Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-18
Fans Watch the Grays France
InOpening Bout With Hills
Cedar Rapids Rabbits
MANY PITCHERS EXHIBITED
The Score, Only Incidental to the Per-
Torrance, Was is to IS, Cedar Rapids
Winnine-varied Array of TwirIns
Talent Held the Interest of tho
Crowd.

For more than TWO hours Monaay
afternoon Warmers embryo Grays
were put thru their turns with Belden
Hills Cedar Rapids players. in the
opening exhibition of the season "A
weary and cold introduction 1t proved
owing to the number of long drawn
out innings inserted to provide oppor-
tunity for nunaberless debutant Twill
ers, who appeared in the limellght Tor
the first time. on the local grounds.
The score, merely result OIL experl-
menting with pitchers and some raw
and ragged fielding incidental to cold
weather, lack of practice and newness
of the season, mounted to l5 ana 10.
with Cedar Rapids holding the hon
orary end.
The matter Of score and other hap
penings icidental to the game gave
way in the minds Of the fans, whose
interest and intellect were employed
keeping cases on the often changed
pitchers. That portion OF the popu-
lace. which clustered In the shade OF
the grand stand, back of the plate. the
better to watch the twirlers operate,
not being supplied with score CARDS.
were at loss to keep tab, so often
was the pitching staff shifted. Out OF
the total aggregation seven pitchers
broke into the game from time to time.
OF these Warner supplied three ana
Hill four Warner allotted three IN
nings each to Spoerl, Speiser and o.
Kay, IN the order named, and In the
meantime Hill put forward Ball, peu-
telle, Hollenberg and Rueger. From
the first brief exhibition, which is LA
BILE to be wholly unreliable. Speiser
looks the likeliest of the locals. The
compiled statistics Of the game also
bear this out, as 1t shows he was
steadier, gave fewer bases on balls,
and was hit a less number OF times.
Barring the time when he smote Fire
stine on the funny bone, and wild
pitched Derham to second, he showed
steadiness and nerve. Both of the
other two had bad innings, but wealth
err conditions are such and the game
is too new to warrant Judgment. The
detailed figures show the performance
of each.
In the fielding department the out
fit looks good, and better than did
last years candidates. Especially is
this true Of the infield, which has been
strengthened, and the batting list
helped, by the insertion Of big Biz
link and Middleton. Hoy, Bennett and
Gale were in the outfield, but neither
Of the latter two had enough to do
to give cause for criticism.
To attempt to detail the game, which
Of itself was unimportant, except as
furnishing the means of trying out the
players, would prove too arduous
task, owing to It's extreme length. Up
to the seventh inning Cedar Rapids
was beaten, then O'Kay took turn
and seven scores resulted in the
round. One incident, Williams home
run, the second ever made on the
grounds, deserves mention, on account
of the feat itself and the man who
Johnson's name was omitted in the
lineup OF players Monday. Johnson
is Dakota catcher, and altho but a
boy is making a strong bid for back
stop. The mysterious stranger"
whose name not even Warner knew,
was also there. He hit for Hoy in
the closing round. Investigation prov
ed he answered when called Wester-
berg, and more questioning brought
out that he is here on his own hook
trying to make good for the outfield
He comes from the big west, but was
not signed by Warner. The score in