The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-01
western League Standing.

A police court Jury having insinuated that
the Indianapolis and Minneapolis teams
didn't know how to play ball, by discharg-
ing them from all liability for Sundays per-
Torrance, the two aggregations Of athletes
disproved the allegation by turning round
and pitching in and playing two of the hair
raisingest games of baseball the Nation has
ever seen on the Ohio-street grounds yester-
day, with a horse-and-horse result. OF
course all the crowd" of maybe 200 who
witnessed the Sunday farce-comedy were
there, with the exception of few out-of-
town persons, who went up against the
test case,' and in all probability they were
represented by proxy. These and the at
traction of seeing pair of games for only
one price of admission, a single-quarter-of-
a-doilar-pays-the-bi swelled the attend
ance at yesterdays games to about the
1000 mark. Be it said, with the deepest sor-
row, that the name of the coming center
of culture and present location of the '9s
pennant Is smirched by the fact that most
of them were cutters. AS soon as the
Hoosiers got ahead in the first game. the
crowd walked up and talked vociferously,
but In the second there were numerous
dreary expanses Of the pin-drop style of
silence, broken only by the cry of Hot
stuff" from one undaunted throat There's
a man for you of the true sort. He would
go on roofing things along If the home team
were eighteen runs behind in the last half
of the ninth and the umpire were owned
by the opposition in fee simple and free
from all mortgages.
The first game, which in the winning
made an even dozen to the credit of the
Indians without a break. opened with Davis
q hoc ho1l mid hut
est, groans from the multitude. which
cheered up as Nance, Wilmot and Andrews
vent out in a row. Hogriever was out
first for the Hoosiers. from short to first,
Hartzell being passed and going out short
to second as Motz took first. where he re-
manned. as Mcfarland few out to Dixon.
werden got a base on balls in the second,
but not Hoosier reached first. With two
out in the third, Scott passed Nance and
struck out Wilmot. A sensational running
stop by Hickey was responsible for the first
out-Menefee.
In the fourth Uncle Perry Apollo Werden
got his base on balls after the amiable An
drews had been retired at the hands of Nc
Farland. and centerfeld hit by Pietro
Jacopo Abbattichio got Perry to third base
after Smith had flown out to right. How
ever. Dixon was put out by Flynn to Motz,
and the spectators one and all took unto
themselves such deep signs of relief that
fourteen men were pushed of the end of
the right bleachers by the ensuing expan-
sion.
The real thing came off In the seventh.
Kahoe was passed. Newton singled to left.
Nance fumbled the ball, letting Kahoe go
on to third and then threw to third in a
manner BETTING his name, on which mis-
play Newton reached second. Hogriever
was given a base on balls purposely; An
drews's tumble let Hartzell reach first and
Kahoe score. Motz came up, and, with
three balls to his credit and three strikes
against him and the first two batters out,
hit safely to left. Newton and Hogriever,
who were playing halfway between bases
scored on the hat.