Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1911 — WADENA BOY [ARTICLE]

WADENA BOY

Hero of Baseball Fans In Wednesday’s Game In New York. Otis Crandall, the Giants’ ballplayer who turned a rout into a 4 to 3 victory over the Philadelphia Athletics at New York a couple of days ago n the world’s series, is a Wadena, Benton county, Indiana, boy. He has been for years a noted local player, but it is only recently that he has played in the crack teams. He is a reserve pitcher for the Giants, and his two-bagger in the last half of the ninth inning Wednesday, with two men out and one on third, with the score 3 to 1 against the Giants and the crowd already filing toward the exits, thinking it was “all over,” tied the game and in the tenth inning the Giants made one run, winning the game. The immense crowd went wild over Crandall’s hit, and he was the hero of baseballdom the country oyer.