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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1895)
THE COURIER. rji-u' m- THE NATIONAL) GAME. blNGOLN ABROAD At Quincy Owing to some horeo races no games were played Friday and Sat urday and three games had to be played Suntay. Five thousand people saw the Bucks walk off with two of the contests. The morning game was a pretty ona and came our way" by a score of 3 to 2. Barnes and McGreovy did the twirling, and the latter's support lost him the game. From the tabulated scoro ho outpitched Barnes, the Bucks securing only 5 hits off him, but the errors of his supportdid the business. TheEbright's played an errorless game. The first game in the afternoon was lost to the Quincy's by reason of better hitting, Kimmerer being hit for 12 safe ones, while Hill, Quincy's now pitcher from the Southern league, allowed the Bucks but 4. Lincoln played a better fielding game but couldn't place her hits safe. Scoro 7 to t. In the second afternoon game Ernie Gragg pitched winning ball, and, as in the other two games the support was all right. Ebright slammed out a home run with two men on bases, and Sullivan properly poked out a three-Backer, bringing in three more. The Bucks got six hitB off McDougal. Score 6 to 1. At Rockford The Lincoln men were in no shapj to play Monday, after the hard work of the day before and a night ride from Quincy to Rockford, and with the aid of the umpire Nicol's men took the first game cf the series. Lin coln put up a stiff game and might have won with a fair umpire. Score 7 to 4. A bunch of errors by the Bucks and some hard hitting by Rockford was the cause of another defeat for Lincoln Kimmer was hit rather freely and with threo big, juicy errors in the eighth in ning Rockford knocked out 6 runs and won out by 13 to 10. The last game of the series ended in a ten inning tie, and pretty ball playing by both teams. They each secured 8 hits and 4 runs, while Lincoln ia charged with 4 errors. Hill and Van Buren put up a brilliant game. . Dad Clark pitched for Chicago in 1888. Schriver played with Philadelphia in 1890. Lincoln has dropped 7 out of 12 with Quincy. Memphis has dropped out of the Southern league. Quincy made ten eriors to Lincoln's four last Sunday. Speer caught the three games Sunday without an error. Al Mauck has been released by Des Moines at his own request. Clements has been catching for Phil adelphia continually since 1885. David City is having an easy tiraa with tho amatuer teams in the state. An earned run cannot bo scored after a batsman has received his base on balls. Rockford has promised Jiggs Parrott the mayor's chair if he will keep up his good work. Tho Des Moines Becord says that Purvis has played 74 games without an error. What? Archie Cole is managing a semi-professional team at Mr. Ayr, Iowa, at a good salary. Luhman of the Denvers took a littlo vacation recently and then put qp 825 to get square again. Tho Hcrpolshcimer reds aro putting up better ball this trip and are winning the majority of their games. Quincy has another new pitcher, Hill of Chattanooga. Ho let tho' Bucks down Sunday for four base hits. Next Friday the boys will open tho last homo series with tho Illinois clubs this season, Quincy being tho opposing team. Rockford papers kick on the way Shaffer of tho Denvers does the coach act, claiming his little prayer is sacre legious. A friend of VanBuren's will bo given a trial at Peoria by Ebright. He is an outfielder and Van vouches for his hit ting and fielding ability. Here's Sol Oppenheiraer'd guess as to the finish: Lincoln pennant (of course), Peoria, Des Moines, Quincy, Denver, Jacksonville, St. Joe, Rockford. Rockford feels very much elated at winning two straight from the Bucks. They gave us a push down the slide that will have to bo won back from the lead ers. Can "ours" do it? Buck kicked on Heath, the umpire that Quincy tried to mob, and in the second Rockford game, Mr. Heath faded. An umpire must be awful rotten if Buck wires for another. The Lincolns seldom invite the umpire out in the alley to fight. They play tho game on its merits. Ebright does all the kicking, and he is certainly old enough to know how. Rockford Star. In the first game at Rockford Ebright kicked on Heath, the umpire who was so nearly mobbed at Quincy recently, and the next day another of Kent's freaks officiated. This umpire question seems to be more than Kent can handle. Up to Friday the Lincolns have played 15 games on the present trip, and havo won 8, lost b and a tie game with Rock ford. The pitchers work is, Barnes has won 4 and lost 1, Gragg won 3 and lost 1 and tied 1, Kimmerer won land lost 4. The boys aro at Peoria now, going from there to Jax and then home to open with Quincy next Friday. The pretty races in all tho leagues is attracting big crowds to tho ball games this summer. In the national Pitts burg is again in tho lead, 12 points ahead of Cleveland, while Boston in fifth place is only 57 points behind the leaders. Just what team will capture the rag is about as uncertain as Lancas ter county politics. In the association Peoria is G2 points ahead of Lincoln, while Denver in fifth place is 100 points behind the Bucks. There is still a chance for some painful surprises in this league. Tho Western league Hag was thought to have been captured easily by Indianapolis but Jimmy Man ning's Kansas Citys aro now in the lead with tho others fairly well bunched. Taken all around tho fight is close and interesting in all the leagues, moro so than for several years. FKOM THE QUI.NOY HF.UALI). Ebright has had a hard time with several of his Indians. O'Bryau has been full since ho reached hero last Thursday. Ebright did not seo him until Saturday night. Then ho had to get out a search warrant. Buck says O'Bryan will last just long enough for him to get a new man. The Lincoln players are about as man ly a lot of players as aro to be found on the diamond. They never wrangle and they are gentlemanly and fair. Quincy would like to import tho whole outfit to our own fair town. Papers in the eastern circuit say O'Brien is hitting tho ball all right but that his fielding is very much bum, and seem to think ho is the cause of some of Lincoln's defeats. They also credit Buck with saying that Willie will got the run soon. BASE BALL BY PROXY. There is erected on the stage in tho Madison Square Garden in Now York an immense screen on which was paint ed, in perspective, a baso ball field. 'The game over which a powwow wbb being held, was between the New York and St. Louis teams, and was being played in St. Louis. In front of this screen sat a telegraph operator, and beside him, on a table was a lot of kej s. He had his ear to tho wire as you might say, and as fast as a move was made in St. Louis it was telegraphed to this operator who in turn indicated it on the screen. At tho bases and different points in the Meld there aro holes cut in tho screen and behind each of these holes is an endless band which is hung on a roller exactly like a roller towel, These have painted on them, faces, figures and "Hies." By pressing the proper key and holding it just long enough tho operator causes these roller towels to revolve electrically until the proper figure shows opposite the various openings. At one side is a large chart telling the names of the players and also giving to each a num ber. About the field are small figures of men standing on balls. Tho color of these balls, which is changed with each inning, and would be either red or white, indicating which team was in the field. At the home base apperas a number indicating the player who is at the bat in St. Louis; at anotheropening figures appear showing the number of "strikes'' and "balls" called by the ump'xe. If the batsman hits the ball and it is caught, a large fly appears at an opening in which ever field it is caught, whether right, left or centre. If the batsman gets to first base either through having made a "safe hit" or through the pitcher's errors, a player's face appears at the opening at that base and so on around. When a run is scored a peculiar gong strikes and a larger figure appears to the credit of the batting nine. What would answer to the "bleachers" in an out-doorgame was the gallery, and it was well filled with a most interesting throng. All the re marks, tho oh's and ahV, the shouts of derision, tho tumultous approval, and tho unqualified condemnation, were just as marked as though tho players had been personally present. L. A. W. Bulletin. B. .t M. EXCURSIONS. Ono faro for round trip. Dates of sale: To Salemn, Neb., August 1 to 11. In terstate Chautauqua. To Denver, Colorado Springs, Mani tou and Pueblo. August 11 and 12. American pharmaceutical association. 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