Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1909 — St. Joe Defeats Remnants of Once Proud Wrens. [ARTICLE]

St. Joe Defeats Remnants of Once Proud Wrens.

Notwithstanding the fact that the score at Sunday’s baseball game between the Wrens and St. Joseph’s College was 11 to 1 in favor of the college, the game was a very good contest for seven innings. The Wrens presented a very patched up team, but put up a good game until Swartzell gave dow*; in the seventh and then all the team went skyward and St. Joe ran bases at will, while the home lads juggled and wild threw the ball all over Riverside Park. Elmer Wilcox, the catcher, decided not to play at the last minute and a catcher had to be found. A young man who works at the Nowels house offered himself as a sacrifice and made a very good backstop, but he could not throw very well. Parcells played Ist base ahd Morgan 2nd, while McFarland, of the Spuds, played shortstop. Jess Wilcox played 3d base, but apparently he has been living too close to nature’s heart for the past few weeks, for he put up a very poor game. Swartzell pitched magnificently for the first six innings and had ten strlke-outs to his credit and the score stood 2 to 1 in favor of the college up to the 7th frame, when practically every player on the Wren team Joined hands fer an aerial trip and made an ascension that would put Little Otto and the Great Hermann, ldst year’s home-coming balloonists, out of business. The college boys hit the ball bard and often and before the curtain was run down in the last frame nine more scores had been annexed and tho final score stood 11 to 1. There was a good crowd piesent, demonstrating that a home team that could play ball would be well supported.

The Wrens are now a disbanded organization unless some one take* hold of them and gets spme outside talent to help along. The Spuds have several games and say that they are going to maintain their team and not lay down for any other homo aggregation. . fi