The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-06-11
.M'K'TO WINS CAME
NEWGARD'S BUNCH TAKE TWO
STRAIGHTS FROM PIONERES.


Grounds; First Game Resulted in
Score to I, and the Second One
9 to 4.
In the second series of games for the
season Mankato won both games from
the Pioneer Business School the first
being to |, the second game 8 to 4.
The school boys were gentlemanly
lot of ball players but were outclassed
by the locals in every department.
The first game was snappy from the
start and it was a case of no runs
until the sixth inning, when the Pho
neers squeezed run across the plate on
on a single to left field and stolen
base and another single in the
same place. They had just caught
the locals mapping for a minute, how
ever, and that was all of the scoring
for the visitors. In the seventh, Cap
tain Newgard had heart to heart
talk with the boys and told them that
in order to win the game it would be
necessary for about three of them to
get on bases and that he would then
drive some runs across the plate. Con-
sequently on King Newgard's advice,
Graves started the frework with a
singing single to left field, Boyle fol-
lowed and laid down pretty bunt,
both being safe. Rognass then fol-
wit ell fn
stop which Roache fumbled Just long
enough to put them all safe. This was
what King Newgard had been playing
for and they had fallen right into
his trap, there were now three men on
bases and Newgard to bat. This is
when the school boys hopes went glim-
mering for Newgard drove out pretty
line drive to left field, scoring two
men, while Giblin, just to show that
they never would have to quit unless
they wanted to sacrifice to short stop,
scoring Rognass with the third score.
In the eighth and ninth innings both
teams went out one, two, three and
the game ended to | in favor of the
locals
Score
1894 567S9 HIRE
Mankato % 0 0 OOO3 90 6 2
p. B. S. .....O 90 lOOOS 2
Batteries: Mankato, Stomberg and
Mullane; P. s. s., Lawson and Dor
legoh. Umpire, Bosin.
The Second Came
In the second game, the locals were
so anxious 20 win that they just went
in and got enough scores to win sew
eral games right in the first inning.
Graves, just to show the crowd that
there was more than one way of get
ting to first base, stopped the ball with
his left shoulder, which secured him
passage to first base. Boyle hit to
third, but Fitzgerald couldn't hold it
and they were both safe. The weak
ness at third had been noticed by Rog-
mass and he also hit to third and was
safe at first on an error. Mullane
then drove out single, scoring two
men, and this kept up until the locals
had scored five runs, on one hit and
five errors by the visitors. In the
fourth inning the locals had two more
to their credit when Graves and Boyle
crossed the pan again. This had been
done because in the third inning the
school boys had forced two runs across
the plate by loose playing on the part
of the locals. The locals scored again
the fifth and eighth innings while the
visitors were lucky enough to steal
one score in the eighth and one in the
ninth. j. Nicholson, running bases
in the fifth inning, collided with sec
ond baseman and was temporarily put
out of the game, but was all right
again today.
Sheldon pitched one of the incest
games of ball that has ever been
pitched in the city. He allowed but
three hits, two of them really scratch
hits, and no two of them in the same
inning. Besides this he had the WISH
tors swining their heads off and ten
of them went out via the strike out
route.
Saturdays game was a very fast
game, while yesterday the game drag
ged little by reason of the fact that
the school team was entirely out
classed.
The score.