Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1904 — A Good Game of Ball. [ARTICLE]

A Good Game of Ball.

There was a well played game of baße ball at the ball park, Thursday afternoon, The contestants were a team from Wheatfield and a picked up but efficient team from Rensselaer. There was a good sized crowd in attendance and they witnessed a well played game, on both sides. The soore stood 11 to 6 in Rensselaer’s favor. The feature of the game was the soientifio roasting administered to the umpire, County Superintendent L. H. Hamilton. He has been a great and persistent rooter and roaster himself, ever sinoe he could tell a two base hit from a ten acre field, and the ohanoe to even up old scores was too good to be lost. The roast began with the first man at the bat and lasted until the last one was out on the bases. But it reaohed its culmination when the umpire got to dreaming that the game was far in the future when all the players wore Holland flying accoutrements, and called balls on a batter that were so high as to be far out of reach of any exoept a flying man, and one mighty lively on his pin feathers at that.