Omaha daily bee., 1903-06-06
IROUREE'S HOODOO IS BROKEN
omaha'S First Game of Pop Eyle1's
Delivery in Three Years
THREE HITS IN SECOND DO THE TRICK
shafstaI Puts Jp Superior Sort OF
slants Rnd the GriESIies Retire
with only One Run In
six Innings.

The hOodoO Is broken and once more the
Rourkeites are free men. For three years
Pop Eyler has kept them from the con-
summation OF their desires, and now Re
has been lambasted and put back again
into the race with the others. No more
shall we kowtow and bend before His
Majesty, Pop" Eyler. He is again of the
earth and made Of but common clay like
the rest Of the poor mortals. 1t all hap
pened out at Vinton street park yesterday
afternoon and six innings told the tale, cut
short by j. Pluvius Had there been more
innings 1t might have been worse, but IL is
all right at 2 to 1.
So back to the scrapbook and the family
album, Pop" and blot those six innings
from your memory and that of your chill
dren and your children's children. Our
emaciated league standing may look slckly,
but II is well again and there will be many
ragged days for the enemy.
1t was a good game and a pretty game
and there was glory a plenty for the local
brigade. They gathered enough medals in
six innings TO fit out delegates to fire.
mems convention and a few extra ones
to take home in the trunk for the children.
Denver was in a dilapidated condition be-
sides. over half OF the team playing out
OF their regular positions. while Patterson,
late OF Omaha, held down first base for
the Grizzlies quite creditabiy.
Pitchers Do Good Work.
shafstal had the Grizzlies at his mercy
all OF the time and kept their few hits
well scattered. Eyler was very effective
too, except in the second, when three hits
gathered and scored the two runs.
Delehanty was the first man to face
shaIstal and he banged the ball hard
enough to send 1t seudding across the dia-
mond into Joe Dolan's hands, and that was
one down. Whitridge was next and flew
out to Walter. Meanwhile Jones was plan
ming great things and started by smashing
a hot one into Dolan. Dolan grabbed It
by the scrun of the neck and whirled It
over toward "Red," but it went wild and
there was one on base. but Hartzel could
not help. 81. --
In the second it started out nice with
McHale's erasure at first and Patterson's $
duplicate trick. Then Radcliffe scratched
and Lattimer followed with double Rad
cHfte started home like a cottontaii, but
stumbled over his feet just of OF third
and was caught trying to recover the bag
That made it three out and again things
were smiling.
When Dolan went to the bat in the
second everyone asked for a home run and
he Immediately went out at first. Red
aNuntered Zip to the bat in a sort of uncon-
Stzoua effort and hit at the ball and II
sailed out into the soft ethereal blue,
while he slipped onto first Walter Pres
ton was the next victim and he waited for
his chance but got hit on the ankle while
waiting. Wright YVES getting chesty loaf
ing around second and they got him be-
tween Radcliffe and Delehanty and began
playing ante over with him. but Rad
clifte fumbled the ball and Red was on
third, with Preston on second. Meanwhile
Hickey was worrying with Pops" curyes
and at, last made stab at One which let
Wright In while he was going out at
frst. Gonding helped 1t along by bring
ing Preston in with single out in the
right garden and Shafstal put another of
the same brand on the other side. But
Carter couldn't reach first, so II was all
over so far as scoring was concerned.
GriEHlies Score One.
Meanwhile the Grizzlies were clubbing
along hitting the ball occasionally until
the fourth, when they got started. Hattzel
scratched and McHale sacrificed him on
one. Patterson stood up TO the bat and did
his popular repertoire in stopping the ball
with his padded stats. Then Radcliffe fell
on the ball and there was about to be a
massacre but shugart fumbled the ball and
Hartzel dropped in. Patterson was on third
in the meantime and started to come in
when they were throwing the ball around
second, but he was cut of at the plate
by a few miles. Lattimer was easy and
the scoring for the day was over.
There wasn't much doing after that ex-
cept for the single that Preston drew of
OF one of Eyler's wide fioaters that he
teases the batter with and the catch Rat.
cliffe made OF Wrights liner. With the