The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-07

With yesterdays game the Mud
WALLPAPERS broke even with the Hens
and also returned to their fayorise
res ing place in the staining column,
the 500 per cent mark
And the accident happened even
though the admirable Percy Wilder
was W Gliding the sphere for the Cairo
bunch. He had speed, curves, control,
and in fact everything that is good
and everything that SHOULD win games
for he man who has it. And even
better than that, ne felt in the best
possible condition and in the humor
TO win. But in spite of all that he
dii and all that he could do, the old
Jonah, which in some mysterious man.
| ner has caused game after game which
r ghtfully belonged to Cairo, to go
| against her, put n its appearance and
the final score was to / in favor Of
/ the Hens.
| Game Was Good and Bad.
| In one sense Of tle word the game
WAS good and in another it was any
thing but that. What mkde it to the
liking Of the fans was that on many
occasions after the Hens had scored
| all their runs the Mud WALLPAPERS
stood elegant chances to tie and even
defeat the score against them. And
what made II bad was that they
couldn't do 1t, and that out of the
numerous opportunit' es had, they
could gather 10 their hearts but one
measly little rum
| First Bunch of sky Rockets.
The visitors registered their five
runs In the fourth and seventh in
nings. In the fourth the slaughter was
Isomething awful, @and though one run
was the result of an error, the remain
ing two made at that time We're clear
~ earned. Bell, the lucky one drew
base on balls, was advanced to sec
onl by sacrifice hit by CroWder, and
went to third on the only Wild pitch
in the game, made by Wilder. Stewart
hunted one which was gathered in by
Roland and returned to Petit at the
plate to head off Bell, but it went a
little high and was dropped to Petit,
letting Bell safely to the register and
letting Stewart to second. Thomas
Who mas been batting exceedingly
we'll since the arrival Of his team here,
p cked out one to suit him ana laced
ii for an awful tWobagger. scoring
Stewart and bringing in the third
score himself few moments later on
the second two-bagger OF the inning
made by Asher after Schissell had
gone cut on long fly to Price. French
retired the side with a drive to Ro,
land.
Roman Candles Heard From.
In the seventh inning two more
earned runs were registered by the
V sitors. After Sc1issell had gone
out, on drive to Larsen and Hughes.
Asher opened the display of FIRE
works with a safe hit and scored on
a three-hase hit to the left field fence
by French, who came across with the
second register on two-base hit by
Long to center field Long was caught
mapping off third, to which base he
had been advanced by TIL, whose
bunt was knocked from Wilder's hand
by a hard contact with Hughes, who
also was after it few moments lat
er and thrown out to Hipperd by Ro-
land. Bell closed the inning with a
drive 10 Roland and Hughes.
just Little Torpedo.
The Mud WALLPAPERS lonesome one,
also an earned one, came In the
eighth. Price. first up, connected for
10 safe hit, but the next two men at
bat Went down-Hipperd on a strike
and Holycross on a bunt. Then Dunn
my damned one clear around the
world and when it came back to this
side again and lit just inside the out
field fence, ne was roosting on third
and Pr.ce had scored But even with
as good a hitter as Larsen following
Hughes could not score, for the pop
foul he sent up was nabbed by Schis-
sell, and the inning and game. so far
as score-making by either team was
concerned, was closed