The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-03
HOW the clubs stand.
HIT FOR THIRTY-THREE BASES.
Terrific Drubbing Given keener in
the First Gnme.

Terrific Drubbing Given keener in
the First Game.
Five hours of baseball is a little too much
for one afternoon but the big crowd stuck
it out and would have been willing to stay
on till dark had indianapolis managed to
tie that score in the last game. Between
four and five thousand people turned out
for the first double-header of the season.
AS they poured through the gates along
toward the time for calling the first game
Tom Lotus sighed and said What a base
ball town this is" The three Indianapolis
games at Columbus were witnessed by
f1fty-fve hundred people. indianapolis
would turn out double that many on three
similar days. Watkins's men deserve great
credit for the showing they made on the
trip and as a general thing one game day
is about all they should be expected to
win. Yesterday, however, they should have
taken them both. They missed chance after
chance to win that second game and really
presented it to the Columbus men, who
We're not entitled to it.
The first game was a long drawn-out af-
fair, its only merit being the fact that In
dianapolis won. Keener was given a ter
rifle drubbing being hit for a total of
thirty-three bases and twelve earned runs.
Both sides played sloppy ball. Mcfarland
misjudged a fly that should have been an
easy out and gave Crooks a home run.
Deadly missed Franks line fly and it went
for three bases. These mistakes do not
appear in the score, as they were errors of
judgment merely, but they cost numerous
runs, which fortunately could we'll be
spared in that first game McGarr played
like a man in a trance at several stages
Af We niaI Ixr
brilliant fielding on the part of either team,
with the exception of some fast and very
pretty double plays by Watkins's men.
FOREMAN VERY WILD
Foreman so wild in the second inning
that Goar went into the box in the third
and held the Ohio delegation down in good
style.
Hogriever walked as a starter and then
the fun began. 1t fairly rained base hits
Gray and Mcfarland lined out singles and
Motz a three-bagger to right. Stewart
walked and Flynn Deadly and Kahoe each
hit for a base. Six runs resulted from all
this Deadly being caught trying to make
third on Flynn's single Foreman going out
from short to first and Hogriever on a fly
to Crooks Columbus was BANKED in one.
two three order and it looked easy. Keen
er hit Gray in the second and Mcfarland
flew to Crooks. Notz moved Gray to third
by hitting safe to right and scored him by
allowing himself to be run out on the line
between first and second. Stewart walked
and Flynn flew to Hulen.
Some hard hitting, poor pitching and
worse fielding enabled the visitors to tie
the score in the second. Flynn fumbled
Franks grounder and Tebeau waited for
four bad ones. Then Crooks picked a low
I1TCf off md 6NTxr .
straight to center Mcfarland made the
fatal mistake of coming in on it and the
ball sailed merrily over his head for a home
run. clearing the bases This tickled the
crowd DWho wanted some excitement. Nc
Carr flew to Stewart who moment after
wards, fumbled Fishers grounder. Keener
and walked Hulen and Mertes, filling the
bases. Genins dropped triple in left CEN
misjudged Franks line fly and Genins
scored. Tebeau few to Mcfarland.
Then Gear came. in and all was well,
though for six innings 1t was a hot fight.
Indianapolis picked up another in the
fourth when Hogriever hit to left for three
bases and scored on Grays single. McFar-
land forced Gray at second and was him
self caught stealing a few moments after.
Motz flew to Genins. Columbus tied the
score in the sixth when Hulen hit to center
for a home run. Two men were out at the
time, but for few moments it looked as
il Columbus had found Goar in earnest, for
Mertes hit to center and went on to second
when Mcfarland fumbled the ball. Genins
drove one to right, but Hogriever made a
great throw to the plate catching MerteS
by several feet.
SETTLED IN THE SEVENTH.
Indianapolis settled the game in the sew
enth Mcfarland walked and Motz was
hit by a pitched ball. Stewart sacrificed
and Flynn reached first on a choice. Then
Deadly hit safe to center and Kahoe for
three bases to right center, Motz meanwhile
having been caught at the plate Kahoe
kept right on home, Genins fumbling the
ball This added four runs. Goar walked
and Hogriever was hit. Gray. Mcfarland
and Motz followed with singles and four
more runs came in, Genins assisting with
another tumble during the hard hitting.
Stewart flew to Frank.
Watkins's men kept on scoring in the
eighth, Flynn opening with a hit TO left
which scored Dibby, who had stolen second
meanwhile. Kahoe hit a slow one to the
pitcher. who threw to third too late to
catch Deadly. Then Goar put the ball
against the center-feld fence for a home
run. HogreVer flew to Hulen, but Gray hit
safe to center and scored on McGarr's wild
throw OF McFarlands grounder Motz went
out from short 10 first and Stewart on q fly
to Mertes. BY this time Indianapolis was
tired of scoring but the habit had so grown
on the men that they kept it up in the
ninth until told to run themselves out and
end the agony. Flynn opened with a two
Dagger to left and stole third. Deadly scored
him with single kahoe went out from
second to first, Deadly advancing a base.
Goar flew TO Genins and HogreVer drove
one 10 center for base, sending Deadly
home Keener's failure to hold the ball as
it was thrown in let Hogriever reach third.
after which he deliberately trotted home
and was put out at the plate. Columbus
scored in the seventh on singles by Frank
and Crooks and Stewards wild throw of
Fishers grounder. One run was all they
got out of it, however and they added
another in the eighth on Flynn's tumble of
Mertes's grounder. a single by Genins and
a wild throw by Gray, Score:
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