The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-10-22
Kenosha Base Ball Team Winds Up
the Season With a Game Lost TO
the Waukegan WeakIings.
PITCHER WICKER PROVES A MYTH.
Freitag Is Forced to go Into the Box and
Loses the Game with Bases on Balls
Team Plays without an Error.

The Kenosha base ball team closed
the season Of 1903 at Waukegan on
Sunday afternoon and the last
game went down in the records of
the club as defeat for the home team
by score Of 8. Just how Wau-
kegan won the game no one will doubt
when it is stated that Freitag who was
forced to go in the box for Kenosha
gave twelve men bases on balls and
allowed six more to walk to first base
on account Of being hit with pitched
ball. The pitching of Freitag formed
a sorry setting for the brilliant play
ing of the remainder of the Kenosha
team. For the first time in the season
the Kenosha helders played an error
less game and the loss of the game
was wholly due to the fact that there
was no one to go into the box.
Waukegan had one-man team in
the person of Clark the pitcher and he
was the only player in a Waukegan
uniform that knew anything about the
game. He was all that was needed as
despite the brilliant play of the Keno
sha team Freitag repeatedly forced
men over the home plate.
Wicher, a pitcher for the Blatz team,
had been scheduled to pitch for the
Kenosha team but when the team
reached the Waukegan grounds it was
Dissolved that Wicher was none other
than barber in Billy Dickhaut's bar
Der shop and in the practice before the
game he showed that he knew nothing
about base ball and would not have
been fitted to play with team hailing
from Wilmot or Bassetts Station.
Manager Breen was completely pros
trated by the deception that had been
practiced on him and was far from
home with nosone TO put in the BOX
save Freitag who had not been in the
box during the entire season. Freitag
was SO wild that at times he threw the
ball over the catcher. In the first in
ming four runs resulted from his wild
ness and nearly all the runs made by
Waukegan were gifts of the Keno
sha pitcher. Lang, Breen, Ebert and
Schooley were the stars Of the Keno
sha team and their splendid play re-
peatedly brought forth applause from
the partisan Waukegan crowd.
The Ke1osha team was hitting the
bali and sent out fifteen clean hits
while the best that Waukegan could
get was six scattering. hits and their
victory was entirely due to the wild
ness of Freitag.
The score of the game follows:
i 2 4 5 8 9
Kenosha- 0 1 0 0 Q i is
Waukegan 0 / 0 | 0 0 | 20
Batteries Kenosha, Freitag and Breen:
Waukegan, Clark and Lennon. Hits-Keno-
sha, IS; Waukegan 6. Struck out by Freitag.
z; by Clark. 2. Bases on balls, Off Freitag, IL:
off Clark 0. Hit:by pitched ball. by Freitag, g.
Errors aukegan 8.
The game marks the close of the
season in Kenosha and the season has
been the most successful one ever Civ
en- team in heocity. While the Ke-
nosha team has met with many mis-.
fortunes the managers managed to
finish the summer a,little ahead of the
game financially and they feel that
they have furnished a great deal Of
good sport for the lovers of the game
in Kenosha. There is no doubt but
that Kenosha will have team next
season and plans for the new year will
be made public within the next few
days. Managers Alleman and Breen
deserve great deal of credit for the
way they have worked during the
year.