Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-07-15
BASE BALL.
STANDING OF CLUBS.

PWLsPc. P.W. l. Pc.
Kaukauna 10 SO Appleton 10 5 5 800
Green Bay. II 1856 Oshkosh. II ) .i5S
waasau = ii 6 5 .5l5 Manitowocii 10 Oss
Wausau was defeated at Appleton
Sunday by the umpire though. the
work of that individual was not as
course as was Umpire Coffin's at
Oshkosh three weeks ago. 1t hap
pened in this way: Wausau had the
game practically won when in the last
inning Kennally, Appleton's seco,id
baseman. started home from second On
line hit Baker, Wausaus center
EeIder, scooped the ball up from the
ground and threw it home with plenty
OF time to catch the runner but Ken
nally ran out of the line aid when
FouIkes toSched MIN with the ball he
knocked the same from the pi tchers
hand and the umpire called him safe.
Of course this raised kick on the
part of Wausau and instead OF
allowing the team time to make
its protest he at once gave the
game to Appleton. Wausau then
wanted to allow his decision on the
base runner to stand and to play the
game out but this the Appleton players
refused to do. By the action of the um
pire Walsau was lowered in the per-
centage scale.
There were two surprises in the
league games of Sunday, Kaukauna lost
its first game since the opening one,
and Manitowoc won its first game of
the season.
Wausau turns out the largest crowds
of any town in the league and all of
the visiting teams make money hele
yet when our boys play away from
home they get barely enough to pay
expenses.
Next Sunday the Manitowoc team
which has had a lead pipe cinch on the
tail ead position in the race since the
season opened plays here. Manitowoc
has strengthened up within the past
week and last Sunday but for one error
would have shut Sheboygan out.
The management ii the Arbor Vitae
base ball team wrote last week for a
game to be played on the the Wausau
grounds Sunday but on account of the
team playing away from home and the
grounds being leased for the Edgar
Athens game the request was refnsede
An effortwill be made, however, to have
the two teams at some time later in the
season.
There was call last evening for base
ball meeting, but there being so few
tsent it was decided to postpone I'M
til some other date. The object of
holding the meeting was to decide
whether or not Wausau should continue
in the State league. While this city has
been turning out good crowds at ball
games, paying expenses, and the worst
of it, since the season opened when,
visiting others cities, making barely
enough to couer expenses, and it has
been considered aa unwise policy to
further remain in the league. There
are several other towns that have been
making complaints and animated that
they are ready to drop out.
IIe Tomahawk, published at Toma-
hawk, is authority for the statement
that a game is trying to be arranged
between the WausAu and Tomahawk,
teams, to be played at Merrill during
the Saengerfest.
EDGAR-ATHENs.
The game that was to decide the
championship was played in this city
Sunday between the Edgar and Athens
teams, the result being that the latter
team carried off the honors with quite
a margin to spare. An excursion train
was run over from Marshfield which
brought quite number of people and
these, augmented by the Wausau fans,
made up large sized crowd who en-
joyed the game and thought it fairly
good for two country mines. Athens
! went to bat first and scored two runs
and in their half the Edgar boys tailed
one which gave out the impression that
the game would be closely contested
throughout but after that the Edgar
fellows appeared to have lost their desire
to make the circuit for they scored but
twice, while the boys from Rietbrock-
vile ran around the sacks fourteen
times. Errors abounded on both sides,
Edgar leading with fourteen to its
credit. In the eighth inning the Athens
pitcher retired the side by striking out
three men. The score here follows
Athens. 20 0 0 l 7 O 2 Oh
Edgar ..,.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 L 8
The boy that caught for Athens will,
if he gets In faster company, make ball
player some day. He has the metal in.
him and goes after everything
One feature of the game was the bat
ting of NJ. SchilI, Edgar's third baseman.
Mike is good fellow, personally, but he
has as much business with bat in his
hand as Piute Indian has use for
diamonds. The crowd 'guyed" him
and he took it all good naturedly.
A fellow named Neneuschwander
of Athens, kept the crowd in the grand
stand in roar of laughter by his noise
full appreciation of good plays, which
sounded much like dog bowling
1t is said that the 500 stake was not
| up as Athens failed to cover Edgar's
money for some reason to be explained.
Some intimate that the stake was a