Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1909 — The Varsity Trims St Ignatius 6 to 5. [ARTICLE]

The Varsity Trims St Ignatius 6 to 5.

The St. Ignatius ball team reached Collegeville with colors flying and high hopes of adding the trophies of St. Joseph’s to their long list of victories over college teams. One thing however, they had forgotten. The|r headquarters are too near the Chicago south side ball park and the spirit of the White Sox was in 'them; though they played good ball at all times the fates had decided against them and they could not win, well as they deserved to return victorious. At all stages of the game their fielding was far superior to that of the local aggregation. The infield especially worked machine like in picking up batted and thrown balls and heaving out runners at all the wayside station. The game went into an extra inning simply because the local rooters succeeded in undoing the nerve of the visiting pitcher. He could calmly face any batter, but when the earth was so vigorously torn up before him he saw a tremendous abyss at his feet and fell into it, and the second time he rose to be told that the score board was against him. His left handed shoots completely swayed the locals except in the eighth and the tenth rounds when his head was talked off by the fans. The visitors played a fast game in the field and their hits were long, clean drives, whereas those of the Varsity were all of the scratch and Texas league order. The score:

St. Joseph H R E McGurren, ss 1 1 3 Nageleisen, c 2 2 0 Pfeffer, If 1 1 0 Hasser, p 1 0 1 Carmody, rs 0 1 0 Faurot, cf 0 0 0 Blrkmeler, lb 1 1 0 Hayes, 2b 0 0 0 Hinellne, 3b, 1 0 2 7 6 5 St. Ignatius H R E Kevin, ss 0 1 2 Ryan, If 0 0 0 Pechous, 3b 1 1 2 Hanks, p 2 2 1 Carroll, 2b 0 0 0 Schuster, cf 1 1 0 Kilian, lb 2 0 0 Stack, c .... 1 0 1 McGerver, rs .1 0 0 8 5 6 St. Joseph—--000110020 2—6 7 5 St. Ignatius—i o 0 1 0 20 0 0 I—s 8 6