Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-11
FIRST BLOOD FOR
The SPEED BOYS
IN GREAT sEANcE AT MYRTLE
STREET PARK oTTUMWA
DEFEATED BURLINGTON.


battling Speed Boy family yesterday
afternoon at the Myrtle street park,
where in a great sample of the ma
tional pastime, the native sons de-
feated the Rohneys by the score of
2 to !.
The game was not won until the
last man was out In the ninth stanza,
and then there were some folks pres
ent who thought that the fighting
fiends OF the Flint hill city might
come back and want the game to be
played over. The crack that won the
game for OttumWa was delivered in
the sixth by Fred Johnston, the gent
who came to Ottumwa in trade for
Fred Finney, former Burlington star,
and seyenty-five meg, all turned over
by the Davenport club of the triple
blink circuit. The walks of Kensel
and Matt, sandwiched around Russelps
whit, was followed by another display
of effectiveness of Old Ringing Bell,
who ozoned Johnson. Then came the
tall third sacker to the gutta percha
with q clout in his hickory. The ball
went high into right field close to the
foul line, and just out of reach of Wat
son. The band Immediately began to
play and the heart beats Of the multi
tude kept accurate time with the
tones. or course the rap sent Kensel
across with the largest score of the
pastime.
Flashes of great playing were
sprinkled at the right time, and 1t -
q pleasure to chronicle that most OF
the beauty work was contributed by
the home product. Edward Elkins
and Edward Wise were the chief
beauty distributors. This does not by
any means detract from the work
of the invaders for Burlington has a
ball team that all Central association
teams will have to tussle to beat. And
the game yesterday afternoon was GER
tainly a royal tussle. 1t was with a
wholesale quantity Of suspense that
the bugs witnessed the final inning for
the head of Burlington's batting order
was up. Ellis started 1t with slow
drag between first and second which
landed him on first. Boyd turned on
the speed faucet for Burton and the
short field operator was doomed to die
through the strike out route. Watson
bumped the pill to Boyd, who pegged
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twin Eddies. Wise and Elkins, extin-
guished Bull" Ross. and the great
game was over.
Boyd excelled Bell on the mound a
trifle, being steadier with the bags oc-
cupied, and having greater Whit rec
ord. The pitching duel was one that
will be hard to beat this season. A
Ottumwa Scored First.
The native sons were the first to
register, starting right from taw to
bag the game. Kensel hit safe to cen
ter Russell hari-karied and Ken
sci got such a good start in flying to
second that he forgot to stop and con-
tinued on to third. Boss Rohn pegged
the ball to his Lamkins at third, but
the Burlington pilot was too wild. Ken
sci came in on the error amid great
cheering and the merry music Of the
band
Burlington tied it up in the third,
which Griffith opened by sending the
ball over the left garden wall for two
bags. Bells sacrifice put the back
stop on third, from which he scored
on q neatly executed squeeze play
with Ellis at the plate. This play,
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ton, Tom Green, Jay Frawley, Carr.
Fleming, ct al, from the Pathfinder
city were in the stands. Ottumwa was
saved from another Burlington score
in the fifth, when Lamb tried another
caress play with Bell at the starting
point. Bell proved ringer, however,
and the side was retired when Link
caught Lamb between home and third,
and Griffith was doubled between sec
ond and third Some double play, II
you believe an eye witness to it. Be
fiddler Boyd was as stingy as miser
the rest of the way, and Burlington
never proceeded further than second
base.
Then came the streak of philan-
thropy Of Bell and Johnston's great
drill to right for the winning run in
the sixth.
The Score.
Ottumwa- ALB. R. H. Pc. A. e.
Kensel, 2b =. ........3 2 Ia 2 /