New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-07-29
THE SATURDAY. FIzzLE.

Marshall is town Of something over
two thousand inhabitants, the county
seat of Lyon County. It's a pretty
little place with a ell-kept main street,
numerous fine business establishments
shaded walks along the side streets,
several rather large churches and a
tortuous river winding all around the
town. And besides all these. it has a
ball team.
There was a game scheduled for
Saturday afternoon between the New
Ulm and Marshall teams at the Mar
shall ball grounds. But it. never came
off. We will defy anyone to say that a
ball game was played at Marshall that
day. Whether it was postponed on
account Of rain or because lightning hit
the town, or whether it was called off at
high noon because Of darkness will
probably never be- known. Nor does it
matter. We must be satisfied with the
mere statement of the fact that there
was not a ball game.
However, there came near being a
game. Both teams INDUCED in both
batting and fielding practice. Then the
Marshall team took the field and the
game was practically over. In Justice
to some of the New Ulm players, some
things concerning the matinee which
followed must be mentioned. Cordes
played stellar ball for the Athletics. He
banged out three hits and drew walk
in five trips to the plate. Then he made
great one handed stop Of fast groun-
der between third and short and threw
the runner out at first. And in the very
first inning he grabbed Mauser bullet
off Kelley's bat that made his hand swell
up to twice it's normal size.
"Chick" Williams and Hodgins also
worked hard. "Chick'' made two hits
in three times at bat, being walked once,
and Hodgins performed more then he
usually does in three ordinary games
And then there was Drucke, erstwhile
New York Giant. He hurled the ball
in the general direction of the plate.
ling, A single! He received the sphere
from the painting outfelder and again
tossed it toward the rubber. Whang!
A double! The next Marshall batter
was contented with driving out long
fly, the following one with base
drive, and thus it went on.
The fun had commenced! The New
Ulm inielders lodged what they could
in order to save their limbs. ''Heinie''
Dahms dozed off in left field in one
inning so Framer obligingly smashed the
ball within foot or so of his head.
Hank lazily stretched himself and
after retrieving the sphere returned to
his little trundle bed. The Marshall
boys changed positions so often that it
would have taken a lightning calculator
to keep track of the switches Earl
Morse grew tired OF the pastitnes and
sent young cable, the six-year-old
bat boy to third base. A fly came near
the kids way and he pinched it as some
OF his race are accustomed to squeeze a
copper.
The Marshall outfelders were trans
formed into military troupe and gave
demonstrations of intricate maneuvers
every five minutes. Oh! It was ex-
tremely ludicrous, that farce, just about
as funny as a crutch. ,a
Drucke was finally derricked in the
fifth inning with the score Is to 5 in
Marshal's favor. Pfeifer went in the
box and they fooled around until the
nine innings were registered.
The best joke Of the day came late that
night. Drucke wanted to leave on "a
late train and wished to settle up. AS
Manager Seifert was not present Pfeiffer
drew Drucke aside and said, ssWell, how
much do you want? Perhaps we can
scrape the amount together in the
crowd, orperhaps can pay you myself !.
Pfeiffer had just ninety-fve, cents in his
pocket at the time.
Oh yes! You wanted to know the final
score. Well, perhaps it was "a to IL and
perhaps 100 to SO. Nobody knows for
sure, because no accurate score was kept.