Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-06-14
AN EVEN BREAK AT DETROIT.
BLUES DEFEAT THE WOLVERINES
BY A SCORE OF IL TO o.
GBrownie" Foreman Joins the Blues
and Pitches Pretty Fair BaIl-The
Blues Got into the Hunt
Early in the Game.

Detroit, Mich, June 13.-(special) De-
troit and Kansas City played a champion
ship game at Mount Clemens to-day. the
wolverines were defeated by the score OF
Y to 9. The Allen contingent outnelded
the Blue aggregation. but fell short on
hitting and base running.
Noodles" Hahn, the clever southpaddle.
pitched a game that abounded in good and
bad points. He struck out seven men. but
gave eight bases on balls, and was hit hard
at critical moments. He was slugged for
twelve hits, three Of them doubles.
Foreman Joined the Kansas City team to-
day and pitched a really excellent game.
He helded his position better than usual.
and, although he was wild in the first three
rounds, he settled down thereafter and kept
the local crew guessing.
With the bases full and one out in the
first inning Hahn struck out Gettinger.
Then Lake unfurled a double, scoring two
runs. Bannon was passed to first, and
Menefee spanked the ball for two clean
bases and three more runs were in
The Wolverines scored twice in the sec
ond. Burnett went to first on Delehantys
wild throw, and to second on a wild pitch.
Whistler and Steinfeldt walked two runs
coming in on Steinfeldt's force out at sec
ond and D~elehanty's throw into the bleach
er TO head off Allen, who attempted later
TO score on Hahn's short fly to right, but
was thrown out on a beautiful throw by
Gettinger to Lake, who tagged Allen at
the plate.
Detroit went at Brownie savagely IN the
third. o'Rourke started the trouble by fir
ing Hines grounder wide to first. Hines
started 70 second on NiGhofs g@roGnder:
badly TO Con~naughton, who covered the
sack. frost famed and Dungan's bald:
headed dome Of thought obstructed a wild
mitch filing the bases That unnerEe0
Foreman and he allowed Burnett, Whistler
and Steinfeldt to dislocate his curves. for
When the smoke of battle cleared away
Detroit had scored FIVE times.
Another tally was captured by Detroit
in the fifth. Dungan singled, and Foreman
fielded Burnett's %grounder to second. but
DUNCAN beat it there. Whistler rolled the
ball to Foreman, who passed IT to O'Rourke
was caught OF second and run down.
Steinfeldt hit for two bases, scoring Whist
Ter.
The Cowboys began to dissect Hahn's
curves in their half. and he became as
neglected to cover first on C~onnaughton's
grounder. O'Rourke came In on a wild
pp pitch h;nI Hahn T HTto up into the air; Bases
passed ball, hits by Lake and Bannon, and
Menefee's fly sent in. three more runs, Civ
ing the Cowboys a lead of one rum. TIL
C~owpunchers scored again in the sixth or
D~elehanty's single, Connaughton's sacrifice
and GettlngerS ny to right
In the eighth Nichol swung at wide ones
and was. called out. Hines tried to score
on Trosts two sacker into left, but found
the ball there ahead of him. He would
have scored a minute later on Dungan's
swat with frost, which Gettinger messed.
Burnett hit, but Whistler flew out.
With two men out in the eighth the men
from beyond the Kaw added two more
runs as a matter of safety. on singles by
McVicker, GetSinger and Lake
The Blues injected considerable ginger
IN their work to-day and were In the hunt
from the first to the last inning. The
score: