Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1916 — ATHLETICS LOSE WHEN “LEFTY” WEAKENS [ARTICLE]

ATHLETICS LOSE WHEN “LEFTY” WEAKENS

Southpaw is Nicked For Four Solid Blows in Last Frame and St. Takes Opener 10 to 7. Grant’s Athletics started on their 1916 baseball season Sunday afternoon at Riverside park, and it was not a very auspicious start at that, for St. Joseph’s college downed them in a slugging bee 10 to 7. Brunswick was on the hill for the collegians and Clark for the Athletics and both were given a drubbing. Brunswick was touched for nine blows, including a double, triple and homer. Clark was slammed for ten safeties and a pair of free tickets and some errors mixed in accounted for the St. Joe runs. Mulcahey catching for Rensselaer, led the locals with the stick, getting four hits, driving the ball over the garden wall in the last inning. Lyman, the new Athletics thirdbaseman', made a good impression with the fians and looks like a fixture for the far corner for the balance of the season. Quille was at short and had an off day failing to connect with the ball and messing up things considerably. The collegians scored three times in the opening inning, on a hit, pass and two errors. They scored a pair in the fifth, another in the sixth and four in the ninth. The Athletic counters came in the fourth, when two registered, another pair came in the sixth, and one in the seventh knotted the count at six apiece until the big blow off in the ninth. Two or three new faces will be seen in next Sunday’s lineup, and with these .changes, Manager Grant thipks the team Will present a much stronger front. Lowell will be the opposing team next Sunday.