Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-08-20
Base Ball Audubon Juniors VS.. Manning.

Only n small audience attended the
game last Friday at the fair grounds,
| between the Junior nine of this town
and the Mannings, but those that went
got the worth of their money. IL was
Il game OF surprises for dotted with fine
| plays which stood out In q wilderness
of errors like good deed In q wicked
world. There was plenty of heavy hit
ting, running and no end of excitement.
One enthusiastic individual declared IL
was more fun than q barrel of monkeys.
The story of the game Is as follows;
The Mannings opened well, scoring u
run and whitewashing the Audubons.
In the second inning they repeated the
dose, three Audubon players striking
out. Each side got run In the third
inning. In the fourth inning llatha-
way began with u base hit but McCuen
hit hard To Morris who made good pick
up and threw sharply to Case who pass
ed it along to first and a fine double
play was the result. The next man to
the bat struck wildly ut two of Barger's
drop balls which struck In front of the
plate and failing TO improve his next
chance, the side was retired without
II run. Forthis half of the inning Au.
dubon succeeded in getting man rs
far rs third base, when Rinemund hit q
low liner to right which looked perfect,
ly safe but Hathaway ran In and cap.
tured il when not over six inches from
the ground, making the best catch of
the day.
II. Walkup In sliding to second In the
seventh inning sprained his ankle and
was compelled to leave the game. Cat
lin, who although of the regular nine
had not been playing on account of an
injury to his hand, took Walkup's place,
going to his regular position ut short,
T.. Walkup to Third and Morris behind
the bat. Manning placed two more
runs to their credit In the first half of
the eighth and with the score q to 2
against them as the Audubons came In
for their half of the inning, the game
looked hopeless. Morris was first to
the bat. lie smiled blandly on the
Manning pitcher, gripped his bat with
u now -or-never air and knocked safe
one to center. Then the trouble began
+. Walkup followed and redeemed his
strike outs with q long liner to left.
Captain Case did not stand on cere-
m0ny, but smashed the first ball. Baker
hit clear over the out neldcrs clearing
the bases and setting the crowd wild
So it went. The men ran around the
Manning pitcher so fast that he fancicd
himself In the midst of circus ring
and the crowd yelled themselves h0arse.
But when they got around TO Case again
Pollock regained his nerve and struck
| him out with three men on bases. The
Manning nine In concert gave vent to
| q sigh of relief which was heard all
over the fair grounds. When the ex.
element subsidized II was discovered
that twelve men had gone TO the bat
making seven base hits, and the home
nine had tied the score.
The home team had already made
errors enough but they reserved some
more for the ninth inning. After
chances had been given to put the Wis
itors out, Patton hit tremendous three
Dagger to left center and the hit and an
error gave them four scores. Audubon
succeeded In getting three scores most
ly on Pollocks wild pitching but Morris
struck out leaving Catlin on third and
the game was lost by one score.
Although defeated the Junior nine
deserves great credit for the manner in
which they played an up hill game.
Tho batting was not very scientific,
many of the Audubon nine striking out
on balls two feet from the end of their
bat and the Manning boys made des-
perate attempts to bat some of Bargers
drops which struck In front Of the home
plate.
IL. Walkup, Baker and Catlin led ut
the bat for the home team and Nettle
for the visitors. The fielding of Baker,
Morris and Hathaway was feature of
the game.
The umplring of Clark and the kid
was excellent il we except the closing
decision of the latter, but If the Au.
dubon audience will not treat umpires
better it is to be expected that our team
will get the worst OF it.
The conduct of the Manning team
was the subject of much favorable com
ment. The visitors are gentleman in
every sense of the word, who play
square, legitimate game and in the mat.
of submission TO decisions, set an ex-
ample which we hope will be followed.
A return game will be played at Man.
ming.
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