The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-09

The bullfrog raised his tail on high,
And bounded DER the plain,
A bumblebee came humming by,
And then came down the rain.

Anon.
But not enough to cause the calling of
the game. and the recrudescent Hooslers
got into it in the seventh for three runs,
while the gents from Jagville dropped of
in row of three outs and the pleacher
fraternity didn't care whoop or holler
whether it rained or showed However, the
two remaining innings were played out,
with the result of Aliens aggregation TAX
ing two more runs.
When beer and water mix the beer is
bound to weaken. Even s. .. L. from in
fancy, who got married before he had
chance to make any dalliance with the
product Of the vat. would know that much.
This indubitable phenomenon of the work
ings of nature received fresh confirmation
yesterday at the clover-dotted arena of
manly sports and inhuman yells which is to
be found at Ohio and Oriental streets any
day in the week. including. perhaps, Sun
day. The rain came down and the Brewers
went up in the saturated air. In fact. they
had a much of a saturated air themselves,
being soaked both by j. Pluvius, ESQ.,, and
by such bright and shining lights of the
baseball world as Mcfarland. Fleming ct
al. The skies for while were as threat
ening as a policeman on the wrong side Of
the canal who has found a bevy of small
Americans swimming in Filipino costume
Meanwhile the game went on until the
sixth inning. when the Brewers found
themselves with five to their credit, while
the unhappy Hoosiers had but four. At
this juncture the rain began falling with
sufficient numerousness TO drive folks out
of those elegant open-face boxes IN front
of the grand stand. and the gentlemen from
Budweiser were of a sudden seized with a
languor that made the movements of sloth
seem like the gait of a lightning express
by comparison. The Hon. Mr.. Rettger, who
was in charge of the firing squad for the
Gambrinusans would gain possession of
the ball and then would ensue one of the
prettiest pictures of innocent meditation
ever seen on any stage. After as long a
time as the cruelty of Dictator Mannassau
would allow, Gunner Rettger would come TO
himself and do pitch. while the rooters,
with fear in their hearts that the game
would be called. were earnestly saying
things printable and unprintable in lauda-
BILE endeavor TO get move on the hated
opposition.
AS the grim statistician would have it.
two runs were secured for indianapolis by
Hcgriever taking four pills, Stewards sui
eide and McFarland's bit. which was devel-
oped by errors of Hallman into another score.
Scott scored in the second on a base hit and
Hogrievers three-bagger. Another was
taken in the third by Motz on a single, a
fly to center by Fleming and a hit by Allen.
After Beville had popped small one to
Gray in the seventh Scott was advanced by
Rettger, Hogriever hit safe, Stewart flew
out to right and Scott came in. Mcfarland
singled, bringing in Hogriever. and was fol-
lowed for hit by Motz. With one run tn
the good the long first baseman cavorted
down toward second and drew the fire, of
the enemy long enough to let Mcfarland
get good start for the home plate. which
Mac barely reached, Motz going to third
and getting himself put out between third
and home in order to give the Brewers a
chance to clinch the inning, which they did
with cipher. Scott singled the second
time in the ninth and came in on McFar-
lands three-bagger. the latter scoring on
Motz reaching first by tumble of Shoch.
A three-bagger and three hits brought in
Waldron and Nicol in the first for the Brew
ers; fielder's choice and two hits brought
in Mailman in the second and Speer secured
life on Stafford in the sixth, coming in on
Rettger's three-bagger, the latter scoring
on Hallman's hit. The sweetest story ever
told: