Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1912 — Played 12 Innings to a Draw At Monon Sunday Afternoon. [ARTICLE]

Played 12 Innings to a Draw At Monon Sunday Afternoon.

Wlheatfield and Monon played 12 innings of baseball to a draw at the latter town Sunday afternoon. The final score was 8 to 8. William Mason, of Wheatfield, started in to umpire the game and at the end of the 7th inning the crowd was so boisterous in its opposition to his decisions that he was taken out and “Little Dan” Fairchild was substituted. The Wheatfield fans claim that the work of Mason was entirely fair, but that ft is Impossible to win a-ball game in Monon. When Mason was taken out. the score was 7 to. 2 in favor of Wheatfield. The Monon lads then got after Lou Jensen’s shoots and the Wheatfield players went all to pieces and when it was ndcessary to stop the game in order to catch a train home the score stood 8 to 8. Manager A. of the Wheatfield team, roundly criticised the conduct of the Monon rooters, saying that it was the spectators and not the players that caused all the trouble. Two Monon blacksmiths had a fight in the diamond and for a time it looked as though a free for all fight was going to take place. Wheatfield hopes to get a return game from Monon and says they will show the Monon fellows how square a deal they give in Wheatfield. They will refuse, however, to return to Monon to play ball.