Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1910 — Wheatfield High School Beats Rensselaer H. S. 4 to 1 Saturday. [ARTICLE]

Wheatfield High School Beats Rensselaer H. S. 4 to 1 Saturday.

It was a very classy ball game thai the high school teams -of Wheatfield and Rensselaer put up at Riverside Athletic Park last Saturday, as the score of 4 to 1 indicates. All the scoring was done in one inning by each team. Wheatfield made their four in the second, when a couple of errors in the way of a misjudged fly and a poor return and a muffed fly let the visitors get around the circuit. After that the local lads tightened up South Paw Clark pitched gilt-edged ball and while the visitors threatened to score by/ reaching 3d base two or three times, he always pulled out by striking out a man or two or allowing a diamond hit that was perfectly handled by one of the bunch of the quickeyed infielders. The locals could not connect with the ball very well, and although they made a total of 7 hits,to Wheatfield’s four, the hits were not very timely and there was some bad base running that contributed to the brevity of their score. Finally In the Bth inning Parks succeeded in getting around the circuit, but he was warmly pursued and touched the home rubber only a second in front of the ball. The game had not been advertised much and the attendance was small, but there was considerable enthusiasm. The Wheatfield bunch is composed of a nice lot of boys and all are good ball players, the infield being especially good, with one of the widely famed Jensen boys as captain and second baseman. They were accompanied here by their superintendent Morgan L. Sterrett and wife. Mjk Sterrett was a teacher in the Rensselaer schools four years ago. s Next Saturday Rensselaer will entertain the Brook boys at Riverside and they are also to play a return game to Wheatfield later in the