The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1898-07-28
ManltOWOc I.

Manltowoc /. Fond du Lac ).
The game Monday Was hair raiser.
For sixteen long innings the two pitchers
strove to fool the opposing batsmsn and
succeeded almost equally WELL Root and
La Fleur we're in the points for the visI-
tors and Bach and Torr.son for the locals.
The tabalated score below tells the story,
but there we're numberless features that
do not appear In the score. After two
me1 were gone in Manitowoc's first, Kro.
mer got clean single and went to sec md
when Torrlson was hit in the fifth RIB
Both were advanced a base when Diet z er
plunked out his one b igger, and scored
on Blewett's muff of Volendorf's hard fl
to right Chermhk ended the inning
10y striking out. Then Fond du Lac
opened up and gathered in two scores by
means of Hanford's single, La FIeurs
triple and Auche's single. In the third
Runkel got a safe one. stole second and
sprinted home on Dietzler's second hit
RUnkel was responsible for another rua
IN the fifth when he lifted the ball over
the left field fence. The visitors came to
bat IN the last bali of the sixth with the
score to 2 against them, they having
been unable to get a smell of hit off
Bach since their first inning. 7. FlaunI-
gan. the first man up, cracked out a
double and Auche get four wide ones
Eddy sent bounder to Runkel who
tielded out Auche at second, but left
Flanagan on third. Eddy Immediately
stole second. With man on second and
third Mahoney hit a fast grounder direct
ly between first and second. 1t wore
whiskers and looked like base hit good
enough to bring In two ruus, but Hart
Owed out into short right hsld, scoopsd
up the bail and snapped it to first, retir-
ing the runner and accomplishing one Of
the most sensational plays of the game.
L. Flanagan had scored but Eddy was
held at third. He shortly after scored
on NJ. Flannigan's we'll placed hit, bat
Biewett flew out to Rosenfeldsr and left
the score tie. 50 it remained at The
end of the ninth and the game want on
into the extra innings. Each team had
men on bases repeatedly but could MT
bring them over the plate. In Fond du
Laos half OF the twelfth, with one gone,
Eddy knocked out beautiful two bag
ger. Mahoney sacrificed him to third
With two out Dobyns was sent to bat in
place of M. Flanagan. Bach concluded
he would fool Dobyns and gave him four
wide ones and struck out Blewett. 1t
was heady pitching. Again in the four
teenth the visitors began to find the bah
bus Bach sandwIched the outs in between
the hits so sklllfully that he had two men
retired when the bases were full. Han.
ford was then easily disposed of by Hart
and the side was ont. Sharp fielding al,
so characterized the Fond du Laos work,
though Blewett's muffs of two hard fl es
were each responsible for two Manltow oc
runs. The locals managed to bunch
double and single in the thirteenth and
squeezed IN run, but the other fellows
we're not to be outdone and got one over
tine pan In their half on very close de-
clsion. Hanford being hit and scoring on
La Fleur's single which was badly han
died by Chermak. Kroner was obliged
to leave the game and Peterik took his
place acceptably, completing a remark.
able record of twenty eight put-outs at
first base. The game was won in the
sixteenth when Rosenfelder opened up
with clean base hit. Bach followed with
bcnt which Foot did not take care of
properly, and both men were safe. Hart
drove out long sacrifice fly which &C
vanced each a base, add Runkel went
out, third to first, PeterIk came up and
hit nigh fly to short right field. There
being two gone, Rosenfelder and Bach
raced GROUND the bases and had both
scored when Blewett muffed the bali.
In the visitors half Mahoney flew out to
Vollendorf, Dobyns the mighty famed
out and Blewett was easily thrown out
at first by Runkel. And so the agony
ended. There we're lots of individual
plays that ought to be mentioned if
space permitted Vollendorf and RIOS en-
fielder each pulled down long hits that
| looked like triples. Mahoney caught a
scorcher off Torrison's bat and retired
| the side in the sixteenth Ruukel
a ,cepted twelve chances out of thir
teen, his one error costing nothing. La
| Fleur and Torrlson each caught In per.
feet form and stolen bases were as scarce