New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-07-22
New Ulm Loses
At Albert Lea
HOME RUN BY LYNCH IN NINTH
GIVES DOWNSTATE TEAM
VICTORY.
DISASTROUS FUMBLES IN FIRST
INNING TOO MUCH OF A
HANDICAP.

In wild scramble for the bacon Sun
day at Albert Lea the New Ulm Athle-
= tics were defeated by the Albert Lea team
Y by score of 9 to 8. With the score tie
in the last of the ninth and one down Joe
Lynch slammed the ball over the left field
fence for home run, winning the game
for the Albert Lea crew. In the seventh
Bob Stevenson put the downstate bunch
in position to win by hosting the sphere
over the right field fence.
Outside of these two instances the AL
bert Lea team could not do much against
the pitching of Crawford, the latest adj
dition to the Athletics pitching staff. At
the start he was trif1e wild but ne
settled down in hurry and began to
pitch real ball against the hard-hitting
Freeborn County aggregation. Craw-
lord allowed only six hits and famed six
of his opponents.
New Ulm's cratic playing in the open
ing frame lost them the game. Craw-
ford's wildness spread to the other players
and general attack of 'stage fright
was the result. Three times Albert Lea
| runners were called out attempting to
Sbteal bases but New Ulm basemen
6sdropped the ball in each instance and
v necessitated reversal of the decision.
The same deadly germ then scurried to
the outer gardens and bit Hank Dahms
in the leg for New Ulm left in6elder
dropped fly from Robinson's bat.
''Big Bll'' Pfeifer was the bright and
shining light for the Athletics. He
backed up to the fence and grabbed his
only fielding chance and whanged out
three hits on five trips to the plate.
3'Chick' Williams and Hodgins also play
ed great ball and worked their hardest
to bag the game. 'Chick" accepted six
chances at second, began the sixth inning
rally which put New Ulm ahead of their
rivals for time, and pilfered one of New
Ulm's two stolen bases, Pfeifer getting the
other. Hodgins' faced the Albert Lea
pitchers four times, walked once and
smashed two doubles to the fence. one
of them almost clearing the fence bar.
= In the hitting line theAthletics had it
on their opponents for they made nine
hits off Spahr and Sheehan. What tickled
the fellows most, however, was the
fact that they drove Spahr to cover in the
sixth. They wanted revenge for the
shutout that Spahr handed them here
week ago Monday. They went right
after Sheehan, too, and scored run in
the seventh.
The Athletics began the game in great
stule by pushing over run in the first
inning. Skinny" Cordes waited Spahr
out and drew base on balls for his pains.
H. Williams laid down a bunt for a
sacrifice and C.. Williams famed. Pfefer
hit to Primley at third, who threw the ball
away and Cordes hooked his spikes into
the plate. Friedl smashed one on the
nose toward center but Broderick ran
over and made a marvellous pickup and
throw to first, getting Friedl for the third
out.
The last half of the first inning was
nightmare to the few New Ulm fans
present. Broderick was given free
ticket to first and attempted to steal
second. Hodgins hurled the ball down
in fine, style but Hanna" dropped the
pill. Stevenson walked and he and
Broderick tried a double STEAL This
tine Cordes dropped the ball at third.
Farley popped out to Crawford, but Joe
Lynch smashed a double to left, scoring
Broderick and Stevenson Robinson
hoisted fly to left and ''Hank" dropped
the ball, Lynch going to third. Rosebach
hit to Cordes, who threw to the plate to
get Lynch. Hodgins dropped the ball
but picked it up again and touched
Lynch. 1t looked like an out to the New
Ulm boys but Olson called him safe.
Rosshach and Robinson then pulled off
double steal, the latter scoring. Primley
walked and he and Rossbach tried to pull
another double theft. They were safe
because Cordes dropped the ball again.
There was some excuse for Hanna" and
skinny dropping the ball because the
baserunners slid into them with great
force every time. Gettins struck out
but the ball bounced out of Hodgins'
sitt on the third strike and Rossbach
scored on the throw to first. Spahr put
an end 70 the misery by tanning.
It did not look very promising for the
Athletics, but they were not one whit dis
couraged and kept plugging away, play
ing a steady uphill game after the
bushleague stuff shown in the opening