The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-04-25
Kenosha Defeats Waukegan After
a Fierce Twelve Inning Game
by a Score Of 3 to 2
BATS OUT HIS OWN CAME
Opferge1t. the New Kenosha Pitcher.
Makes Good Despite Bad Errors
in the Opening Innings
Of the Game

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quarters Of mile of Breen's Park
Sunday afternoon, for Kenosha
opened the baseball season with an
opening that was crackeriack. 1t
wasn't prying the lid off or anything
like that, but one Of those cracking it
wide open times-a twelve inning
game with Waukegan-which went to
the Kenosha team with score of to
2 after one Of the hottest finishes ever
seen on any field. It was little cold
when the game opened up and the
wind that swept over the field from
the south had tendency to dampen
the spirits of the 1900 people present,
but before Opfergelt made the hit
that brought in the winning run it
was so hot in that region that people
thought the summer equinox was on.
Wankegan made a gallant fight, and
the team captained by Joe Pulse, the
erstwhi1e Kenosha pitcher, is deserv-
ing of credit. However, the Kenosha
team had the staying powers, and
after the little fright Of the earlier
innings was over the boys settled
down and put up quality of ball
that is calculated to win games. Op-
fergelt, the new Kenosha pitcher,
made good. He held the Waukegan
batters to but three hits in the long
game and struck out eighteen men,
and in the crisis when Kenosha needed
hit to win the game he sent the ball
sailing over into right field and the
winning run trotted home.
The team looked good to the fans
Sunday, and it is thought that Keno
sha will have little trouble in keep
ing up close to the top of the ladder
i'll the Lake Shore League.
Before the big game commenced
the Brands and the Cubs of Wauke-
gan FLASHED for FIVE inning set-to
and the Brands put it all over the
Cubs for when the game was called
the Brands had scored four times and
the Cubs were unable to get a man
over the rubber.
The trouble in the big game began
in the second inning when King got
free pass to first and then Bill
Knipp1e (How could you do it, Bill?)
dropped wide one that should have
retired Whyte and both men were on
base. After Ray Pulse had struck
out Williams sent ont one of the three
hits of the game for Waukegan and
scored the two runners. There was
nothing further doing in the scoring
line for Waukegan but it looked blue
to the fans.
In the last half of the sixth inning
| the Kenosha team came to its own
when with two men out Laabs drew a
base on balls and stole second and
Knipple brought him in with hit.
Two other hits followed in rapid sue
cession and Knipple scored. This
made it an even thing and the Keno
| sha rooters began to fight for the
game.
For six long innings there was
nothing doing, but after Wankegan
| had been BANKED IN the twelfth the
Kenosha boys trotted in with deter
mination to win. Kracky, who was a
new conner to Kenosha, was the first
to WELD the willow for hit, and his
example was followed by Hanks, and
| Feiting got on base with a sacrifice
which advanced the other runners.
Then came Opferge1t, and the first
ball that Pulse pitched he sent over
into the right garden. Nobody knows
how many of the men scored, for
when Kracky, the new man, trotted
over the plate with the winning run
pandemonium reigned. Someone
saw Opfergelt dash past home plate,
and it is possible that he stretched
his hit into a home run, but the score
was never counted by the scorekeeper
for the crowd had started home and
the game was over.
The score of the game follows:
Kenosha. 20 E
AocOic, n....'... ......... $685.. Y
AddOs So. .................s' l
Knipp1e, lib. ............... 10 G
Mauch, 2b. Neutrality-suspicious.. i 2 Q O
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