New Ulm review., 1913-09-17
Pirates BeSted
By N. U. A. A.
Athletics Heavy Hitting Won
Sundays Diamond
Contest.
Numerous Errors Mark One
Sided, Farcial
Game.

The truth of that old saying that
"Revenge is sweet" was exemplified
in the annual battle for the cham
pionship of the city of New Ulm last
Sunday when the Athletics triumph
ed over the Pirates by score OF IL
to 3. Last season the Pirates out
played, outgeneraled and outguess-
ed the Athletics and beat them by
to 2 count and the Athletics were
determined upon obtaining adequate
revenge. .
Not content with merely winning
the game the Athletics fell upon the
Pirates highly-touted imported pit
cher with a vengeance and clouted
the ball in vigorous fashion. Before
the affair had advanced very far the
Athletic players became infected
with a holiday spirit and slammed
the Spalding with reckless abandon;
to various secluded and sequestered-
spots on the field.
There is no doubt that the Ath-.
letics outplayed the Pirates at every
stage of the game. Altho the field
ing of the Athletics was miserable
at times, the defense as a whole was
superior to the ragged support given
Thompson by the Pirates.
The steady twirling of one Chick.
Huhn was much too much for the
"Corsairs," who fell with clocklike.
| regularity after the unfortunate
spasm of the first inning. Only four
hits did the big boy allow and had
| it not been for the crude work OF
his teammates in the field, he would
have been credited with shutout..
He managed to Whit 13 of Ahren's
stalwarts and did not appear to ex-
tend himself to the limit at that:
What the Athletics lacked In field
ING precision and technic they more
than made up for by their vicious
attack. In only one inning, the
eiphth. did they fail to get at least:
one hit and when the dust had set
tlad the scorers counted Is blows
for the sluggers,. among tnem
brace of doubles, three triples ana q
sure-enough "Heimlauf." The slug
ging brigade was lead by hunnr
with a pair Of triples, Dahms' WIN
a double and a home run, and f1ei1-
fer with a double and pair OF SIN
giles. Kleinschmidt also kicked IN
With long triple and Lindemanm
was credited with three safeties-
On the bases the Athletics were
alive and full Of pepper, taking,
chances and getting away with themy
while the Pirates failed to take full
advantage of their opportunities and
pulled several "bones." Manager
Ahrens in a vain endeavor to shift
the tide of battle switched his lineup
and ordered his militia to the 'front.'
but all to no purpose.
There were only a few fielding
features. Fiene made sensational
stab of a line drive in the sixth in
ming and young Wagner cut Oft a.
possible triple or home run by un-'
expectedly grabbing long fly to-
center near the end of the game.
! but otherwise the chances offered
were mainly of the ordinary variety.
The Athletics began their attack,
with a dash that encouraged their
supporters. Seifert opened the game.
by arriving safely at first on Schas--
fer's wild throw On the hit ancl
run play Mayer singled to right, but;
Seifert was thrown out attempting
to make third. Mayer reached third
on an out, but Pfeiffer rolled to-
Dahms.
The Athletics defense crumbled in
the first inning but recovered after
allowing two scores. WicherskI
reached second on errors by Mayer
and Burk, and went to third on Will
liams' error on P. Dahms' groundeI-
! after Bentzin had struck out. Lin
derman's wild heave to the plate al
lowed him to score. P. Dahms count
ed on felder's choices but the next
| two were easy.
A double play killed the Pirates
chance in the second and they did
not get another opening until the.
sixth when Bentzin tripled and scor--
ed on wild pitch. Further trouble.
was averted in this inning by a.
double play when the Pirates took tor
running bases like wooden Indians
An error or two allowed a couple of
runners to get on later in the game
! but the Pirates did not become dan
gerous again for HUM had them
we'll in hand.
H. Dahms began the lombard
ment of Thompson in the third with
long double. Huhn then smote one
to the outskirts for triple and
scored the tieing run a moment later
on a passed ball. Pfeiffer's and Lin
demands infield hits and a pair of
errors by P. Dahms allowed two
more in the fourth. In the fifth
three crossed the pan on a couple.
of errors, a single by Williams and
Pfeifer's two-ply smash. H. Dahms
whanged the ball over center in the,
sixth and scampered all the way
around. HUM followed with an even,
more vigorous clout over left, but.
lContlnued on back. papeh