The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-13
A BRILLIANT DOUBLE PLAY.
1t Also Saved "a Game-Fine Work In
the Box.

Those Milwaukee cripples made Indian
apolis play bah every minute of the time
yesterday afternoon. 1t took the fastest
sort of fielding to beat them out, and both
games abounded in brilliant plays They
were exciting from start to finish, and
there was never time when the result
was not in doubt. Better sport has never
been witnessed on the grounds, and the
1000 people present will talk about these
games for the next few days at least.
In the first game it was toss-up be-
tween Fisher and Barnes, but the Indian
apolis man had better staying qualities.
Still the little fellow stuck right to his
task, and Wiley Davis had to be called on
for hit in the ninth in order to keep the
game from going by the board. He was
equal to the occasion, and Wood then came
nobly to the rescue with a two-bagger that
tied the score. The Brewers were lucky in
pulling down line hits from Indianapolis
bats. 1t was not all luck either for some
of those liners were vicious drives. Hogan
and Shiebeck had a couple of fine plays.
and the latter led his team at the bat.
Fisher received errorless support and
plenty of it. He was a little wild in the
opening inning, and the visitors, getting
him in hole, hit him for two of their
three runs. After that they had so much
trouble finding his curves that they could
get but one more run. Watkins's men have
always found Fred Barnes d puzzle, and
this game was no exception. His support
was first-class, the two Milwaukee errors
cutting no figure in the result. 1t was the
two bases on balls that cost the game for
Barnes.
For who pounded Friday for
twenty-five hits, Rettger, who pitched the
second game yesterday, seemed remark
ably fresh. In fact, he was so effective
that he came about as close as Barnes to
beating Indianapolis out of a game Cross
pitched a strong, steady game, and
very effective at several critical stages.
The great, big luminous feature of this
game was the double play by Shiebeck,
Wood and Motz, with the bases full and
nobody out. This play undoubtedly saved
the day. There was unbounded enthusi-
asm when the side retired without
run when the chances were a hundred to
that Milwaukee would score. While
the fielding was not quite as good in a gen.
eral sense as that of the opening struggle,
it was brilliant in spots and kept the crowd
cheering much of the time
THE FIRST GAME.
Shannon waited for four bad balls and
thus opened the first game auspiciously.
Mccarthy sacrificed and Hogriever went
out from third to first. Motz hit to center
IOr d DdSe, ana shannon came nome. Snle-
beck got single to right, but Stewart
fouled to Stafford The Brewers got
this run back and one more besides. Nc
Hale struck out. but Weavers single to
right, Hartmans triple to center and Stat
ford's single in the same direction earned
two Stafford was caught stealing
second. Glenalvin reached first balls,
but White retired the side from Stewart
to Motz.
The faces of the ''rooters'' heightened as
inning after inning went by and Indian
apolls tailed to score. Meanwhile MilWau-
kee added another in the fifth, Barnes hit
ting to right for three bases, and scoring
on McHale,s fly to Hogan. good catch. by
the way. Weaver got hit to left, but was
doubled with Hartman on the latter's fly
to Hogrieyer, a clever play on the right
gloomy in the eighth when Hogan came up
he beat out slow grounder, however, and
stole second. STAFFORD made a fine catch of
Fishers liner. and Shannon flew to White
Mccarthy hit safe to center, and Hogan
scored. Mac stole second, but was left by
Hogrievers fly to Glenalvin. This was not
quite enough to reach, so with out in
the ninth Shiebecks hit to left for a base,
and O'Day nearly caused riot by calling
him out at second, where he had gone on
a tumble by White of the ball. He made
the base all right by good slide but O'Day
said he out, and both the crowd and
the team were disgusted Shiebeck was
naturally mad all through, and let the UNI
Davis to bat for Stewart, and he hit safe
to center. When Wood followed with a
IWO-DdSSer TO rlEnt the crowd went WIG,
for Davis came in and the score was tied.
Hogan flew to White.
1t was not until the eleventh that Ind-
annapolis could win out. Then Hogriever
started off with base on balls, and MOTIFS
clever Sacrifie moved him to second. He
stole third, and came home on Shiebeek's
grounder to Glenaivin which the latter
could not get to the plate in time to head
off the run: Shiebeck was caught stealing
second Williams, who had taken SHE
beck's place at third when the latter moved
over to second, owing to Stewards retire
ment in the ninth, hit safe to left but
Wood went out on a grounder to Stafford.
This one run was just enough to win the
game. With two out in the eleventh Glen
alvin got a hit but Williams stopped
Whites grounder and threw Glen out at
second, ending it. Score:
Indianapolis. ABB. r. H. 0. A. E.
Shannon, S ............ L o 8 O