Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1907 — WHEATFIELD 1 ST. JOSEPH 3 [ARTICLE]

WHEATFIELD 1 ST. JOSEPH 3

A more pleasing ball game from the spectacular viewpoint was never played in Rensselaer than that of Saturday between St. Joseph’s College. The game was played in the college campus and attracted a large crowd of town people, and se cral of the admirers of the Wheatfield team had followed them here to see the game. In the earlier part of the season the St. Joe boys, full of confidence had gone to Wheatfield to play ball. They figured that it was a small town with a mediocre ball team, but they were surprised at finding an aggregation of semi-professional players and were taken into camp by the score of 11 to 1. Since then negotiations fqr a return game had been pending, and the college boys had had their minds made up to retrieve the defeat. As the Wheatfield team has the enviable recoid of having lost only one game last year and of having lost none before Saturday’s game this year, their defeat was certain to be hard to accomplish, but St. Joe had been getting lots of practice, having played Monticello, Rensselaer and Lowell within a week and they were improving with each game.

The content was better than local fans had expected to see, being maue up of sharp fielding, accurate throwing, and perfect work by the players of both teams. It might be called a pitcher’s battle, and the work of Hassar for the college was somewhat the best, ashe held the visitors down to 4 hits and struck out 10 men. In the first four innings only 12 men faced him at bat. L. Jensen pitched good ball for Wheatfield also, and bad excellent fielding behind him. He allowed 8 hits and fanned 4 men. Nagelriseu and Jensen caught well and Tommy Jensen, the visit or’s second baseman and Gallager, the Sr. Joe 3rd baseman, accepted many difficult fielding chances without eriur, while the 'entire teams played better ball than is usually seen outside the cities. Summary: 1 23456789RHE St. Joseph 0000210003 8 3 Wheatfield 0000100001 41 Three base hit, Hassar; 2 base hits, Nothtis, Kay Anderson. Struck out—by Hassay 1o; by Jensen 4. Bases on balls, off Hassar 2. off Jensen 1; eit by pttcher, by Hassar 1. Umpire Healey. The sportsmanlike manner in which the Wheatfield players took their defeat made them many wai m friends and it is regretted by base ball fans that the college season is over as another meeting of the : earns would draw a large crowd.

SOME BASE BALL NOTES. Wheatfield plays the South Bend Maple Leaves at Wheatfield next Saturday. How would it be to spring the base ball purse a little and have Wheatfield meet Lowell, Monticello or Chalmers here oi July 4th’ About all that is left of Rensselaer's ball team is Harry Swartzell and ten new red suits. Several of the Rensselaer youths demonstrated that they could play ball; and all that is needed is a qualified manager. Someone should sacrifice themself.

It seems that the Lowell ball team reported after going home last Wednesday that the game with St. Joseph was a draw. That they were fairly beaten by the score of 9to 8, and that St. Joe had a man on first base and only one out in the ninth inning when the deciding run was scored, every person at the game knows. Besides this, Lowell’s hired pitcher, Parker, was being pounded all over the college campus and the college boys could doubtless have scored more runs if needed. The unsportsmanlike act of Manager Woods in demanding the return of his part of a wager with a college boy from a Lowell stakeholder, exceeds in its cheapness anything ever heard of here, and looks like the act of a busted sport. Before entering into athletic contests one should be prepared to take whatever bumps are coming with good spirit, and the*conduct of Wheatfield was never excelled by Sir Thomas Lipton, the "good loser" in so many yacht races. Mr. Lou Woods is recommended to such people as this for a lesson in the ethics of athletic contests.