The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-20
League
THE TAILENDERs, TURN.
Took Them "a Long Time to See 1t
Was Their Game.

ANY old team can beat Aliens hired men
at the gait they travelled yesterday after
noon. Minneapolis, after dragging along at
the tail-end for nearly all the season, was
loath to do the trick, as none of the Mill
ers'' wished to break the easy monctony of
their position. That they won is because they
couldn't help themselves. Early in the game
it became evident to the fans" the locals
had soft thing to deal with for the only
pitcher Minneapolis has was in bad form
and was touched up from the start at WILL
The indianapolis men, however, devoted
their time to playing tag" and chasing
humble bees and merely hung around the
diamond in order to avoid prosecution for
obtaining money from the spectators under
false pretenses. Finally it dawned the
minds of the meek and lowly "Millers'' that
they were supposed to win the game and
though it. hurt their consciences to do 1t,
they braced up when George Carey yelled
"Well, boys, we don't get such good thing
as this every day." and from that time on
they batted the ball hard enough to win
any kind of game
Following the advice of a local paper,
Manager Allen put Jesse Hoffmeister in left
field and the way he played it was a reve-
lation. TIE oldest crank never knew until
he saw Hoffmeister play yesterday how
many ways there were Of misplaying any
position His feet were filled with lead APP
parently and his hands were about as much
use to him as a tail would have been. Motz
was laid up and "Mique'' Kahoe appeared
in his place. He did his best but he wasn't
Motz by any means. Hickey had three
errors. but they were largely the result CT
overanxiety TO play the game to the limit
and were all on hard chances.
For two innings neither side acted as if
it wanted to score, but in the third McFar-
land got too frisky and before he realized
the consequences had raped out a three
Dagger. The Minneapolis players were so
surprised at his breach of etiquette they al
lowed him to complete the circuit while
they were "nuffing'' the ball between them.
BY combination of errors by Aliens men,
coupled with two singles and two-bagger
in the fourth, Minneapolis rolled up three
runs In the fifth Indianapolis secured six
runs on five hits an error by Reilly and
Lynch being hit by the pitcher. Minneap-
OILS retaliated in the next inning by scor-
ing four runs on a nit by Letcher, an error
by hickey, a base on balls to Dixon and
a triple by Hale. The Hoosiers woke from
their trance at this point in the inning in
time to show the spectators they knew now
to play If they had to and retired the side
by pretty double play from Allen to Stew
art to kahoe.
Young Mr.. Rice of Minneapolis, went up
in the air in the next inning and put two
Hoosiers on bases with an equal number
OF errors. This made Phillip mad and the
next three men went out on strikes and a
quick infield play.
Minneapolis made three runs in the sew
enth by consecutive hitting and errors con-
tributed at the right time by Aliens men.
Two runs was the best the locals could get
In spite of single, double and two bases
on balls. In the eighth each side hit hard
and fumbled twice as hard as they hit
and when the end of the inning came it
was found Indianapolis had three and Min
neapolis two runs to show for the trouble
Minneapolis added another in the last inn
ing and then disposed of the locals in order
FOLLOWING Is the key to the pantomilne:
Score.