Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1914 — WESTERN "STARS” A BIG DISAPPOINTMENT [ARTICLE]

WESTERN "STARS” A BIG DISAPPOINTMENT

Dusky Satellites eßaten 21 to 0 and Big Crowd Convinced They Never Saw a Diamond. It is difficult to justify a ball ■game like the one offered, here Sunday, when the Western Stars, a colored team from Chicago that was booked by the Chicago Baseball Association, put up the worst example of ibaseball ever seen in Rensselaer. To all appearances the team had never before seen a ball game and their pitiable offering became so tiresome that fully half of the rge crowd that had assembled withdrew in disgust. The fans were whetted up for a real ball game and expected to see one. The disappointment was keenly felt, and the Management will undertake to prevent any recurrence of a similar kind.

Emmet Eldridge should have been here Sunday to have enjoyed the opportunity to even up with the fellows who roasted him last year for bringing the stockyards team here. The dusky .players never had a look in and after Clark had pitched everything easy he had, he turned the game over to- Bristow, with Jimmie Eldridge at the receiving end and the slaughter of the innocents proceeded. During the last inning the ■ outfielders all came on the inside of the diamond and the black lads went out in one, two, three order. Rensselaer up the hitting and running until darkness had they cared to do so. The pickaninnies fumbled and booted the ball, muffed the flies 1 , stubbed their toes on their heels and threw the ball so wildly that all the Athletics had to do was to •start running and keep it up. The running feature afforded about the only amusement there was to the game, although the hitting of the Athletics was interesting, as they planted the ball at pleasure, arid ihad the distracted Afri'cans chas-’ ing themselves frantically all over the big park. r The game ean not be written up to sound any better than it looked and we shall spare the readers the agony. The Athletics, however, seemed in such good condition Sunday that the following notes have Ween prepared. Jimmie Eldridge made five runs, hit the ball hard and ran the bases like a leaguer. He gets off at the crack of the bat and is showing up in good shape at the third sack. Morgan is showing his old class at short and with Hatton at second will be able to do the “Tink-er-Evers” stuff with a ‘little practice. They figured in two or three doubles Sunday that looked good. Dad Swartzell keeps improving at first sack arid widens his ground with each game. (Howard Clark has all of his 1913 speed and control and hits will be few and far between the rest of the ■season, while Wilcox gets everything behind the bat and his throw to second shuts off the steels. Elder pulled off several Circus catches in the left garden and covers more held space than any player that ever performed for Rensselaer. Harold Clark looks good in the center field and his batting is improving. He also runs bases in fine style and will be a big help to the team. Parks in the right garden completes the best all home team that ever represented this city and we expect them to make a fine showing and have Goodland, Delphi and Lowell tied to a post as soon as we can get at them. Morgan made two homers Sunday, losing the ball through -the center garden fence. Elder made his fourth three-bagger of the year. Both are counted on for big doings in the hard contests to follow. The U. S. Army team next Sunday.