Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1903 — Carpenters Trim the Lawyers [ARTICLE]

Carpenters Trim the Lawyers

By a Score of Twenty-Three to Twelve. Rip-saw, cross-out, Big Jack-plane; These d lawyers Give us a pain. This was the yell the oarpen ters had framed to give during the game Friday afternoon. But they never gave it. During all but the last inning the lawyers were putting it over them so bad that they had no heart to holler, and at the last inning they were so busy making runs that they had no time to.

Iti was a good amateur game, and witnessed by quite a large company of spectators. The lawyers were in the best practioe, but the oarpenters had better staying qualities. Both sides had some right good players, and also some of the other kind. Many good plays were made and also J much muffing and wild throwing done. The pitchers for the lawyers were A. BL Hopkins, G. K. Hollingsworth and Ray Thompson. The two first did pretty good woik, bnt the oarpenters got on to Ray’s curves dead easy. But he did not get into the box until the last inning, and the lawyers were all about fagged out then; while the oarpenters had just found out they were working by the job and not by the day, and bad gingered up accordingly. C. G. Spitler was the lawyers catoberand the best one on the j ib. Frank MoOarthy did most of the pitching for the carpenters and was best on either aide and also the star player of the game. J ulius Taj lor, the ‘‘Black diamond” also 'pitched for the carpenters, and was a good,one. Will Clonse and Charley Guttrich oaught for the oarpenters.

—The number of innings, as agreed on at the start, was five. The lawyers went to the bat and scored twice, and then the oarpenters made four,, which looked dark for the lawyers. But the next three innings the lawyers got 8 runs apd the carpenters only 4 the score at the end of the fourth standing 10 to 8 in favor of the lawyers. About that time the lawyers got together and gave their yell. Brimstone, Blaokstone, Kent and Coke Lawyers, Lawyers, Holy Smoke.

The lawyers made two more runs their part of the last inning, and then went all to pieoes, Thompson was in the box add the carpenters hammered his balls like they were shingling a barn. Spitler got disgusted and refused to catoh any longer. Thompson then retired and Hopkins pitohed out the game. But the oarpenters still kept running and when finally their last man was out, they had made 15 runs that inning, and the game stood 23 to 12 in their favor.

The lawyers threaten to take an appeal, as they always do when theyget beat but they haven't done it yet. ’ There were so maor changes in positions that we will not attempt to give the line up, but the following were the players on each side.

Lawyer*: A. H. Hopkins, Or, K. Hollingsworth, C. G. Spitler, E. P. Honan, 0 W. Hanley, G. A*, Williams, J. J. Hunt VL H. Parkison, R. D. Thompson. Carpenters: J. E. Hopkins E. G. Warren, Wm. Clouse, J. L. Adams John Rush, Chas. Guttriob, E. R, Hopkins, Julius Taylor, Frank McCarthy.