The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-06-09
LAST THIS SEASON.
VanQuishing Echo Twice Redwood
Says It's the Last Game.

Echo last Thursday afternoon. The
Redwood team has won the only two
games of the series that have been
played, and the captain has decided
not to cross bats with Echo again until
the latter team has time to strengthen
its weak points.
The Redwood boys went to Echo
weak to the extent of not having Mar
tin and Kelly and French, the two
former all around players, and French
as being the only man in the Redwood
team that could successfully catch
Thielman's twisting balls, which come
through without pointers as to where
they are going to land.
The local boys say that they have
visited only one town where the yelling
and coaching beat that of Echo-that
was at Springfield, and the boys rather
enjoyed, the Springfield talking, but
up at Echo they felt as though the
Echoites we're over stepping the limit
little, and we're too anxious to have
the game wind up in scrap. The last
half of the ninth found the Echo
people particularly demonstrative, and
what the Echo boys lacked in batting
the crowd made up in yelling, waving
of parasols, hats, etc. But it did no
good. 1t was impossible to tie the
Redwood score.
Johnnie Schrupp of Echo was toyed
with by the Redwood batteries for
four innings. During that time they
touched him up for q triple, two
doubles and seven singles, and then
Johnnie concluded tnat he had no
business in the box. Phipps, an alleged
ex-league pitcher, residing at Hanley
Falls, was taken from the bench, and
put into the box. But the Redwood
boys touched him for several singles
and double before the eight inning,
and Scrupp came in again.
In the first inning Redwood scored
one on triple by Shoemaker, aud
singles by Thiering and Cuff. In the
second they went out in one-two three
order. In the third they touched
Schrupp for two singles and a double,
and on an error of Burtsall, with the
hits they ran four men across the plate.
In the fourth they scored two on a
single by Jones, double by Birum
and single by Shoemaker. In the
fifth and sixth it was goose eggs. In
the seventh three more runs we're
added, Thiering getting a base on
balls, Cuff getting his base on an error
of Curtis, Luscher making a single,
Rollins getting his base on an error.
Birum made two bagger, but at
tempted to get third base. He was
thrown out at that point. Rollins cros-
sed the plate before Birum was thrown
out, but the umpires refused to allow
his score on the ground that Birum
was the third man out. In the eight
the Redwood boys added their eleventh
and last score to the list.
Echo fell on to Pitcher Rollins with
great deal of force in the first inning,
touching him up for four hits, getting
base on ball, one man getting his
base on fielder's choice, resulting in
total of FIVE scoes. Theilman went to
pitch in the second, and the Echoites
only secured four more hits after that,
two of them being scratch hits at that,
For three innings after the first the
Echo boys got ciphers with the rims
knocked out, and in the fifth they
scored on a hit of Swan, who stole Sec
ond, and came home on a passed ball
and error. In the sixth, seventh and
and eight the marvellous pitching of
Theilman was was too much for the
Echo boys, and in the ninth by hit
and fielder's choice, they only sue
ceeded in raising the figure to s. It
was during this inning that the Echo
people from the smallest boy to the
most patriotic lady, professor, editor
and lead pencil salesman, took hand
in the coaching, but it proved fruitIess.
The excellent pitching of Thielman,
the good work of Thiering in catching
him for the first time, the work of
Jones at first, and the batting of the
Redwood boys, and the attempted
trip of Cuff by B. Curtiss at third we're
features of the game. Score:
REDWOOD FALLS.
A.B. R. IB. P.O A. E.
Birum, 2b.; :....:,..... 2 2 o