Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1911-09-06

before, came back at the locals with
her weakened parts bolstered UP by
the pick of Calmar, Ossian and Mo
mona teams. Rizzelman of Monona
more recently of Dubuque Three-I-
league fame, was in the box fol
Postville, and was used pretty much
like Gotch did Hackensmidt, all
through the game, the locals coping
IA hits off his delivery, but never.
theless he pulled through with vic.
tory. Ryggs was opposing him, and
got OFF with a bad start, losing his
own game, by his wildness in the
opening innings. 1t was his frs.
pitching game in fast company, and
his defeat can be overlooked, for he
has the stuff in him to make one OF
the best pitchers in these parts. He
mas plenty of smoke, and when right,
will make them all go some. In the
fourth inning four runs were count
ed, two of them on wild peg by him
TO Erickson, and if it hadn't been
Tor that one bad throw, the score
would have been tie in the ninth
and nobody knows whose game it
would have been, but by the way tha
locals were rallying in the eighth, it
looked like another victory for them.
DEBORAH was the first up, and Shea
was given a free ticket, Reque sin
gled, but was forced at second on
Bldne's grounder to Douglass, Shea
taking the third station and scoring
on Schonaur's wild peg to get him.
Horan was an easy out at first and
Ryggs hit grounder to Burhans,
who Juggled it like a side show per-
former, letting Riggs safe and Bidne
scored on the throw to first. Dot
seth Whitfield, ending the inning with
two scores to the good.
But Postville came right back and
evened things up in their first half.
Mcneil singled past second, Burhans
got a pass and Meyer got one of
Rygg's twisters in the ribs, filling
the bases with nobody out, and put
ting Ryggs in a bad hole, from which
he emerged nicely. Marston Whitfield:
Schonaur singled to center, scoring
Mcneil. Wirsching slipped single
to left and Burhans counted. Mar
ston got caught trying to score at
the plate and Rizzleman flied out to
Bernatz. They scored again in the
second round. Douglass cut the air
and Fan stopped one of Riggs wild
ones with his shoulder; Mcneil lifted
high fly to Dotseth, who let It fall
to mother earth, but recovered it and
caught Fan at second. Mcneil stole
second, and registered on Buraan's
two baser. There was nothing doing
in the third for Postville and the To-
calls didn't register again until the
seventh.
The fourth inning was Decorah's
undoing, when Postville punched
their hits. Rizzelman hit for three
bases, and Douglass singled to right,
scoring him. Fan fouled out to
Koran; Mcneil singled to right; Bur-
hans singled to center, and Meyer hit
a slow roller half way to Ryggs, vino
ran up on it and pegged it in cannon
ball fashion through Erickson, and
two unearned runs by Burhans and
Mcneil made the score read to 10,
instead of tie in the ninth. In the
fifth and sixth two more scores were
counted for Postville on errors
In the seventh Rizzelman began to
ascend, giving Shea a free ticket.
and then Rogue polled a homer, that
got lost in the tall grass down near
where the balloon, like RizZelnian,
was going up, and Shea registered
ahead of Rogue. Bidne got a pass
and Koran whitfield. Ryggs hit an
easy one to Rizzelman, forcing Gidne,
and Dotseth struck out.
In the eighth Wepler whitfield and
Bernatz pasted out another three
base hit; Erickson singled to center,
scoring him. Shea hit to short fore
ing Erickson at second. Then Ranue
cracked out long one to right thai
was good for two bases, bur was
counted out at second on Meyers
relay, Douglass failing to touch him,
but Arbitrator Hislop's eye saw 9th
erwise and Rogue took the count. as
did Bidne in the third inning, when
he was called out by Larsen at the
plate on slide. No pop bottles Aow
in the air on the decisions, but the
jumps knew the crowd was in the air.
for they were handed several vocif-
erOuS encOreS.
Postville got one more score and
their last in the eighth, on McNe.rs
single and Marston's two base hit.
In the ninth the locals started a
hitting and run getting rally. Koran
hit for two bases and Ryggs singled
to center. Dotseth hit to Rizzeln.an,
and he threw him out at first, al
though Fan was off the base three
feet. Bernatz hit to Douglass and he
booted it, letting Riggs score and
Erickson singled to left, counting