The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-10-17
KenOsha Athletics Defeat the Spald-
inqs in the Best Game of the Sea-
son at Grand View Park.
FOOT BALL SEASON is OPENED.
Kenosha's Team Plays Fast Ball and Wins
a Decisive Victory From Waukeg an by
Score of Twenty to Nothing.

"Rube' Waddell, the new pitcher
for the Kenosha Athletics, made his
first appearance in the box. for Keno
sha Sunday afternoon, and while
crowd of fifteen hundred rooters shout
ed themselves hoarse Wadde11 kept the
heavy batters of the Chicago Spald-
ings, the crack amateur team Of the
West, on his staff, and after nine of
the fastest innings ever seen on the
Kenosha diamond the Chicago players
were forced to concede the victory to
Kenosha by score of seven to two.
The score hardly tells of the great
battle fought out between the oppos-
ing teams. Mr.. Reuben Waddell, Esq.
is great pitcher, but the whole credit
of the victory of Sunday cannot be as
signed to the pitcher. Mr.. Gustave
Freitag and sundry other members of
the Kenosha team stood by the home
plate holding stout hickory clubs and
Mr.. Skeleton Roach, late pitcher for
the Chicago National League team,
was forced to admit that the men and
the hickory clubs formed great COM
bination.
AS the boys put it out at the Grand
View Park, "It was the pitcher and
the catcher and the men that covered
the outside territory that won the
game for Kenosha Sunday" Every
man played the game and a single er-
ror was all that could be cha1ked up
against the Kenosha players. The
Spa1dings should not be under-ra ted,
for no team that has played at the
Park this season put up so snappy
game as they did.
The game started in a way to give
the Kenosha players heart disease.
The first man up to the bat was Burg,
the clever short stop for the Spa1dings,
and he crackedsout a pretty two bag
ger The next man followed with
base on balls and then came a clean
hit and Burg scored. But when the
Kenosha players came to bat, Freitag
duplicated the hit of Burg, and hits by
Hubbard and Hanks tied the score.
In the second inning the Kenosha
team added two more to their score by
good hits and costly errors on the part
of the Spa1dings. For the next four
innings the teams let the pitchers do
the work and not score was recorded.
In the sixth the Spa1dings had little
luck and two Dagger, and this gave
them another run, their last one dur
ing the game.
Things went along even until the
second half of the eighth inning,
when the .Kenosha boys took the bull
by the horns and went after Mr.. Ske1
Roach in true and approved fashion.
With one man out Waddell got hit
and Henderson a base on balls. Then
Gussie Freitag came to bat and sent
the ball soaring over the fence for
two base hit, scoring both Waddell and
Henderson. Hubbard and Breen
seemed to like the game and they fol-
lowed with hits, and Connery was hit
hard enough with the ball to make it
possible for two runs to come in.
In the ninth the Spaldings rooted
steady as a clock and the men were
easily retired.
The defeat of the Spa1dings places
the Kenosha team in a high position
among the western amateur teams.
The score of the match follows:
Kenosha .......1 . O 0 0 OO,4 ~
Spaldings. ......1 o 90 0 o o.
Batteries for Kenosha-Wadde11a and
Breem; for Spa1dings-Roach and
Erickson. Hits-Kenosha 10; Spa1d-
ings 7; two base hits-Freitag ~ Burg,
Pickett, Clark and Erickson. Struck
out by Wadde1l, 10; by Roach, S.
Bases on balls off Waddel1, I; off
Roach, 8. Passed ball, Erickson. En-
rors-Kenosha 1; Spauldings 4. UNI
pire-Percente. Attendance-1.50 500.
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