Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-06
At that He Receives No Support at
the Critical Times.
Ky IS TOO HIGH FOR TALL FLIES
Ball Drops in Every Field on the
Omaha Side.
ROURKEs END WITH BIG DAsl
open Up on Chief JOhnson and Have
Him Up In the Air When the
AfternOOn's Agony Ter
mlnates.

Omaha, 6; Lincoln, II.
The affair at Vinton street park yes
to-day afternoon was one about which
he least said the better.
The high sky. the sudu, Pas new
grandstand addition or something evil
IDENTIFY dazed the Rourkes, for they blum
dered about In their sleep for a good part
Of lifetime, sanders was given a fear
full walloping. but at that It would not
have been so bad had he received any
support at critical times. Then, again,
there is this to be said along that line,
that the sky was so high a tall fly was
a dangerous thing.
Chief Walter Johnson, Lincoln's Indian
pitcher, went elong very we'll for eight
innings. but he was clearly at sea when
circumstance ended the game in his
favor. The Rourkes had him going at a
very rapid clip and he could not have
stood the CUFF much longer.
All Omaha's errors we're made by the
outfielders, each OF whom figured in the
error column. Some of the long flies
whiCh went as hits merely dropped on
the ground because a Rourke could not
Judge the ball soaring around In June's
unclouded sky.
Everything was lovely for a fine home
coming for the Rourke family. The
gross was green, the grandstand was en-
larged seventy feet. a big crowd filled it
and the bleachers and everybody expected
omsha to win, but 1t was not In the
cards
One Two, Three for a while.
omaha could not connect safely at all for
'"ee innings and 1t was a procession Of
one two' three, although two were passed.
Jul they We're naobed by the good right
arm oI-suillVan's In trying to capture sec
onu' IN the fourth KIM made the first
cream MT FOR Omaha, but died on first. as
ooln WEIGH and Kane struck out. A base
III oails TO Kane and Franck's double
scored the first run for Omaha in the sev-
e"'h inning Fisher beat out an lnfield hit
In the eighth and scored on Welch's trinla
WEIGH scored on Jack Thomas error.
with the score II to 8, Omaha started n
batting rally in the ninth. but II fa,I ghort
OF the mark. Gondlng opened with a tr,ple
and Sanders almost knocked johnson doa,n
lor a SAFE hit, and Gonding scored. Fisber
walked and all advanced a base on King.
infeld out. WEIGH flew out to Davidson and
Sanders scored. Kane and slugger Bin btt
soakers to the infield which were foo hsrd
to handle and Fisher scored, but Pendrv
ended the game by flying out to waldron
Lincoln started to score in the second in
I ming when Thomas and Jude opened the
inning with singles. Welch muffed Gar
nier's fly and two runs came in on infieId
outs In the third inning four runs were
made after two were down. Davidson.
Thomas and jude hit doubles in success
sion and Gagnier and Sullivan followed
with singles, but sully was caught trying
to stretch his into a double.
In the sixth Sully singled and Pritchett
was given a life on Fishers error, when
Johnson cleared the sacks with a home run
nit over the left field fence. Jack Thomas
also hit 1t over the same place in the ninth
inning with no one on bases.
The same teams play this afternoon.
when the Rourke family will try to ad-
minister the Kelley cure to the Prohi-
bitlonists.
The score: