Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 217, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1910 — WEENS WON THREE OUT OF FOUR BALL GAMES. [ARTICLE]

WEENS WON THREE OUT OF FOUR BALL GAMES.

Defeated Francesville, Boswell and St. Joe, But Lost to Brook by Big Mess of Errors. The Wrens should have made a clean sweep -of it in the four ball games which closed with the defeat of St. Joe at Riverside Park Sunday. But they only won three, having let Brook get away with the Thursday game. It seems that Kevin and EJder were both badly off that day and Brook defeated the locals 8 to 6. The next day Boswell defeated Brook 8 to 6 and the same day Rensselaer ‘ defeated Francesville 14 to 3. Saturday the Wrens went to Goodland and crossed bats with Boswell, the acknowledged champions of Benton county, and in a 10-inning contest defeated them 7 to 5. At the end of the 9th inning the score stood 5 for each side and in the 10th with two on bases Nichols knocked a long fly which the Boswell fielder muffed and two men crossed the plate. Boswell failed to score and the Wrens came away with the victory, but it left a peculiar record for dope, as each Brook, Boswell and the Wrens won a game. Rhub was booked for Sunday but telephoned that their pitcher was ill and that they could not fill the date. So Manager Harmon prevailed on the St. Joe boys to play. It was an accommodation game and many of the former St. Joe stars were absent and the pitching staff was particularly weak and the Wrens had an easy time. Lakey pitched for Bix tnningß without letting a Joeboy reach first, but In the 7th Retinger made a safe hit to left field. He was caught off first in a minute, however, and the 7th inning closed with only 21 batters having faced the little southpaw. Then, Just to accommodate the crowd, Johnny Hanks, fresh from the Wis-consin-IHinols league, and having a batting average of .270, stepped into the box to finish the contest. He was given* a great ovation, but he did not let himself out. He just tossed the ball npfwith barely enough steam to reach the plate and the college boys made three hits, but they did not account for anything and after first and second were filled with one out, Birkmeier struck out. Wilcox dropped the ball but recovered it and tagged Birkmeier and then whipped the ball to Kevin who completed a nice double by tagging Lill at third. The ninth’ inning witnessed some real good fielding, for Johnny continued to toss the

ball up and the Wrens had to extend themselves to put the college boys out. Nichols made a couple of good plays at short. The St. Joe boys got) no farther than second during the contest and it was the first time they were ever blanked by a town team. The Wrens succeeded in getting seven hits, three bases on balls and a half dozen runs without much effort. In the second after Niohols and Schultz had each singled, Morgan hit a grounder that resulted in Nichols getting caught at third. Lakey then went out on a fly to center and then Swartzell hit a line drive to center and Schultz and Morgan both., scored, the latter coming all the way round from first. In the fourth inning the Wrens made 4 more scores. Morgan got a base on balls and scored from first when Lakey placed a two-bag drive to right field. Lakey stole third and Swartzell scored him with a sacrifice fly. Elder struck out, Kevin got a base on balls, Hanks reached first on an error by Dwyer and Wilcox scored both with a two-base drive. Nichols closed the inning by fanning when McArdle replaced Llll in the pox. That finished the scoring. The summary relates some of the occurrences that the writer has overlooked: Rensselaer R H PO A IjS Kevin, 3b l —& % o 0 Hanks, cf-p 1 o 2 0 0 Wilcox, c 0 2 12 6 0 Nichols, ss ,0 1 1 2 0 Schultz, If ...... ...i i o 0 0 Morgan, 2b 2 0,1 0 0 Lakey, p-lst l 2 2 0 0 Swartzell, lst-cf ...0 1 7 0 '0 Elder, rs 0 0 0 0 o " ; f Total 6 7 *26 9 0 St. Joseph R H PO A E RBtinger, ss 0 2 0 4 0 Dwyer,-2b 0 0 2 0 1 Hepskind, Ist 0 0 8 l 0

Minster, 3b . ..0 0 1 2 6 Llll, p-ls 0 1 0 2 0 Carmody, c ..0 1 7 l o Birkmeier, rt 0 0 0 0 0 Reed, cf .. 0 0 4 0 i McArdle, ls-p ......0 0 2 1 1 Total 0 4 24 11 3 •McArdle out for bunting foul on third strike. Two base hits* Swartzell, Wilcox, Lakey. Sacrifice hit, Nichols. Sacrifice fly, SWartzell. Bases on balls, off Llll, Elder, Morgan, Kevin. Struck out, by Llll, Kevin, Hanks and Elder. By McArdle, Nichols, Schultz and Lakey. By Lakey, 11. By Hanks 2.