Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1907 — Many Baseball Fans at Wheatfield. [ARTICLE]

Many Baseball Fans at Wheatfield.

Thursday was a holiday at Wbeatfield, at least every person there treated the afternoon as a holiday. It was the occasion of the ball game between the fine team of that place and the famous Chicago Union Gi%nts that have been trimming every ball team of any pretentions in northern Indiana all summer. Business houses were closed, everything except the post-office and Louis Paulson, the P, M., who made the sacrifice of allowing his clerk to go to the game, had a look of serious dejection on his face as the crowd marched toward the bail ground leaving him the lonely sentry of the business section. Old men and women, mothers with babies and papas with strong voices shouting the praises of the home ball team, mingled with noisy boys and pretty girls, and every one from kids in kilts to grandpas in steel gray whiskers proved their familiarity with the national game by cheering all good plays of the home tea m and by closing up like clams when adverse things came up. And they came, those shady sons of Africa were too much for the pale faced boys of the north end and the final result was a victory for the colored boys by the emphatic score of 11 to 3. Then on the main street occurred a foot race, one of the colored ball players proving to a lad named Roush from Medary ville that there is a difference between knowing how to run and thinking one knows how to run. The colored men were well behaved and the event was a very pleasant one.