Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-08-03
BASE BALL NOTES.

Great race in this league, ehg Just
look at the percentage table. Only
132 points between the leaders and
tailenders. 1t is anybody's race. All
have had a taste of being at the top
of the hill, for short time, except
Superior and Wausau. The other
four have been playing a toss up
game, the one favored with luck TAX
ing a temporary lead. The American
association is the only other league in
the country where there is so warm
race. And still the patrons in Wau-
sau don't turn out as they should.
Winona is smaller town than Wau-
sau and we ought to make an effort
to have larger total attendance at
the end of the season than is credited
to the Minnesota town. 1t seems that
the old history of pennant winners is
being repeated here. After winning
the old rag one year city's attend
ance usually takes a big slump the
following year.
The third base and shortstop posi-
tions are ones which have been caus-
ing the local management no end of
trouble all season to fill, and still
with only month left, satisfactory
results have not been obtained. In
the players who have been tried out
for these two positions all have failed,
through inability to clout the ball,
and decided capability for allowing
the ball to go through them, when
such errors meant runs for the oppos-
ing side.
Manager Mccarthy says he will have
A TEAM after while. 1t must be
understood that he was engaged late,
after most of the good players had
been picked up, while Joe Killian,
Joe Stafford, Schoenhoyen and Darby
O'Brien started to collect a team in
the winter months. Lew Drill OF
Superior has been working under the
same disadvantage as Mccarthy and
his teams standing in the percentage
column shows it. But at the same
time the class of base ball which has
been furnished to Wausau patrons
has been fast and clean and ought to
be better appreciated by the public,
in the matter of patronage.
The throwing arms of Russell and
Lakoff are at present not in the best
of condition and it is presumed that
the bulk of the pitching will fall on
Dunbar and Schieffer for some time.
Lakoff was left at home on the last
trip on account of his arm, and while
Russell was in Winona he went
lame" and some drugs which were
put on his arm by wise man OF medl-
cine proved worse in effect than the
lameness, for large blisters were raised
wherever the dope touched him.
While in this city last, Superior re-
leased Lew Baker and he was i'm
picked up by Wausau. He
has been playing third base since, and
his work is big improvement over
that of others who have tried to fill
that corner.
La Crosse opens series here today,
followed by Winona. From and In
Guiding this date the team plays
eighteen games on the home grounds,
and much will depend on those games. |
President Bryan of the local club |
was in Merrill one day last week and
was interviewed by representative
of the Herald. He characterized as
pure fiction, the published report |
that Wausau was likely to be dropped |
from the Minnesota Wisconsin league |
next year, owing to poor attendance
at the games played at Wausau.
"Wausau is one of the best base ball |
towns in the country" said Mr..
Bryan. ''The pennant, you say ? |
Well, we expect to win it this year,
though / admit the outlook is not the |
best. You know we have the habit |
of going after things, and we gener-
ally come home with them, too. When |
the season closes you will find the |
1umberjacks' up near the top any