Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1907 — JONAH DAY FOR UNION GIANTS [ARTICLE]

JONAH DAY FOR UNION GIANTS

The famous Chicago colored ball team, the Union Giants, which had twice defeated Wheatfield this year, met their most disastrous defeat of the season, and we believe the only defeat they suffered at the hands of an Indiana team this year at Wheatfield Saturday, the score being 9to 2in favor of the Regulars, the famous Wheatfield independent team. Louis Jensen, who served several weeks with the Bloomington Three Eye team, as one of the pitchers, came back home some weeks ago a quite finished pitcher, and he Imbued some qew life into the Reg mlars who had suffered peveral injuries and lost the spirit of the "early season. Lou is now said to have a winding-up action that has doubled his speed and effectiveness jind- he had the * dark-hued Giants at his mercy, while the team played errorless ball behind him. He allowed bnt six safe hits. Several Rensselaer fans went to Wheatfield by the automobile and saw the game. It would have been a great thing for Rensselaer if the Regulars trad Lowell could have been matched for a game here when both teams were at their best, and with the natural sympathy the north enders have from the county seat and the friends the Lowell team has, augmented by the fact that the popular Dobbins played second base for the team, it wonld dave drawn a great growd. The colored lads not only lost the baseball game bnt they pitted their hitherto undefeated foot racer, Albert Tony, against Albert Sportsman, the Nancy Hanks of the racing world, who with his manager has been making headquarters for some lime, and coonlike backed him to their last cent, and then Sportsman ran away from him. It was a great day for Wheatfield but a tongh day lor the coons and they will not soon forget their ex perience in the athletically disposnorth end.