Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-07-09

residents, and two, the first baseman
and short stop, are residents of Groton.
When the Groton boys went up against
Sans colts at Bristol on the fourth they
did not prove themselves very strong at
'bronco busting" The colts came home
very much untamed. Sam says it will
be the same with his colts as it is with
the average bronco. They are hard to
subdue when you get them going.
DIR. Judge is responsible for the fol-
lowing effusion:
We met Groton on the fourth,
And we skinned them mp, of course,
At Bristol on the ma tional holiday.
Groton is pretty fast,
But were little out of class.
Is what all the spectators say.
Lucas twirls all right
But Miller's out of sight,
Is the motto we will hang upon the wall
The game between Groton and Web
ster at the latter place last Friday was
one of the big games of the year. The
score was seven to three in favor of Gro
ton. The two Hargrow boys, George
and Ceyphas, at first base and short
stop, were the resident players on the
Groton team, and gave good account
of themselves. George made two of the
seven scores, and Ceyphas covered short
like a professional. In one play the
latter passed from left infeld clear
around the second baseman and gath
cred in hot fly which was threatening
to make trouble for the Groton team
Considerable money changed hands on
the result, both here and at Webster
***
Groton went to Condo yesterday and
played an errorless gaem with Webster,
winning with score of nine to three.
There was purse of $75, and like the
Israelites of old, Webster began giving
thanks for victory before the game COM
menced-but Groton had made different
arrangements, and the boys from the
coteaux were up against possible shut
out until the sixth inning.
The gate receipts at Condo amounted
to 800.
The Webster boys have already prom
ised to defeat Groton at Bristol on the
fourth. But--well, the Groton boys
won't call for the purse until after the
game.
[But-well, guess Groton boys won't
call for the purse at all. All please rise
and sing, "Twas ever thus from child
hoods hour, I've seen my fondest hopes
decay" ETC. Reporter
go
The Webster team has been engaged
by the Milwaukee company to play three
exhibition excursion games, as follows:
Glencoe at Minneapolis, July 10th; at
Eureka 26th, opponent to be named; on
August End at Ortonville with the
Algoona, Iowa, team. -Groton Inde-
pendent.
Yesterday was big day in Condo
a regular fourth of July with trimmings.
The ball game between Groton and
Webster drew large crowd, but the
game was rather a disappointment, as
the Webster boys played ia poor luck
and did not give their battery eyeI
respectable support Lucas pitched a
good game for GroSon, and was given
fair support. The score was nine to
three in favor of Groton As am evi-
dence of what small town can do in
drawing crowd to a ball game the
receipts from admissions We're SOC, and
there was not even wire fence around
the grounds. The next was al exciting
game between yerdon and Condo, in
which yerdon was supposed to have won
by score of twelve to eleven, but after
the game il was discovered that the
score was a tie--eleven each. The edi-
tor of this paper umpired both games,
and wasn't injured in the least. After
supper there was wrestling match, in
which Leigh Taylor threw the Turton
man. Rag chewing over the wrestle
reaulted in scrap in which Doland
athlete got surprise at the bands CT a
husky young farmer who lives north
west of town. AL had a warm old time,
and the days sport wound up with a
dance in the evening Condo News.