Omaha daily bee., 1921-07-27
Buffaloes Slug
Way to ll-9 Win 9
Over Joplin
Two Errors in Late Innings
BY Christensen Aids
Locals in Scoring Win
ming Run.

Tie, Omaha Buffaloes slugged
their way to another victory over
the Joplin Miners yesterday after
noon at the Fifteenth and Vinton
street pasture, trouncing the Mis-
sourians by the score of II to 9.
|. Boss Burch trotted out three
,hurlers and then finally detailed
himself to the mound in order to
capture the second game of the
series. The Miners checked out
three hurlers, but the locals had
their swatting togs on and clouted
Joplin hurlers at opportune times.
A trio of Joplin errors cost the
Miners heavy, while the four bobbles
committed by Buffaloes during the
nine innings didn't help matters
much from an Omaha standpoint.
Omaha scored nthe initial inning
when Haney reached first on an
error and went to second on Lees
single. The latter stole second and
then Lelivelt swung his mighty war
club in the direction of the St.
Joseph hospital and sent the ball
sailing toward the Missouri for
triple, scoring Haney and Lee.
Joplin Scores in Second.
Joplin counted in the second when
Cady singled and scored on Robi-
sons bingle to right. Kruger sac
rificed and Robson advanced to sec
ond, scoring when D. Williams got
a life on Mead's bobble. c. Will
liams singled and D. advanced to
second, scoring on Christensen's
single. The latter copped the sec
ond sack and Hamilton ups and
doubles, scoring c. Williams and
Christensen.
Four more Buffalo scores were
chalked up in the second inning and
the Miners were in the rear. Massey
started the fireworks by sending a
single to left. Lingle doubled to
center and Mike" breezed to third,
scoring when Haney singled. The
third-sacker stole second and Lee
walked filling the bases. Lelivelt
collected his second hit, a double
to left, and three Buffaloes
scampered across the plate.
With the score of E to S in the
fourth, Joplin registered score when
D. Williams singled, advanced to
second on a sacrifice, third on Chris
tensen's single and scored on Hamil-
tons bingle to right.
The Buffaloes also annexed a tally
in the fourth when Lee singled to
left and scored on Lelivelt's second
double and third hit of the afternoon.
In the fifth Joplin scored three
runs and forged in the lead During
this stanza of slugging, Burch sent
in Daniels to relieve Mead. During
the two and two-third innings Lefty"
was in the box, Joplin collected six
hits. He was relieed by. Davenport
after the Miners, had scored
two runs off him in the fifth. Lanky
Davenport lasted but short time
and then Burch galloped out to the
mound.
Walker tripled to start the fifth
and scored on Cady's single. Robson
singled and Cady went to second, the
former scoring on Krueger's bingle.
The latter was nabbed at third
when O'Brien made dandy throw
to Haney, thus ending the chances
of another visitor crossing the rub
Der. D. Williams sacrificed and
Robson registered the final Joplin
tally of the game.
Burch Scores in Sixth.
In the sixth Burch walked and
scored on Gislason's double. Massey
knotted the count in the seventh
when he forced O'Brien at second.
went to second on Lingle's single
and scored when Gislason got life
on Cuckoo" Christersen's error.
With the score 9 to 9 in Omaha's
half of the eighth, Lee drew a base
on balls. Lelivelt sacrificed the
Buffalo fielder to second and then
pug" Griffin slammed out double
to left, scoring Lee with the win
ming run. Ten tallies were not
enough, however, as the slugging
Griffin came home with the final
score when Christensen muffed Mas
sey's high one out center-held way.
The final game of the series will
be played this afternoon.
The box score follows:
JOPLIN.
ABB. R.H. TIL. sH.B.O.A.E.