Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-13
LIKE GATLINC Gun IN ACTION
Hits Follow in Quick Succession at Omaha
Des MONIES Game.
RlsLEY ISSUES TOO MANY FREE PASSES
GOndinG and stewart Contribute En-
rors 20 the Pitchers Invitation OF
Defeat-Leasue Teams Play
Again Today.

In action. the hits followed one another
at Vinton street park yesterday afternoon,
when for the FIRST time this year two league
teams met In Omaha, but when the FIRE OF
singles, doubles and triples had ceased the
Gate City plate busters found that they
had capitulated to the beslegers from Des
Moines by a score of 8 to 8.
From start to finish 1t was a case Of
1.-THE Beleagured City," but each team took
a hand in the beleaguering. The batting
was Of the most satisfactory kind, for It
was not only constant, but in some places
sensational. That is about the only pleas
ant feature OF the game for Omaha fans,
however, for they went home very sore to
think that they had been beaten by a team
which rushed In with a bunch Of base ball
execution that was far inferior to the work
their own pets did.
Omaha made twelve hits, Des Molnes
eleven. Three errors were chalked to the
visitors, four to Rourke's employees. Yet
the game was really won and lost by two
twirlere. Rlsley went In for the locals In
the sixth. The score was 4 to 8 for Omaha.
He put the first two men on bases by de-
liverink a series OF snake shots which Buck
Keith was unable to construe as strikes.
The next man Risley threw out at first and
the next he struck out. Then came Mr..
Warner with a single hit and this let both
the waiting ones run home. Meanwhile the
ball was felded to the plate and Johnny
Gonding tried to catch Warner at second,
but he threw wild and the ball went fur
Their out In the field than Warner had
batted 1t, so the Iowan scored easily on
the error.
Hawkeyes Take Advantage.
That lost the game. Omaha made a run
in It's half Of the fatal inning, but no more
followed, while Des Moines took advantage
of two more of Risley's gift bases in the
eighth and made each count a run, an
error by Captain Stewart and a hit making
this possible, despite Risley's strenuous
efforts to stop the avalanche by stirling
out two men and throwing another out at
the plate.
Let It be said here that it was not ex-
actly Risley's fault. The day was very
cold, too much 80 for good work In the
box, and the Mormon's lack of control can
we'll be excused when 1t Is
that all he has done so far this year was
to throw two innings against the Orig
inals last Saturday and part Of a game
against the Nebraska varsity boys last
week at Lincoln. 1t was noticed, too, that
he struck out more men than anyone else,
ana he did very pretty work in the several
critical places which his own wlldness
caused.
Pitcher Barry won the game as much as
Risley lost II, for he pulled together in
great style at a crisis and held himself
| at that tension till the end. In the first
three innings Omaha had made seven hits
and two runs. Then in the fifth, after
Stone had fouled out, Calhoun, Dolan and
Stewart hit a trio Of two-baggers In a
string, each one ~prettier than Its prcde-
| cessor. Calhoun and Dolan scored, and
it seemed that Barry was going to pieces.
But Field Captain o'Leary, acting In place
Of Joe Quinn, who did not play, left Barry
In and was rewarded. Not another hit did
Omaha get all through the remaining four
innings and the additional score that came
in the fifth resulted only from an error
by Left Fielder Bachof.
Harry and O'Leary Good.
.O'Leary Is another Des Moines man
who is a hrst-class ball player, but the
rest Of them did not make any hit with
the Omaha critics. The whole game of the
foreigners centered around these two.
O'Leary made three hits and did seven as
sists and a trio Of putouts without an error.
Pitcher Barry added to his box honors by
hitting a single and a triple, and he had
four assists and two putouts without an
error.
For Omaha Calhoun led In hitting, with
two singles and a double. Stewart came
next, with two hits, one a double, and did
a big amount of fielding. Alloway pitched
with good success for i've innings, barring
the first, when the visitors made three
runs.
The same teams. meet this afternoon and
Omaha intends to have a revenge so sweet
Il will be sickening. The score: