Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-05
ROURKES SWEEP
LOT WITH SIOUX
Thompson and Krause Hurl
Splendid Ball While Mates
Drive in Runs.
SCORES Q TO i AND 7 TO /

While Cecil Thompson and Harry
Krause, the demon southpaw, were
subduing the truculent Sioux sluggers
in nifty fashion, the de luxe Rourklets
spanked the offerings OF Kelly and
Casper soundly, and Omaha ran
away with both ends OF the Labor
day bargain matinee, winning the
first combat 9 to and the second
section to |.
Cecil Thompson had the Sioux on
the hip in the first game and the
Rourkes sailed through the fray with
flying colors. Two-base knocks by
Watson and Lejeune marked up a
run for the Braves in the opening
stanza, but from that period on there
Twas nothing doing. Cecil refused to
permit any rough work whatever.
But while MFR. Kelly may have had
the inclination, he didn't have the
stuff and our Cecil did. As result
the Rourkovinians hammered the
daylights out of him. They made
nine runs and thirteen hits and would
have made more, only they got tired
chasing around the runway.
Kilduff Is Sensation.
Kewpie Kilduff was the shining
light in, the first game, In the sec
ond inning Kewpie was wounded in
collision at the plate with Crosby
and it made him mad. 1t made him
so mad he wanted to 60 out and win
the bali game all by himself. and he
did enough work to do it. He made
four hits out of as many trips to the
plate. One was triple, two were
doubles and one was a single He
also scored two runs, was the pivot
in a double play and accepted seven
chances at short.
Krause in Form.
Harry Krause was i'll splendid form
in the second game and the Omaha
victory was apparent from the start.
So apparent was the victory that the
Sioux turned the rear end OF the con-
flict into bunch of horse play. The
Sioux are great comedians, if you
tdon't believe it, ask them.
Omaha went after Casper at the
start and continued to pummel him
until the end. Ray Miller's triple
started the scoring and was respon-
sibje for the decease of Mr.. Casper.
Sioux Get Sassy.
A couple. of unusual incidents en-
livened this second game. In the
second inning, Burg, on first. and
Smith, on third, started double
steal. The two-ply theft was perfect
and Smith easily slid around Living;
stone. The Sioux catcher didn't
touch him. with the ball until he was
clear over the plate. But Livingstone
thought he'd run bluff on Jumps
Miller and walked off the field,
throwing the ball back into the in
field as he did So. Promptly Joe
Burg liked to third and then home,
as nobody covered either base 70
tried to rescue the pill. When Liv-
ingstone found out what had hap
pened he roared bloody murder. Mr..
Connolly horned in with few harsh
remarks. Miller promptly banished
both gents from the park. Phil
Cooney also tried to get himself can
ned but was unsuccessful.
In the first half of the seventh the
umps and all the athletes on both
teams forgot how many were out and
started to continue play, despite the
fact three men had been retired. The
same stunt occurred in the home halt
Of the seventh. Ray Miller was the
only man, who knew how many were
out both times and nobody would
believe Ray, so the press coop had
to take hand. 300
The crowd yesterday beat the 5000
mark -,
The Rourkes and Sioux will tangle
again this afternoon at Rourke park
at Sis.