Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-18
SEVENTEEN TRIES
LEAVE SCORE TIE
Darkness Comes on and Umpire Calls
Lincoln-0mah Game in Seven
tenth Inning.
BULLETIN STANDS TWO TO TWO
Omaha Had Game Tucked Away Until
the Eighth Inning.
KEEAvES MAKES COSTLY ERROR
His BOtchery Helps LincOlnites to
Chalk Up Two Runs.
PITCHERS PERFORM STEADILY
However, ~ Was Fine Game, FILLED
with Startling stunts, Fine
a. Catches, Circus Plays and
Much Noise.
BULLETIN STANDS TWO TO Tw,
Omaha Had Game Tucked Away Until
the Eighth Inning.
KEEAvEs MAKES COSTLY Enrol
His BOtchery Helps LincOlnites to
Chalk Up Two Runs.
PITCHERS PERFORM STEADILY

For seventeen innings Omaha and LIN
coin battled Saturday and then darkness
came on with the score locked at W q
IL was a game filled with starting stops,
sensational catches. circus stunts and
much noise. Even ], Pluvius had hand
IN the game. stopping the play for a
while after the eighth inning.
Robinson, the new pitcher, acquired from
Toledo. made his debut before Omaha fans,
and before the game was ended he was
heralded as the coming terror to all West
ern league batters. Wolverton, who was
on the firing line for the Antelopes. was
there also and pitched a game equally as
good as bis opponent. Robinson struck out
fourteen men, while the Antelope finger
downed thirteen in the same manner.
Eleven hits went to Lincoln and ten to
the Rourlkes. Omaha had the game cinched
until the eighth inning when Stratton and
Wolverton each appropriated a hit and
Kneaves donated the two men q tally each
by making a poor heave to Kane. which
tied the score.
After the fatal eighth no more runs we're
made Both pitchers settled down TO the
game and used every possible twtster on
the roster 70 mystify the batter. Strange
20 say, as the game progressed the more
bewtldering were the wrinkles which
WnI6k6Q ACROSS the pan Al Nilo AOhANcoAbh
inning, when It seemed that something
should happen Robinson struck out three
men In a row.
Not satisfied with the way his change
worked Friday, Unglaub went back to sec
ond base ana showed Thomas in ais old
place at first
Robinson Got His AngOra-
AT the bat he was just as much a terror
as ever to the pitcher. but Robinson got
his goat" in the eighth. Two men were
on bses and none out when 0agnier sue
cumbed TO a strikeout. When Unglaub
came to bat a groan went through the
stands. But It was then that Robinson
got busy and the mighty Unglaub famed
the breezes three times running.
The game was about as evenly divided
as one possibly could be. Wolverton passed
five men. Robinson two. A difference OF
but one was allowed In the hits. The
etrikeouts were fourteen and thirteen; the
errors three to one. Omaha stole two
bases. while Lincoln got three. In the
eleventh II looked like Omaha's game
Williams went out on a grounder. A hit
apiece put Schoonover and King on base
and then Niehoff walked. Wolverton set
tied and struck out Kneaves, and Arbo-
CAST was an easy out to Cole on q high
fly. Lincoln had two men on bases In
the twelfth with but one out and seemed
good for a run. when Gagnier hit into a
double. retiring the side.
No runs were made by either side until
khe third. Omaha made two. Robinson
singled to right Pick pushed him to sec
ond with a single to the opposite side OF
the field Kane singled to right and Rob.
inson scored Pick went to third. A sacri-
flee fly by schoonover 10 Mccormick
scored Pick.
In the eighth Lincoln came back and
desdlocked the score. stratton singled TO
right. woiverton got to first on an in
field hit and stratton went to second. A
passed ball by Arbogast gave each man
another hasa Cole hammered nice one
TO KneAyes, who made a poor throw &c
Kane Stratton and Wolverton bott
romped home on the error. Score: