Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1911 — Flora Has Real Ball Team; Dr. W. L. Myer is De-Lighted. [ARTICLE]

Flora Has Real Ball Team; Dr. W. L. Myer is De-Lighted.

They play real baseball over /at* Flora, Carroll county, and Dr. W. L. Myer, of Rensselaer, is proud of it / The doctor came from Flora and never tires of telling his friends how the great national game is played "back at home.” They have cleaned the amateur and also the semiprofessional platter in the state and not satisfied with that, have arranged a game for Sunday, Oct. Bth, with the Indianapolis American Association club; They had to give the “Indians” $l5O to get them to come. The Flora boys have cleaned up the Indianapolis A. B. C.’s, the Reserves and the Duesseldorfers and every other team that looked good. Flora is a somewhat smaller town that Rensselaer but base ball is all the go there and Sunday crowds vary from 400 to 800, with receipts running up to S2OO. The team is an all-home one and no one is paid but the pitcher, who receives $5 for each game. The treasury has about S6OO in it to be divided at the end of thp season. Among the players Is E. E. Snell, a shoe salesman, who often comes to Rensselaer, and who was here Thursday. Ed has been playing ball for fifteen years and never gets tired of the game. He hits up toward the 400 mark and had he gone in for professional ball a few years ago would have been one of the best. The writer has known him for a good many years, and some years ago when base ball was having a big swing at Brookston, the writer procured Snell and a player named Ford to come over from Flora and play with Brookston. Both were good batters and they were counted on to help defeat the Lafayette team by their batting. Each came to bat five times. Ford struck out every time and Snell struck out three times and went out on long flies the other two. Brookston won the game and Snell and Ford played fine in the field, but were too anxious to hit the ball. Snell feels so bad abput it to this day that he apologizes every time he meets the Writer. He didn’t want to take any pay for playing. Snell is one of the squarest chaps that ever played* ball and we are'glad that Flora is going at such a fast clip. ,He is now the first baseman of the team, but he has been everything from catcher and pitcher and up to two years ago he was pitching mighty fine ball. It is a 10-to-J shot that “Doc" Myer will be in Flora on Oct Sth to see the big game and, if he wants a load of good rooters he won’t have any throuble filling his Ford with them in Rensselaer.