Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1913 — BIG CROWD AND POOR BALL GAME [ARTICLE]

BIG CROWD AND POOR BALL GAME

Crippled Athletics Badly Defeated —Receive 6 to 1 Trouneing at Hands of Lowell Nine. fr Our old-time rivals, the Lowell ball club, came to town Sunday and played the Athletics on the Riverside grounds, and went back home with the long end of a 6 to 1 score The day was ideal for a game and a goodly sized crowd of fans greeted the teams. It was ladies’ day and thera was a big crowd of the fair rooters present. Rensselaer went into the field pre senting a vastly different line-up from the team which defeated Whftatfleld on the Fourth. Conn, Morgan, Robinson and Denniston were absent, and Parks, Putts, Harold Clark and Jay Nowels were pressed into the line-up. The first two innings went runless, the borne boys getting two hits in the first and one in the second. Lowell was held hitless in the first and gathered one hit In the second. In the third frame the boys from Lake county bunched four hits and coupled with errors by the patched up Athletics, managed to «et four runs over the rubber. In the Athletics’ half of this frame Elder led off with a hit, E. Wilcox hit safe, sending Elder to second, who failed to score on Jess Wilcox’s hit, getting his feet tangled up in the 3rd bftse bag. Lowell got two more runs In the fourth round on errors alone, no hits being counted. This ended the scoring for Lowell, although they got three more hits in the fifth and sixth frames. Lou Jensen was pressed in as a pinch hitter in the third with the bases full and two out, but bit at three wide ones and the hopes of the locals fell 90 da* grees. Rensselaer scored in the eighth. Elmer Wileox hit the pill for three bags and was brought home by J. Wilcox, who did the brother act and clouted for his Second safety. Thus ended the ball game, which, from a Rensselaer standpoint, was a eoipedy of errors, the locals gathering eight of the hateful counters. Clark and Wilcox were working fine, and “Dad” on first, played a good game. J. Wilcox In center pulled down a difficult fly and his hitting was a feature. The regular lineup will be in the field next Sunday and a great exhibition is promised by the management. Don’t lose hope, but support the team and we’ll win all the rest of the games. RENSSELAER. R H FO A E H. Clark 0 0 0 2 2 Elders 0 till Swartzell 0 1 9 0 1 E. Wilcox 1 2 12 1 2 Parks 0 13 5 1 J. Wilcox 0 2 2 0 0 Putts 0 0 0 0 0 Jensen 0 0 0 0 0 Nowels . 0 0 0 0 ;1 Clark 0 10 2 0 Total 1 8 27 11 8 LOWELL. R H PO A E Alyea 1 2 10 0 Petrie 1 10 2 1 Fisher d 10 0 0 Trump ..0 0 h 0 0 Loyd 0 13 1.1 Yates 1 1 13 0 0 Brown 1 0 2 0 0 Belshaw 1 1 0 0 0 Shurte 1 10 2 0 Total 6 8 27 5 2 Two base hits, Yates, J. Wilcox. Three base hits, E. Wileox. Struck out by Shurte, 12. Clark 9. Double plays, Clark to Parks to Swartzell. Bases on -balls, off Shurte 2; off Clark 2. Hit by pitcher, "Nowels. Umpire McLain.