The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-30
POOR BALL BY REDS
INDIAN TEAM COULDN'T PLAY
WITH MANKATO MAROONS.
Nearly One thousand Fans Witnessed
the Game at Fair Grounds Sunday;
Commercial College Boys Defeated
BY St. Thomas College Nine; Trav-
elingmen Go Up Against Benack's
Aggregation Saturday afternoon.
From MONDAYS Daflv.
NonkatO fans with,

From MONDAYS Darv
Mankato fans witnessed three games
of baseball Saturday and Sunday, all
of which were interesting. The main
event, of course, took place yesterday
afternoon, when the Maroons, newly or
ganized by A. c. Benack, played their
initial game, their opponents being The
Weldon Sioux Indiens of st. Paul.
Nearly thousand people witnessed
this game, and the number of paid add
missions was about 500. This was
quite a financial boost for the club. as
the price of tickets was fifty cents, and
will put the management on easy street
for a time, at least.
Wasgatt pitched the first five in
nings for the Maroons, and not a
single hit was taken off of him. Then
Kramer was put in the box, but APP
peared somewhat nervous and the In
dams did not have very much trouble
to find him, and ran up their scores
then. Littleboy, the Indian catcher for
the Maroons, did fine work, and won
the applause of all. The score at the
close of the game was thirteen for
Mankato and five for the Indians. w.
A. Plymat mpired the game, and the
crowd was orderly.
The Maroons demonstrated that they
are a strong team, and they probably
might have shut out the visitors if
they had cared to. Mankato baseball
enthusiasts are glad to know that the
city has a team that will not make
bad showing with the best in the
state
The Weldon Sioux Indians did not
put mp as good a game as had been
expected of them. 1t might have been
an off day, but more likely they went
up against team that was out of
their class
MaroOns Shut Out Travelling Men.
Earlier Saturday afternoon, the Mar.
oons played practice game with the
Commercial Travellers team, through
five innings, and the score was seven
Tor the MaroOns and goose egg for
the travelling men. At that, however.
1t was an interesting game, and drew
quite an audience. The battery for
the Maroons was composed of Wasgatt,
Kramer and Littleboy. while Sheldon
and Rabe performed this service for
the Commercial Travellers.
! The Commercial Travellers had ex.
peeted to organize after the game. but
IN the excitement failed to get to-
gether.
Attacked With Stage Fright.
The MankatO Commercial COLLEGE
team went down to defeat before the
fast st. Thomas college aoerega
ton. The local boys did not play
the game they are capable of, by any
means, it being evident from the first
that they were afflicted by severe
case of stage fright. They, no doubt.
will overcome this before the Hamline
game two weeks hence
The st. Thomas team is composed
wholly of professional and semi pro-
fessional men, four of them being seen
here last year in the Austin Western
lineup. They are equal to the best
teams of the state.
and no school team should feel dis
couraged by Il defeat at their hands.
Score: st. Thomas, l3; Mankato
Commercial college, 0. Batteries: st.
Thomas, Hughes and Doyle; Mankato
Commercial college, Feir, Lappin and
Seaman. Umpire, Plymat.
Agency Hill Boys Win.
The Agency Hill team met the boys
from Kennedy bridge at Nick Juliar's
place yesterday and won by score of
4 to 3. 1t was an eleven inning con-
test. The batteries were: Agency Hill,
Leo Thompson and Ben Klughertz;
Kennedy Bridge, Herman Kinder and
Charles Lobby. Umpire, Ed Lang.
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