Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-16
500 GETS one BY ACCIDENT
Real Explanation is Luck in Game
Which Resulted 6 to 8.
TABLES TURN ON OMAHA AT LAST
For Eight Innings Rourkes Held
Game where They Needed It,
Then 500 DId Real In
dian Trick.

omaha. S; Sioux city, s.
with the game practically slowed away
the Rourkes let the Holmes come up from
behind in the eighth inning and cart away
the game, to the great discomfort OF a
large array Of nome talent. Omaha has
been winning on those tail-end finishes, but
the tables turned yesterday and the 500
won out by hard scrapping.
Stanley Robson, owner OF the st. Louis
Nationals. was in the stand, looking over
the prospects OF grabbing some material
with which TO strengthen his team and
he could not have been impressed very
strongly with the game that was played.
But three men hit at all for Omaha.
Fisher, schipke and GUnding registering
twice and the rest failing TO make good
when a little poke would have won the
game.
Hollenbeck was not in very good form,
although he got away with his work until
the eighth inning when four singles and
two stolen bases scored three runs. He had
kept the hits scattered one to an inning
up 20 that time. but a batting rally by
the tail end OF the batting list did the
business.
Alderman Of Tekamah, who pitched a
good game Sunday and lost, was sent to
the hill out Of his turn to try to stem
the string Of defeats which Omaha has
boon administering TO the Sioux and al
though it looked bad most of the way
through he is credited with a win. He held
Omaha to six hits and passed two, al
though he also hit two.
with two strikes and three balls on
smith in the first inning and with two out
Duke Hollenbeck sailed a pretty one right
over the middle Of the pan and the former
Washington shortstop caught it s~quarely
and sailed the ball over the left field
fence.
Omaha starts out.
Omaha was BANKED until the third, when
Gonding opened up with a single and died
on second, when Holly tried to sacrifice.
Fisher, with his face In a sling from the
hard crack he had received Sunday, picked
out one to his liking and followed the lead
of Smith by also hitting for a homer over
the left field fence, scoring two.
A combination Of flukes scored three
more for omaha In the sixth. Schipke
opened with a single, was sacrificed to
second by WEIGH and after Perrine had
been hit in the neck By a pitched ball, both
succeeded in stealing. Kane struck out
and Schipke scored when WEIGH Juggled
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pulled off a double steal and Smith threw
tho ball away in trying to throw home
Towne was slow fielding the ball and
Franck came home also.
Sioux city picked up two more runs in
the seventh inning, when with two out
Hollenbeck passed Andreas and Smith and
Edmonson hi a long fly TO deep middle
right. He tried TO stretch q double into a
triple and wa nailed at third.
In the eighth with one out Stovall hit
a hard one toward Kane, which took a
bad bound and got by him for a, single.
Hunter followed with a single through
Hollenbeck and Towne scored Stovall with
a single to left. Alderman died-Hollen-
beck to Kane and Campbell hit a single
into Kings garden, scoring Hunter and
Towne.
But Omaha Came Back.
Omaha had a good chance TO tie the
score in the eighth, when Schipke opened
the inning with a safe poke. He was sac
rifced 10 second by welch and Perrine
struck out. Schipke went to third on a
wild pitch and Kane was next up. The
hope OF the fans was placed in his hitting
the DalL but 1 mishap spoiled all hope.
a ball pitched wild and back of him hit
the small end Of his bat and went into fair
territory. Kane was a little slow getting
started and the ball beat him to first.
Today will be Sioux City's last appear
an,e for some time and Omaha will leave
tomorrow on its western trip, although a
run back to Omaha will be made from
Lincoln Sunday for a stransferred game
with lincoln.