Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1898 — Fell Down Hard. [ARTICLE]

Fell Down Hard.

Hebron Wins the Game. By Thirteen to Eight. Hebron came down Thursday to learn how to play "ball from the hitherto victorious Colts and went back well satisfied that they had learned their lesson. We can’t play ball unless we practice, thats all there is to it. Though our team was in a crippled condition owing to the absence of Miller we put up a star game for the first four innings letting Hebron down without a score, while we had pounded one out in the second and the whole team had batted in the Ihird allowing four men to cross the home plate ere the three outs had been made. In the early part of the game the boys played good ball, and Joe pitched one of the best games he has ever pitched. In the fifth inning, Joe seemed to loose control of his curves though his speed was good, and Hebron fell on him for five runs. In the sixth Hebron made two, in the seventh six and none in either the eighth or ninth. The Colts scored one in the fifth and two in the ninth, making them eight to the thirteen that lay to Hebron’s credit. We have heard many versions of “How it happened’’ but we think the proper view of the question is that yesterday was.an off day with the boys and that they were too confident. It will teach them and the next game they go into they will be in better shape. The score sheet does not show many errors. And the number of Hebrons runs came from the way they hit the ball. The game was loose and not very interesting. The Hebron boys seemed to be a nice lot of boys and they played a good game. We look for better luck next time.