Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-05-17
OMAHAS SCALP The SIOUX
Nebraska Indians Tear the Feathers Of
Tribe from Up the River
TWENTY HITS MADE DURING GAME
Pa's Papooses Hang seven RIMS TO
their Belts in First Inning,
thus Doping Chrney's
Bucks.

Omaha players signalized their return
from the first western trip Of the season by
knocking the everlasting tar out OF Sioux
CITY in a game Of ball at Ninton street
park wednesday afternoon II was done,
too before a large number Of visiting dem
lists and doctors and photographers, who
took This occasion to see a real team play
hall They saw an almost perfect game
on the part Of the Omaha team and rag
ged game by Sioux City. The only errors
made by Omaha were the dropping OF an
easy foul popup by Perring and the mis-
throw Of a hard pickup by Rumble. The
game was won by Omaha in the first in
ming. when seven runs were scored on four
hits and two errors, the final score being
II to3.
Carney. manager Of the Sioux, stil suf-
fering from the assault by Hoggie at
Sioux city. was on the bench and had an
outhelder named Bauer playing first. Mr..
Bauer was not at home at this point of the
field and made three bad errors. The Sioux
al most stages we're like a lot Of amateurs
booting the ball whenever a chance was
offered Carney sent a large youngster
named Corbott TO do the slabwork and
what Rourkes hirelings did to him was
all sufficient Bender started the good work
head and then hits were made as needed.
Stats IL the Goods.
REPORTS have been brought to Omaha
concerning the good work Of Stats Davis
as an umpire The Omaha fans had an
opportunity Of seeing for themselves and all
left the grounds with the thought that these
reports had not been exaggerated, for a
harder worker or man who seemed to have
hot troI Of 40 ub ma 10
his decisions quicker, was never seen on
an Omaha diamond in the memory of the
Oldest Inhabitant Starting with the an
nouncement that the game was to be played
under the rules of the National Association
of Base Ball clubs and that every rule
would be enforced he kept the players on
the jump from the start and brooked no
interference or back talk What would
otherwise have been a long drawn out
game was played in one hour and thirty
minutes Several decisions were very close
and would have caused a wrangle with an
other umpire, but not with Stats.
Omaha did the business in the first in
ming. much to Mr.. Corbetts discontinue.
Bender started the works by hard drive
over short and Carter sacrificed him to
second, reaching first himself on Bauer's
first error. Bender was not satisfied with
a base on the sacrifice but simply kept
sprinting until he landed safely at home.
Bassey's single brought Carter home and
Welch fouled out TO first Dolan hit for a
double and Runkle followed with a single.
Perring walked and Gonding hit a grounder
To Frost, which the latter tried to throw
to second to catch Perring. but he came
nearer the right field fence than he did to
Phillips and Perring reached third Sanders
went out from second to first and Bender
walked on his second appearance in the
inning double steal by Bender and
Gonding scored the captain and Carter
struck out.
Two more were made off Corbett in the
fourth inning and two in the sixth inning.
after which he was sent to the stable and
another new find named Baker was trotted
out lie did better and Omaha scored no
more nor did the players fatten their
averages any by hit
Singles by Campbell a-d Noblit and a