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The Whites returned home on June 20th from a three-week, seventeen game road trip, having lost the last eight games of the trip while going 3-14 overall. On the final day of the road trip, Staley and Beckley were sold to Pittsburgh, leaving the Whites roster size at eight players returning from the road trip. The home stand started with a series against Des Moines, the second place club in the Western Association. The starter for the game was announced as Farquhar, who was in fact Joe Murphy, sports writer for the Globe Democrat. Murphy had pitched one game previously for the Whites (on June 1) under the name Hughes. With Beckley gone, Dolan played first base, while Kenyon returned to play center field. An error by Crooks helped Des Moines score four runs (two earned) in the first inning. In the second inning, "Kenyon attempted to play centre, but made a miserable failure, muffing three flies in succession" (The Republican), resulting in four more unearned runs. Des Moines did not score again after the second inning. The Whites scored one in the first, one in the third, and then made a game of it by scoring four in the fourth. One more run in the seventh brought the Whites to within a run at 7-8. In the ninth inning, the Whites threatened to tie the game, loading the bases with one out, when the umpire "called two batters out on the first six balls pitched, only one of them going over the plate" (The Milwaukee Sentinel). The loss proved to be the final game for the Whites. Crooks was sold to Omaha that day, leaving the roster at seven players (eight if you counted Kenyon, who may or may not have been on the actual roster). The game on June 21 was rained out, and the Whites forfeited the following two games before shutting down for good on June 24.
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