Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-05-31
LOST ON ERRORS.
THE ENTIRE NOUS FINAL.
LY DROP A GAME
And the Fort Wavne Shamrecks Are
the Winners BY a Score Of to r.
One Of the Best Games Ever Seen on
the Local Diamsnd-H aas's Sensa.
tional Catch.

A fair-sized crowd witnessed the
game yesterday afternoon between
the Entire Nous and the Fort Wayns
Shamrocks, and it was one of the
most brilliant exhibitions of ball play.
ing ever seen on the local field. The
game was Just such one as the spec
tators enough hitting to make
it interesting, with the score tie in
the latter part of the game to cause
intense excitement as to the final
outcome. Had it not been for two
bad errors in the latter part of the
game, the excitement would proba
bly, have been prolonged by ten in
ming game when Richmond would
probably have won, as Robbins, the
Fort Wayne pitcher, was beginning
to show signs of weakness and would
not have lasted much longer, while
Reynolds was in better form than in
the early part of the game. Lally
bad tumble at third and Bateman 5
excusable error in muffing a hard
ground liner are responsible for
losing the game, although under the
circumstances they are not to be
blamed too much, as the ball was
wet and covered with mud and the
ground slippery, making it almost
impossible for player to stand on
his feet and stop hard ball at the
same time. The crowd was amused
several times during the afternoon
10y the graceful tumbling acts of the
boys, especially when O'Meara took
a seat in a mud hole while catching a
high fly, and threw the ball to first
while in sitting posture.
For the first three innings it be-
gan to look as if neither side were to
score, but in the fourth the Sham
rocks made two or three nice hits and
Drought In two runs. In the sixth and |
seventh, the visitors brought in one
'un in each inning. making the score |
to U. This was too much for the |
ocals and they settled down and |
played like demons, tying the score |
n the eighth and setting the grand |
stand wild. 1t was Lally's home run
hat did the work and he deserves a |
OF of credit enough at least to
'ver- balance his error later on, which
vas responsible in part for the loss
# the game
- HAAS S FINE CATCH
BY far the most brilliant feature of
he afternoon was the sensational
atch made in the ninth inning by
faas in the left field and it was the
rettiest bit of fielding ever seen in
his city-no exceptions With a
IAN on first, O'Meara hit a terrific
y to left field and it looked as if the
anne was over, for it seemed impos-
bile to field it. But Haas made
p his mind to get that ball and
ne plucky little left fielder pulled it
own while on a dead run and sent it
before the r,.ay,z -G-.s-ss-~~.-.-..>>~~ef-
I'd caught him out, he generously
lowed his appreciation of good
ay, by running through the diamond
I'd amid the cheers from the grand
and, embraced him with both arms
i'd congratulated him. 1t was a
rilling moment and the crowd fair
went wild After the game Haas
as given the glad hand on all sides,
ID last night his catch was the talk
the town. This remarkable bit of
ork was followed up by Lally's bad
mble, and after two of the Sham
cks were out, Bateman missed
hard grounder and allowed
Iother to cross the home plate Civ
g the game to the visitors. The
ore: