Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-09-21
WOODRUFF ITEMS.

A. J. Cheny, OF Chicago, was pleas
ant caller last Friday night.
Joseph Elliott. OF Arbor Vitae, has
been on our streets the past couple OF
days.
Frank Markee, who has been on the
sick list, is slowly improving. Frank "
friends will be- glad to see him around
again.
Geo /. Brown has taken charge Of his
butcher shop and will be pleased to
weigh out tirst-class steak again to his
many customers.
The Bauden Hotel has changed hands,
Mr.. Bauden retiring to private life and
renting the hotel to G. +. Ball, formerly
of Armstrong Creek. He has also taken
Charge of Pabst beer in this vicinity and
if beer can be sold he is a sure seller.
a. Monroe, Of Manitowish, undertook
to, paint the town red and use the conf
dence of the saloonkeepers for his drinks,
but Officer Murry's eagle eve soon drop
ped onto Mr. man and lie cooled him off
behind the bars until things were cor
rected.
Jake Morey, of INinocqua, who was
visiting relatives and friends ut st. Paul
and Minneapolis, returned home last
Wednesday, and reports having seen
several games OF base ball that ACTUALLY
DID ECLIPSE any playing that has been
done by the Minocqua nine.
Last Sunday the Arbor Vitaeand few
of the Woodruff nine played with the
Rhinelander second nine at Arbor Vitae
grounds. 1t took ten innings to decide
the game which was we'll played from
start to finish. In the first inniugs the
Arbor Vitae boys got in two runs and
Rhineander but one, and after that there
was four straight shut outs by both
teams. The feature of the game was the
work of the Rhinelander battery, Lam
bart and Galliger. Yet there was good
work done by other players and nice
time for all spectators. We would like
see more such games.
4 week ago the Minocqua Times came
out with a heading ''Put up or shut up,
and saying that there had been a for
felt left leading saloon in that place to
insure game Of ball with the Woodruff
team. This was the outgrowth of q
game played the Sunday before III which
the two clubs were to play q sociable,
neie hborly game. So Woodruff boys,
wishing to make the game us interesting
as possible for the spectators, got three
players from Hazelhurst which We're the
only out side players they had, thinking
of course that since Minocqua had beaten
the Hazelhurst boys in every game play
en- there Would be no objections. When
the game was called Minocqua not only
had Donahue, of Rhinelander, but Quick
of Merrill, and of course, with this paid
battery, our boys stood poor show. Tn
the eighth inning Jake Morey, the regular
Minocqua pitcher, was substituted for
Quick, and our boys scored eight tallies
in that innings and three in the ninth;
leaving the score Is to II i'll favor Of
Minocqua. and now because we objected
to this kind of treatment they claim
they have put up the 500. They
have not played game this summer but
what they have rung in a player from
Merrill, Wausau, Minneapolis and Chica-
go against the local mines. The manager
of the Arbor Vitae team tried hard to
get a bet with them against an Arbor
Vitae nine but their hundred dollars was
not in sight, and the manager OF our
team and others went over to get
chance at that coveted pile but were
utterly unable to make any kind of
game with them under any kind OF con-
ditions So Woodruff put up and Min
ocqua shut up.