The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-08-24
MapietOn MarOOnS Defeat
Madison Lake.
ICY" DAHL GREN PUZZLED EN-
One OF the Snappieat Contests Ever
Witnessed By Fans in Mankato,
Diamond ak.
From Tuesdays Daily.

Aiapleton 3. Madison Lake O.
In one of the fastest, ceanest and
snappiest exhibitions ever seen in Man
kato. Mapleton's crack ball players shut
out Madison Lake at the new fair
grounds yesterday afternoon and cinched
the amatuer championship of the state.
The young men from the summer re
sort town never had Il show to win, but
they were game To the finish and they
won the admiration of the crowd by the
fight they put up.
Few better contests have been played
anywhere than that which settled the
championship. 1t was sharp from the
outset and it kept the spectators on tip
toe with excitement until the last man
was down And there were plenty of
spectators. The extensive advertising
which had been given the game brought
out several hundred enthusiasts, whose
sympathies were about equally divided
between the contesting teams. After
the argument there was more ball talk
heard on the streets of Mankato than
there has been since the day the 'Pap"
Messerly Knocked home run while he
was lodging the sphere.
ICY" Dahlgren, a lanky young man
from Amboy, did the twirIing for the
Mapleton Maroons. "Cy" is what is
known in baseball parlance as 'the
goods He has a bargam-counter as
sortment of spit balls and benders and
he was on his mettle yesterday after
noon Although he struck out but four
of the lake dwelers, he had them puz
zled all the time and allowed but one
scratch hit.
In spite of the fact that he was de
feated LoefTler of Madison Lake made
showing that was nearly as good, and
sustained his reputation rs one of the
best pitchers in This part of the state.
He made nine of the Marroons fan the
air aud although he was batted safely
seven times, four of the drives were
of the scratch variety Several times
he pitched himself out of bad holes and
it was due to errors at critical times
that he lost the game.
But the Madison Lake team was
clearly outclassed. Mapleton had added
to its strength by the importation of
several fast players from the twin cities
and although the grounds on which they
played were not in the best of condi-
ton, they came out of the contest with
out an error marked against them. So
perfect was their work in the field that
only three of the Madison Lake players
reached first base and none of them
advanced beyond second.
The game opened with Madison Lake
there was nothing doing. I'm the fifth
however, the Mapleton left fielder Sui
Ivan, batted slow one down the third
base line and succeeded in beating out
the throw. Studelska struck out and
Hanson flew out to left, but when Ro-
gans batted an easy one to c.. Pietsch
he threw a trihe high and McNeal made
an error, allowing Sullivan to score
-Mapleton clinched matters in the
seventh. Studeska, the first man up.
reached first on an eXcusabe error bv
the Madison Lake left fielder, was adj
vanced by Hansons sacrifice and scored
on Rogan's hit. The latter stole second
and third, and crossed the rubber or
neat sacrifice by Gnodnick. Hostror
walked and little later Freer landed
on the leather for what looked like 8
three base hit. 1t sailed far out into
the left garden, but it went trint
wild and on his next attempt he was
retired at first.
Madison Lake had men on bases in
the second, third and eighth innings
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