Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-22
OMAHA WINS GREAT CONTEST
Last Game Of Kansas City Series = NOut
Sensational Affair
SIXTEEN INNINGS OF WONDERFUL WORK
rot n Man Tailed Until Fifteenth and
Game Is Won After Two Hands
Are Down in the SIX
teenth.

Amid the tremendous roar Of 5000
voices Omaha defeated Kansas City at
Yinton street park yesterday In the long
est league game ever seen on a local dla-
mond. In the last half Of the sixteenth In
ming, with two men out, Old Reliable Frank
Genins drove the ball into deep left field
for two bases. sending in Johnnie Gondins
with the winning run.
II was the most spectacular hit
and precipitated the most demonstratiye
scene witnessed on the grounds for many
a day. No sooner had Gonding crossed
the plate with the second run for Omaha,
the run which united the knot and gave
the game to the Rangers, than the dia-
mond was fairly thronged with spectators
wild with enthusiasm. Genins was
grabbed by a motley crowd and borne
away. Gonding. who had made two hits
and caught a great game, was picked up as
II he might have been a kitten, and Owen,
the wizard OF the day, was likewise car
ried OF by large number Of ardent ad-
mirers.
For ten minutes after the game was over
many Of the joyous fans stayed in the park
and kept up their din Of applause. Plaud-
it's were showered upon all the home team,
and SO exuberant was the cheering that
even Weiner and one or two other Kansas
City players we're remembered and given
. portion Of the enthusiastic outburst.
windup was a Fierce One.
1t would be dlnicuit to imagine a more
exciting and demonstrative scene than
that enacted when the winning run was
made. The grandstand was packed as on
the two days preceding. II was ladies' day
and the fair sex was out In full numbers
The bleRchers were we'll hlled. and for
several innings excitement had been grad
ually rising to fever heat. Kansas City
had broken the long chain Of blanks In
the fifteenth and made a run and Omaha
had tied the score in the latter half OF
The same inning. Gonding was the first
man up in the sixteenth. He sent the ball
out into right field for q clean, safe hit
and the pandemonium broke loose. Only
a few people kept their seats and fewer
still were seated until two outs were
made, with Gonding still on base.
owen advanced Gondlng to second by a
sacrifice and Carter popped UP a little one
which fell into Mr.. Messitt's shovels.
Things looked bad indeed, Will two men
out, when Genlns walked to the plate, But
Frank sent a thrill of encouragement into
the weakening souls Of his thousands Of
admirers, and when the cheering was
again animated Genins pasted the ball,
which went sailing out into the cool. balmy
air, landing somewhere near the left held
fence. Frank was on second base by the
time Gonding crossed the plate.
The battle was over.
Crowd There to Cheer.
No hasty assertions Of the scenes Of this
glorious triumph as SO frequently follow the
final play Of a game. The throng which by
now spread from the grandstand down onto
the grounds. swayed and surged and
roared and rocked like an angry sea driven
by some fierce tempest. Men and boys
Shouted. threw their hats in the air; women
and girls shouted. too, and waved their
pretty white kerchiefs until the grandstand
where they we're located still resembled a
Chautauqua auditorium. Here and there in
the wild crowd could be seen a red-fAccd
dusty, tired Looking Ranger in his solemn
gray. trying to persuade his eager worship
ers not to Jerk his arm from it's sockets or
seeking his balance in the air at the arms
length of the fans who had captured him.
Nothing was done in vain. II was worth
It all. A game sixteen innings long. with
but two errors on the viii cling side and four
hits by the losers was phenomenal In the
history Of Western league base ball or any
other.
The run getting for Kansas City In the nf-
teenth came about in this way: Waldron,
who had q three-bagger already to his
credit, opened up with a line drive to lett
for two bases; Hartzell. Mr.. Nichols new
man. followed with a single; Davis struck
out and Kemmer few to left. enabling
Waldron to score before Stone could pos
sibly return the ball.
In the latter part of the fifteenth Dolan
started things going with a two-bagger to
aeft. Captain Stewart sent one down u
short. which Shannon garnered In and
threw to first. retiring the runner Pears
lined out the pigskin to right field and
Dolan crossed the plate with omaha's first
run. Thomas retired the side with a short
grounder over to little Willie Kemmer at
hrst.
Pitching Was Remarkable.
The work Of Owen in the box was pheu-
omenal. All Kansas City could do with
his delivery was four hits. and but two OF
these were made up TO the fifteenth inning.
when the other pair was extorted. Owen
had the temerity to strike out one Cow
boy in the very last inning, showing that
he was still fresh. In all thirteen Of the
men from Kawville famed the atmosphere
In trying to solve his hidden mysteries.
Weimer also pitched a good game. but
Omaha made ten hits on him just the