New Ulm review., 1900-05-16
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and leans
The Leans Victorious In a Seven Inning
Game BY a Narrow Margin Of but
One. Score.
The Attendance Light Owing to Disagreeable
3 Weather.

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# anyone lad an idea that the game
Of base ball between the Fats and the
Leans last Sunday afternoon was to be q
farce they met with decided surprise.
When the two teams lined up. for the
commencement Of the fray twas dis:
covered that the absence of DR.. Strickler
and Charles Forster left the fats two
men shy. This difficult however. was
gotten over By pressing Willy Bill Mey-
er and Umpire p. R. Barager into the
active list. The enforced absence Of um-s
pire Hagberg also made 1t necessary to
substitute someone in his place and ac-.
cordingly 81. q. Saverien was selected
for this somewhat difficult and thankless.
position. 538.s
Owing to the very high wind that pre-
vailed and the excessive heat the attend
ance was not SO large as it otherwise
would have been but when, at $3.50, the
the fats went to bat for the first ;nniing
the grand stand was fairly we'll filed
with an enthusiastic bunch of fans deter
mined to get all the sport possible out.
Of the game. .s
For the fats big policeman Julius, ev-
identity from his supposed familiarity
with the club, went first 10 bat, but alas
for human expectation, three times did
his wagon tongue cleave the ambient at
mosphere and three times did the umpire
yell strike, and Julius went to the bench
wearing that calm smile for which he is
noted. The next up was bunty Barager,
but fortune sometimes favors the foolish
and he accomplished a single which sent
him to first in all easy can.er but losing
his head and his hat at the same time his
own carelessness placed hlm at the lner-.
cy Of pitcher Siegel and first baseman
Kaschau and two men were out. Z. j u
Buenger followed with a single and r..
Fl. Behnke retired the side with q pops.
up to short. No score. &.
The first man to face strong arm
Buenger for the leans was little Johnny
Siegel who found the leather for one
bag ;McHale flew out to right field som
sen batted q dinkey to Liesch on third
and the side to grass without. score.
In the second inning Langmack am
bled to bat with do or die expression
on his countenan.e and after shying at
two bad ones found the trade mark on
the sphere for two bases; III. Behnke,
struck out; Dauber followed with two
bagger bringing in Langmack; Liesch5
was given a base on balls; Meyer got
to first through the failure of catcher
Koehler to hold the. ball and Dauber
scored; Julius hit safely to first, permit
ting Llesch who had previously pur-
loined third to come home; Barager hit.
to Siegel and was thrown out. at first
advancing Julius to second and Never
to third; Buenger hit to right field max.
ing first and scoring Meyer; F. Behnke.
could not find the bali but Buenger stole.
second and thlrd bases in the meantime
and came home Oh a passed ball and
Behnke struck out, retiring the side with
six scores.
In the last half of the second Olson.
swiped the ball for a single, Hold dale and
Kaschau each hitting to Dauber, failed
to reach the initial sack, Olson coring
on Kasc chau s. putout;; Vogel was thrown
out on a liner to short, and the side was
out with but one run. iss M ii.
Third inning the fats were retired one,
two, three, marking up mother goose
| Iegg. For the leans Gebhardt was the
first man up and sentsthe ball screaming
doWD toward right field fence for two
sack, advancing to third on Koehler's:
out; Siiegel sacrificed, scoring Gebhard;
McHale found the ball for q single, stole
second and third, meeting an untimely
fate at third on Somsen' 8 out.
Fourth inning Neither Liesch nor
Meyer succeeded il reaching first Ju Julius
made q two base hi; Barage was I'll Town
out at first and the side went to The
meadow without having advanced its
record. u this halt Of the fourth, Olson