The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-06-25
SEBA'S FEATHER.
His Club Wins the First Game on
the Home Ground.

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ball players known as the Redwood
Clippers won the first game of the sea-
son on the local grounds last Friday.
They snatched victory from defeat
and the dark cloud hanging over
Seba's knitted brow from the post to
the eighth inning of the game van
ished like ice before summer
Southern breeze and was displaced
by the more happy, calmer and clear
or vision resembling smile as Seba's
aggregation, in their half of the
eighth, touched up the Delhi king of
the sphere for three singles and a,
double, and the Delhi men made a
couple of costly errors, all tending to
allow five "Clips" to cross the plate,
and putting the latter just two scores
ahead of their opponents. Even
James O'Hara, so childlike and bland,
as he walked out to his post at third
base, caught Seba's smile, and for
once since his birth, had an illuminant
ray of laughter all over his sober
countenance.
Seba played on the bench. But
notwithstanding all this he succeeded
in playing ten men just the same. In
the sixth inning Judge Dolliff, suffer
ing from headache, retired from the
second bag, and Seba called on
Charles Luscher as substitute.
Charles accepted, and made three
singles and practically won the game,
before the "Clips" retired the Delhi
boys in the ninth inning.
The Delhi men also played ten
men. The tenth man was 10. Tiffany,
the inimitable handler of the sphere,
who, in early days, had few equals in
this section But 10. hasn't played
much of late and as the ball sped
across the plate three times in the
ninth, his first and last time at bat,
and the umpire called three strikes,
Jo., like the characteristic Chimmy
Fadden, hadn't just got onto de
curves and didn't know what struck
him. He retired gracefully as did
the side with his strike out.
10. was called in the ninth on ac-
count of an accident to Carl Pratt,
who was playing the third bag for
Delhi. Carl had his nose broken and
Immediately after the accident blood
ran from his nose as freely as it does
from stuck hog. The accident hap
pened by way of collision with Hen
ry Shoemaker, catching for Delhi.
Harry Peavey struck foul fly, send
ing it midway between the catcher
and third baseman. Those two play
ers as we'll as the pitcher rushed to
catch the fly. The pitcher dropped
out, however. No one coached and as
a result the two men came together
with terrific force, neither getting the
ball, but resulting in the accident as
above stated 10. took Carls place
and the game went on.
With the exception of hits and runs
the Delhi boys played better ball
than the Clippers. They succeeded
in getting two more men at bat, Sc
cured more assists and made less er-
rors by half than the Clippers. In
the first inning, on three singles, q
base on balls, and some poor judg-
ment they allowed the Clippers to get
four scores. The next two innings
they retired them in one, two, three
order. After the third on hits and
some bad errors the Clippers piled up
scores in every inning. In the eighth
inning they got five, on double by
Rollins, single by Jones, two errors
and singles by Warner and Luscher
They had II scores.
Delhi secured two scores in the first
inning on two errors and a single. In
the second inning they completely