The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-07-30
Kenosha Base Ball Team Has a Hot
Fight and Two Defeats at Clinton,
Iowa, Saturday and Sunday
GRAYs LOSE TO THE GUNTHERs
Amateur Team Gets Case of Stage Fright
In the League Percentage Column.
Results Of Sundays games:

Elgin.. 8 56.lAthletics - 10 .07l
Results Of Sundays games:
Clinton, Ia. 6-13 Kenosha .... 2-11
Gunthers -. 10 Kenosha.
>. chicago. Racine. ........
i Sycamore $500. S Athletics. .>.....
j Elgin ........ 6 Aurora. $50. 4
Arrest and robbery we're the two
features of the two games which were
played by the Kenosha Interstate team
and the Clinton. Iowa, team at the lat
ter city on Saturday and Sunday and
while the Kenosha team met two de-
fests, if the stories told by the man
ager and the members of the team
are true, it was exceedingly fortunate
for the team that they got out of Gin
/ ton at all.
Clinton is nice little town of forty
thousand people, located on the banks
of the Mississippi river, but as base
ball town it is wonder.
For years Ban Johnson, Charley
Reach and Nick Young have been
making rules for the playing of the
base ball game, but these rules don't go
in Clinton and the base ball lovers of
that town have secured new set of
rules. The rules are unique and the
! Clinton team has made application to
have them placed in the regular law
code of the State of Iowa.
When the boys got out to the ball
park on Saturday they found that the
crowd was IL good measure made up
of police officers, who came in on a
pass, and who occupied prominent
seats on the Clinton side. It was a
/ parade of C1inton's finest and it was
evident that they were to be the main
members of the teaA4 to be played by
the Kenosha team.
Out in the field, in conspicuous
position, stood one of the chief detec-
tives of the city, ready to see to il that
nothing was lost by the Clinton team.
The Kenosha boys looked things over
and saw that there was plenty of police
protection and supposed that the game
would be on the square. They came
near finding it on the square, as the
police court of Clinton is located on
the public square, and several of the
boys had good chance to get up
there. Clinton has schedule that
| goes something like this:
Base hit by visitor-$1 and costs.
Two base hits and costs.
Home run-Penitentiary offense.
Putting out Clinton player-Arrest
and imprisonment.
Striking out players-Must leave the
grounds.
When they discovered these rules
the Kenosha boys were little leary of
the game, and it was not surprising
that the Clinton team won both games,
the first by score of 6 to 2; and the
second by score of Is to II. IN the
first game Ballet won the hatred of
the army of police officers by knocking
the ball over the fence for home run,
but this was passed as the victory went
to Clinton.
In the second game when the score
was to 0 in favor of Kenosha, the
blue coats got busy. It was close de-
cision at first, and Brandt, the Keno
sha first baseman, had the better Of it,
but the policeman failed to see it that
way and when Brandt insisted on the
man being called out, the big bunch of
officers walked across the field and ar
rested the first baseman. He was
being hurried off to the county bastile
when the manager of the Kenosha
. L "a NJ nA L.
lease.
Breen met with an accident on Sat-
urday, which resulted in one of his
fingers being broken, and Schooley
was putin to scatch. After the arrest
of Brandt, Breen had to GO to first
base, and Clinton had an easy time de-
festing the Kenosha boys with the aid
of the umpire and the police. Finan-
cially theI'games were success, over
four thousand people attending the
two contests.
No score of the game was kept by
the Kenosha team, they realizing that
it was simply matter of giving an
exhibitioneand awarding the games to
the home team.
Grays Lose to Gunthers.
The Interstate League game played
in Kenosha Sunday afternoon was a
bowling farce, and the Kenosha Grays
which we're substituted for the regular
Kenosha team made poor showing
| against the Gunthers. The Grays suf-
II fered from severe case OF stage
fright, and failed to make score until
the last inning, while the Gunthers
had little trouble IN piling up ten runs.