The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1904-06-16
KenOsha Team Simply WallOps the
Strong Aggregation From
Port Washington.
MAHONEY CLEARS THE BASES.
Smith Pitches One of the Greatest Games
Ever Seen in Kenosha and the Whole
Team Reaped Share Of Glory.

Breen's Kenosha base ball team ad-
n1inistered a crushing defeat to the
would be state champion team from
Port Washington at Central Park
Sunday afternoon and the game
which had been considered one of the
crucial tests for the Kenosha team
ended with a score of s to in favor
of the home team.
There may have been a time when
the Ports had some show of winning
til championship of Kerosha and
Port Washington, but when Larry
Mahoney-that red-headed one from
the could sod' sent the ball rolling for
four bases and four MEN trotted home,
Port Washington stock took an awful
tumble until it wasn't worth any more
than a share of stock in the old Ke-
nosha Trust company. From that
time on the stock continued to be de-
pressed and the heavy hitters of the
Kenosha team knocked the spots off
of it, The game was disappoint-
tt1ent for some of the people and two
thousand of them had gone out 20 the
park expecting the game TO be close.
But it wasn't close for minute, for
the Kenosha team was so far the
superior of the two that the crowd
laughed at the impertinence of the
Ports in asking for a second game.
Smith was al his best and Groth,
who pitched for the Ports, was just
good enough to put the little White
Sox pitcher on his metal. For five
innings Smith held the Ports down to
business and only sixteen men man
aged to get to the batting box. Most
of these had been satisfied to strike
out and the Kenosha team gave Smith
perfect support so that the few hits
that did get past the pitcher were
fielded with an accuracy that held
the Ports away from the initial base.
Groth was effective at one time but in
several innings the Kenosha hitters
pounded him so hard that the man
ager considered plan to put another
man in the box. Groth managed to
strike out twelve men and Smith went
him one better.
The first inning looked as if the old
fight was on again. The Kenosha
team was BANKED when it came to
bat and similar dose of medicine
was administered to the Ports. The
second was repetition of the first,
but when the Kenosha boys came up
in the third there was look of deter
n1ination on their faces. Herman
started it going with a single, out
over the second base mans head.
Murphy got down on one of Groth's
easy errors and Uhler went out.
Then Horn struck out and it looked a
little hard but Donahue came round
with hit and Herman scored while
Murphy trotted over to third. Groth,
who is an accommodating sort of a
fellow, gave Donavan and Schoo1ey a
base by hitting them with the ball
and Murphy trotted in. Then came
the supreme moment.
The bases were full and Larry Ma
honey came up to bat. There were
two strikes on him, but as Captain
Donavan said, cit only took one to
hit it" and Larry got that one. He
started the ball for the lake and it
went there. The man in the right
garden threw up his hands to show
his inability to get the bail, and when
the crowd had come to itself again all
four of the men had scored. Then
there was little strong talk in favor
of Mahoney and Smith took advantage
of the talk to rap out first class
single. Herman came up again and
popped one to the infe1d and was
thrown out at first.
Then the carriage stopped for a
time, but the home team took it up
again in the seventh and added an
other run on hit by Horn and a
double by Donahue. The Ports con-
tinued to fan the air and in the ninth
Kenosha got another on a hit by Horn,
sacrifice by Donahue, and an error
by Blong.
The Ports made their only run in
the ninth. Blong sent an easy one
out to Schoo1ey, but he let it 90
through and Blong scored on three
Dagger by F. Mauch. The latter
made daring attempt to steal home
from third, but was caught by Smith.
When Umpire Matthews called Mauch
out he wanted to fight, but the trouble
w7s stopped without anyone being
burt.
The one thing of the game that was
not up to the average for Kenosha
was the umpiring of Matthews. Man
ager Breen must have new umpire.
Matthews undoubtedly intended to be
fair, but some of his decisions were
certainly of the rank order. This is
the last game that Kenosha will have
with the Ports this season, as the