Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1886 — That Base Ball Game. [ARTICLE]

That Base Ball Game.

The game of base ball at Monon last Thursday resulted in another victory for the Monon nine, with . a soore of 13 runs to Is, and the Monons only played eight innings. The following not altogether good-natured notes on the game , are from the Monon Dispatch. Both clubs behavod nobly. Some real fino plays were made on both sides. About seventy-five visitors from Rensselaer came over Thursday to see :-the boys done up. The game was witnessed by ovor two hundred persons, fully one-third of i whom were of the gentler sex, Tho umpiring by —* Manning, of Lafayette, was, so far as we learned, generally satisfactory. Ben Nutter, who did the pitching for the Monons has been highly complimented for his efficient work. It was his first match game. The cheering in favor of the Rensselaer boys was quite vociferous at every suocess/ul play they made, until the friends of the Monons, catching the inspiration, out-yelled them so badly that the cheering from the other side lulled fin to the tamest kind of silence. Charley Baker, catching for the Monons, was struck by a foul tip which striking his mask broke that machine to pieces, either the ball or a piece of the mask struck him in the mouth, breaking out a tooth, and he retired from the game, in the eighth innj ng, Frank Humpston taking his place. The Rensselaer papers speak of their club as the kid nine. If the niue that played here yesterday were kids; then Sherman had an army of kids on his famous march to the sea. We suppose their name was adopted in order that they might more successfully cover up . the stigma of defeat, when deteat happens, as it always will when they play our nine, by pleading the baby act.