Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-30
Standing Of the Clubs.

oh, it was awful was lilal HipPo-
drome affair. 1t wasn't ball game
altho it will count as one, that was
n,I,ea off in the back lot of the Quak-
ers at Oskaloosa yesterday. The poor
old Quakers We're as infants III the
hands of the Grays, who showed no
quarter, and walloped them merciless-
". They shattered the sphere ana
slivered their sticks until their arms
ached, and ran bases until their legs
dragged with the WEAKNESS OF II.
Darkness would probably have hid the
massacre had the Grays not taken pity
in the ninth. after seven runs had been
made with none gone. and walked of
the bases allowing themselves TO be
put out. Nature was exhausted ana II
was supper time.
Warner and his mates might have
showed more quarter, had not there re-
manned the remembrance OF one day
in May when the Quakers got foxy
and BANKED them to o. The soreness
of that defeat ranked in their bosoms
and they cannot be blamed, when II is
ever revengeful. Now it was unlucky
that Johnson essayed to buck UP
against the Grays. when they We're IN
This mood. but it is likely the same
thing would have happened to any OF
the other pitcheroids wearing the ~.
They stung him mercilessly after 1t
began in the sixth, and was httlaS
climax to this season of hitting. thru
| - hlt-x has "A
recently. They just swattea and
swung, clouted and chopped for the
simple reason they could not help it, 1t
and like stealing money from the
baby's bank, to take the game, but the
rules had TO be observed.
| The needle of the pitching dial point-
| ed to Mr. Disch yesterday as the one
| designated to do the honors, and
George outdid himself. There may be
reason for this. for among the not
ables were President Peckham AMI
wife. and Mr.. Disch has an eye for
business, and was out TO make a good
/ impression. He eased that entire out
| fit Of Quakers off with four hits. George
claims there were only three, but the
quartet is few enough, SO the point is
conceded for charitys sake. Behind him
his team lined up like stone wall
and only during one round, when Will
| Jams got the foolish notion that wilson
! had suddenly become giant ana
banged the ball over his head twice, did
! the steadiness of his backing up waV-
| er 1t was only momentarily, and
| fast double little later, banked them
! again.
| The details of the killing are too har-
! rowing and nerve racking to be worth
1 while, but 1t all started in the sixth,
! after one tally had been batted in the
1 fourth. Then the bombardment began
with fearful fury until six runs
were taken. A hull, the quiet before
! the storm, marked the seventh, and
with the eighth the fusillade again
! broke out. That round netted four,
and signs of fatigue We're noticeable
among the ranks of the Grays. Then
4 the awful ninth opened. Seven had
| been hung up and none gone. Gleeson,
! who had completed the circuit four
/ times, was short of wind and wabbly.
| Williams, who had made three trips,
was worn out and winded, and Mackey,
whose short legs had twinkled around
! the corners the same number OF times,
| was much EXHAUSTED Warner, who was
on second, saw the flag of distress
House had impropised out OF this red
| jersey and was waving wildly, de-
cided 1t was time to call halt. He
| strolled off the sack as tho starting for
| the hotel and got put out without re-
sistance. Bruggenan, who was on first
followed suit. as tho he also was In
need of nourishment, and he was tagged
without turning q hair. The next one
batted out, and it was over, with the
grandstand already half emptied of
| disgusted folk who had assembled. The
/ Quakers' play was ragged and awful.
The hot ones they couldn't stop. and
the slow ones We're too SLOW. Eleven
errors tells the tale. The score in de-
tail.
Oskaloosa- r. II. z. A. E.
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