Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1909 — HAVE ANOTHER TALE OF WOE. [ARTICLE]

HAVE ANOTHER TALE OF WOE.

Oxford Wins Sunday's Game By Questionable Tactics. There were 167 tickets sold here Sunday for the special train to Oxford to' witness the baseball game of the Wrens vs. Oxford, and several people drove across the country in autos. According to the story told by the fans on their return Oxford won the game more by threats and intimidation than better playing. Hanks, the pitcher for the Wrens, seemed to collapse entirely after the third inning, and in the seventh Minus Irwin was substituted in the box. and he succeeded in preventing any more scores being made by their opponents, but the final score was 10 to 5 in favor of Oxford. Rensselaer made two talleys in the second, 1 in the third and 2 In the eighth. The Rensselaer crowd was very thirsty when the special arrived at Lafayette at about 6 p. m., on the return trip, and during the hour or more they were there one or two old friends in the saloon business in the Star City are alleged to have found a way of supplying the longfelt want. Enough booze was consumed and brought along with them to float a battleship, and several men and boys were loaded to the brim when the train reached Rensselaer, about 9 o’clock.