Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-04-30
Pa Rouke Boys Look Mighty Good the Home Folks No
ROURKES WIN IN
FREEZING GALE
Rain and Cold Fail to Deter Pas
Athletes, Who Go Ont and
Lambast Champions.
KRAUsE HURLs A NICE GAME

There were four reasons why the COM
bat between Omaha and Des Moines yes
terday could have been called off with
ont disturbing the peaceful repose OF
anybody interested.
The said four reasons were. rain. cold
wet grounds, and the suffering the scribes
In the press coup were compelled 70
endure.
After three men had faced Harry
krause IN the opening stanza. Jumps Eek
man, who was bossing the works. called
time .ecause of the superabundanee Of
moisture and he and his shining fate,
Mr. Carney, hiked for the warmth of
the club house, where he remained for
twenty minutes.
Apparently the jumps must have inhaled
% shot OF surreptitous red-eye or some
thing similarly soothing to the innrds Of
ii frozen imp, for he emerged from tho
comfortable club house, slantod his ex-
pert orbs toward tho press coup on the
roof where the Bcribes shipcred and
swore while two Barney oldfeld winds
ono Hudson Bay zephyr and the other
2 BehrInR straits breeze. met IN their
midst and aleefuiy and maliclousiy
roared. play ball." with the result
that tho scribes slowly and painfully
CONCEALED as the nine rounds OF pastlne
we're committed.
GnWc II snHDpy.
Incidentally Omaha COPIED tho combat
and played bang.up game Of ball, In
az much as one could notice while spend
ing most OF his lime ~ furious abortive
efforts 10 keep the blood circulating IN
the accustomed veins. The score was
to O.
Harry Krause. the pulchritudlnous
southpaw, was on the mound for the
don.D Rourkelets and Harry didn't
seem to mind the playful pranks OF The
clements. lie pitched sterling ball, and
II was not until the final frame that
Badly Isboll'a falterlng champs were able
to nick him for run.
III MnsscP Hard.
On the other hand tho Rourkoyinan
swatsmlths fell on Paul Alusser with
great gusto Paul was between two fires.
When the rain and cold wasn't making
him disconsolate and drcary. the Rourke
httcrs were. All In all -.r. Musser could
have had much moro enjoyable after
noon yesterday at some movie show.
Tho game opened with a steady drlzzle
falling into the diamond and into the
press coup. After Hahn and Hunter
Flew out to Smith and Jones walked, time
was called for twenty minutes. Then
the game started again, and after past
ing Mclean In the Stats. Krause retired
Hartford and gave the home boys a
chance 70 gallup around tho muddy
paihs.
Walk Proves Fatal.
Mugser found It difficult TO control the
pill In the rain and slipped Joe Burg
four wide ones to open hostilities. Smith
placed neat sacrifice, and Cyrus For
sytho, who Is n southcrner and ought to
frceze into state OF inuapaelty on a
day IKE yesterday, but doesn't know II,
laced a single to center and Joe hiked
hone.
The Rourkes were duck-soup In tho
second, but broke loose again in the
bird and counted a couple OF runs.
Smith started the festivities with sim
gle. and went TO third on gorsythe's
hit TO right. Cyrus then swiped SECOND.
Krug lifted a sacrifice fly to Hunter on
which smithy counted. Miller was hit In
the arm or some other vital spot by one
Of slussers sIanta. Miller and Forsythe
then executed a double steal on the vet
eran Larry Spahr. with Forsythe regis
tcring and Miller going to second Three
stolen bases. II Jones hadn't made a
swell stop OF Priests hard grounder the
Rourkes would have pudloned all Of
Larrys accoutrements. including his cele-
brated indebtedness.
4 walk to Miller, sacrifices by Kruger
and Priest and Oklahoma Pete Kildufrs
colossal thrce-base swat marked another
tally for our athletes In the fifth.
big Doings In Eighth.
The big doings were in the eighth.
Priest almost tore Musser's foot off with
drive and kllduff sacrificed and was
safe when Jones tried to pull off a one
handed catch and didn't do 1t. Krause
sacrificed and Joe Burg Jared Musser's
teeth with three cushion poke to center
on which Priest and Kllduff galupcd
home. Berg tried to make a home run
on his three-bagger lie would have been
out couple OF feet. but spahr dropped
The pin and he was safe.
singles by spahr and Danny Claire,
who returned To the Western league yes
terday after an absence Of three years.
and a tWo-bagger by Dick Breeu. pinch
ing for Aiusaer gave the Boosters their
only tallcs Ia tho ninth.
omaha and nta Molnc5 are scheduled
60 play again today The game will
ee called AZ s.ls Lou North probably
van ho KuHa hurting choice, while
l.eny Thomas probably viii lebar Tor The
enemy Score
OMAHA.