The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-05-15
Athletics Win a Victory From the EIks
Team by a Score of Twenty-One
to Fourteen.
TIGHT UNIFORMS THE CAUSE
Uniforms Were too Tight for Elk Players
and They Could not Move About the
Diamond How They Played.

Ihe favor1te phrase of Boggs. the
| optlm1st, ut might have been worse"
seems very well in describing the game
of base ball played Thursday after
noon between the E1ks and the Ath-
letics. The game ended with a score
OF three to two in favor of the Athlet-
les. That is, the average score to the
inning was the Athletics three, the
Elks two. The real score at the end
OF the game as it appeared in brilliant
letters on the score board was twenty
one to fourteen.
The game was witnessed by a dis
t1ngulshed audience. The audience
was small but the fact that it was dis
tinguished made up for the smallness.
The game was lost to the Elks for one
reason and that was that the uniforms
provided for the Elks players were en-
tirely too small and they were not able
to move about the diamond. From
start to finish the game was comedy
| of errors. The Athletics kindly con-
scented to loan the Elks the services of
Jacobsen and Breen and in return the
E1ks with great reluctance turned over
to the opposition Mike Bode and Jim
Kennard.
The game started with the Athletics
at the bat and the Elks, held them
down to single run. It is true that
Fletcher muff1ed every ball thrown to-
ward first base, and Wheeler let few
bad ones slip through his legs, but
Billy Cantwell, who was out on third,
managed to pull down a line fly in
such clever manner that the Athlet-
les became frightened ard went out in
one, two, three order.
When the Elks came to bat it was
expected that something would drop,
and it did. The thing that dropped
was the spirits of the Elks, for not a
single man, with the exception of
Cantwell, and he was a professional,
managed to connect with the bali.
Keh1or later on developed symptoms
of being ball player but the syrnp-
toms developed too late.
In the second inning the Athletics
batted all round and every man made
at least one score. Fletcher and
Kehlor made a generous supply of
errors and Ed A11eman and Harry
Robinson helped thes matters along by
letting a few good ones get away in
the field. Before the slaughter COM
menced Jacobsen and Breen changed
places and Breen certainly was an
easy mark. The E1ks failed to score
and IN the next inning Cantwe1l, who
had played all the game up to that
time was put into the box. It was the
same old story and the Athletics
pushed up three more. The Elks got
desperate about this time and by
succession of errors on the part OF the
Athletics they managed to bring in
two runs. This was a start and in
order to make a strong finish j. Keck
Wheeler was put into the box In the
next inning. Wheeler proved the
puzzle for the batters and for the next
four innings the latter made but FIVE
runs while the Athletics piled up
twelve. There would be many features
to the game if a person could have
been quick enough to catch them all
but they came in such lightning like
rapidity that no one could chronicle
them. The feature Of the game today
is a number of sore E1ks and it is
probable that they will not engage in
the national game soon again.
The line up of the two teanas follow:
Athletics Position File