Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1908-07-29
DEBORAH 9. CALMAR 0.
Exciting Game on Friday Ends When Cal.
mar Kicks on Umpire's Decision in
Sixth Inning and Quits
the Game.

and Decoran or CreScO and DeCOrah
gets together in base ball there will
be something doing. The rivalry
been intense, and it takes but little to
disturb the equilibrium of the fans on
such occasions.
There was no exception to the rule
ON Friday afternoon when Calmar
and DEBORAH met at the fair grounds.
Probably the largest crowd of the
year was present, large number
driving over and coming by train
from Calmar On previous occasions
Calmar had LOADED up" with league
players from the cities, and the report
became current that DEBORAH was to
retaliate. In fact when the game
opened there were three new players
on the grounds. pitcher, catcher
and second baseman, reported by some
to be from the Chicago White Sox. by
others from Callahan's Logan Squares
of Chicago. and what not. Paley. the
umpire, announced that the battery
for Calmar would be Beizzer and
Graf, and for DEBORAH Olmstead and
Shea.
The game opened with Calmar at
bat. Dolly was the first man up, and
after being fairly struck out, as he
was man enough to admit. though the
umpire did not see it that way, he
found the ball for long drive which
put him on second. Garzee famed,
and Dolly came home on j. Uher's
long fly to right field. Anderson sent
fly TO Carpenter and Beizzer fly to
Rogue, retiring them.
Rodsater was first man up for De-
corah and was caught out on foul
fly, Green sent hot grounder to
second, where it was fumbled and he
got to first, stealing second nicely.
Olmstead was put out at first on
grounder to Anderson and Kelly on a
fly to F. Uher in center field.
In the second Crider hit to Carpen-
ter and reached first on a bad throw,
Ryan duplicated but was caught at
first, Order going to second and to
third on wild pitch. F. Uher famed,
Order reaching home on another pass
past the catcher. Crafts grounder to
Carpenter caught him at first. Shea
bingled to Bezzer and was caught at
first. Bidne drove long, high fly to
center field which was caught and
Johnson went out on foul fly.
In the third Dolly drove hot one
to Olmstead WHO caught him at first.
and Garzee repeated the transaction,
while j. Uher went out on a fly to
Rogue
Reque's fly to first, Carpenters fan
and Rodsater's fly to Anderson retired
DEBORAH in the same manner.
1t looked dangerous again in the
fourth. Anderson was caught out by
Shea on a foul. Beizzer's hot
grounder to Carpenter was fumbled
and he reached first, as did Order on
fly to second. Beizzer going to third.
But Ryan was caught at first on
bingle to Olmstead and the side was
retired by f. Uher's foul to Rogue.
Green and Olmstead both famed for
DEBORAH, Kelly went to first on
grounder fumbled by Garzee, and stole
second easily on the next ball. but
Shea's foul was captured by Graf.
Graf started the fifth by hitting to
Kelly, who threw him out at first, and
Dolly followed suit. Garzee reached
first on hit to Rogue, J. Uher being
caught by hit to Olmstead
Bidne drove another long fly to cen.
ter field which f. Uher gathered in,
and Johnson reached second on nice
hit past Garzee. Rogue went out on
fly to right field, and Johnson was
caught in trance at second when the
ball came in.
In the sixth inning came the trou-
BILE. Anderson's fly to center was tax.
en- in by Bidne, Beizzer bingled to
Olmstead and was caught at first, and
Order went out az first by grounder
to Rogue.
Carpenter went out on tip to Beiz-
ger, while Rodsater went down to first
on a hot grounder past second, but
was caught trying to steal second.
Green was struck by the ball and got
his base. Beizzer got ready to throw
to the batter and Green started for
second. while after plain balk, at
least the second time during the game,
Beizzer delivered the ball to first.
Green stopped midway between first
and second and went up to the umpire
and asked his decision as to whether
or not it was balk. The umpire
called it balk and gave Green Sec
ond, who took it and during the pan
demonium which followed went home.
Some of the Calmar fans on the bench
ran onto the diamond. dragged off
their players and demanded that they
quit the game. Decorah's players