The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-08-22
BALL AND BAT.
The Brainerds Play Horse With
Redwood In the First
Game.
Very Bad Errors by Our Players
Gives Them Nineteen
Scores.

Yes, it was funny old clock, wasn't
it? It struck nineteen times for
Brainerd out at the fair grounds last
Tuesday afternoon, while the Red
wood aggregation had hard work to
push it around so that it would strike
two times for them. There you have
it: score of 10 for Brainerd to two
for Redwood in the first game of the
so-called championship series for
water, blood, money, or anything else
you might want to name.
1t was sunshine, bright sunshine,
over head all day long and when
twilight came on the stars commenced
to twinkle, and they twinkled all night
along; underneath, or here in Red
wood rather, there was dark, gloomy
cloud, a cloud of despair over all, and
the fans wept, and the bleachers
creaked, and the winners, betters and
all, pulled in the little money the
other fellows had lost and they had
won.
There isn't much to tell on that
game. Ten nice looking Redwood
boys, wearing beautiful and attractive
costumes, without much practice,
went out to the ball ground and there
they met their Waterloo. Whether
the uniforms were the hoodoo or not,
the cat may come back to tell, but we
doubt it.
Brainerd went up to bat. Burquim
got base on balls. Page flew out.
Frary make a hit and on an error
Burquim crossed the plate. B. Page
and Hill struck out. For Redwood
Buxton got hit but the side retired
before he crossed the plate. The
clock struck one only-one for Brain
erd. Then Dickson struck out Howe
and Mccarthy. Quinn made a two
Dagger and Hollran was presented
with a base. Before either scored
Burquim flew out. One, two, three,
was the way Severens, French and
Luscher went out at bag No. l. The
clock didn't strike.
In the third French and Glassco
were responsible for Brainerd's score.
Frary knocked grounder to French,
who retired Page at second and
should have retired Frary at first, but
wild throw gave Frary the base. On
a hit of B. Page Frary scored. Red
wood had the bases full in it's half, but
not man crossed the plate before the
side was retired. The clock struck
two for Brainerd.
The fourth inning gave Brainerd
two more scores. Mccarthy, Burquim
and J. Page made the hits. Redwood
went out in one, two, three order
again. In the fifth Brainerd was
given an oval shaped egg, with only
four men at the bat, while Redwood
got the same score with only three
men up. In the sixth the clock struck
twice for Brainerd, Hollran getting a
base on balls, Burquim hitting safe,
and by errors both mon crossed the
plate. For Redwood five men were
at the bat but not one scored.
In the seventh inning Brainerd re-
wound the clock, touched Dickson up
for three singles, two two-baggers and
one three-bagger, and the clock eight
times before the last of the three men
went out. In fact, Dickson did not
attempt to pitch, realizing that the
game was lost, and being discouraged
over his support. Three more Red
woodites went out at first. Brainerd
added two more in the eighth, Bur-
quinn getting base on an error and
coming in on single by j. Page who
was sent across the plate by Frary's
hit. In the eighth inning we pulled
the clock twice. Dickson got base
on balls, Levendusky made hit and
on an error of short, Glassco got his