The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-04-27
New Lake Shore Team Has Great
Day on the Opening Of the
New Base Ball Park.
GREAT CROWD TURNS OUT
Fully $500 People Watch the New
Team Defeat the Colored Team
Kenosha Regulars Lose to
the Cream City's.

Breen's new Lake Shore league base
ball team which is to represent Keno
sha in the league during the coming
summer, made its first bow to the fans
on Sunday afternoon and before
crowd as large as ever at ball game
in Kerosha, shut out the Union Giants
the famous co1ored team of Chicago,
with a score of 4 to 0.
In the meantime out at Central
Park the Kenosha Regulars, under
the guidance of Manager Hermann,
met defeat at the hands Of the Cream
City team of Milwaukee by score of
5 to 8.
1t was great day for the national
game in Kenosha. It was day of
openings and both managers wed to
secure the crowd. There were two
street parades and the players of the
two teams marched through the
streets headed by GRASS bands. 1t
might not have been exactly the kind
of a celebration that should greet the
Easter tide, but it certainly brought
out the people and over 5000 went
out to the two parks.
The Lake shore team which was
opening a new park and which was a
new problem proved to be the great
est drawing card and the grand stand
and b1eachers at the new park were
filled to overlooking and hundreds of
men and boys occupied places on the
fence and grounds.
1t was an enthusiastic crowd and
from the time the first player appeared
on the field until the last man was out
in the ninth inning the loyal rooters
kept busy. All old timers who had
made the game popular in Kenosha
were out, and their.shouts of:approval
when the new team made good
showing more than drowned the
music of the brass bandsstationed IN
the grand stand.
The opening game at the park was
one of the best exhibitions of the ma
tiona1 game everlsseen in Kenosha.
The Giants coming fresh from their
victory over the MinneapolisIslea
team expected to make easy work of
the Kenosha team, but they had'failed
20 rate their opponents, for with
Walsh in the box and the perfect sup
port that was accorded him, It would
have been a hard matter for any
league team to have won from Keno
sha.
Walsh was the star of the opening
game and his spit ball proved to
be such puzz1er for the Giants that
only twenty-eight men came to bat
and only one man got around as far
as third base. Lyt1e, who pitched for
the Giants, was a four-time winner
and the Kenosha team was allowed
but seven hits. From the start of the
game it was evident that the Kenosha
team was going to make good and
they did.
After two innings of id1eness the
Kenosha team got busy in the third
inning and Speer opened the trouble
by getting to first on an error. Walsh
singled and advanced him to.second
and Laabs followed with another
single. Speer had been run off of
third by Walsh and attempting to steal
home was caught at the plate. This
loss of run didn't count, however,
for when O'Rourke came up to bat he
sent the ball over into deep left field
for a two Dagger and Walsh and
Laabs trotted home.
This gave the Kenosha team a COM
Portable lead and just to make things
certain O'Rourke came home on hit
by McKevitt. Laabs made the other
score in the eighth, when he reached
first on an error and came home on
O'Rourke's two base hit.
The score of the game follows: