The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1897-12-23
RACINE DEAD EASY.
KENOSHA INDOOR TEAM EASILY
DEFEAT THEIR TEAM.
GAME is VERY UNINTBREsT1NG
Mcclellan Proves Himself Power for
the Home Team by Striking
out Sixteen Men-The
Game in Detail.


The game OF indoor base ball be-
tween the Kenosha Athletics and the
team from Racine, at Simmons Hall
last night, proved to be walkover for
the Kenosha boys. The Racine team
was not a serious factor in the game at
any time during the evening and was
only streak of great luck that
player from the Belle City was per-
mitted to cross the home plate at all.
Racine made her only score in the last
inning when two men had already been
retired. Watkins, the first man to face
the pitcher in this inning, was given q
base on balls, and stealing second and
third he was held there until two men
were out and then, with two strikes on
the batter, Mcclellan made a wild
pitch which Cooper failed to get and
the man crossed the plate and saved
the team from a shutout.
The score of 15-1 does not give any
adequate idea of the game, as the Ke-
nosha boys hit the ball all over the
field while their opponents were able
to get but single hit off the Kenosha
pitcher and that too in the last inning
About 200 people were present when
the umpire called the game about 8
o'clock. About a dozen of these were
from Racine, but they made so little
noise that it was hard to tell that there
were any sympathizers of the visiting
team present. Kenosha won the toss
and chose the bat, the visitors taking
the field.
The first inning Melted the Kenosha
boys three runs, but the Racine hitters
failed to get a man on base. In the
second in2ing two more we're piled up
by the home team, but the visitors
were forced to be satisfied with man
on third. During the third and fourth
inning the Athletics got three, but the
score of the Belle City boys didn't
grow at all, and they began to realize
that if they kept up in this way they
would disgrace their home town and
they took a decided brace and held
their opponents down for the next two
innings, and the scorer chalked up two
goose eggs to each of the teams.
In the seventh the Kenosha boys
went at it again and continued the
scoring which they had begun in the
earlier innings. During these innings
the home boys played with snap that
was never seen before in KenOsha and
it seemed impossible for Racine man
to get even a sight of the ball In the
ninth inning the home boys made four
more and when the visitors came TO the
bat in the last inning every one eX
pected a shut out, but the old Kenosha
hoodoo put in an appearance and the
game ended with the score 10 to in
favor of Kenosha. All the home boys
played splendid game and it would
be unjust to say that the victory re-
suited from the work of any certain
player and it is best accounted for by
saying that the Racine men were en-
tirely outclassed by the Athletics.
The two teams lined up as follows:
KenOsha. Racine
Eaton. - left field. ---- Williams
j. Harkin. 80. I'd base. .Falkenrath
Cantwell. -. right field -Swenson
Nielsen. --- I'D base $500 BROKER
Holderness. LIST base Williamson
Cooper. -...ca catcher -. Korcilius
G.. Harkin. - left Short. .Killian
Mcclellan go pitcher. Hetzel
Weier. right short. Watkins
Umpires-For Kenosha, DeDiemar.
For Racine, Summers.
The following is the score by innings:
12345 6789
Kenosha. ..----3 2 1901 2 4--15
Racine. .....-.O 1000 90 l. l
The eight-month old child of Chris
tian Jacobson, of the town of Bristol,
died Friday evening Of scarlet fever