Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1915 — St. Joe Downed City League Champs Sunday 4 to 3. [ARTICLE]

St. Joe Downed City League Champs Sunday 4 to 3.

St. Joe met the Riversides of Lafayette at that place Sunday afternoon and emerged the victors over last year’s champs in a close game, 4 to 3. Ricks was on the hill for St. Joe and pitched a clever game, holding the Riversides to four scattered blows. St. Joe pushed out 8 safeties off the delivery of Newhart. Ricks also led his team in hitting. Maloney put up a classy game at short, covering a lot of ground and throwing accurately. A crowd of about 800- saw the game. St. Joe scored in their half of the first on two hits and a-base on balls, and increased their lead to two in the third on a hit and the wobbly work of the Riverside infield. In the fourth the Riversides evened up the count on several errors and a hit. St. Joe was blanked in their half of the fifth and the Riversides took the lead in their half by waj of a free ticket, a sacrifice hit, an error and a single, pushing one man across the rubber. St. Joe came right back in the sixth and knotted the count again when Newhart’s support went bad and an opportune hit Shoved Maloney across the pan. Both sides were blanked in the seventh and St. Joe pus the winning run across in the eighth, when Jordan kicked two infield bounders and a hit placed St. Joe on top again. Both sides were again blanked in the ninth. St. Joe is putting up a classy article of ball this year and has one of the beet teams in the history of the schoolOn Thursday of this week the St. Ignatius team will play a return game at the college and this should be one of the best games of the season. StJoe was defeated at the Sox park in Chicago recently by this team 5 to 4, and are planning to get revenge in this game.