River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-05-25
OURS THE VICTORY.
New Richmond High Goes Down In
Defeat.
n Splendid Exhibition of Base Ball,
a Hard Game, and Well
Earned Victory.

1t was the local Highs day to win
and they did it in splendid style.
Those carping critics who have
thought they couldn't play bail should
have seen Saturdays game. 1t was
base ball from start TO finish, and
hard, clean playing won it. New
Richmond came down, Respondent in
colors, backed by about forty rooters,
with an uubroken record of con9uests
behind them, confident Of victory.
The local team went into the con test
determined TO play the game OF their
lives and to win, If TO win was possible.
They did it.
The game was called at 800 P. NJ.
with New Richmond at the bat. The
crowd was a good one and enthusiasts
tic. 1t included very generous
mum Der of Normal students wearing
High School colors. Healy was in the
box for the locals. For New Rich
mond, Donahue got double, Guiss-
ness a single and f. Hughes double,
all after Burrows was out at trst,
aud all three scored. Frissell and
Hicks failed 10 connect, and it was
the locals turn. ID. Linehan and
Knobel went out, Williams and Jen-
son got base, the former scoring,
Valentine failed and the score was 3
TO ! in favor of the visitors. Then
the New Richmond crowd woke up
and began their roofing, and the To-
cal crowd, not to be outdone, went In
to the game with wind instruments
OF all kinds, and from that time on 1t
was probably the noisiest game ever
played In the city. In the second
inning Valentine went into the DoX
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into tug of war. In this inning the
visitors gathered in one and the locals
two, while the third inning yielded
one each and the fourth was blank
for both, so that the score stood to 1
in favor of the visitors. In the fifth
the visitors gathered in one, the locals
none; in the sixth both drew blanks,
and in the seventh both found one
more so that the score was 7 TO In
| favor of the visitors. After cdptur-
| ing another one in the eighth, the
visitors put Epley into the box in
stead Of Fleming and the locals re-
piled with two hits, one each by For
| syth and Healy, which with passed
| ball gave them two runs. Hits by +.
| Hughes and Hicks in the ninth
| brought in one more for the visitors
and made their total 8, and the locals
came to bat for their last with the
score to I against them. EXCITEMENT
was at fever heat. Players and crowd
| were strung up to the limit. knobel
and Williams each drew base and
the crowd held its breath for a mo-
ment while Jensen plunked safe in
! to center for two bases scoring Two
and tying the score. Then pande-
monium broke loose. But it was
nothing to what came when, after
Valentine and Forsyth had gone out,
and while Ed Linehan was hunting
| for good one, Jensen stole third and
| then crossed the plate with the win
ming run when the ball got past
O'Connell There was music in the
air, but not the kind New Richmond
cared to hear. Both teams played
fast, snappy ball, but the locals ex-
celled at base running and held their
| opponents level in the field. LII the
| local High continues to put up the
article of ball it did on Saturday, 1T
will not lack for support. Following