Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-07
BIG CROWD At BALL GAME
Pa ROurke's Aggregation Draws Out
Fifteen Hundred People,
oMAHAs WIN FROM ORIGINALS AGAIN
Three New TwirIers for League Team
Are Tried ont and Brown Makes
Himself solid with
Fans.

Fifteen hundred Sunday pleasure-seekers
gathered at Vinton Street park yesterday
to watch the antics Of PA Rourke's new
base ball players, and they were rewarded
by seeing the prospective champions take
the second game from the Originals by a
score Of 5 to 2. The attendance was ex-
tremely hatterlng, and Rourke is wondering
what he will do with the hot weather league
game Sunday crowds to come when they
turn out in such numbers on a cold day to
see q practice contest with amateurs. There
were even a dozen or so carriages in the
saddock.
Though IL was a cold base ball day the
field and battery play was not affected
visibly by this fact. although an inability
on the part Of each team to hit is to be
generously sscribed to this cause. Hits
were even fewer than the day previous. and
that left the matter largely a pitchers at
fair. .
Three OF Omaha's new twirlers we're tried
out, and the first man out, Brown, made
exceeding good with the crowd. He threw
q nice game for hve innings, allowing two
hits, striking out seven men and giving no
bases. Brown is the husky coal miner who
was recently discovered in the east and has
been in the game but a short time.
Third Baseman Hickey was on exhibition
for the first time and considering his lack
OF preliminary practice appeared a good
actor. He Is one Of those serious players,
always working hard, but he failed to hit
safe yesterday. However, the same can be
said OF eight of his fellow players, so who
can say what?
The game started out for a big score. The
smateurs poled out two safe ones in the
FIRST. and made a run. Omaha responded
with two more hits and three runs. Then
everything fell dead till the fifth, when
Omaha did another and took the last In the
eighth. The Originals scored one more In
the ninth.
some Pretty Ball Playing.
All this goose-egglng however, meant
some pretty ball playing, and the most SEN
sational play of the day was Dolan's hand
ling one-handed OF a hot grounder from
Welch's bat near second base In the fourth,
u hit by all precedent which Joe ruthlessly
smashed by capturing the ball and turning
the play to an out at second. The shortstop
also did some more OF his famous Marconi
transmission to first. He seems to throw
overland, underhand, sidehand OF sleight-
of-hand with equal speed. The only time
the crowd could see the ball at all when IL
left his right was when 1t scared over
Calls head for the south bleachers in the
sixth. some fRthoms high.
It remained for the Originals to make the
sole double, Genins and Calhoun being
caught at first and second on a grounder
by the latter to Bradford. Harry welcn
pitched a strong. consistent game all
through and was very steady.
The Omaha team goes to Lincoln to play
q few games with the State university boys
today. and will there be Joined by Pitcher
Eddie Gordon, the collegian. and the last
of the stan to report. Gordon is just con-
GLIDING his Law course at the university.
Next Thursday the team returns here to
rlay the Creighton university nine and Des
Moines is coming Saturday and Sunday.
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