Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1911 — Patched Up Wrens Lose Weird. Ball Game to Wadena. [ARTICLE]

Patched Up Wrens Lose Weird. Ball Game to Wadena.

By Wrensselaer.

Wadena 9. « Rensselaer 5. j v ■ No excuses please. Just plain facts. Tbe fact of the matter is. JVadena beat us to it. Maybe, being ladies’ day, the jinx was there; maybe, if we had played better; maybe, if Wadena had loosened up a bit; maybe, if there had been but one umpire; maybe the Wrens will win next time. Were you ever stung by the Maybe bug? No? Awful pleasant to have that happen on a gloomy day. Say, boys, we’ve got material, plenty of it, and when the day of the game comes be out to the ball park with your suit on. Game scheduled at 2:30, seven men in uniform. Plck’tfp two more men to fill out the nine, automobile dashes over town to pick up uniforms. Patched up team goes into field forty minutes late and didn’t do so bad. Old reliable “Dad” Swartzell pitched Jiis arm off, every bit as good as the week before, had everything but Look in the error Only eleven. You. know what we nee<J'. Practice, that’s all. Flashes of old time speed. “Dad” pulled off two double plays. Maybe Wadena has it on us. I hope that explains why we lost Some of the boys who shone the week befpre forgot to scrub with Sapolio. Awful groans from the gallery. Was IVwelrd? Well, there’s a lot of people who think the White Sox are the best. They had Detroit sewed up/ 13-1; Detroit, came out from behlnd and copped the game. Now, whatever you may think, don’t knock, Boost. Wadena was held runless in the first three sessions. Then a bobble and they panned one. But we came back in round four and garnered two. Joy with the Red and Black bugs. Then the joy for Wadena was turned on, and they used the big stick and the lack of practice showed the home folks up. They got two in the fifth, 3 in the sixth, 2 in the seventh, and one in the Bth. Our failure to hit netted a string of round ones until the ninth, when Capt. Wilcox shifted the batting order and with the score 2-9 against, the home guard started the fire works. I could see visions of headlines like these—Wrens come up from behind and win in grand finish. Well, we did get two hits that round, and three runs, then the powder gave out and the cracker was a fizzer. Beaten 5 to 9 —go back, work hard, and get Wadena next time. The summary: Rensselaer AB H R PO A* E Parks, s 5 1 0 1 1 2 Swartzell, p ...5 1 1 3 6 1 E. Wilcox, c ...4 1 1 8 1 0 Meyers, lb .....3 0 0 7.0 1 J. Wilcox, cf .. .4 0 0 1 0 0 English, 2b ...,8 0 I’l2 1 Elder, Clark, 3b 4 0 1 4/0 3 Malone, rt .... 2 1 1 0 0 1 Porter, If 4 0 0 2 0 2 Total 34 4 5 27 10 11 Wadena AB H R PO A E C. McGraw, cl. .5 2 0 1. 0 0 W. Yoakum, lb 5 0 0 8 0 1 C. Sell, Ifs 2 2 1 0 0 L. McGraw, 2b..5 0 12 10 Peck, ss3 2 0 1 1 3 Meade, 3b4 1 1 0 3 2 Mitten, rs 5 0 2 1 0 0 L. Sell, c 3 1 2 12 3 0 J. Rowe, p 4 2 113 0 Total 39 10 1 27 11 6 123456789 Rensselaer 0 0 020000 3—5 Wadena 00012321 o—9 Two base hits—C. McGraw (2), C. Sell (2), Rowe (2). Sacrifice hits— Myers, Peck, Meade, L. Sell. Double plays—Swartzell to Myers (2). Bases on balls—Off Rowe 3; off Swartzell 1. Struck out by Rowe 11; by Swartzell 7. Time of game 2:05. Umpire Maloney, and an unknown.