Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-17
COUNTY WAS VICTORIOUS.
Defeat City Employees at Ball by Scor

of 10 to 9.
Headed by band and stepping high
under the stimulus of hope and march
| ing music, the rival base ball aggrega-
tons picked from the county and city
officials paraded thru the streets to
| Finkles park yesterday to battle for
supremacy and the patrol wagon. 1t
was gallant array. led by members of
the city council, followed by the uni
formed city and county teams in their
order. All stepped proudly and Umpire
Tate marched in the middle, gloomy
and unapproachable. For four blocks
their alignment was soldierly and the
| columns like a straight edge. Then as
the heat began to get in it's work the
columns wavered and struggled from
| side to side. But the council and
| imp" Tate never joggied. No one
who viewed the march down east Main
could fail to be convinced that the
council is as straight as q string"
| There were few preliminaries at the
grounds and short time allowed for
practice. The umpire drew the ball and
! shouted play" Pitcher McLeland took
his place on the slab and the city coun
| ell went in to bat for the first inning
and "Ol" rolled rapidly and gracefully
to first base. Webster made three
swift incsions into the air contiguous
TO the home plate and the Jump waved
him to the bench. The ponderous Psen-
icka went down before McLeland's
squrming shoots and curves as Goliath
fell before David. Then Charlie Henry
met the ball like a contract for pub
lie printing, sent a sizzler into right
and took first on a hit. u was at
third. Abbott, Mcbride Webster and
other city parents went into committee
of the whole to coach 1ngledue home.
The willy third baseman slapped the
ball on OIL. and the umpire voted with
the baseman. OFs motion, which had
been lively was declared lost. Webster
Psenicka. Mcbride. Abbott. Iseman,
Henry, Good and Ingledue voted no.
Third baseman and Tate aye. Carried.
Kicks audible but not audited.
The oouncilmen retired from active
participation after the first inning and
the line up for the city consisted OF
Watson. Cummings. w. Nicholson,
wikle. Kirby, Pigman, Blake and O.
and n. Scheid. Opposed to these We're
Hutson. Hoover. Gauze. Devine. Cooper
Northup, Nichols. McLeland and A.
Nicholson. From the spectators stand
point is was better game of ball than
any one had expected or had right TO
expect from men out of practice. Coop
ers work at short was a long way from
coarse and Devine played his usual
game at third. Northup was fast at
second and effective behind the bat
McLelands pitching was a revelation
in pace and deceptive curves. Sheriff
Hutson chased the ball as il 1t were
criminal with 5000 reward offered. All
the others as we'll covered themselves
with glory and Finkle's real estate.
Will Nicholson at first had the come
alongs on everything that came his way
and Kirby's batting ought to get him
better job. The game was absolutely
errorless. Seventeen hits Melted nine
runs for the city, and sixteen safe ones
brought IS runs and victory to the
county. McLeland's speed. splendid
head work and terrific curve keeping
the hits of the hard batters of the city
well scattered.
Summary by innings:
County ...... % o. 5 3 s-13
Notwithstanding and Watson;
McLeland, A. Nicholson and Northup.
A three-mile auto race between A. "A.
Moore and Charles Bates was won by
Mr.. Bates. An exhibition run by the
fire horses, from station No. 2 was an
other feature. A quarter mile, pulling
the wagon was run In 40.
In the neighborhood of $50 was net
ted to apply to the patrol wagon fund.