The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-08-07
WALLOPED AT RACINE
Kenosha Athletics Lose the First of the
Series by Score of 15 to 8

i Kenosha Athletics Lose the First of the
Series by Score of 15 to g
We have met the enemy and we are
theirs to the ture of fifteen to eight.
The Kenosha base ball players and
/ Kenosha rooters to the number of two
thousand journeyed off to Racine Sun
day afternoon for the first of series
of three games between the two teams.
They returned late in the evening
swallowing the bitter pill of defeat and
crying out for vengeance OF the heads
Of their Racine opponents.
It was.a great crowd of fully four
thousand people that gathered at Ath-
letic Park to witness the game and
while the game was of the poorest
kind the Racine people had the pleasure
Of whipping Kenosha, and that was
sufficient to cause the marrow in the
bones of the old town to sing with Joy
and exultation. There was money a
plenty about the side lines and the Ra-
cine men we're willing to back their
team as victor. The Kenosha crowd
seemed to hesitate until the odds were
down to even that Kenosha would
not score and then the boys from old
Southport loosened up little and as a
result of their judgment they brought
home not little of the Racine money.
The Racine team is not an excep-
tiona11y strong one but when they
went up against the game played by
the Athletics Sunday it was some
thing Of lunch" The Kenosha boys
seemed to be completely taken back
with stage fright or something else of
the sort aud they played the game like
a lot OF school boys. The only wonder
Of it all was that the score of the game
was not larger.
Freitag was put in to pitch in the
opening innings but he had such
wretched support from the men behind
him that he lost heart early in the
game and at the end of the third inning
after the Racine team had made runs
enough to win any game, Freitag was
relegated to the field and Hug, the new
Kenosha pitcher, was put in the box.
Hug pitched steady game with the
exception of one inning, and had he
had proper support at this time he
would have probably pulled himself
out of the hole.
Cook, who pitched for the Racine
team did not prove an enigma for the
Kenosha batters and they touched him
up for eleven hits, most of which were
clean but none of them were over the
single base record. O'Rourke, the Ra-
cine batter, had hitting streak on
and nt IatteDsd up his batting average
with two three base hits and one two
base hit.
The game was on from the start and
the man who wagered that Kenosha
wouldn't score, lost his money early
for in The first inning the Kenosha
players managed to get man across
the plate. This was the only time
during the game that Kenosha had
the lead. In the first the Racine men
took four runs after series of costly
errors on the part of the Kenosha
team. Both teams were banked in
the second but in the third the fussi-
lade began and when the smoke had
cleared away Racine had chalked up
seven more runs, while the best Keno
sha could do was to get single run.
Kenosha took a brace in the sixth
andmade five more runs, but it was a
lost cause and there was little chance
of the locals winning out. Another
was added in the ninth but this was
not sufficient to pull out the lead of the
Racine team. Just to make the game
certain Racine added four more ia the
seventh5on an ascension among the
Kenosha players, and after that they
lost interest in the game and depended
on their lead to win out. The score of
the game follows: