The Iola register., 1902-05-23
With the Ball Team

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lola has been playing ia hard luck
the past week and her percentage is
not very high just now. New ada and
Fort Scott have both been organized
for weeks and have strong aggrega-
tions. Last Thursday the score was
Nevada 8, lola 5; Friday ,it was NE
vada 6, lola 3. lola should have won
one of the Nevada games but got the
worst of decision from the umpire.
Saturday they opened up with Fort
Scott losing to Scott by a score of to
,. Sunday was the worst of all. Blue
jacket, Il Haskell Indian pitcher, was
put in and batted out of the box. Grist
who followed was not much better and
when the game ended Fort Scott had %
to her credit and lola 3. Monday the
boys played ball as professionals
should play and at the close of an ele-
ven inning game Fort Scott won by
score of S to q. lola had the last Fort
Scott runner out twice but umpire
Owens called him safe. The game has
been protested.
Tuesday Nevada came here and won
8 to 2. Red Morton pitched for Neva-
da and he is swift. Forney was pitch
ing for lola and it was his first game
here and he had TO be careful of his
arm.
Wednesday the game resulted in 8
to il. Nevada's favor and Thursday
! to 4 in favor of Nevada.
The lola fans are finding out a heap
of things about base ball these days
At the same time that they are finding
that lola has some good fast players
on her team, they are finding that the
Missouri Valley League is loaded up
with some of the rottenest umpires that
ever mad the gall to assume the name.
1t begins to look as il Nevada, Fort
Scott, and possibly one or two more
towns that got up the league, also
picked an umpire each to help them
make good. FIT. Scott is carrying
Owens around with them. Coffeyville
and lola and Nevada are agreed that
Owens is too rotten to ever hope to be
disinfected Why does FIT. Scott in
sist on carrying him? And here is
Nevada with Cusack. Who is Cusack?
Where is he from? He is an alleged
ball player who has hob.nobbed with
the Nevada players. Somebody got
him job in this league. Here IN lola
he arrived with the Nevada team and
went to the same hotel to stay.
Wednesday a Nevada base runner
ran into Iola's second baseman and
knocked him down. Mister Cusack
said the runner was safe, Two innings
later an lola runner evened up and
knocked Nevada's second baseman
down and he dropped the ball. Mister
Cusack called the lola runner out.
Either both runners were out for foul
ball playing or both were safe. Gu
sack ruled wrong one time sure, but
he ruled two times in favor of Nevada.
That is the third game where Mr.. UNI
pire helped defeat lola. And how the
fans do hate rotten umpire! If he is
u fool thev despise him. When he is
a kpave they want to murder him.
lola has registered kick on Ovens
and she is going to register a kick on
Cusack. Collins, who umpired two
games here, was the only man that is
half an umpire that this town has seen
yet in this league. Owen and Cusack
are hereafter barred in lola. If rot
ten umpires are to be allowed in this
league, let every town have one. What
right has Ft. Scott and Nevada above
the others? If they have the crack
teams they boast why do they insist
on owning an umpire apiece, too?
Morgan pitched an elegant game.
In several tight places he struck men
out and retired the side. But for
errors behind him Nevada would not
bave seen score until the eight inn
ing. Then they punched their hits
and lola punched her errors. And
even then but for that dad-rotted,
biped of a-but what's the use
Except in two innings lola played
fast ball. The boys batted out their