Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1913 — NO FATALITIES IN SPIRITED COMBAT [ARTICLE]

NO FATALITIES IN SPIRITED COMBAT

Evenly Matched Belligerents Struggle Through Nine Innings With 19 to 18 Score. The soft ball game proved a very interesting diversion for the participants and a few spectators Thursday afternoon. Practically all of the advertised principals were on hand for the fray, but an apparent disparity in the teams caused a new arrangement and C. G. Spitler and J. D. Allman were made captains and chose up sides. Their judgment of the players could not have been better, for the score at the conclusion of the affray was 19 to 18, and /the see-saw might have gone on indefinitely, for after the full game had been played severi more innings were played with a tie seore of 7to 7. (Jhptaln Spitler’s team had the distinction of winning the game. Elmer Cook was the active uftapire, with M. B. Price as the court of last resort. Up to Myrt were brought all the fine questions of the game and to his impartial judgment may be credited the fact that the game went to an harmonious close. ~ The events of the game would have made a pagfe write-up if all could be recorded, while a movingpicture vender might have procured some excellent comedy if he had set his machine alongside the diamond. W. V. Porter, G. M. Wilcox, B. J. Moore, G. W. Scott, Dr. C. E. Johnson and Devere Yeoman were the principal acrobats, each getting a hard fall, hut all coming out without serious injuries. Probably G. M. Wilcox, “father of the boys,” was the real star of the game. He featured at the bat and In the field. E. P. Honan, H. W. Kiplinger, J. W. Tilton, W. S. Parks and J. D Allman caught a ball occasionally, just to show that all the agility of youth had not departed. Walter V. Porter is said to have come out of the conflict with the only perfect score of muffs, the score book showing that he had a thousand per cent, 19 chances and all missed. Dr. Washburn and Dr. Myer were in good shape by reason of much tennis playing and Eliper. Wilcox because of his baseball activities, but all others showed that they had hit the toboggan and were going back to the minors. • It was so much fun that another game is apt to be played some time the latter part of next week. It’s a shame to get old.