The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-24

NEW YORK, 8; CLEVELAND. 2.
A wet ball played all sorts of tricks with tho
finally due to a wild pitch committed by one Of
Young. For five innings the rain held or and
the game was apparently very much in the pos.
sMfs oeSin Of fr eeSeaV While ns0" Powell, their YOUNG
phenomenon. who shut out the Baltlmores
aSane wssk' r sssme Ss to the hs sis,s 'S SsSas the Rsn rain In
fell, but Umpire Emslie made the teams play II
out. He could have called the game at tho end
OF the sixth, when the score was a tie, and there
wouldn't have been n kick from either side, as
both the players, and the 1000 cranks were
II until the end Of tho seventh inning. 1t was
100 dark then to play any more.
runs. Burkett hunted safely and reached third
on McKean's hard base hit to right. Childs
and Mexican was forced at third when Donnelly
made n fine knock down OF Wallaces swift jao
S SGr.s to tai the ou bag; P ond p Wsls9n caught ssht o Sbifas
across the plate with a hit to LETT. A throw was
drawn to second ST;to by mnif. 6 Gios and w raiSss
low return. Tebeau closed the rally with a foul.
Again in the third the Clevelands found
to Chiids. Wallace and 0'Connor made hits. the
latter's drive enabling the ALDERMAN to count,
During the first three innings for the New Works
Powell had pitched, SO %clevcrly that the locals
troll, and worked his batters nicely. But in the
fourth Davis's single. Gleason's three-bagger,
and an out yielded Two runs ana the croWo DO
Meekin began to find his speed in tho fourth.
nth, and sixth innings. and no more runs were
the bat for their half OF the sixth the rain, which
had been threatening all the afternoon, began
With one out, Powell began to have trouble
with the wet ball and gave free bases to CLARK
aisht w and cla Ren s 81 lSe msSs PIX IN put "a s1 ap a nc ioq -
which Tebeau tried to get as he ran into me
prahhad hiR left wrist and writl6d in apparent
s'He's trying to delay the camel" yelled tho
Either play, ball Immediately or get out Of
the game" said, Emslie, and Patsy took his
TeSsap if sobb %s0f It ea RdE w Van an0 Hsltr en- drove
"One run to tie and two out 7, cried joyce
from the coacher's box. McCrecry lost no time
Then Herman Sdied out. It was raining hard.
but the cranks kept their seats and Emslie Or
1t took almost an hour to play the seventh in
experienced with the wet ball in the first half
hard task at that. Wallace and o'Gonnor opened
scored on a wild pitch. Meekin then gave a base
-Four balls to Powell and tumble BY Gleason
filled the corners. and the crowd was anxious.
Powell! began the last half by giving q base on
balls 10 Davis. who stole second and third while
alsf Ssii S SSsr st feF Eli o cfsrt P0T Tsse sSui shoas e.
that was enough. 80 Patsy took the yo%%Hngster
ter had had no time TO warm up, but he went to
work willingly. Wilson grounded to Childs and
was out, Davis scoring.
1t was Donnelly's turn to bat, but Joyce went
to the plate himself. Bill took four balls and
then Meekin filled the bases with a smash that
almost carried away Young's right leg. Two
runs were needed to win and two men were out.
The balls in play were both fouled off into the
wet grass by Van Haltren SO that they were no
better than sponges. Young got, a couple OF
strikes on Van, and then took a chance with q
fast one which he meant to shoot over the plate.
The ball slipped while IT was being delivered
and went q foot beyond Zinmer's reach; Clean
Zimmer could get 1t back both Clark and Joyce
had run in with the deciding points. Van Hal.
tren received four balls after this and drew q
throw to second. Meekin logged up to the plate
and willingly allowed thinner to put him out
Then the umpire called the game. The score: