Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-05-19
RAILROAD NOTES.
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Depot Men Win.

The clerks of the Ottumwa office Of
the Burlington defeated the Burlington
office clerks Saturday at Burlington
by the score of IL to 0. A Burlington
scribe has the following to say of the
contest:
1.-THE event following the high school
game was one of the slightest affairs
seen on the diamond this year. Sem
sational home-run knocking by the Wis.,
itors won the contest. In the first
round, Lathrop landed on the leather
with a vicious whack, and drove 1T
skipping along the ground until it
went under the fence through con-
venient hole, with the bases full. In
the third. Shaub drove screecher
over the left garden that landed in the
apple orchard and scored two men.
Pixley repeated the trick in the eighth
when, fortunately for the locals, no
one was on base. The five remaining
scores of the visitors came In some
times legitimatsly and sometimes on
errors N~-~--sx55ffssss5sss
Burlington brought In five rrS
punching hits in the fourth and eighth
but were unable to overcome the Wis.
itors' lead, although playing a hard
/
terest was added to the contest by the
In it. Their limbs, used to delicate
office work, grew weary long before
the game was over, chasing the flies
which the Ottumwans knocked out.
Considering everything, their six er.
rors was remarkable record, and
showed evidence Of much agility on
their part.
The game was the first the locals
have lost in several years in this city.
and strenuous efforts will be made to
regain their lost prestige In the return
contest at Ottumwa next month,
Among the features which were
as thick as the pins on an old-fash-
toned pin-cushion. might be mentioned
McPeek's brilliant imitation Of Annis
at short, especially when he pulled In
Lathrop's red-hot grounder in the
fifth, the good pitching Of both McMil.
Ian and Brockman, Purdy's catching,
which was worth the price of admis-
sion alone, and Pixley's home run.
The lineup
burlington Baker, 3b; Humphrey,
lib; Peterson, IF; McPeek. IS; McMil.
Ian, p; Orbin, zb; Rupe, CT: Hoagland
II; Purdy, C.
"Ottumwa-P ixley, lib; Miller, 2b;
Currier, CT; Lathrop, 2b; Brockman,
p; Sander. IF; Shaub, c; Blount, II;
Wilson, SIS.
"The score by innings: R.H. q.
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after the game the local team en-
tertained the visitors with a banquet at
the Depot dining hall. More than
thirty persons partook Of the teams
hospitality"
Other Railroad News.
M. C. Hughes, chief clerk in the Of
fees of the superintendent of the OF
tumwa division Of the Burlington.
spent Sunday visiting with his family
in Burlington.
Patrick Murphy, a truckman at the
Milwaukee freight house, who has
been Ill for several days, is reported
to be improving rapidly.
Superintendent w. H. Given of the
Rock Island route, passed through the
city yesterday afternoon in his private
car No. 1919 attached to Rock Island
train No 202, en- route from Des
Moines to Eldon. Trainmaste- Edward
Winslow and Mr. and Mrs. j. Fowler of
Des Moines, accompanied Mr.. Givin.
Adolph Sander, stenographer in the
Office Of the superintendent of the OF.
tumwa division of the Burlington, Is
having vacation. Mr.. and Mrs. Sander
have already left for Denver, Colo
During Mr.. Sanders absence his place
Is being taken by Earl jacobson.