The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-04

National League
Played. Won.

Just as a little preliminary exercise for
the sports OF the Nations holiday the Hoo
siers turned in and turned down the Dis
coverers yesterday In the usual style. Bump
us Jones was in the box. and for three in
nings was fiinging them around in the air
after the fashion Of an elderly farmeress
chasing hens from the garden. After that
he settled down to the kind of pitching
known as clockwork-ff you don't insist on
too fine a clock. OF course everybody knows
when Columbus goes against the Allen
troupe of husky Hoosiers the result is bound
to be in favor of the coming champions,
which the same have their stamping ground
on East Ohio street. feminist Oriental. II
was mere idle curiosity TO see how II would
be done, and the desire for another draw
at the baseball pipe, that brought out the
people to see the same old show gone
through with in the same old way. In fact,
nobody felt any concern about the finish,
with the exception of President Colt and his
appetite for runs is always Unsuitable, any
way. @ 20 ~,
The event Of the afternoon came OF in the
eighth inning, when Asa Stewart, who holds
in fee simple small plot OF ground situate
in center-by-right-center, into which he bats
the ball whenever occasion offers, knocked
the sphere some several feet beyond its
accustomed place. The ball kept on going
and Ace kept on doing likewise, and when
the smoke Of battle had cleared away 1t was
discovered that a closed circuit had hap
pened and Stewart was exhaling large, deep
breaths, like camel-back locomotive on a
40 per cent. grade. Billy Dammann' was hit
square In the solar plexus+ by batted ball
and sank to the ground. Then, like the ex-
piring hero OF the war stories, he half arose
and fired one more shot at the enemy-that
is to say, he fielded the ball to Motz. though
little late-and Strengthened out on his
back, where ne lay for several minutes be-
fore his air supply was turned on again.
Dammann and Jones had had a little alter
cation the first half of the inning over
Bumpus basting Billy with the ball, and
bets were about to go up for the feather
weight contest that seemed possible, when
Umpire Sheridan walked between the ban
tams in style George Siler could not have
bettered. and wagers were of.
After the DISCOVERIES had been one-two-
threed in the first inning the Hoosers start
ed off with Hartzell going to first base on
balls and Motz scoring him with three
Dagger. Motz coming i'm on Netherlands sim
gle. Tebeau's tumble and single by Ka-
hoe, which he disastrously tried to stretch
for another base, let Hickey score in the
fourth. while a two-base hit. followed by
a tumble at third by Buelow and a single
by Dammann, scored him again in the sixth.
Stewards home run in the eighth was made
with no one out and none on bases.
Hickey and Stewart contributed mainly to
the two runs gained by Columbus in the
fourth. With Pickering gone glimmering,
Frank singled. A tumble by Stewart adj
vanced him and let Tebeau to first base,
Frank scoring afterward as Bierbauer went
out at first. Buelow's short hit to left was
Juggled a while by Hickey and thrown to
first too late, and Tebeau came home