Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-01
WHISKY GOOD HITTING
Take Last Game Of Peoria Series Through
DiHt Of Sheer Singing
BROWN PITCHES ANOTHER SPLENDID GAME
Pirate Batters DO Their Best, but Fail
TO Land often Enough TO Head
the in the
Race.

In a thrilling chaos OF hits, runs, errors
and stolen bases the base bal. bark which
bore the Peoria Pirates to Vinton street
park yesterday was completely scuttled,
and by a score Of 9 to 5 the Rourke Rangers
will leave Omaha with another victory to
their credit, while they are farther than
ever in the lead for the Western league
percentage top-line position. s...
Every vile, known to base ball wisdom in
the: shape Of Billy Hart was exerted to win
that one game from the now famed
omahas. One pitcher after another was
tried until three had been sent to the
slaughter which invariably awaited them,
and Billy even got out and ran a base him
self for Willie McGiH in the third inning.
But it was useless, for the Pirates were
up against Pitcher Brown, so, what show
did they have?. .
More than > ever did this industrious
twirler endear himself to the fans ,yester-
day, In only two innings did the Peorians
find him to any avail, and II must be re-
membered that the visitors were out to
win this last game IL batting the ball could
do it. Browns actual pushing Of the ball
over the plate, however, was a mere item
Of his play. The great feature of the game
was his three-bagger in the sixth; with
two outs, scoring Gonding and bringing in
for Omaha the Whining run and the surplus
earned tally. The, drive was a beauty; to
right center, and you could tell from the
way Brown pulled himself around the bags
that he was itching to make it a home
run, but his good sense kept him regret
fully on third. Five clean assists without
an error, and some of them very risky ones,
and one the beginning Of a most unusual
double play speak for the fielding part of
his game, and Omahans are convinced that
Rourke has hired a siortstop to pitch.
some Other Brilliant Features.
Stewards. home run in the fourth was a
marvel, but the only reason Loaned"
Stone missed 1t was because it went over
the fence, while Stone stopped this side
Of 1t. 1t was the first fair ball over, the
boards this year.
To hard-working little Hickey goes the
fielding palm. He made a bad throw to
Calhoun in the sixth, 1t ia true, but no one
but a ~scorekeeper could remember that
after his sensational catch of Stones foul
In the ninth. The ball was a high one,
with a natural twist acquired from the bat
and an added unnatural one lent by the
wind. Then 1t lit right against the
bleacher fence, away out in left field, but
Hickey, was there with a crash against the
boards. The tortuous star-gazing course he
ran at full speed in order to follow the ball
and get it was worse than the peregrina-
tions' OF a labyrinthian resident. -"
Errors galore were made, but 1on the
whole they served to give to the game its
rank as the best OF the season, which lis a
nefvy thing to say about any contest after
the star base ball that has been the order
all along. And II every error had been cut
out Omaha would have won just the same.
Some Pirates who Shone.
Stone, TRULY and Lazotte, a sequent
trio Of the Plra$es' star .hitters, felt the
Importance OF the Soccasions5 and strained
every nerve to bat out ID victory whenever
they came up in a row, To their hits are
due four Of the five tallies. But on three
such occasions Brown nipped their hopes in
the bud by clever throwing and great head
work at the batter and once by his own
double play. .'
This afternoon at 4:35 PA" Rourke will
take his pets to Milwaukee, where they ex-
pect to win more laurels. When Peoria is
reached a week hence Stone will rejoin
Omaha, as Rourke announced today, and
this will elicit the unanimous commenda-
tion of local fans, for everyone wants
Stone because he Is a ball player and a
hitter.
In parting with the team for a while
1t is proper to say a word in regard to
the work OF Umpire Moran. In all the
base ball history Of the town no better
work has ever been done by the handler OF
the indicator. To be sure, Mr.. Moran has
had the hearty cooperation. of the players,
but this can be maintained only as the
umpire is able to maintain the respect and
confidence Of the players in his ability and
impartiality. One of the happiest features
OF the seven games played has been free
dom from friction and entire absence OF
kicking" This has not been for the rea-
son that there was no life to the games,
for more stubbornly contested matches
were never seen, but because the umpire
was fair and square all the time and gave
his decisions promptly and without regard
to the course OF the contest. Mr.. Moran
will be welcome by Omaha patrons of the
sport at any time. Attendance, 1900. Yes
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