Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-08-11
RARE CAME AND
FARCE YESTERDAY I !
BOYD AND WALKER ENGAGE IN
MERRY WAR IN FIRST, But
sWATs WIN SECOND.
ALL KINDS OF WORK SHOWN
Double Header With Quincy In Which
OttumWa Broke Even, Was
Productive Of Quantities Of
Thrills.

A rare game, in which Big Ed
Walker had slight edge over Ray
Boyd, and merry-go-round session
with Ottumwa being the chief passen-
gers to Scoreland, amused GIG contrib.
utors to the baseball treasury ana
some 200 lady bugs yesterday at the
foot of Myrtle street. Big Ed won the
first encounter, 3 to 2. ahG the speed
boys COPIED the concluding mix II to
blank There were features galore IN
the second meeting, chief among
which was the very fancy job of heav'
ing by Jimmie Dunn and the healthy
cloutfng of Pitchers Tretter and Rouse
by James and his fellows.
Almost blind man could become
Jerry to the fact that the first mix
was the big show of the afternoon.
With Boyd working like big turbine
and Walker like rapid fire dynamo,
there was little question that the con-
test would be some battle. When Boyd
whitfield the first two men, the gallant
six hundred sat back and felt satisfied
that Boyd could not lose. After Hart
man and Clark singled, with Rouse's
sacrifice sandwiched In between the
clean clouts in the fifth, which activi-
ties netted one score, there were some
of the gallant ones who felt their
hopes slipping Two more Quincy
scores came across in the sixth and
then fate smiled ironically. A ray OF
hope burst through the proceedings
when SEVERED walked in the sixth
with only one down. An error by
Owens and Oaks double, however net
ted two scores, and Ottumwa was still
one shy of the Gems This result con-
tinued throughout the game, despite
the efforts Boss Egan made to turn
the tide in the ninth.
The second game, however, was one
continual scoring seance. Tretter was
found for three hits, two walks and
rap in the Stats in the third and fourth,
and these, with boobies by Cavanaugh
and Burg, gave Ottumwa five scores.
In the sixth, seventh and eighth, to-
tai of ten hits, four walks, one wild
pitch and one assault, netted twelve
scores. All this while Jimmie Dunn
busted himself tanning ten Quincy
batsmen and holding the visitors down
to four singles and nary symptom OF
Z score.
Inc way OF tne FlVet.
Hartman's biff to left field in the
nth of the first game was the real
starter OF the lose. Rouse dumped to
Borton and died, but advanced Hart
man. Clark pushed the hide to Rus
sells territory and Hartman raced
home ahead of the throw-in. Clark, of
course, went to second, but that's as
far as he progressed. Borton's piece
of ill-luck favored Quincy in the sixth
Owens started the abuse with a vic
ious drive to Kensel Donahue lifted
the ball to center for a sack. Boyd
smote Cavanaugh on the funny bone
and the bases were top-heavy. Hart.
man essayed high foul near the
bleacher wire. which Borton basketed,
but then came the hard luck. When
pulling back to deliver the ball to
Link and nip Owens, Bort's paw
caught in the wire snd prevented him
from delivering tho ball. OF course
Owens tailed and Donahue went to
third. At this period Cavanaugh and
Donahue pulled off double steal and
the third Quincy score resulted.
Ottumwa's two scores were I'M
earned With Russell out, SEVERED
walked and went to second when
Johnston was retired. Cavanaugh to
Owens. Senno hit to Burg, who pegged
accurately to Owens, but the latter
failed to squeeze the ball. Oaks then
pasted one between Donahue and
Rouse for two sacks, enabling Sever
cid and Senno to register.
Seventeen, Count EN-.
Home runs by Finney, SEVERED and
Dunn. triples by SEVERED and Russell,
and doubles by SEVERED, Senno and
Boyd, added to nine walks, three as
saults and one wild heave, show the
reason why Ottumwa scored seventeen
runs in the second game. Singles in
the fifth and sixth and two Of the
same kind in the ninth, give the rea-
son why Quincy failed to score even
pne lone point. James Dunn worked
like a trojan in the second conflict, !
aside from his efforts in the box, get
ting two walks, single and home
run and total of five scores. Tretter
worked with Pepper Clark for the
first four innings, and this battery !
showed its inefficiency by four hits |
and five runs. Rouse was then called |
In from left and Tretter went to Bull
Vile. Rouse had neither control nor
effectiveness, and ten hits and twelve |
runs tell the story Of his operations.
Finney's homer went over the right |
field fence, SEVERED scaled the wall
Just above the 101 cigar sign and
Dunns hoist was high over the left
field wall, fully 100 feet inside the
foul line.
Ray Boyd relieved Tay Kensel at
bat In the eighth, and scored double,
but did not have chance at short in
the ninth Finney was pulled into sec
ond to relieve Johnston in the ninth !,
and Kent went to right garden When
Nretfer was Vanished from the paStim- |