Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-05-11
WATERFOWL BOYS
DEFEAT RIO TEAM
SCORE OF FIVE TO THREE IN
SUNDAYS GAME THERE
Catcher Schultz Caught Every Man
Who Tried to Steal SeCOnd-Beri-
gan Goes Up in the Air and Pulls
Down a Line DriVe-ReSult, of
the Game in Detail.

The local team went to Rio SUNDAY
and won a pretty game in an uphill
fight. The Rio boys took their outs
and Watertown baUted first. Capt.
Hahn grounded out from third to first.
Richards then came up and hit a skys
scraper over center field for two bases,
Leschinger cut loose with sharp
liner dive to center. Center fielder
Lomis after a hard run caught the
ball and doubled up Richards at second
and the side was retired. Rio then
came to bat and they acted as if some
thing were going to turn up. Dalton,
the first man up made little scratch
hit, Lomis fell victim to Boettchers
benders by sticking out Pease follow
ed with sharp grounder to second,
which, owing to the rough grounds got
away from McAdams. Recovering it
he threw righ to Richards in an at
tempt to catch Dalton on third and
the ball went to Bachhubers' field.
Bachhuber threw the ball home in an
attempt to catch Dalton who was rae
ing for home and the ball went over
catcher Schultz head allowing Fease
to score also the play. H. Spaulding
then struck out and Capt. Hahn smoth-
cred Williams high fly over short re-
firing the side The game then went
on in one to three order until the thnd
when Lomis of Rio was given free
transportation to first on four wide
ones but he was caught in an attempt
to steal second base. Pease then was
hit by pitched ball and it looked
again as though there were something
doing for Rio but third baseman Rich
ards smothered Spalding's fly and
Williams went out on a fly to Kuen-
zie.
Things went lovely until the fifth
inning. Schultz, the first man up
leaned against one of Williams ben
ders for clean single over center
field, McAdams followed with another
clean single over third. Kunezie hit
a sharp grounder to short which the
short-stop fumbled and everybody was
safe, Schultz scoring on the play.
Bachhuber skied out to center.
Boettcher was safe. on fielders'
choice, filling the bases. Hahn fol-
lowed with a sacrifice hit scoring Nc
Adams. Richards hit a grounder to
third which third baseman Donovan
felded but threw high over first and
Kuenzie raced home with the third
run. Leschinger grounded out from
third to first and the side was retired,
and the score then stood 3 to 2 favor
of the boys from Watertown.
In the eighth our boys thought
they had better make victory safe, by
adding two more runs on hits by Les
chinger, Berigan and Schultz and
Kuenzies' sacrifice. Rio came back
and added one to their own column on
a felders' choice and a hit by Will
liams making the score to in favor
of Watertown and it remains that
way, as in the ninth inning both
sides wei out in one, two three
order.
Our boys showed great batting
strength, every man on the team
leaned against the ball hard and it
was only good fielding that saved
pitcher Williams Of Rio or our boys
would never have stopped scoring.
Richards made three pretty drives
each Of which ought to have been
two bagger, but he was robbed of two
of them by grand stand catches, in
fact every man on the team hit the
ball right square on the nose and the
fielding of our boys was fast and snap
py at all times, several hard ones
were pulled down by Richards, Hahn,
Bachhuber, Berigan and Kuenzie.
McAdams also made a neat pickup
of a grounder. Leschinger played
first in steady form and catcher
Schultz handled Boettchers benders in
fine style. Boettcher again was
in good form and allowed but two
hits off his delivery and the support
from his teammates was gilt-edged.
Centerfelder Lomis from Windsor
did some great fielding for Rio.