The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-06-04
WALK OFF THE FIELD
TOOZES "SQUAWKED" IN EIGHTH
INNING; FORFEIT GAME.
Miffed at Decision of Umpire Baasen,
the Minneapolis Bunch Threw Up
the Contest; Was a Pitchers Bat
tie, and One of the Best Exhibi-
items of the National Game Ever
Witnessed in Mankato.
From TUESDAYS Daily

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The Toozes "squawked." Their man
ager is gutter. Miffed at decision
of the umpire, he ordered his bunch
from the diamond, and the large crowd
of interested spectators at yesterdays
contest was sorely disappointed at the
sudden termination of what was one
of the best exhibitions of the national
game ever witnessed in Mankato.
The second game of the series be-
tween Mankato and the Toozes came to
sudden end in the eighth inning when
the Toozes disputed decision of UNI
pire Baasen and refused to continue
the game, thereby FORGETTING to Man
kato by the score of 8 to 0. There
was no excuse Whatever for this &C
ment except that they were sure to
lose the game if they continued and
decided that they would rather forfeit
the game than to let it go to Man
kato on it's merits.
Was a Pitchers Contest.
The game from the first resolved it.
self into a pitchers battle between
Sheldon and Oshea, with Sheldon hav-
ing the advantage for he was always
there with few strike-outs when they
first game tunder the new management
and he showed that without doubt
he has the goods if given the right
kind of support. Although Mankato
had four errors in yesterdays game,
the fact that the team is new and the
players not used to each other must
be taken into consideration and taken
in all the boys made very good
showing.
Toozes Secured a Run.
There was nothing doing in the scor-
ing line until the seventh inning, when
the Toozes forced the first run of the
game over the plate on a dead ball,
an error and a single. The Toozes re-
ceived their second score in the eighth
inning on a single and two errors
There was nothing doing in the scoring
line for Mankato until in the eighth
inning. In this inning Graves led, fly
ing out to short-stop. Boyle received
a passage to first base, being hit with
a pitched ball. Rogness followed with
a single to right field, Boyle going to
third. Plymat grounded to second base,
the play going to the plate to catch
Boyle, who made a beautiful slide
into the plate, being safe with the first
score of the game for Mankato. This
left man on third and first for Man.
kato with Captain Newgard to bat
and things looked so bad for the
Toozes that they decided to quit the
game when they had chance to
claim an excuse for losing.
The large crowd present was very
much disappointed at the action of the
Toozes in thus quitting the game at
the most exciting moment, just because
they were in danger of being defeated
Will Give Players Try-Out.
During the next week Captain New
gard will be busy trying. out the local
ball tossers as he has not seen them
work thus far and his desire is to give
all the local boys thorough y-out
before any outsiders are signed for the
season.
A pleasing feature at yesterdays
game was the manner in which the
| crowd was handled and still there is
room for improvement, for j. Mickelsor
could have caught two foul balls i
a number of spectators had not beer
so close to the left field foul line
but considering what Mankato crowd
are used to doing at ball games, viz
| crowding in as close to the ball dia
mond as possible, it must be said tina
the crowd was handled very nicely
| Score by innings:
| 2 4 5 6 7 Sc
MankatO .0 90 0 0 O*I-4
/ Toozes ......O OOO OOl IA
Batteries: Mankato, Sheldon an
| KrOst: TOOZies Oshea and Maurpu