Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-25
OMAHA LOSES GAME
'AND FANS RIDE UMP
Anderson Calls Third Strike on
Krug With Three Men on
Bases and Two Down.
BOOSTERS CARRY HoRsEsHoEs

Des Moines defeated Omaha, 2 to
lEgl yesterday, but l,500 fans refused to
Esbelieve it. The fans conceded that
q Omaha lost the game 2 to |, but they
x refused to believe Des Moines turned
Y the trick. They give the credit to
Mr.. Anderson, one of the valued
4 members of Mr. Zehrung's precious
umpiring staff.
With the count to 2 to 0 in favor OF
the opposition, the demonst Rourkes
Y came to bat in the eighth stantza and
proceeded to stage a rally. After
Miller went out Marshall beat out an
infield hit. Cy Forsythe then almost
beat out an infield hit, but was called
out by the jumps. This started the
~fans to exhibit symptoms of displeas-
ure as it looked like Cy might have
beat the ball to first.
Kewpie Kilduffs single to center
counted Marshall and Kewpie hiked
to second on Burg's safe knock to the
same garden. Harry Krause was
rushed into the uniform of sniper
and called upon to sharpshoot for
Bruck, who, be it known, is the
punkest hitter in captivity. Harry
proved to be considerable of sniper
as he delivered single which filled
the bases.
Calls Marty Out.
This put it up to Marty Krug to tie
up, or win the game as the bases were
full and two were down. Baker threw
three straight wides, one at Marty
and the spirits of the fans began to
rise perceptibly. Then Baker shot
over two strikes, both of them close
corner shots. With the count three
and two Bakers next offering cut the
heart of the plate, but it was low,
very, very low. The jumps called it
a strike and the blow-off occurred.
The entire Rourke nine surrounded
Mr.. Anderson and began to say
things the world never heard of be-
fore. If Webster had been present
he would have turned green with
envy, and Shakespeare's vocabulary
of 10000 words would have seemed
like the prattle of 2-year-old as
compared to effectiveness of the Ian
guage the Rourkes employed.
Throw Cushions at Jumps.
The fans also joined in the CONVEX
sation and the air was blue for a few
moments. When the game was over
the fans began their TRADE on Ander-
son again as he entered the stands
and number of the irrepressible
hurled cushions at him. Threats of
physical violence were frequent 1t
looked like near-riot for minute,
but the fans finally subsidized and let
Ollie go. Omaha generally is tame
town on umpires, but the fans were
pretty peevish yesterday.
AS for the strike, the judgment of
the press coop was. that it was one of
those balls that can be called either
way, and that Anderson called it as
he sawit. s = '
Boosters Are Lucky. O.
But, omitting the questioned de-
cision, the Boosters copped the COM
bat largely through bunch of horse
shoes they lugged around with them.
The luck broke against the home boys
all the way through, not one break
came to Omaha.
For seven innings the Rourkes
slapped the offerings of Mr.. Baker.
And for seven innings the Boosters
made lucky stabs of hard drives, or
the drives went right at them. As
result but one hit was made and only
twenty-one men faced Baker as
Forsythe, who hit safely, and Thomp-
son, who was safe on an error, were
thrown out on attempted steals.
\ On the other hand both Booster
Scores were earned on a single by
Baker, who struck out the other two
times he came to bat. Baker Just
shut his eyes and swung and he con-
nected.
Shag Makes Great Catch.
Shag Thompson made the stellar
play Of the day, a shoestring catch
off Hahn in the third. Shag turned
a sonmersault to negotiate the catch.
Again in the eighth Shag cut Hahn
down at the plate by perfect throw
from deep center, which arrived right
in Marshalps hands without even a
hop. A foot on either side and Ed
die would have been safe.
Hahn and Hunter also received
some attention by circus catches in
the field.
A double-header will be played be-
tween Omaha and Des Moines today.
The first game will start at 2 o'clock.
Marty O'Toole will pitch one game
and either North or Merz will throw
the other