Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-05-12


On account of rain there was no
game OF Appleton yesterday, Mon
day.
saturdays win didn't prove salts
factory to them and Wausau fans are
satisfied, for on Sunday at Appleton
tae boys decided that they wanted
the best in the series and that they
wanted to ride in a first division
berth. So it was and a two to one
victory was the way the series ended.
kench was the victorious pitcher
again, this being his second game
this season. Now for swing of the
southern cities all of which are very
anxious for the opening games Sew
eral of Ohe southern cities will be
covered before the return here. The
weather hasn't interfered very much.
thanks to the weather man, but ac-
cording to all indications there wont
be games all through May for that
usual troublesome agent will surely
want the fun of preventing few
baseball exhibitions.
The base ball season of the Wiscon-
sin-lllinois league opened last Wednes-
day afternoon. The lumberjacks had
the papermakerS as their opponents
opening the season on foreign soil and
losing the first game by the score Of
three to two. There was really some
very hard luck connected in the loss
OF the game, for Cavanaugh had
knocked sure home run and on
turning third base he was touched
by Kench who was coaching and who
was very much excited, evidently hav-
ing forgotten the new rules Accord
ing to this years rules the runner
would be out and umpire Davey COM
piled with them giving that as his
decision. OF course this created a lot
of wrangling but no alteration was
made and as result the first game has
been protested but probably nothing
will come of it. The game was close
and no one was worried because it
was lost. The two teams left Apple
ton to play here on Thursday.
There we're great preparations for a
big time on last Thursda.F afternoon
and in recognition of the c-ent and
willingness to aid in BOOSTING the at.
tendance and making it arecord break
err, many business men closed their
places of work during the afternoon.
Several of the mills closed and one
couldn't get shave or buy an article
of food all the afternoon Even the
schools opened their doors to the
pupils and when the count had been
made to get an accurate estimate of the
attendance it was found that over
two-thousand had paid admission.
| AL Kench was the victorious pitcher
and he made himself firm with the
| team and the fans by pitching the
| fnrr hi Oro fhaf ha Emo
! outcome was seven to one with Tx
papermakers absorbing the dust
The locals did some good swatting al
considered but the strain of the open
ing day was too much for them and OF
Friday one would have thought thai
the lumberjacks had been shattered
and they were, for the score stood
seven to one and this time we wer,
taking Appleton's dust and not Civ
ing them ours which is really th'
best thing to do. But then to com,
back was the aim of the local player
and this they did but in spectacu
lar and exceptionally dangerous man
ner In the eighth inning of thu
game on Saturday the score stood t,
2 with Appleton ahead by few bu
Wausau didn't lie down and give up
Oh no, they made four scores in III
last of the eighth and came back ii
the ninth. making three and thu
were they victorious. The local
have several players who are proving
to be valuable addiJions to the team
Williams, the Indian that has been
member Of the lumberjack team TO
two seasons, has been hitting tn
war path and taking his regular turl
at the bat, jovially, especially. consid
ering the fact that he has been
member of the Appleton squad in tn
past. The fans are well satistie
with the team as a whole. 1t canno
be expected TO be on the top all tn
time and it looks as though the play
ers would rather wait until the lat
ter part of the season and then kee
the top of the ladder continuously
We think that this is good pla
but Bubser will have to fill I'D seyera
week spots before that time.