The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-19
LIVELY GAME BY PURDUE
COLLEGIANS PLAYED FAST BALL,
MAKING GREAT CATCHES.
After the First Inning the Contest
Was Interesting-Kuhns Makes
Good i'm Left-I. u. To-Day.

Abraham Cohen, short stop Of the Pur-
due baseball team, was the first batter to
face Pitcher Davis in the game with In
dianapolis yesterday afternoon. Following
a peculiar characteristic he drew three
balls before he took a good smash at the
sphere and sent il TO center for a base.
His efforts did not avail anything in that
inning, but in a subsequent inning he made
the hit that scored the FIRST run credited
to the college team and made the circuit
with the other tally. There were not
enough Cohens in the game for Purdue to
make the contest really interesting and
Indianapolis won by a score Of u to 2.
Eliminating the first inning, in which In
%dianapolis piled UP seven uns the contest
was not such a bad one. as the college play
ers got over their stage fright and played
a good article of ball.
The players from the Lafayette school
made it interesting after the first inning.
mixing sensational plays with two or three
ragged errors. Ritter made a one-hand
catch in right after running about fifty
yards after Babb's fly that caused George
Hosriever to look askance at "Watty."
Hogriever said he could not take such al
aerial flight with such success, and Won
dered if his manager was going to dicker
with the college chap. Mckee did lively
turns at second and made some stops that
caused Fox to CULVER with envy. but Fox
coached the Purdue team last year, and he
takes unto himself much of the credit.
Gaetze made a quintet Of good catches In
center after starting the game with a bad
muff. Hardie did well in left. Ruby was
one of the jewels of the Purdue team after
the first inning and he pitched good ball
for his team. The Purdue team showed
that ii will give the other Indiana college
teams a hard fight for college honors this
year.
Interest I'm the indianapolis team centered
in huhns, the new Outtielder, who was tried
for the first time yesterday. He is a most
promising player. clean-cut and nervy. He
is fast in the field, and, above all, is a hit
ter, If his previous record and the showing
he made in yesterdays contest can be
duplicated. The first time up yesterday he
dispatched the ball to deep right center for
a three-bagger. He also made a single and
double. He covered the left garden with
perfect satisfaction.
Davis was also much in evidence with the
stick and scored three hits, one a double.
His pitching was also good. The rest of the
players put up their usual fast game,
O'Brien again doing wonders with the will
low.
indianapolis started the game with seven
runs in the first inning. After Fox went
out Hogriever, O'Brien. Kihm and Coulter
singled and Kuhns hit for three bases.
Babb took up the hitting again with a sim
gle and Collins made a poor throw on
Woodruff's chance Davis singled and
Gaetze dropped Fox's fly. Hogriever's sin
gle, O'Brien's triple and an out scored two
in the fourth. COhen's error, Davis's
double and Fox's out scored the one in the
fifth. Two were made in the seventh on
Kuhns's double, a single by Babb and Fox's
hit.
Purdue scored a brace of tallies in the
fifth. After Collins was retired Cook hit
for a base and reached second on Wood
rufus error. Cohen singled and scored on
Ruby's hit and an out.
The Ganra-