Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-08-07
THE RACE MEETING.
Poor Exhibitions of Ball Play
ing Between the Melroso
and Little Falls Teams.
Some of the Races Were Good,
But TWO Events Booked
Did Not Come Off.

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The two days race meeting held
by the Little Falls Athletic associa-
ton closed at about $50 sunday
evening. and SO far as the ball play
Ing was concerned. 1t was a great
disappointment to nearly all the
spectators. a
The first event OF the meeting was
the trotting race, best two in three
heats, mud was won bv Verplast's
Tommy, with Roy's Tebasco second
and r. A. Richardson's Fox third.
1t was a holly contested race.
Then came the first of the two ball
games, which was won by the Little
Falls team by a score Of Is to IL. In
this game Hall pitched for the visit
ors, and was pounded numerically.
Lehman pitched u good game for the
home team, but did not receive very
good support. The features Of this
game were the excellent work Of
Catcher Snow and his fine base run
ming. ........ =. y.
The Sundays meeting was a
greater disappointment than the
first, for the reason that the bicycle
race, which was to have taken place
between Kirby, of this city, White.
of st. Cloud, and Thraemer, Oi Roy
alton, did not come off for some
reason or other, and the running
race between Richardson's mare,
Maud Downing, and the Anoka horse
was also declared off ON account Of
the non-appearance OF the latter. S.
A compromise for the failure o.
these two events was q race between
Bicyclist White and Richardson -
mare, the latter going tive-elghths OF
a mile to the bicyclist's hall mile.
The mare won easily and gave an
excellent exhibition of her speed.
White also made good time on the
| wheel.
The next event WIS u 100 yard
foot race between Peter Vasaly and
Jack Paplo, of this city. King, OF
Melrose. and Snow, of st. Paul.
King won, Snow second and Vasaly
third. Vasaly was hindered by be-
Ing struck in the face accidently by
Snow in the start, and also by being
ON the outside and having to run in
the tall grass and weeds. 1t was Il
very poor track for a sprinting race.
Vasaly Is confident of being able to
heat the field under ordinary con-
ditions and endeavore,l to arrange a
match race; each to put up $40 and
the winner take the whole amount.
but was unsuccessful. This was the
last If the races, and the second
game OF ball was called. with Fred
McGonagle, Of ROyalton, as umpire.
1t was a very poor game that both
sides put up, and the chief feature
OF the game was the numerous
"kicks" by the players, who 1t seems
from their playing IRE about two
years behind time on the rules. Nc
Gonagle was fair and impartial, and
made a good umpire. Joe Phyle, OF
st. Cloud, pitched for Melr0se at the
beginning Of the game. but after
several innings his arm gave out and
he was succeeded by Hall. Halls
qualifications as a pitcher exist only
In his own imagination, and had he
continued in the box the game would
not he finished yet. He was taken
out and RAIDER, who was catcher for
the MelrOse team, but received q
severe blow from pitched bah in
the neck, followed him il. the box.
He did very well and the local team
did not get many hits off his delivery.
Lehman also pitched the seconn
game OF ball for the home team, and
although the visitors found him
freely had he received any support
from the outfield and from some Of
the infield, whose errors were very
costly, Little Falls would have won
the game. 1t took over three hours
to finish the game ON account OF
wrangles and kicks and resulted in
n victory for the MelrOse team by
score Oi ID to 20. Lehman. Snow
and Vossberg OF the Little Falls
team played u good game. and
several of the Others did fair work,
but many errors on the part OF some
of the players lost the game and
made it rank exhibition OF base