to the
| fly to left, which Mccarthy misjudged. 1t
| was good for two bases. With three runs In
| there was a lull. Sharpe and Hernon flying
1 to Roat and Mccarthy Browning then hit
| TO left for two bases. scoring Cantillon.
| Wilson flew to Mccarthy. Butler raped
out a safe one in the eighth. but was caught
asleep at first by Hansen. Cantillon hit to
! right center for home run. Sharpe fouled
| TO Wood. Hernon and Browning got sin
| giles, but were left by Wilson's fly to Stew
art.
Buckley started the ninth with a pretty
| hit to left. Hernon made good catch of
| Hcgan's fly. Hansen got base on balls.
| Mccormack dropped Hogrievers easy fly,
| but ii made no difference, Of course, the
| batter being out under the rules, as first
| and second were occupied. Roat then flew
| to Hernon, and the game was over. Score: