Omaha daily bee., 1911-05-02
CAN'T Be BEATEN AT HOME
RourkeS Add St. Joe to List of scalps
for First Clashes.
ARE READY NOW FOR THE SIOUX
Large Crowd Of Women Braves the
Cold 90 See the Two Teams Play
an Exceptionally Fast
Cana


BY punching their hits in the third In
ming and working like veterans on the
bases Pa Rourks's Colts took the game
from the ST. Joseph team yesterday after
noon by s to 4 score. CHIEF Johnson
the Drummers Indian twirlsh. was knocked
out Of the box In the third inning and
Hannifan put in his place.
The game, despite the cold weather. was
fast and full Of sensational plays, leading
among which was Schoonover's catch Of
Hannifsn's fly In the seventh with one
hand. Heavy hitting and clever base steal
ing featured the game. Durbin allowed but
seven hits TO the Drummers, and four Of
these were scratches. Omaha was there
again with the stick and got away with
eleven singles
Notwithstanding the fact that the pro-
gram for ladies' day had been called off
over 100 of the fair fans sat and shivered
throughout the entire nine innings and
when It came to roofing mere man was
sidetracked and the shrieks Of the feminine
voice could be heard. The Rourkes were
AZ their best yesterday and had II not
been for the cold weather It is doubtful
II there would have been an error on
either side.
Meinke, the clever Drummer short stop
distinguished himself by his wonderful
work at the infield post He handled seven
chances without an error and couple Of
them were going some. King and Graham
were there with the stick and clouted out
three hits each. Zwilling the St Joseph
outfielder. lifted the first ball pitched by
Durbin In the first inning to center field
for home run. although he had to slide
for the plate. which he made safely
81. JOseph starts Fast.
St. Joseph started out with a rush and
for while It looked like the home run of
DWELLINGS, was to be the only run Of the
game. Neither team scored in the second
inning and the Drummers failed to annex
another run in their half Of the third
Omaha started the fireworks in the third,
when Pickering sent the ball to the left
field fence for two bags. He stole third
and came home on Kings hit through
short. Kane sacrificed King to second, and
he scored on schipke's three-bagger to
center. Graham followed with a double.
scoring Schipke. and he was showed acress
the pan when Agnew doubled to right. 1t
was at this period that Johnson was given
the hook and Hannifan sent in. and the
inning ended without another hit or run.
In the fifth inning Omaha scored again
Kane drew a pass stole second and scored
ON Graham's hit to right In the sixth
inning Anderson reached first on a hit
through Hannifan. He took second on
chickering's sacrifice to second He romped
home on Reilly's error of Kings easy
Erounder.
81 Joseph scored in its half OF the sixth
when Reilly got to first on Kings error
Of his liner. He took second on Borton's
sacrifice fly and scored when Meinke lifted
hit to right. Two runs were secured by
the drummers in the eighth and for a while
It looked like the sc6re would be tied.
Powell took first on a hit through Durbin,
and took second Schipke's error of
keily's singer; Kelly landed safely on
first Meinke doubled to right and Powell
and Kelly cantered acress the pan for the
last scores Of the game. The score: