The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1909-09-11
THEY SPLIT EVEN
Niagara and Crystal Falls Divided Honou
at Base Ball.

Niagara and Crystal Falls Divided Honon
at Base Ball.
The two games Of base ball between
Niagara and Crystal Fails. one played
at Niagara on Sunday and the other
played ut Iron Mountain on Monday,
resulted In a victory for each team the
Sunday contest going to Niagara by a
score OF 8 to 2 and the second coming
TO Crystal Falls by a score OF tol
This makes two games won by Crys-
tai Falls and one by Niagara, the other
game being tied.
The loss of the Sunday game was 10
one sense unfortunate and in the other
for the best as Ii increased interest in
the contest scheduled for Monday and
made the team work harder.
A pitcher named Verstegen
familiarIy known as "Rube Wadell"
pitched three very successful innings
and then run Of hard luck. intersper.
sed with few hard hits. one by Rud.
or being home run, put him In the
air and five runs came in. He wa.
taken out and ike" Oswald went in
and finished the game holding the
papermakers TO one hit In five inn.
ings
The particular stumbling block to
the locals was Gundstrom. the Dagett
pitcher whom they knocked all over
the field up here when he played with
Dagett. He had good curves. perfect
control and excellent support and our
boys got seven scattered hits through
out the whole game.
The Monday game was played on
the Iron Mountain grounds and as the
old time opponents OF Iron Mountain
came upon the field they were given o
handsome ovation by the Iron Noun
tain fans who remembered the excel.
lent work OF three years ago and who
were glad to see the boys who had
blocked them In their efforts to win
the range championship performing
again on the old lot. The reception
which our boys received from tho Iron
Mountain fans made a hpapy impres-
sion upon our players and the fifty odd
fans who accompanied the team.
johnson was In the box for the locals
and he had the papermakers on the
hip all the time. They never had u
chance to win. Johnsons' support was
excellent our boys being anxious TO
retrieve the defeat Of the previous day.
Csdy was in the box for Niagara nn-
I'll he got the hooks In the fifth when
Gundstrom went in and finished the
game.
One unfortunate feature OF the con-
test was the discovery that Cady, the
Niagara pitcher, was using special
ball. smaller than the regulation size
and waxed mp for his own use.
: The discovery was made In the fifth
inning when the ball lodged In one OF
the meshes OF the wire netting OF the
grand stand. The umpire threw ont
new ball but Cady and the catcher
insisted upon getting down the lodged
ball. Our boys smelled rat and re-
quested the umpire TO have the balls
thrown for inspection. BE couldn' I
refuse the request and the substitution
was discovered.
Such acts mar the sport and are re-
grettable This act was especially re-
grettable rs Mr.. Ryan, the manager
Of the Niagara team. has always been
held mp as one OF the squarest sports.
men interested in base ball on the
Menominee range and the substituted
ball might suggest that he was cogni-
zant OF the fraud We doubt very
much that Mr. Ryan personally knew
or countenauced this Hagrant violation
OF the fairness OF the sport and are
lead 10 believe that IL was the result
Of conspiracy Of the pitcher and
catcher OF his team. both OF whom
should he disciplined for their act.