THE UNIVERSITY COURIER.
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AND STILL THEY WIN.
K. U.Adds Three More Victories to her List.
The Boys are Playing the Game that Wins, and Cannot be Stopped.
K. you is all right, and don't you forget it. Another week has dropped into the ocean of the indefinite past, and as we shake the seive of memory we find but little has remained to us to be stored away for future needs and happy musings. Two events. however, we shall retain. The Osbon case has closed in a hung jury, and the K. U. ball team of '95 has three more victories hung to its belt. It is a grand good thing for the citizens of Lawrence to erect monuments to the honored dead, but we would suggest the planting of a hickory tree or something of the sort to the memory of the honored living—Manager Means and our stalwart ball players.
The College of Emporia boys are a fine lot of fellows, but they will have to add a few more Maroons to their ball team before they can hope to make it interesting for K. U's sluggers. The boys felt just a little sore the way they had been slaughtered on their home grounds and each one swore to his best girl a speedy revenge if she would just let him come to McCook field where the gentle Kansas breezes don't get a chance to blow the home run hits back into the grand stand. But alas and alack! the gentlemanly Capt. Parrington, found worse obstacles than Kansas zephers in the way of victory, and after two severe drubbings at the hands of the boys in Crimson, he purchased tickets for the midnight train, and departed with his alleged ball players under the shades of darkness.
The first game abounded in hard hitting on both sides, and ragged fielding by the visitors. We started the first inning with a score, which was the order of each succeeding inning, except the sixth. when the side was retired in one, two, three style. Wagner pitched the game, and was touched up for sixteen hits, but was effective when in a close place. Kelsey caught one of the prettiest games of the season, and the way he caught men napping on bases made the expressionless face of "Old Buck," who was sitting on the bench, beam with admiration.
Alden's playing on second base has not been surpassed on McCook field this season. He took in everything that come within a half block of second, two chances being high infield hits. Mitchell played a good game at first, and Williamson has not been seen to better advantage on third. Gear was at short, and while he had little to do, he made the prettiest play of the day, a one hand stop of a hard hit to deep short, throwing Haver out at first on the play. Agnew made two pretty catches in left, while Chamberlain and Todd were not given much to do.
For the visitors Barnes, Parrington and Patterson did the playing. If the Emporia boys had fielded as they batted the result might have been different Sheppard was not much of a puzzle to the hard hitting Crimsons, and saved the base hit column by sending seven to bases on balls. His stop of Gear's line hit in the fifth inning was a daisy. Haver was away off in is third base play causing several scores to be run up against his side.
The following is the score:
KANSAS UNIVERSITY.
KANSAS UNIVERSITY.
A B R B H S B PO A E
Chamberlain, c f 6 2 2 0 0 0 1
Wagner, p... 4 1 1 1 1 1 0
Kelsey, c... 4 2 1 0 6 4 1
Gear, s. s... 5 3 3 1 0 2 1
Alden, 2 b... 5 2 2 1 4 5 0
Mitchell, 1 b... 5 1 1 2 13 1 1
Todd, r f... 5 1 1 1 0 1 0
Williamson, 3 b. 5 0 0 0 1 3 1
Agnew, l. f... 2 2 0 0 2 0 0
Total ... 41 14 11 6 27 17 5
COLLEGE OF EMPORIA.
A B R B II S B P O A E
Gabriel, r. f. & 3 3 1 0 1 0 0 0
Barnes, lf... 5 1 4 1 5 0 0
Sheppard, p... 5 1 3 0 0 4 1
Patterson, c... 5 1 3 1 4 1 1
Olliphant, 2... 4 0 0 0 8 0 1
Parrington, 1... 5 2 4 1 5 0 0
Haver, 3 & r f... 5 1 1 0 1 0 5
Backus, c. f... 5 0 1 0 1 0 1
Randolph, s s... 4 0 0 0 0 2 1
Total ... 41 7 16 4 24 7 10
SCORE BY INNINGS.
C. of E. 0 2 0 0 1 1 3 0 0 7
K U. 1 1 3 3 1 0 3 2 X 14
Earned runs, C of E 3. K. U. 3
Two base hits—Wagner, Kelsey.
Earned runs, C of E 3. K. U. 3 Two base hits-Wagner, Kelsey. Three base hits-Barnes, Parrington.