Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-07
DROP one IN RACE FOR FLAG
Denver Touches Omaha Just When
Sioux Win Two from Lincoln.
TEAM GIVES BAD SUPPORT
beck Does some Poor TwirlIns,
but when secOnd Game Opens
Locals Take a Decided
Brnce.

Omaha, 2; Denver. s.
Omaha, o: Denver. 0.
Omaha dropped back one game IN the
mad race for the Western league pennant
Sunday when Sioux City won two games
from Lincoln and Omaha could do moth
ing better than lose one and win one with
the Grizzlies.
1t was most humiliating. withal. for
Mr.. Jackson. formerly OF Omaha. Sioux
City and Pueblo, and now OF Denver, did
the twirling that did the business. Omaha
lost the firse game and won the second.
The first should have been won, also, but
ragged support in the first part OF the
game and poor pitching by Hollenbeck in
the latter part cost Omaha a game which
would have otherwise been easy to win.
Jackson pitched both games, and while he
was hit for thirteen clean ones in the
second contest he was touched up for
eight in the first, and that should have
been enough to win.
The story Of that first game IL a sad
tale to relate. It started bad and stayed
bad all the way through. Hollenbeck
walked the first man. who died on a foz-
zled sacrifice, Cassidy then popped a high
one which King %misjudged, and 1, Belden
scored and Cass went TO third. White and
Cassidy tried the hit and run game,
which seemed to bewilder Chicken so that
he could not pick up the bunt which lay
at his feet. but let Cassidy score. Omaha
made one of those runs back on Fishers
walk, Kings sacrifice and Welch's single.
After making those two runs in the first
on errors the Grizzlies made two more
in the third by hitting the ball. With
two out, Belden and Cassidy singled and
White drove them home with a single.
There was no sense in any Of those hits.
either, as Hollenbeck has each batter in
the hole and could easily have wasted a
few.
The fourth was like the third except
that Kinneally led off with a triple, which
was followed by a base on balls and two
singles, which gave two more runs. In
the fifth Franck's error started two
more runs to lncubating and they
Matched. Bohannon followed with a
triple Denver only made four TRIPLES and
all in the same spot, between center and
right fields). driving White home, and he
was able to score on Kinneally's fly to
Aubrey.
JacksOn's Ambition Dies Out.
The second game is not 50 sad to tell
about because it was a better game Of
ball. with War Sanders pitching one of
his invincible games and the team Civ
ing him perfect support. He allowed but
five hits, did not pass a man nor hit a
man, and struck out four. Fisher accepted
three chances, WEIGH five, and Belden
five, and others on the team caught flies
that SCARED in the air, but they were not
placed. .- ,..-
jackson was so proud of his win In the
first contest that he asked permission to
pitch the second I'm the hope of making It
two wins, but the thirteen hits made by
the Rourke family made him wish he had
been satisfied, with the first game. He
was wild In the second and hit three
Rourkes End4hadsa wild pitch. ~ 'dTt
Harry WEIGH fixed to seconu game
proper In the third inning, when. With
sthree on bases he drove them all home
with a double to the right field fence.
He also drove King; home in the seventh
inning with another double. King was
quite handy with the willow and hit
safely three times in the second game
and twice in the first. Relden made a
race with his brother and they made four
hits apiece in the two games. Sanders
would not permit two hits in any one in
ming, so the Grizzlies could not score.
Two games will be played with Denver
this afternoon, the first starting at 2:30.
Score, first game: