Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-21
BASE BALL At WAUSAU,
Iaoiu City Loses one and Wins
One Game tn that City. Bully"
Bells still Plays 7vfhh lis Usual
Kicks and Bluffs.

Did you ever play ball at Wausau? If
you haven't you have yet to learn and
to have played upon you some of the
smallest and most disgraceful tricks of
the art, besides going against two of the
greatest and most renowned kickers
and domIneer buffers, Mark Bells and
"fatty" Thorpe.
The Twin City Club left for Wausau
Saturday morning expecting to play
two gentlemanly, homes games of ball,
one on that day and one Sunday, having
been guaranteed $50 for such games by
the manager Mr.. E. E. Miller. They
started with seven men expecting 10
meet the pitcher and ninth man on the
train, but by some mis-connection were
disappointed. At Wausau, however,
they were fortunate in engaging the
services of Mr.. Will Wright who
CHANGED to be up from Babcock. A Mr..
Wilmott, of Wausau, whom the boys
thought could pitch, was also secured
and the game commenced. Wausau
was first to bat and it took but few
minutes to reveal the fact that Wilmott
could not throw and that our bows
would stand no show with him in the
box. Wausau made runs in the first
inning. By fine fielding and hard work
our boys held them down as we'll as
possible the game ending 16 to Ain
favor of Wausau. The loss of the game
by such score can be directly attribu-
ted to the pitcher as the number of hits
and bases on balls made off him were
too numerous to count. Our boys were
disgusted and discouraged by their
disappointment in the pitcher and TO
increase the odds against them, the
umpire, Hanson of the Wausau club,
would not even give them the benefit of
just decisions. Useless to complain,
surprised at such treatment the boys
played the game through. 1t was a
walk away for Wausau, walk over by
the Umpire, a quiet game undistin-
guished by the threatening, clustering
conduct Of Bells and Thorpe, because
everything went to their taste and
Wausau is entitled to all honor for
winning the game. The following
appeared in the Sunday Sentinel as
sent in by the Wausau correspondent:
WAUsAU, Wis, July l6.-Grand Rap
ids played the home team here to-day,
Grand Rapids, Wilmott, Week; Wausau
Lemon, Tuttle, Thorpe. Struck out, by
Wilmott3; by Lemon ? Tuttle 5. Base
hits, Grand Rapids 3; Wausau 49, Two
basehits, Bells, McCrossen. Features,
home run, Tuttle; running catch,
LaVigne of visitors.
Saturday evening the city was all astir
and expectancy in readiness to receive
a Bishop from Green Bay, who was met
at the depot by the Third Regiment
Band and Catholic Knights. After
escorting the Bishop and knights to
the Church the Band returned and gave
an open air Concert in Court House
square which we had the pleasure of
hearing. The music was exceedingly
beautiful, Dana having his full band of
Is pieces, and could hardly be dupli-
Gated by any similar organization in the
Northwest. We sat and listened for
one long hour until the last sweet
strains had died upon the evening air.
Such music and such harmony led us to
wander out of the wilderness of base
ball thoughts and base ball cranks into
brighter and more pleasant topics of
conversation and of thought. Doubly
interesting was it because SO many of
our home boys, now members of the
band, took part viz: Messrs. Rube
Lyon, Frank Houston, Grant White,
Carl Bandeline, Chas. Parker and Del
White, all Of whom we met. We also
called upon Mr.. Fred Burt who is now
in new quarters having one of the finest
and best barber shop and bath room
connections in Wausau. Many other
familiar faces greeted us and we found
that this thriving city was not without
goodly share of our former citizens.
Sunday morning our club was
strengthened by the arrival of our
reliable twirler Mr.. Ed. Eggers, form
erly Wausau boy, and Will Bateman
our hard hitter. Manager Kruger and
several others from home were also
there to cheer us up and we left for the
grounds after dinner we'll satisfied and
determined that Wausau would have to
play ball to win. The game was close
and exciting, but Wausau would not
have made even 6 runs had Twin City
received a square deal. By this game
we learned that Wausau would not play
ball without an umpire picked from its
own club to favor and help it out. Well
they had one of their own players as
umpire after the second inning and yet
they claimed that the game was given
away in the first two innings. We also
learned the extent and integrity of that
noisy, clustering ball player Bellows
mistake, Bells l mean-he is so full
of wind its hard to discriminate-and
his able second Mr.. Thorpe. They
threatened, bluffed, and tried to hood
wink us, to bully and domineer; they
called us d-n liars before the ladies in
the grand stand, but we beat them Just
the same by playing ball and that's all
we wanted. The other members of the
club we found to be perfect gentlemen,
but it reflects no credit upon them or