The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-03-21
NEARLY BEAT THE COLTS,
It Looked Like It Mas Houston !
Gsms for Awhile.
Mr.. MILLER MADE a GREAT CATCH,
which Prevented Two RIM. ,na
Lost the Game for Us-Mornan
Did Some Fine Pitching.

For nve innings yesterday Il loakod ~,
Houston had an easy thing in Rnc, u,,,.,....
nohe Oh the would-be Red STOCKINGS
e aoie 70 cross the plate; had Morgan
oeen aoie 10 keep the game going il is no,
'oo much to say 1t would have been Hons.
Ton easily. lie held them down 10 two scat.
'ereo nits In the first fve innings, and Tho
s H.a oehind him worked with a will. u.
do"h,adi nis position WE'LL too, and Reed UNI
uTv9up.euiy mas treasure in the Young man
Eisnt MIS- were had OF Chamberlain. hut tho
.oss OF tue game is not to be sharr,a cs.sr.Iss
70 MIN; there was slow work nun,har ~,
cn,,nI, mn w quick work was neeau,i, ana /,
vpoupls OF errors aided the lack OF ninse, i,
.Ie snort infield; but the point whera uansi
sun tust tne game was when Miller. after 4
run m pulled down long hit TO SNORT ran
nm secons Shenzie, badger and kenmer being
nave scored on the hit. which was apparentiy
safe one. w apparently
When 1t looked for sure thing that Hons
ton was going to win the game. bug Holt
DAY made many remarks at and IN Ijun,ro
Maekey, but that individual has been ms
pirins over harder kickers and bluners than
tue soit ana Kept the even tenor of his way.
aiter Cincinnati got to pounding out hits and
crossing the plate no more kicks were beard
SUI Biii Hill started the delivery work
~. a tne visitors but he wasn't feeling very
suou, eViuently; or else he sized up his m
ponents wrong; at any rate. they wnrkad Mn,
LOT gilt ana four hits, totaling three runs
anu announcer was run IN in the second Dam \
man man relieved the ex-Colonel--who privately
tllnks cincinnati got the best OF the trade
when three men were swanped for him-.sno
ulo good work, only scattering hits being
gotten on him in the six innings which he
p pi,s me young man seems ambitious
anu wiling and not too tired to put forth
ltle effort, even though 1t was an exhibition
game. HE has good delivery and Will 90
somewhere near the top. unless signs fail.
steinleldt played snappy game at short,
anu McFarland was also in the game for
what he knows about playing bali-and he
seems to know considerable part Vaughan
a third got in several good plays.
Mchenzle's batting was the feature of the
game. SO far as Houston's side of the game
was concerned. outside of Morgan's pitching
another point was Badgers run getting abil-
n.y. All the men played we'll. though there
was slowness about the infield which win
have to be improved on; 1t is of course very
likely that it will be, as the season hasn't
started yet but It is as we'll to mention it
now, while there's plenty of time for prac-
tiee. Griffin was hit In the eye Saturday, |
and he seemed bit leary of the ball yes
terday, not going after 1t in his old style |
~. ne VIII pun dFounu all right, though, |
and get In the game as of yore. Spencers |
work at third was excellent and Reed ana |
kemmer scored double play in good order |
OF Morgans pitching too much can not d. |
said, He held the National leaguers down |
10 two hits and no runs in five innings, &C. |
,epted two chances, of them the hardest |
offered the nfield during the game, struck |
ont four men; altogether playing such |
game as will make Houston the envy of the |
-est of the Texas league in possessing such Il
nan.