The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-08-23
FIRST BLOOD THEIRS
Those Saints Hand Mankato a
$500 Lemon Sunday.
GREAT CONTEST FOR FANS
Two Thousand See Battle
On the Diamond.
START OFF IN SERIES OF THREE
MeCollom Pitches Strong and Was
Well Supported, But an Acct.
dent Caused Us to Lose.
From Mondays Daily.

FROM MONDAY DAILY.
Hard luck lost Mankato the first
game of the southern Minnesota cham.
pionship series. 1t was played at
st. Peter yesterday afternoon, and
the crew at Governorvile carried of
the honors not because they put up a
superior article of ball but because
fortune was kind to them. As a
matter of cold fact the members of
the Mankato team outplayed their OPP
ponents and they should have had
nine st. Peter pets to stretch on the
fence today.
But old Dame Fortune had a crouch,
and she handed Mankato a 500 lemon
in one disastrous inning.
Big Crowd Was There.
Nevertheless it was a great game,
as the score of to shows. Fully
2l,O00 people witnessed it, and Man
kato sent more than half the crowd.
The fans occupied every inch of avail
able space on the westbound North
western train, they chartered livery
rigs and they rode in autos. They
took the asylum town by storm, and
they brought it out of the death
like trance that has enveloped it for
years.
On the diamond the team they
supported played a snappy game. A
high wind was blowing, making it
difficult for the fielders and pitchers
to work, but even this handicap did
not hamper the Mankato players great
ly. They made more hits than st.
Peter and had more men die on
bases, and they lost simply because
it was not written that they should
win.
Star Ball for Mankato.
Harry McCollum pitched star ball
for Mankato. He held the Saints down
to four safe hits, gave but three
bases and struck out five, while the
much touted Bartos, the idol of st.
Peter fandom, was batted freely. Five
safe hits, two of which We're two
baooers, were made off his delivery,
and he proved anything but the puz-
zle that was epected. Before the close
of the series, it is predicted, he will
be driven to the tall and uncut, and
there will be oceans of grief in
Peter.
The batting honors of the day went
TO Hunk Rabe, who pulled down a
two-bagger and single, and Timer
was also there with the willow. Glib
lin PLAYED sensational game at
short and the Mankato third baseman
put up star fielding game, as well
as making two of Mankato's four
runs.
Mankato's Scores.
Mankato made its scores i'll the first,
sixth and eighth innings. and all but
scored in the ninth Giblin was the
first man to face Bartos. He hit
safely, reached second on an error
and was advanced to third by krost's
sacrifice. scoring on fly moment
later.
The next one came in the sixth.
Ospood reached first on fly ball that
Hughes misiudged and Timer follow
ed him when Bartos made an error.
w. Rabe flew out and c. McCollum
was thrown out at first, but H. Rabe
singled and Osgood scored. The side
was retired when Nicholson was
thrown out by Bartos.
Two more were added in the eighth.
Osgood received base on balls and
scored on Timers two-base hit, which
he stretched to three when an at
tempt was made to throw Osgood out
at home. w Rabe was the next
man up and WAS retired by Hughes,
but Timer scored in the confusion.
Chance McCollum was retired on a