The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-09
THE FIRST BALL GAME
wATKINs's PIRATES HAD ALL THEY
COULD DO TO WIN.
Manager Allen Distinguishes Himself
a PIayeE-Coits Tried in
the Pitchers Box.

Watkins and his ptratical National Leag-
uers had a close call yesterday. They had
to play fast ball to win out and then they
had but one run the best of it, With Kahoe
at third, three youngsters in the box, an
other one catching and Deadly playing first
it looked at the start as if Pitts
burg had an easy thing. 1t proved
otherwise, however, and there was some
tall hustling done toward the finish to get
out from under. Tannehill pitched the en-
tire game for the visitors and was batted
pretty hard at times.
With the bases filled in the first, Man
ager Allen jumped right into the good
graces of the crowd by driving in three
runs with beautiful two-bagger to left.
He followed this up in the third with a
triple, and his hitting was one Of the fea-
lures of the game. At short he had plenty
to do, missing three out of nine chances,
one of which was pretty close to a base
hit-a red hot drive from Ely's bat in the
seventh. Another was muff of throw
by Dooms to head off McCarthy's steal. A
little more practice will do away with
errors of this sort. Kahoes mistakes at
third were costly and it is too bad Hoff-
meister is not in shape to play.
Hawley pitched the first three innings
and made quite an impression on the crowd.
He lost control in the third and gave three
successive bases on balls, forcing in run.
1t was a disastrous inning, as Davis batted
in two more right afterwards. Kostal, who
succeeded Hawley, was bumped pretty hard
in the fifth after he had given two bases
on balls, but his other two innings were
very creditable. Knepper had his well-re-
membered speed and better control than
the others, but his delivery is slow and he
does not watch the bases closely enough.
Dooms, the auburn haired youngster who
did all the indianapolis catching, handled
himself very much like a veteran He
handled all three pitchers satisfactorily and
his throwing was all right. Deadly covered
first in good style and Ace Stewart appears
to be ready for the hard work of the sea-
son. The outfield did not have a great deal
that home run BY Stewart gave the crowd
plenty of opportunity to enthuse. Hogriever
batted in hard luck, sending four long flies
to the outfield andshitting safely once
There was a. funny circumstance in the
sixth inning when Dooms was at bat. He
had one strike called and Tannehill seeing
his attention was distracted, tried to sneak
in another, but DoomS looked up just in
time to make a pass at the ball, catching
1t on the end of his bat and lifting it safely
over second The laugh was on Tannehill
and. Watty himself had to smile 1t
seemed strange to see the ex-Indianapolis
manager on the visitors bench and forci-
bly, recalled the old Sioux City days, when
he was fighting Indianapolis as hard as he
knew how and no one knows how better
than he. ugts
A HAND FOR OLD FAVORITES
Gray and Mccarthy were given hand
when they came to bat in the first inning.
Pittsburg was first at bat but did nothing
though Hawley passed two men to base.
With one out liz the last half F'leming's
double, Deady's single, Stewards base on
balls and Aliens two-bagger put Indianap-
oils three to the good. Kahoe and Flynn
were easily disposed of. Missed grounders
by Hawley and Stewart gave Pittsburg one
in the second and three more were chalked
up in the third on Donovans hit three gifts
by Hawley and Davis's safe drive to CEN
ter. In the last half. however, Indanapnis
again took the lead on Gray's bad Throw
of Deady's grounder. Stewards sacrifice,
Aliens triple and a mix-up between third
and home which resulted from Kahoe's
grounder, on which Allen tried to score
but was run down. Kahoe got around to
third during the operation and came on
home when Schriever let throw get by
him. Flynn flew to Gray.
Two bases on balls and Gray's long hit to
right for four bases gave Pittsburg three III
the fifth Deadly hit for three bases in the
last half and scored after Elys good
catch of Aliens foul fly. In the seventh
indianapolis again Went to the front when
Deady's single was followed by Stewards
home run hit TO center. The Pirates. how
ever, tied the score in the eighth after 1T
looked hopeless for them. With two out
Stewart threw wild to second to complete
a double play. Donovan going on around
to third and scoring on Kahoe's failure to
get Dooms throw a moment later. Padden
scored the winning run in tho ninth on
Aliens bad throw of his grounder. Grays
hit steal and the operation of running
Gray out between first and second. he hav-
ing drawn Dooms's throw purposely In
dianapoliS could not land safely i'm the
eighth and ninth and as Pittsburg refused
TO make any mistakes the game was lost
by one rum. Five hundred people saw it.