Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-07-07
PLAY FAST GAMES.
Renville And Webster
Play Fast Ball
Each Won A Game Here-Teams
About Equally Matched
Two Fast Players Added
to- the Webster Bunch
May Play Here
Again Soon.

Two of the fastest teams in Minnesota
and South Dakota met on the Glencoe
ball grounds Monday and the fastest
game of ball ever plaped here was the
result. Renville is without a doubt the
best amateur team in the state aud are
working hard to win the state cham
pionship, while the Webster boys are
conceded to be the best there is in South
Dakota and will win the championship
in that state.
Rogers was in the box for the Web
ster team and pitched the best kind of a
game striking out the best batters on
the Renville team at will. He fielded
his position in good shape and walked"
but a very few batters. The work of
the catcher, Johnson, for Webster was
A No. l and he was up and doing all
through the game. The team did excel
lent work and had not a little hop-up
gotten away from short-stop Varco the
game would have lasted more than nine
innings.
Holland was in the box for Renville
and also pitched gilt edge ball. Wake
field, the Renville first baseman, is a
wonder and no ball that's within his
territory ever gets away. He simply is
the best there is. All the boys on the
Renville team play ball all the time and
it's well they did or the game would
have turned out different.
Gleason umpired the game and gave
good satisfaction. The time occupied
in playing the game was one hour and
eight minutes which goes to show that
both teams played the best kind of ball.
The score by innings is as follows:
Webster 900 0 0 0 0 0 90
Renville:- 0000 0 / 0 0 OIL
The Webster boys have been winning
from Renville right along at a time
when good sized crowd was in attend
ance to witness the game and Tuesday
they demonstrated to the 1000 people
present that they were going to keep up
this reputation. They played at the
park Tuesday afternoon to a crowd of
1000 people and those present went
away feeling that the Webster boys are
a little the fastest bunch of players
seen here in a good while. While the
Renville team has a couple of dusky
who can make ''grand stand" plays a
little the best of anything that ever
played here it must be admitted that
the Webster boys with the'same amount
of practice that the Renville boys have
had, can, and will, win more games and
play ''cleaner" ball. Renville had been
playing six weeks longer han the Web
ster boys so that it can be readily seen
that they are, or should be, in better
trim. Doc Hillebrand went into the
box for Webster, having arrived here
the same day from Washington, and
considering the fact hat he had not
pitched a game of ball this year, did
exceedingly fine, striking out nine out
the husky batters of the Renville team,
and even struck out the wonderful
Holland twice, who by the way, is con
sidered to be non strike-out-able. Fin
nigan struck not one man. AS soon as
"Doc" Hillebrand and his brother
Homer, who also arrived Tuesday, get
into shape, and Steinwinder, Webster's
new third baseman, arrives, the Web
ster boys a certainly give the Renville
bunch a run for the state championship.
The game Tuesday was exciting from
start to finish and had not the Webster
boys punched hits in the last inning the
game might have resulted different.
F%innigan, the everlasting kicker, who
goes to pieces when he is getting beat,
pitched for Renville and was batted out
of the box in the last half of the ninth.
He was succeeded by Holland who made
four runs in their half of the ninth with
three men on bases and no one out
when winning run was made.
Outside of the incessant> kicking by
a couple of the Renville boys the game
was a good one. The two teams play
again at Ortonville July II. Gleason
umpired and gave good satisfaction.
Following is the score by innings:
Webster 10 l 0 Al
Renville:- 0013 0 0 re
Glencoe Register.