Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1909 — WRENS KEPT UP THEIR WINNING STREAK SUNDAY. [ARTICLE]

WRENS KEPT UP THEIR WINNING STREAK SUNDAY.

Make 8 Errors 5 Hits to Visitors’ 3 Errors 5 Hits, Yet Win in a Romp, 8 to 1. About baseball time Sunday afternoon the clouds lowered and gave us our daily shower. This somewhat dampened our ball fever, but we went out to Riverside, moved the diamond to escape “Lake Third Base”, and presented a game that made the Toledo Mud Hens famous. Old Sol came out in all his glory, and with the assistance of one Bolin, the crowd was enthusiastic from the start. From the side lines it was one of the best games of the season. Notwithstanding the one sided score, the game was replete with thrillers. Hanks’ pitching was a as the lad’s . control was perfect. Bolin warmed himself into everlasting fame with the home talent, with his big stick. Tbe first three times up he walloped the sphere for two-bag-gers that on a faster field would have netted him triples or homers. Next up he singled, and then scratched. McLain was his only teqmmate that hit the pill safely. McLain’s catching was a feature, and his two sensational put-outs at the plate kept the kidder on the grand stand busy.

We hooked the game in the strat-off. Hanks held the visitors runless in the first two rounds, but we captured two head in the first, owing to said batting by said Red. In the third the visitors got their lonely score. Owing to the wet and slippery condition around third the ball was almost impossible to handle there, and a bad throw mixed In, coupled with McGrath’s single did the work. We annexed one more in the third, one more In the fifth and then the visitors changed pitchers. The new rubber artist had it on us in the sixth, but the seventh was thuswise: Morgan, first up, was hit, stole second, and on Bolin’s single and error by visitor’s catcher, scored one for

Daniel. Hanks was passed, as was Parks, then McLain made his hit, and Bolin and Hanks scored two more for Daniel. On Kepner’s fielder’s choice, we were entertained to some bonehead tactics on behalf of the visiting aggregation, and Master Parks scored one more. We didn’t care to create any more excitement, as a prominent fan was troubled with his heart, and so we failed in the eighth, and didn’t try the last frame. The boys are using their heads and that's what wins games. r h e Rensselaer .20101040 • —8 5 8 Y. M. 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 o—l 7 3