Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-09-06
FAIR week BALL GAMES
West Union and DEBORAH Firemen
Opened the Festivities on
Tuesday Afternoon.
POSTvILLE AND DEBORAH DIVIDE
A Double Bill on Wednesday and
Thursday Afternoons, i'm Two
Exciting Games.

| The lovers of base ball were wei
entertained every afternoon of the
fair. On the opening day, Tuesday
the West Union and DEBORAH fire
ladies struggled for supremacy or
the diamond. The game was a reg.
ular farce comedy, as DEBORAH and
| west Union are on such friendly
terms, one disliked to trim the other
but after an expert mathematician
had figured up the scores on the
board he found 10 credited to De.
corah and Z to West Union.
DEBORAH ), Postville I.
The big games of the week were
staged on Wednesday and Thursday
afternoons, between Manager Shea's
new DEBORAH team and Postville. and
the result was division of honors in
the two games, DEBORAH winning on
Wednesday, while Postville sailed
down Thursdays game.
For Wednesdays game, Manager
Shea picked Rogue, the all around
star player to do the slab work, and
he did it we'll, holding Postville down
to five measely hits and one run,
and that one secured on an errcr, a
fly to left which was muffed, other
wise it would and should have been
shut-out game.
Rogue was opposed by Heuser,
Calmar's premier pitcher, whom
Postville secured to tame our bunch
OF hard hitting sluggers, and how
we'll he didn't do it the box score
below will tell. The locals fell on
him at will and pegged his offerings
all over the garden. Besides Heuser,
several other Calmar players were in
Postville's lineup, which gave the
game tinge of ancient history.
The only time Postville got within
range of third base was in the fifth
and eighth innings. In the fifth
Schonaur hit for three sacks; Wir-
sching and Rathbun being easy outs
next on flys to Shea and Wepler.
Schonaur was getting desperate to
score and led away off third, making
a dive for home on Reque's delivery
to Mcneil, who failed to connect, and
Schonaur had to take the count, be-
ing caught easily by Hustvedt at the
plate. In the eighth Schonaur got
a free ticket and Wirsching singled
to right, advancing Schonaur, who
was caught a moment later on anoth-
err desperate squirt from second to
third, after Rathbun had hit to Shea:
Schonaur started for third but cir
cled way out of the line to avoid
Shea and was counted out by Umpire
HislOp, who happened to be looking
that way about that time. Mcneil
lifted a high fly to Wepler and he
dropped it, Wirsching scoring on 1t.
O'Boy hit an easy grounder to Riggs
and Rathbun was forced at third.
Burhans got a pass and the bases
ston flied out to Dotseth, and the trio
died on the stations. the one lone
run on the error ending their scoring
and saving them from a shut-out.
The locals counted in the second,
sixth and eighth. In the second Bidne
was the first man up and he singled
past second and Koran pegged a
short fly back of third, Wepler sac
rificing them a station ahead when
Bernatz, of hard hitting fame came
up and smashed out handsome
three Dagger, counting Bidne and
Koran and he registered himself i'm
mediately on riggs high fly to Nc
Neil, who kindly dropped it. Dot
seth whitfield and Shea flew out to
left, ending the inning with three
scores and the game all sewed up
nicely.
OF course the game wouldn't have
been complete for the fans unless
"Homerun" Bidne polled out one of
his long ones. He came up in the
sixth and picked off one of Mr.. Heu-
ser's choicest offerings and sent it
way down to the barns. We don't
think that Sam Collins even saw it
drop, 1t went so far. In the eighth
one more score was registered
Rogue and Bidne both singled and
Koran hit into a double, forcing
Bidne at second, and Wepler singled
to right, counting Rogue. Wepler
stole second, but was caught shortly
after, and the run getting was over.
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