The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-10-24
KenOsha Athletics Are Defeated by the
Racine Team in a Game for the
State Championship.
THE GAME is LOST ON ERRORS
Biz Hole at Second Base Allowed Three Ra-
cine Players to Score, Thus Win
ntng.-Waddell Star of Contest

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it looked as if the Kenosha Athletics
| would unfurl the State base ball cham
pionship banner by a glorious victory
over the Racine team, but the dream
fadeo, the bubble bursted and the Ke-
nosha sports to the number of fifteen
hundred who had gone to Racine to
witness the great contest returned to
Kenosha disappointed but not dis
heartened. The game was a great
display of the national sport and while
the record showed a score of four to
two in favor of the Racine team it can
be said that the Kenosha players out
played their rivals at every point and
that luck alone saved the Racine team
their 1aurels.
The Kenosha team made more hits
more brilliant plays and more errors
than the Racine team. There was
yellow streak put over second base
and the missing of three easy outs by
the second baseman caused the Racine
team to get three runs and lost the
Kenosha team the championship.
''Rube' Wadde11 made a record such
as was never made on a base ball field
before. His pitching was the great
feature of the game. The old 1eaguers
of the Racine team fell like wheat be-
fore the sickle and at the close of the
game nineteen of them had been put
on the strike-out list. But five hits
were made but they were lucky hits
and it seemed that Kenosha was des-
tined to meet its bad luck only when
the hits were made.
Joss, who pitched for the Racine
team, was also effective holding the
Kenosha batters down to six hits and
striking out seven men. However, the
game would have been an easy one for
the Kenosha team had it not been for
the errors at second base.
The game started out in a rapid
manner. The first three men up got
to base but the Racine team then
played fast ball and a clever double
forced the Kenosha team to retire
without scoring. Wa6de1l was effect
i've from the first and struck out the
nine men in the first three innings.
In the second inning the Kenosha
team made runs enough to win the
game. Hanks started the ball rolling
with a hit to right and K1opf and
Stefan advanced him with sacrifice
hits. Then came "Rube" and he sent
the ball flying over the bicycle track
for three Dagger and brought in two
runs. This ended the scoring for
Kenosha. With this lead the boys
made every effort to increase the num-
Der of runs to their credit and while
men reached base time ard again fate
was against the home team and the
side was always retired before a run
could be brought in.
Racine got their first run IN the
the fourth after the runner should
have been retired at second. In the
fifth and sixth they added runs under
similar circumstances and in the eighth
lucky hit and an error gave them the
last run of the game.
The game drew the largest crowd
ever seen on the Racine diamond.
Fully five thousand people were packed
into the grand stand and b1eachers
and a more enthusiastic gang of root
ers never gathered in any town in
Wisconsin.
The management of the Kenosha
team is not satisfied that the Racine
team is better than the Kenosha team
and Sunday night Manager Alleman
offered to play the Racine team for
purse of two hundred dollars and the
gate receipts, winner to take all. The
management of the Racine team de-
c1ined the offer.
RACINE.