Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-10-04
RED SOX won
FROM MACCABEES
CAPTURE CITY CHAMPIONSHIP
FOR SECOND TIME FROM
LopGEMEN.
SCORE ENDED 2 TO !,
Huddleson and Elliott Engaged in :
Pitchers DueI--Archie Cock.
erill's Hitting and n. Prices
Fielding Features.

| The Ottumwa Red Sox are still city
champions. BY defeating the Ottumwa
Maccabees in brilliant exhibition OF
the national pastime at the Myrtle
street grounds yesterday by a 2 to /
score, Manager Reeves men retained
the city honors which they COPIED last
season when they won from the Macca.
bees by the same numerals. The fans
and fannettes who turned out to yes.
terday's mix between the rival aggre,
cations, saw game which would have
been a credit to any two league clubs.
Both sides played consistent ball and
neither side scored until the sixth
round, when the Maccabees got run
across the gutta percha when Price
threw wild in an effort to catch Archie
Cockerill. Elliott, on the other hand,
Weakened, and timely biffs by "Shanty'
Price, Ownby and Flactiff, netted two
marks. After that, while both sides
threatened to score, star playing cut
Off the chances and to make the game
all the more interesting, Huddleson
put a big crimp in the Maccabees'
chances OF ninth inning rally when
he ozoned three in row.
SS~NS'ut 0SaIICV dI Dat.
The feature of the game was the bif-
fling OF Archie .Cockerill the Lajoie of
the lodgenen. He batted 1000 and of
the four hits, Two were for extra bases.
He also performed cleverly at the re-
ceivin gend. nipping several Red Sox
VINO attempted to pilfer the center,
canvas.
"Shanty' Price, playing the short
held position for the red hosed gents,
also starred in the fielding department,
making some brilliant stops, and his
quick pegging to the first sack cut the
Maccabees' hits. j. Flactiff made one
brilliant stop that brought applause
from the fans
Huddleson and Elliott engaged in a
real pitchers duel anda honors were
about even Huddleson was not in his
old form until the last couple Of in
nlngs, although Archie CockeriIl and
Orman We're the only ones who could
solve his "phoolers. Elliott twirled a
clever game for five innings and it
looked as though the Red Sox would
go down to defeat before his masterful
heaving, but he weakened in the sixth
and the three safe bingles gave the
Sox the needed twin runs to COP the
mix, the gate money and the city
Scores Come in Sixth.
For five sessions neither side sent
nan over the home station, although |
he Maccabees threatened to in the |
second when Orman hit for two bases
md went to third on Huddleson's wild
bitch. Simpson made the third out. The !
Naccabees were the first to score.
Archie Cockerill came to the rubber in
he sixth and drove the pill over the !;
eft field fence for two bases. Reese
vent out via Ownby to Schaub, and |
Jockerill lived at third on a fielders' |
'hoice of Noonan's grounder. j. FLAG
iff drew base on balls. With two
Town, Catcher Price threw wild to
)wnby to catch Cockerill The ball |
vent out into the garden and Scrap
ron No. ~ scored. Noonan was nipped |
It third.
The Red Sox started out Immediately I
o do things in the sixth. After Huddle,
on had whitfield, "Shanty" Price lined i
nut single. Putnam got hit on the hip
With the pill and took a base. Ownby
ollowed with a screeching grounder
own to third, which Simpson could
lot get, and Price crossed the rubber.
4. Flactiff sent a long single to center
ield. scoring Putnam, and Ownby went
ut on Orman's throw-in to the plate.
The Score