The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-08-11
Belle City Ball Players Defeat
Kenosha Team in the First
Came of the Series.
KENoSHA TEAM FALLS DOWN
Magic of the Name "Racine" Makes
Them Lose Their Nerve and They
Lose by a Score of 8 to 5.

Pull down the b1inds-snuff out the
1ight-c1ose up the city hall-nail last
the gates of the ball park and put
"to let" sign on it. Kenosha lost and
her Wanted gre7tness has departed,
for Racire won the base ball game
Sunday aftelnoon by a score of 9 to >.
The fifteen time winners have been
defeated-but that's not 1.-THE PRIDE
of Kenosha has been humbled-but
that's not 1.-THE managers of the
team would have been glad to welcome
beating just to keep up the inter
est in the game, but behold from whom
it came.
Truly there is no time for jeers and
laughter in the cold gray dawn of the
morning after. Far back to the rear
with the fatigue uniform buckled fast
about their waists the Kenosha base
bail PLAYERS await the call for second
chance to retrieve their honor and to
defeat their time honored enemies of
the Belle City.
Of the game it is better not to speak
for it would arouse flood of naemor-
les that would make the main streets
of the city run wet with tears. 1t
might even force the sewers to such
lot of work that the people would
force the council to put in new sys-
tenn at once to carry off the deluge of
water. But the first game is over and
out of the ruins of the hopes OF the
Kenosha fans there is not a single
thing to bring comfort.
All the much talked of chilliness OF
Racine must have been sent to Central
Park to cool the feet of the Kenosha
PLAYERS for when they started into the
game it seemed evident that their feet
had been laying along side of refrig-
orator for the past forty-eight hours.
1t was the same old story. The RAJ
cine team didn't play bad game but
had those self same players been
line of fence posts with 'Racine"
printed in great white letters on i'm
provised uniforms the result would
have been the same. There seems to
be magic in the name "Racine"
which carries "jonah'' for kenosha
and her base ball team.
Five thousand people of Racine and
Kenosha had gathered at the park to
witness the game and the managers
had to hold the game off for while to
allow the crowds time to get place
to watch the players. The fans care
fully rubbed the rabbits feet in
their pockets while some of the real
wise guys of the Kenosha contingent
stro11ed about among the Racine root
ers and displayed rolls of real money
with the 80. K" of Uncle Sam on the
face OF it. But Racine knew not the
power that they held and with the shy
ness of a girl who had never been
kissed they pressed and squeezed the
quarters in their pockets until the
eagles squea1ed. This was the saliva
ton for Kenosha for had the Racine
bunch been up to the limit in the
sporting line more of the Kenosha
fans would have walked home from
the park when the game wasover.
E@The game was comedy and trag-
edy combined. 1t was really funny
for some of the knockers and they de-
lighted in shouting 81 told you so"
but to the few men who had bet their
last dollar on~the strength of the Ke-
nosha team the game was tragedy
with Horn and Mahoney playing the
parts of the heavy Williams. OF course
these two players were not wholly to
blame for the score against Kenosha
but they might have played better
game. Walsh, who had been imported
from Chicago to break up the Racine
team might have delivered the goods
had he had better support from the
men behind him. He undoubtedly
would have pitched a better game if
he had been little surer of his catch
er but it is pretty hard to blame any
pitcher for the loss of the game when
two hits result in a total of six runs
The Kenosha boys failed to hit the
ball over the fie1ders' heads and Hell
1ner1 the much touted pitcher of the
Racine club evidently deserves all the
touting. He only struck out three
men but he managed to keep the six
little hits scattered sufficient to allow
the Racine bunch to win.
The Kenosha team reused the hopes
of the fans to the highest pitch in the
second inning when after the Racine
team had been BANKED they managed
to get two runs, but this was only the
bright sunlight before the storm. In
the third Racine got her first score
but Kenosha also managed to pull one
score closer to victory III this inning
Then Kenosha was BANKED for three
straight innings but IN the fifth RAJ
cine came nobly to the front and