The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-09-15
kenosha Base Ball Team Finally
Defeats Racine on Her Own
Diamond.
THIRTEENTH YEAR A HOO boo.
Chesty Racine Players Numerically
Drubbed by Kenosha Team. Helm
er1 is Knocked From the Box.


After thirteen years new leaf has
been started in the history of Kenosha
base ball and the first entry on the
clean white sheet reads something
like this: September II, 1904, at
Racine, Kenosha Z, Racine L.
All the past has been fore often and
the people of Kenosha' who love the
national game will begin over again
and accord to the Kenosha team their
fullest support for the one defeat Of
Racine. It may be that the Kenosha
team waited thirteen years for this
victory, but when it came it came
right for when the game was over
yesterday neither Racine or Kenosha
doubted as to which team had right
to claim the state championship. It
was case of the Racine team being
completely outp1ayed. Heimerl, the
Wanted pitcher of the Belle City ag-
gregation, looked like a school boy
playing "Two old cat" when the
game was over. He, of shut-out fame,
striving for the mastery of the world
as pitcher, humb1ed to the extent of
nineteen hits in a single game. All
but driven out of the box half a
dozen times during the game Heimer1
went straight into the air, and the Ke-
nosha players might just as well have
made dozen more runs.
Walsh, the White Sox pitcher, who
nj h0 nn%
form and struck out eleven of the Ra-
cine batters and allowed but four hits.
There was something like nine hun
dred people in the grand stand and
when the struggle commenced and
the Racine players, with chests stuck
out and feeling of security, trotted
out on the diamond ready to give the
Kenosha team it's medicine for the
third time this season. Heimerl
swe11ed with pride while the an
nouncer in the grand stand declared
him to be the greatest pitcher in the
world. 1t was Kenosha crowd from
the start and the Kenosha men
showed their disgust at the words of
the announcer by offering to bet good
money on the game, and then the few
scattered sports from Racine gathered
together and managed to scrape up a
hundred dollars, which they laid on
the chances of Heimerl continuing his
march for that worlds record.
Chesty Heimer1 called his men to
him for consultation, and it was de-
cided that he needn't try to strike out
all the men as the fie1ders were
little stiff and needed practice. He
squared away and started one of his
snake curves which Murphy promptly
hunted, and made first. The next two
men repeated the performance and
the bases were full. Then the Racine
team really did little good work,
and with the bases full the side was
retired without score. Racine was
also BANKED.
In the second Kenosha resumed her
fusi1ade, and two runs came in. Ra-
cine continued to be BANKED, and al
though Ole and Dufey chewed the
rag and punched vicious1y at the ball
- w cAS AOl POoSAOAS LII luGuu 10 get d
man to first. The struggle continued,
but it was a struggle only on the Ra-
cine side.
When the fifth inning was reached
kenosha had six runs, and the Ra-
cineites began to pray to be saved
from a shut-out. Then the Kenosha
boys let down little, but they could
not resist the temptation of adding
another run in the seventh-iust be-
cause it was the lucky SEVENTH and
they didn't want to pass it.
AT the close of the last inning Ra-
cine was desperate. F1avin singled
to right and managed to steal second
and third, and after two men had
been retired he ran home on an easy
grounder to short, which the Keno
sha man decided was too fast to catch
a man at the plate. That ended the
game, for the next man struck out.
The Racine fans were desperately
disappointed with the showing made
by the Racine team, as they had ex-
pected that their team would eat I'D
the Kenosha players. The next game
is scheduled to be played at Central
Park, on Sept. Is, but the Racine
team made such a miserable showing.
that it IL possible the game will be de-
c1ared off.
The score of the game follows: