Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-09-13
SPEED BOYS TAKE
MEASURE OF CUBS
HIGH GROWS OF THE NATIONAL
LEAGUE INUNDATED BY !,
NED EGAN's BAND.
GREAT CROWD SEES GAME
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Ray Boyd and Maurie Kent Pitch e.
fectively Against the Big Boys
Foxen and Weaver Fail to
Mystify Natives.
GREAT CROWD SEES GAME

| Weaver a tall tOSSer Win speed, ldlAeu
to throw a scare into the Speeders ana
| the end of the big noise was celebrated.
by the fans carrying home III 70 !
victory. Ray Boyd and Maurle hent
had all that Boss Egan desired them
to possess, and the men behind MI
the ball with enough frequency to pie
UP the glorious victory. Foxen worked
! five innings. and the same number OF
hits, with three walks and an error
netted Ottumwa five runs. Announcer
quintet was reaped during the admin
| istration of Weaver, although ne was
not to blame for even one of them.
| Had Boyd been given perfect sup
| port, a shut out would have been
reaped by the Speed Boys. Ray worked
hard during the three innings ne was
/ in the middle. Kent never allowed 2
semblance of a hit during the last
stanzas of the mix. Had the team been
composed of Sheckards. Thinkers,
Kings, Archers, Steinfeldts. etc.
Boyd and Kent would have been just
as effective.
Never in the history of baseball IN
Ottumwa has there been so many Bugs
witnessing a game as the mob Whlch
packed the Myrtle street park yester-
day. Men. women and children occu-
pied the bJeachers, and some or the
most courageous lady bugs had grass
seats in the outfeld, and some were
perched up on top of the ticket office.
The barns and sheds near the park and
even the Wabash tracks were black
with wild-eyed fanatics. At the end OF
the game shower Of cushions went
into the air from the bleachers and
this was continued all during the dis
posal of the baseball automobile.
While Foxen FroIicked.
While Frazier Foxen presided the
game was cinched Kensels keen eye
was better than Foxen's whip and he
walked at the opening Of the game.
Wrigley met a wide out and tapped it.
to short right field. putting kensel on
third. Kane and Overall retired Sew
ereid, and Johnston succumbed to
Foxen's slow ball Senno, however,
poled between left and center, out. Of
1.-THE reach of Pfeffer and Beaumont,
and Kensel and Wrigley tailed. This
lead of two made the home folks have
visions of win. Wrigler. SEVERED
and Johnston retired the Cubs in the
first. Foxen and Overall bested Bor-
ton at the start of the second. Link
Whitfield and Boyd walked. kensel
skied out to Evers and the side was
retired. After Zimmerman had flied
out to Johnston, and Pfeffer struck
out, Overall lifted the ball to center
for two bags. Needham walked. but
neither advanced farther as Evers
skied out to Senno. Wrigley opened
the third by bowling to Foxen's vici-
Gus drop ball. SEVERED got on the
by Zimmerman's low throw to Overall.
and Hank Immediately stole second
while Foxen and Zimmerman were
holding conversation, leaving second
uncovered. Johnston skied out to
Zimmerman and Senno popped to
Pfeffer. Foxen opened Chicago's third
with Whit Kane followed with a
single and went to third when Senno
returned the ball high to Kensel, and
Boyd, backing up Tay allowed 1t to go
through him. Hoffman was slapped in
the side and Immediately went to
second. Links throw was perfect,
but Kensel dropped the ball after
planting it on Toots. Kane, of course,
scored on the error and Holman went
to third, but he died there when Beau
mont struck out and Zimmerman was
extinguished by Kensel and Borton.
The wildness OF Foxen again started
the Ottumwa scoring in the fourth.
Oaks walked and stole second. Bor-
ton hit to Zimmerman, whose peg to
third was beaten by Oaks. Links
single to left scored Oaks sand put
Borton on second. Jimmie Dunn, bat
ting for Boyd, executed neat bunt,
and the out; Foxen to Overall, put
Borton on third and Link on second,
from which they scored when Kensel
raped the ball to the left field terri
tory near the foul line. Hoffman and
Overall retired Wrigley, and SEVERED
struck out.
Kent Hits First Man.
Kent started his administration by
soaking Pfeffer in the middle ST. in
the fourth. Overall was helpless,
striking out Needham hit to Kensel
who nipped Pfeffer at second. Evers
followed Overalfs example and Kent
smiled The last inning of Foxen's
work was started by Johnston striking
out Senno hit safely to left and went
to second when Needham pegged Oaks
out to Overall. Borton also whitfield.
The Chicago Cubs could not
put the ball out of the infield In the
fifth sixth seventh and eighth. and
only once in the ninth did the leather
go higher than the skinned section.
The only really hard work given the
Speed Boys by the Cubs was Need
hams foul in the seventh, which Joe
Link had to chase down to save from
Stacking the coco of one of the
ground floor fans Ottumwa scored
two more in tie sixth just to show the
tall Weaver gent that chance OF
pitchers makes little difference. Link
and Kent struck out just to make
Weaver feel happy. Kensel shot
slow one down to Overall, who booted
it, and Evers followed by palpable
muff of Wrigley's high one The errors
put KenseI on third and Wrigley on
second and Severeid's vicious slap to
the left field fence was enough to
score his mates After Link had died
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