The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-04-28

Kimercr was the bright particular stur
OF the Houston constellation yesterday
although those revolving about him shone
brighter than they have In several days
The Houston twirler held the visitors
down to a half dozen safe hits. although
they bit viclously at the balls that were
passed across The plato as they stood with
stick In hand watching for an opportunity
to stralghten out the curves. lie put the
sphere across the marble slab in queer
oircuatous FORM swift and breezy, and the
next moment they would be guessing At a
slow drop which would be presented
them. They found the ball at times. but
1t went high in the air. and dropped cas-
lily into u convenient mitt.
The Houston h-tters went after Drink
water ana there was almost Il drouth in
that viclulty when uhcy co. through with
INN. They took Singles, twc-basgers.
triples and home rams on him. p!acln,
the ball IN NICE spots. hey nad taeir
batting Clothes on AM reached out Oh
every occasion. BECKER presented his old
Time form with the such. ana McGann
put one over right field lcECe, falr Nv
twenty feet. Cote hit Two out safe. one
oil which WAS good Tor d couple 81 bases.
heed had a couple OF sing.es and Meyer
Used one tor nome run and one Tor "a
aouple. Lltt!. Charley Becker had II
double ana a tApbe. Ihey were vicious
with the stick ana kept the Austin flelders
on the 80.
The game was very interesting. While
the score appears TO snow a one-s!Ged
fight, Il was not so much so. as me runs
were made 10y hard hitting ny the uuila-
locs. aad it WAS stick work that was a
clever exhibition. 1nere We're Two errors
by Weikart in the first, which h-slped
houston make four runs, but other errors
ON the part OF the visitors did not affect
the score, as no runs were made that
were assisted by them. There were tour
runs in the nrst for the home team. which
started the hall, ana after that run get
ting seemed easy tor the Houston agGre-
CATION. Eleven was the Total. the ma
Jor,ty of which were earned.
-Ausnns hard h.ateIs could not place the
ball. They reached for It. but kiinerer
was too mcch oil d puzzle for them. ana
they found difficulty In putting, 1t where
iielders under them, and quick. active
work cut off swift runners AT basos Sui
Ivan caught the home run fever in the
first and put tine ball outside the lot. the
exit being made over left field fence. and
two men scored with him. This hit saved
the goose egg which might have been
pres scented to the visitors.
one of the prett!est plays ever made on
a Houston diamond WAS made in the first
INNING. pettiJohn was running bases. ana
Badger hit a nice one TO lert neld. III
was too far IN TO allow ly eaten buy
Turner ran up ON IL, and made n long
throw to tho plate to cut oil PettlJonn.
who WAS covering territory in short order
trying TO score So accurate was the
throw that Cote was not required to
move from his tracks. ana Pettijohn was
ont by several feet. This play was one
OF the features of the game, and Turner
was loudly applauded for H. His work
in the garden beyond shortstop was en-
cellent throughout the entire play. He
made a number of pretty catches. and IN
the seventh made long run for high
fly. ana pulled 1t down etsily.
Becker covered a great deal of territory
and on one occasion ran almost 10 second
base to get fly, which he held
Reed had an error in the first Inning. on
account of q bad throw 10 first. and In
the same inning Cote was charged with
an error on account of u mum of foul
ny back of the plane. He was trying to
watch the fence and the ball and for an
instant lost sight of the sphere. which
was fatal These errors were IN The in
ming in which Austin scored. Otherwise
Reed and cote played a nice game
Devcney's work at third appears to i'm
prove an each game. He moves quick
goes after everything, and is a hard
worker. Crowell had little opportunity 10
distinguish himself yesterday. but accept
He is clever man IN the field, McCiann
did netter work yesterday ;han hereto.
FORE and Sham Meyer was in hrs usual
form at the initial.
Notwithstanding Austin made I'VE err
rors. the fielding by them was good.
by Mesmer Spencer and We'kar., Spencer
showing himself 10 he unusually quick in
covering the keystone bag.
Sid Proctor umpirei the game Nc
Cormick was appointed as a stan man
Monday, and resigned after officiating at
gives satistao ton with the Indicator.
The following was me score: