The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-12-30
KENOSHA DEFEATED
WAUKEGAN PUTS A STOP TO HER
CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT.
LIVELY sCRAPPY GAME.
The Rank Decisions of Fels, the Wauke-
gan Umpire, Largely Responsible
for the Score Against the
Athletics.

Waukegan Tuesday night by score
of 9 to 3, and their right to the title OF
champions of the lake shore seems
assured In fact as long as Waukegan
plays games at home any of the people
who saw tue game Tuesday night
would be willing to lay 81 that their
team will be O. cracker jack, three time
winner, etc., ETC., but if it were posi-
BILE to lure them from their native
4 haunts to a place where some chance
of an honest game could be found, it
might be very easy to defeat even this
Waukegan team.
About seventy five roOters took the
sos train for Waukegan, and at once
made their presence felt by the noise
they made previous to their arrival at
the scene of the contest. A large
crowd was in attendance at the game,
and large part of them proved to be
Kenosha people.
Kenosha won the toss and came to
bat first, and when the first ball was
pitched it was evident from the play
ing of the Kenosha boys that they haG
bad case of scare. The first two men
struck out, and CantWell was too slow
to beat the ball to first and a goose egg
was chalked up as starter. Wauke-
gan did not fare much better IN their
half of the inning, but they played
with much more snap and vigor than
the Kenosha boys did. With one out
Thompson hit for two bases, but the
next two men were easy for Mcclellan
and be died on second. KenOsha
scored first in the second inning, when
Westerfield became wild and gave Hol-
derness a base on balls, which man
aged 20 get him as far as third by dar-
ing base running. Nielsen picked out
a good one and cracked out pretty
single which scored. .Holderness. By a
combination of errors and outs Nielsen
crossed the rubber, and the hopes OF
the Kenosha delegation rose to an
abnormal size and they expressed their
feelings in way that made them look
rather foolish when, later in the game,
Waukegan had the runs to the good.
In her half of the second Waukegan
failed to score, the men going out IN
one, two, three order, a plan which
was adopted by Kenosha in the third
inning. When Waukegan came to- bat
they were desperate. A lead of two
by the visitors was not all pleasing to
them, and they showed their disap
proval by cracking out three pretty
hits in rapid succession, and when the
Kenosha players woke up their oppo-
nents were only one run behind them.
In the fourth inning Harkin got
base on balls, and soon got around to
third, but all the balls were strikes In
the mind of Fels, who Oficiated as
umpire for Waukegan, and Harkln
died on third. When Waukegan came
to bat Kenosha met her Waterloo, for
by a combination of hits and errors on
the part of the Waukegan umpire three
runs were chalked up to the credit of
the Lake Shore Champions, and Wau-
kegan gained lead of two, which was
never overcome by the Kenosha boys.
In the fifth Kenosha failed to get a
man on base, and as Waukegans first
three men at bat struck out, the score
remained unchanged.
| The sixth resulted in another blank
for the Kenosha team, and only three
of the Waukegan team faced Pitcher
Mcclellan.
In the seventh the most notorious
steal ever seen on field was perpe-
trated by the Waukegan umpire.
! Cantwell was at bat, and struck foul
which the umpire called. The ball
struck the netting and bounding back
Cantwell struck it with his bat,
to knock it down to the pitcher.
The pitcher got the ball and threw 1T
to first and the umpire called it a fair
ball This decision lie refused to
change and the Kerosha boys were
forced to stand it. Nielsen followed
with hit but the next two men fouled
out and Kenosha's score was not in
creased. In the Waukegan half hit
and several shady decisions netted an
other run and the score was five to two.
In the eighth Kenosha drew another
little white marble, but the Waukegan
boys took kindly to McClellan's delivery
and landed on the ball in good shape
and when three men were out four of
the Bluff city men had scored.
In the ninth the Kenosha men made
no effort to win out, but Mcclellan
scored on a base on balls and two errors
and the next two men went out and
the game ended with score of 8 to 3,
in favor Of tue Bluff Cities.
Score by innings:
IL 3 789
Kenosha, 0 2 0 0 90 90 1-3
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