Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1910 — WRENS WON FROM WADENA IN BATFEST THURSDAY. [ARTICLE]

WRENS WON FROM WADENA IN BATFEST THURSDAY.

Lots of Hitting, a Dozen Errors and a 7-6 Victory Started the Horse Show Base Ball Series. The Wrens had a close shave getting away with their first ball game of the horse show series. Their opponents were from Wadena, a small town with a clever ball team. The Wrens presented a semi-professional aggregation that with practice would be about as good as anything in the semi-pro line this side of Oshkosh or the other side either. There were some real favorites in the line-up, which included “Father” McLain, who had been laid up for several weeks for a little rejuvenation, and who took his position behind the bat and caught a hard game, pitched by Lou Jensen, who had on a Wren suit for the first time. Lou pitched some gilt-edged ball, but the Wadena bunch don’t do much rusty gate swinging and they managed to get ten hits off him, but this number might have been reduced by a little sharper fielding on the part of some of his team mates. Lack of team organization was shown, some of the players having never played in the position before, as witnesseth the appended line-up. The visitors were lucky to get six scores and the Wrens were lucky that they didn’t get any more. The game was a teaser, one of those up and down affairs that keeps every one on edge until the ump has shouted the last man to the bench. , The scoring started in the third frame, when Morgan was jarred with a pitched ball on the spot farthest from the borte. He went to second on the first ball pitched and beat out a throw. Parcels sacrificed him to 3d and then Johnny Hanks put his Fond-dq-Lac swing on a straight one and planted it to right garden for 3 bags. Morgan, of course, crossed the home plate. Hanks died on third when Zellers, a recruit from Winamac, was thrown out at first.

Wadena came back in the fourth inning with three scores. McGraw hit to center and Hanks loafed a little and the fly caromed from his fingers. McGraw stole second and with one down Peck was hit by a thrown ball. Martin and Robinson both hit the ball and McGraw and Peck scored, although Peck would have been caught at third but for a wild throw Hanks made to third from center. He has been throwing to a tall third baseman end forgot himself for a disastrous minute. Martin got around to third and Robinson was nipped at second on Mead’s grounder to Parcels, which scored Martin. L. Sell went down from Jensen to Lakey at first. In the fifth inning the visitors scored another. McGraw forced C. Sell at second, stole second himself and came home on Champley’s hit. Champley was caught trying to steal-. It looked bad for the Wrens, but in the sixth they got busy and pushed their total up to 6. Parcels got a hit, Hanks a base on balls, Zellers hit and McLain hit. Jensen fouled out to Sell and Wilcox, Lakey and Swartzell all hit the ball. Some rooting upset the visiting pitcher ' and when the smoke cleared away the Wrens were on the housetop. Parcels led off with another hit in the 7th and Hanks planted a neat sacrifice. Zellers did the same thing and then Parcels did a very daring stunt. He pulled way up from third and when Sell threw to catch him, he dug out for the plate and reached it before the ball was returned. That’s the way the game should be did” and that score proved to be just what was needed to win, for the visitors went off in the eighth and made 4 hits and turned in a couple of runs, although the ump probably ilet one go safe at the plate that should have been called out, for Swartzell made a swell throw from right field that seemed to have caught Peck three feet off. That was all but a nightmare in the 9th, when after two were down Morgan fumbled a little grounder by C. Sell. Rowe hit and with these two perched on third and second, Hanks, who was on the rubber in the final act, struck McGraw out. Everybody knew they had been to a ball game.

The line-up; Wadena R H PO A E Rowe, cf . 1 2 0 0 0 McGraw, 3b 2 1 1 0 1 Champley, lb 0 0 11 0 1 Peck, 2b 2 2 0 2 1 Martin, a5....1 2 1 0 0 Robinson, rs 0 1 0 0 0 Mead, If 0 0 1 0 0 L. Sell; c 0 1 10 2 1 C, Sell, p7....0 10 5 0 Total 6 10 24 9 4 Wrens R H PO A E Parcels, ss ........2 2 2 2 1 Hanks, cf, p 1 1 0 0 2 Zellers, 3b 1 1 4 3 1 McLain, c 1 17 2 0 Jensen, p, cf 0 0 2 6 0 Wilcox, If 1 2 0 0\ 0 Lakey, lb ..0 1- 10 ' 1 1 Swartzell, rs 0 2 0 0 0 Morgan, 2b Z\l 0 2 3 1 Total ~..7 10 27 17 6 Three base hit, Hanks.- Two base hits, Lakey, McGraw. Double play, Morgan to Parcells. Struefc out, by Jensen 6, by Sell 6, by Hanks 1. Hit by pitcher, Morgan and Peck. Umpires, Maloney and Minganon.