Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-12
WICHITA TWICE THUNPED
Rourkes Give Visitors Awful Drub.
bling in Second Game.
FIRST NOT DIFFICULT, EITHER
Lower and Keeley shine, Latter
Having Broken Losing streak
Or aha Moves to Second
Place In Race.

OTDahbs ~ "lCnlldi O. |
Omaha has moved from fourth to second
place.
Two games were taken from the Hol-
landers Sunday afternoon TO the great de-
light Of a vast array Of fans who filled
every available seat IN Pas grandstand
and bleaehers, swarming over the field
made ground rules necessary. 1t was a
typical holiday crowd and how 1t did en-
Joy the sport OF seeing the J~ayhawkers
humbled and cast from their proud posi-
ton near the top Of the ladder.
Pa has been laying awake nights figuring
on lust how he would win those two games
and move into second place. He began
to talk about It last Thursday and kept 1t
up until he believed II, then he got all
the players to thinking the same way and
where there is such unity of purpose It
had to be done. Pa figured that II he
saved Lower and Kelley to do the pitching
Sunday the proud colors Of Wichita would
be lowered. 1t has come to pass.
Lower won the first game and Kelley
dittoed in the second. II was a great day
for Keeley for his hoodoo is now broken
and he Is once more In a position to win a
few ball games. When Kelley came to
Omaha he won six straight. He then kept
losing until he had blown six and now the
turn in the road has come and Pa has
another winning pitcher on his staff.
Lower had Just one bad inning all through
the first game and errora by Fisher, Kane
and Pendry were what made that bad.
During the nlixup from these three errors
and a single and a double Wichita scored
three runs which was all the kansans
were able to get during the game.
Omaha started to score in the second
inning when Kane was passed. Kin
49, Al. 90 fuyn anaEG and
Franck for one which, with Clark's error,
gave Omaha four runs. In the third. three
singles, an error, Wild pitch, and a passed
ball gave three more.
Second Game a Massacre.
The second game was simply a slaughter
of the innocents from the very start
Plymton, the college lad who had shut
out Des Moines Saturday, was sent in to
do the work, and the first two balls
pitched to Fisher looked as though he
was going to be hard to catch. But with
Fisher then in the hole, Plymton hit aim
in the stats with a pitched ball and that
was the beginning of the end OF Mr..
Plymton. He was relieved in the fifth In
ming by Captain Hughes, who plays short
Hughes had played short and then caught
the day before at Des Moines. 1t was
off the pitching OF Mr.. Hughes that Omaha
scored eight runs in the sixth inning and
two In the seventh.
The downfall of Mr.. Plymton started
when he hit Fisher in the first. Pendry
drove Fisher home with a double and
Welch walked. Kane hit a single and
Melch and pendry scored, having advanced
a base on a passed ball. King beat out
a uunt ,..u nane scored on Schipke's
grounu,r 20 ,he pitcher.
W,lcl ~, ule bail to the middle field
fierce in the Fourth inning for as pretty
u tnrte--lss mt as one would wish &c
see. And three were on bases when he
hit it. keeiey, Fisher and Pendry had
each singled when Welch came to bat
The college lad was in a quandary. TIC
pass the doctor meant to force In a run
He might better have issued the pass
Welch caught the ball squarely, and Il
the fence had not stopped the ball 4
probably would have been rolling yet. A!
1t was the center fielder had to take tim,
in recovering from the chase after tn,
ball.
And then came Captain Hughes, H
has curves, but he can't curve them wher,
the Rourke family cannot hit them, an,
as a consequence many batting average
were fattened.
Today will be ladies' day.
Scpra first On ma.