Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1912 — ST. JOE DEFEATED WHEATFIELD TEAM SUNDAY. [ARTICLE]

ST. JOE DEFEATED WHEATFIELD TEAM SUNDAY.

Birkmeler’s Home Run in the Seventh Pnis St. Joe On Easy Street. " » The best game played on home grounds was seen Sunday between Wheatfield and St. Joe. Both 1 teams were evenly matched, as the score 1 to 0 indicates. Burhart pitched for the Varsity and was in his best form. Several times be found himself in a tight pinch, two meh on bases with, one or none down, but h"fs“ excellent head work pulled him through in every instance. It looked as if the score blank would be clean throughout the entire game, for neither side could get a rim. But Birkmeier, always the right man in the right....place, came in the seventh for one of his home runs. This was the only run in the game. - Wheatfield has a' good team. Its players are jolly and took their defeat of Sunday with true ■ baseball spirit. Batteries: St. Joe, Burkart and Beckman, Wheatfield, Jensen and Maibauer. Hits: off Burkart, 4; off Jensen, 4. Umpire McLain.