Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-24
LINCOLN TAKES FIRST ONE
Rourkes Hold Lead Until the Eighth
Inning, Then Break.
STRAW HATS NOT IN EVIDENCE
Eighth InninE--Lincoln Makes
Its killing All at
Once.

The terrific ciouting OF the Antelopes in
the eighth and ninth innings gave Lincoln
the first OF the series by a s to score.
For seven innings Lott held the boys from
the capital helpless. allowing no hits and
no runs. He weakened in the eighth and
gave four hits for three runs. In the ninth
he was again put on the mound, but was
pounded for five hits and three more runs.
Lott was the whole game until he
slumped and allowed the Antelopes to tie
the three-run lead the Rourkes had gath
cred. Captain Schipke shot him back to do
the hurting and he was hammered all over
the field.
Fox was on the mound for the Lincoln
bunch. but was found easy pickings for
the first five innings. He then frightened
up until the eighth, when he was retired
in favor OF Wolverton. In the eighth in
ming Omaha gathered another run which
placed them one to the good Of their OPP
ponents, but they failed "a come back in
the ninth and we're let down with but one
hit, which proved frintisas
On the whole the Omaha team showed a
remarkable improvement over the work of
the team which left here eighteen days
ago. The work of Pick. the new third base
man, was a revelation 10 the fans. He was
quick and snappy and seemed TO I'LL the
whole team with ginger. Niehoff played
like a veteran on the second sack. williams
had but one chance in the outneld and
got away with hat in easy fashion.
Fifteen hundred fans, mostly ardent
rooters for the Rourkes. although there
we're few Lincoln rooters present, turned
out to witness the fray and were held
wonder-stricken for seven long innings by
the fast and furious pace with which the
game was going. Grandstand plays, re-
markable pitching and clever base stealing
were rife and the fans were hilarious until
the fatal eighth. when the game began to
oose away from the hands of the Rourkes
The Rourkes win play the second game
of the series this afternoon and have
promised to do or die and to back this UP
the old reliable Durbin Will probably be put
on the mound.
Omaha opened its half Of the first inning
when Pick took first on an error off Fox.
lie was sacrificed to second by Kane stole
third and romped home with the first run
on Williams sacrifice ny to centerfield
In the second inning King got to first
when Fox threw wild TO first He went to
second on Schoonovers sacrifice hit to
third. Fox made a wild pitch and King
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to left. 8
Again in the third the Rourkes made a
run. Williams singled to center, stole Sec
ond and ambled across the platter on Me
hoffs drive to center for three bases
NO more runs we're made until the eighth
when Lincoln COPIED three. Goodman
singled 20 center, and took second on Null
er's sacrifice. ThomaA singled past second
scoring Goodman. strztton doubled to right
and Thomas went to third They both
scored on Fox's single to right, tying the
score
Omaha came back In the last Of the eighth
with another, run. King tripied to center
and scored when schoonover singled TO left.
Lincoln won the game in the ninth when
Cole doubled to right and took third when
Agnew threw over second. Cobb drew a
walk and stole second. Cockman doubled
left, scoring Cole and Cobb. Cockman took
third on Muller,s single past that bag.
Muller stole second and Cockman was
caught In the hot box between home and
third and tagged by Agnew, and Muller
took third. He scored on Stations single
70 left. Omaha failed to score in the ninth.
The score: