The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-08-04

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| be pulled off August 9TH at Fort
Dodge.
! Waterloo Courier: When every
member of team plays ball, no mat
ter how good man is on the firing
line, that team usually wins.
News of Umpire Flynns intended
resignation and victory over Fort
Dodge has filed the cup Of JOY of the
local fans to overfiowing today.
Anyway, what is the glory in beat
1 ing such dinlky clubs as Boone and
Burlington, when we can bag such big
game as Fort Dodge and Ottumwa.
Boone Republican: The official
score keeper gave Cassibone an error
Sunday, but it was a swift one and
most of the fans preferred to give
Archer a hit.
My! My! Where will this base ball
business end? The Bussey Press re-
ports that three games were played
south of that town Sunday between
the Gophers, Skunks and Wildcats.
Scharnweber, who has been added
to the Waterloo team and will hold
the position of shortstop, had bat
ting average last year with the Grand
Forks club, in the Northern league,
of 294
Frank Hobbs, who suffered a brok-
EN- thumb at Waterloo, is improving
nicely and by keeping the member in
a plaster of Paris mould hopes to be
able to join the Quakers again in
few days.
| A score of 900 shows that Fort
Dodge played good ball, but that our
good friend Bridges out-classed them.
There were no weak spots in the
Quaker field either. 1t was a re-
markable game.
| A big excursion over the Iowa Cen
tral from Keithsburg is in prospect
for Sunday. The Burlington should
get busy and bring in a crowd that
day to root for the club which halls
from the town after which it was
| named.
| Report here is to the effect that Os-
kaIoosa has a new pitcher by the
name of Murphy. His name would
suggest that he came from the same
stock that Donahre halls from, which
is sufficient proof that he is a good
ball player. g..
Oskaloosa is doing all she can to
nelp out her neighbors, the Ottumwa
Standpatters. Fort Dodge thought
she had a show for first place until
She bumped up against the Quakers.
Meanwhile Ottumwa made mince
medf out of the Boone Greynounds.
| NGterloo Courier: Burlington and
i Osl Aloosa seem to be vying with each
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| cracker'to the per cent column. Os
kaloosa at the present time occupies
that unenvied position, but Bobby
Blacks bunch may rout them any old
day.
North English loses its crack pitcn-
er Big Will Sedgwich has signed a
contract with the Boone club of the
Iowa State league and will leave for
that city in the near future. There
has been several clubs after Sedg-
wich, but Boone's offer was the most
acceptable.
Boone Republican: Boone made it
three straight from Oskaloosa by win.
ming Sunday afternoon. It was splen-
did exhibition of the national game,
and the visitors played errorless ball.
They had the saue number of hits,
but Boones hits ere long ones and
they were nicely punched.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
| Iowa Central carried 2,20O people in.
to Marshalltown Tuesday, and the
further fact that there was no other
attraction in town, the ball game there
drew only about 600 people. Mar
shalltown does not have mucn room
, to crow over big crowds at her ball
games.
! in evidence in Sundays game.
Schoenover knocked a long fly into
right field nearly to the fence, but the
, little Swede was after it full tilt. He
caught the ball, fell down and rolled
about six feet, but came up smiling
with the ball still in his mits, and the
, umpire called it out.
In the National league it seems all
over but the shouting. The New
, York team, under the management of
: McGraw, got away in the lead, and
has stayed there ever since, with the
exception Of few days, when Cincin-
!; natl and Chicago momentarily dis.
} placed them. At present the Giants
: have a lead of about hundred points
: and are playing faster ball than any
other team in the league.