New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-07-11
new ULM WINS BALL PURSE.
Score of Two to Three in Sleepy
Eye Game.
Purse of SIS Falls as Prize to Local
Players.
About 1000 Spectators Witness
Good Ball Playing.

About 1000 Spectators Witness
Good Ball Playing.
The star attraction of the Fourth
of July celebration at Sleepy Eye was
the ball game between team from that
city and the New Ulm team and En-
merich with his husky bunch OF fol-
lowers revenged themselves for the
two games they have lost in succession.
The game was scheduled to be played
in pasture back Of the round house
in the edge of the city limits. 1t was
cramped and rough hedged in on one
side by swamp and wire fence and
on the other by a ditch, but certain
ground rules were constructed to fit
the occasion and all things else being
equal it was as fair for one side as it
was for the other.
Apparently thinking themselves in
vincible in their new uniforms and
hedged about by crowd of 5000 peo-
pie (Sleepy Eye COUNT and having to
face sea of upturned feminine faces,
such as they had never before seen,
with all eyes on the manly form of
"Bill' Schneider who every once in a
while would catch some such phrase
as He's the cutest one in the bunch, -
the team work was seriously hampered
until the boys got used to the new con-
ditions, and then the stuff was all off.
There was a good-sized purse up
for the winner of the game, it is the
! first that has been held out to the
thirsty this season and they were will
ing to break the speed ordinance get
ting to it, but they misjudged the dis
lance at the start and blew out safety
valve time or two before they finally
landed the prize.
It was a test of mettle in the first
inning and neither side had time to
catch their breath before they we're
out, but in the second inning Werring
lost his grip on the ball for second
and a succession of errors allowed the
home team to make a couple Of scores
before the men from Ish-ta-ka -ba S
town were aware that they were up
against the real thing.
In the next inning the tables were
turned and the New Ulm boys after
putting two men out seemed to lay
down like a lot of returned empties
while couple of men on bases wiggled
their way to the home plate.
This did not last for long time
and after peace was declared the team
again settled down to business and
treated the audience to a splendid ex-
hibitiOn of the national game.
1t was was a pitchers game from
start to finish, especially on the part
of Werring, who, while he has played
only one or two games this season,
showed that he was able to do anything
with the ball that he wanted to. He
has a variety of turns to his pitching
that are apt to keep the batter guess
Emmerich deserves a great deal Of
credit for his work, but it was not as
good as some that he has done. He
had good support from the start and
he had catcher that held up his end
of the game.
1t is unfair to make any criticism on
either side of the game as the crowd
which was exceedingly large pushed
itself up against the diamond so that
it was simply impossible to tell in a
second where to throw the ball or
Judge the distance. On a good field
where the felders could have had a
better chance and the batters could
have had all they we're entitled to by
long drives, the score would have been
very different and might have resulted
in favor of the Sleepy Eye team.