The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-26
amer,can Association standing.
Americas Association Games To-day.
Toledo at Indianapolis.
Columbus at Louisville.
Minneapolis at Kansas City.
81. Paul at Milwaukee.


After securing a substantial lead in the
early innings and permitting Columbus to
draw up even In the eighth inning. fndian-
apolis won the last game OF the series with
Columbus at Washington Park yesterday
afternoon In the last or the tenth inning.
Peter O'Brien furnished the necessary hit
10 drive the winning run across the plate,
making the score to 4. in favor of Indian
apolis.
The game was of the exasperating variety
and many harsh words would have been
spoken had Columbus been able to bag a
victory. After sailing along easily in the
first few innings with a margin that looked
perfectly safe. the Hoosiers fell into the
ebb tide and were carried beyond the dan
ger point A few OF them struggled to keep
ahead, but Kihms dopey play in the sew
enth and batting rally by Columbus In
the eighth. came near placing the cham
pions In the lost division.
Kellum was sent to the slab for Indian
apolis and with the exception of the eighth
inning. he pitched very good ball. The
Senators were very lucky in their hitting
and nearly all their safe ones were made
on little flies just over the inheld In the
eighth, the visitors connected safely with
about everything that Kellum tried and
four singles and a three-bagger by Turner.
placed them on equal terms with the
For six innings. the Hoosiers registered
two hits in each inning of McMakfn, the
Columbus slabman, and again in the last
of the tenth they were able to make con-
nectIons for enough hits to place them on
the winning side. Fox, o Brien and Tam
sett led the stick work for Indianapolis.
Thoner Turner and Raymer did the best
work with the willow for Columbus
MANY SENSATIONAL PLAYS.
The game was exciting throughout. and
many sensational plays were made to off,
set a few errors and the RIP Van VIM
kle'' play OF Kihm I'm the seventh. In the
second inning, after Mellor had reached
third on Tamsett's disastrous wild throw,
Thoney hit a fly TO left which Jones
caught. and by beautiful throw to the
plate, Mellor was tagged. Tamsett re-
tired the visitors In the fourth by catching
Mellors $ foul by reaching over the pleacner
I'm the fifth. With only one out and two
men on bases. McMakin hit short NY 10
right. No one thought Hogriever would
get near 1t and the men on bases started
toward home. Hogriever made sensa-
tional dive and caught the ball WITHIN a
: few inches OF the ground, and then doupieu
Raymer at second Tamsett. Kim ana
Heydon INDUCED I'm a double play In the
seventh that prevented the visitors from
scoring over one run In that inning. Co
lumbus also played fast game
The first three men TO face kellum were
easily retired. After Hogriever fouled ous
I'm the last of the first inning Fox singled 70
left and reached second on Heydon ou..
Coulters hit to center scored Fox Whiie
the Hoosers hit McMackin In the next
three innings there was no scoring. In the
fifth Tamsett singled. Kellum attempted q
sacrifice. Tamsett reaching second on Iur-
ner's wild throw. Hogriever advanced the
runners with a sacrifice. Foxs single
scored Tamsett and Heydon. In the sixth
OBrien singled and stole second. On
Kihm's third strike O'Brien stole third
Tamsett's hit scored O'Brien.
SCORED IN SEVENTH.
Columbus scored one in the seventh. Tur-
ner singled and Mellor flew to Hogriever
Thoney's single sent Turner to third. The
ball was passed to kim. who picked 1t up
and while bordering over what to do Tho
ney went to second. Raymer's hit scored
Turner. Fox hit to Tamsett and was
thrown out at first and Thoney was caught
at the plate.
Columbus tie6 the score In the eighth. Nc
Maxim singled and the next two batters
ner hit TO deep right center for three bases
Mellor's single scored Turner with the tyinl
run. Thoney singled and Raymer was MT
filing the bags. G.. Fox ended the innint
by flying out to O'Brien.
Kihm opened the ninth with double anc
complete the circuit. In the last OF TIT
tenth Fox beat out an infield effort ant
Heydon's single sent him TO second. Coul
ter forced Heydon at second, on which Fo,
went to third. oBrien then hit to left fol
a base. sending Fox across the plate witt
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