The deciding game of the 25th annual Centennial Cup drew an overflow crowd to The Grand Duchess -- a crowd that went quiet quickly when
Eureka scored four runs in the very first inning, thanks to two Keks errors. But after that,
Fort Wayne pitcher Jerry Nops buckled down, and the Kekionga batters got rolling against Newark starter Charley Rabourn. (The 45-year-old "Old Hoss", winner of 367 games, had already announced it would be his final game.) Trailing 4-1, Beaumont and Rickley each slashed doubles to tie the game at four. lave Cross, who had four hits on the day, notched an RBI single in the sixth to put Fort Wayne ahead, while Eureka batters could do next to nothing against Nops, who would allow only eight hits only one earned run. When Fort Wayne scored another trio of runs in the eighth, the matter was sealed, and the
Kekionga club of Fort Wayne had won its first Cup since 1891!
The next day, there was a parade with seemingly the entire town of forty-five thousand present, shouting the name "Kekionga!" and celebrating the club's second Centennial Cup.
They would never win another.