The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-07-29
Portage Lake News
Kendall's Kids Defeat
the Henpecked
Nine.
The Score Was go to 10.
a Large Crowd witnessed the Above
Two Clubs Play the Game
Other News.


The Bachelor and Benedict base ball
game was played yesterday afternoon at
the Mining School park, in the presence
OF a crowd that filed the grand stand
and also the bleachers pretty well. FIVE
innings were played and Kendall's kids
beat the Henpecked nine by score OF 20
to 10. The game was an interesting one
from the fact that the score see-sawed
each inning, and finally wound up as
close as it possibly could.
The parade was the feature OF the day.
Ii started from the Hancock high school
and the route was lined with admiring
spectators. The Houghton band led, fol
lowed by Co. A, Boys Brigade. Then
came the carriage OF the two managers,
X. III. Brelsford and d. S. Kendall. Then
came the bachelors in all the glory OF
white duck trousers and shirts, with the
club color (red) prominent. The UNI
pires, W. f. Miller and b. Il. Barry, were
accommodated with a trap, and their
getup would have rivaled any minstrel
on the road The benedicts were gotten
up without regard to symmetry. A. j.
Scott wore a mask as large as hoop
skirt and a glove that took three wool
sacks to make. j. +. Hambitzer had a
feminine attachment to the bottom oihis
knee trousers, and ii. l.. Baer had per-
feet Josh Spruceby" makeup. The
chasers, coachers, and substitutes had
turned over several garrets OF old clothes
and their rigs battle description. James
7. Fisher skillfully rode his old ordinary
bicycle the whole distance.
Arrived at the park. the game began in
short order, with the benedicts first at
bat. They secured but one run, and as
ten at least was expected TO be the aver
age per inning, the youngsters thought
they had dead easy thing. In their
hall, however, they made but three runs.
The benedcts got a shut out and the
bachelors came in, made six, and then
the married men woke up to the fact that
their wives we're in the grand stand and
went in and got eight runs, tying the
score. The bachelors then added seven
| runs, and it looked like a good thing
again. but the married men, think
ing what the children would
say to papa at the supper table
gathered themselves together and made
ten big ones landing them two ahead
Then it was that Manager Kendall gath
cred his homeless lot about him in the
corner blythe grand stand, and exhorted
| them to go in and leather the ball. Alter
| two men were put out the wining runs
were made and the flag OF blue was
trailed in the dust.
| Many were the old tricks played by the
benedicts and the batchs, not dating sc
far back, were not up to them. For in
stance, an unsuspecting kid had run
down to second, when from Bob Shields
and Dick Lang came the cry, ego back
90 back" The runner started to obey
and was promptly put out on the line
amid the ieers OF the spectators and the
horn blowing OF the bleachers. Out II
the field hardly ball was stopped Oh
caught, the players laying it to the sur
in their faces. When Jim Dee went tC
bat the felders all moved upinto the dia
mond, but he fooled them with hit oyel
their heads. Henry Baer made two hit
with club yard in circumference, mad'
especially to his order. but he could no
run a little bit and succumbed to the in
eyitable each time at second base.
The first time Bob Shields went to ba
he was busy tying his coat tails aroun'
his waist, when, plump. the ball hit MN
lust about where he was tying the knot
and he was assisted to first, amid tn
plaudits OF the admiring spectators.
Capt. Dunn had his whole SIMPLY Q
handouts with him and when there wa
row in the field, which was often, b
marched solemnly out. and the decisio
OF the umpire would be always respected
Tom RYAN was heart and soul in tn
game. He kicked with a will and d
kicked all the time. The maddest ma
was William Harry. He couldn't hit tn
ball and you could tell by the way b
grasped that club that he was mad. II
did good work on third base.
Wagner, on second base, did good wor
for the bachelors. He made the onl
double play Of the game, catching Il
and catching man of first. Scot
struck out the first time at bat but r
deemed himself in the fifth inning by nal
ing a three Dagger.
The hospital department was well take
care Of by DR.. Hollis and his stewart
Arno Jaehnig. They had provided pa
rel full of elixir OF life and plenty oil hor'
linament.
The teams. positions and the runs