New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-08-05

AT.st lI1FlIGess5 TAKE as: Kim! klNEPiLY' gTo
THE MlDNlG Git, P4AsT4MAlE AND \
~ BAG GAME.

HUGE GRoWpsTURNs OUT, TO SEE
lNpOoR BASEBALL UNDER
ARcLlcATs.
Over seventy minutes of uproarious
excitement was furnished to the mons
trous crowd which turnedout to see ''base
\ bali: by' electric light" staged Saturday
nights III the Association park by the New
Ulm Athletics and the All Nations. And
it tickfed the fans: that the, local boys soon
became accustomed to the unusual con-
ditionna and managed TO bag at least one
game Of the three game series played
against the All Nations Saturday and
Sunday, the final reckoning being 10 to
II in.fayor of the home crowd.
Indoor baseballs were used and indoor
baseball rules governed the play. A new
diamond was laid out with smaller dimen7
sions, which tended to produce closer,
plays at first base and brot forth some
exceptionally rapid foot work on the
paths. In indoor baseball ten men play
on each side, there being both a right and
left short fielder. The playing rules
differ in few minor points from the
regulation outdoor game, but both the
fans and the players soon mastered the
essential differences and thoroly enjoyed
the sport. 7'.. "
The largest crowd seen at ball game
i in New Ulm for many moons entered
into the spirit OF the occasion and cheered
and applauded vociferously at every
opportunity. The play was exceptional
ly fast, there was plenty Of snappy field
ing and sensational catches, numerous
opportunities to laugh at ludicrous in
cidents, and clouting enuf to satisfy the
most 1rabid fans. The huge sphere often
squirmed and twisted out of the hands
of the felders to the keen disappoint-
ment OF the particular fielder involved,
provoking plenty Of mirth and enjoy
mentS in the stands.
A complete record Of every play was
not kept as the game was 50 fast that it
would have taken at least dozen
scorers to get every play correct. But
errors were numerous, s,me of them
excusable and Others atrocious. How
ever, the crowd did not mind and
both teams made about the same number
of misplays no particular harm was done.
When it scomes to hitting, let it suffice
to say that enuf singles and twobaggers
were made to fatten the batting averages
of many an ambitious athlete, if they
could be entered in the records. Two
bases was the limit of all hits according
to the ground rules established, other
wise there would have been several
threebaggers and a couple of 'heimlaufs."
William Hodgins began the twirling
for the Athletics during the first three
innings and as 'Bill'' did not have base
ball uniform on he could not do himself
justice. Sheldon did the catching during
these innings and when the All Nations
scored eight runs off Hodgin's delivery
the committee on strategy held meeting
and decided to reverse the battery. The
move flustered the enemy and they
could only obtain three more runs in the
remaining six innings.
Dunbar and Blatnier comprised the
battery for the All Nations and while
they held the Athletics fairly we'll in the
early innings the local bunch kept
plugging away and finally won out in the
last two innings. 1t was a new .ex-
perience for most of the New Ulm
players but after they became accustomed
to the bah and the lights they took to the
game like gang Of pickaninnies to a
watermelon patch on moonlight night
in Aiabam' and hi" the ball to all corners
of the field.
A walk, an error, hit and a felder's
choice gave the All Nations three scores
in the first inning, but the Athletics tied
it Vi. in their half Of the round on bunch
OF c1outs. Seymour rang up another
MARKER for the visitors in the second and
an Avalanche 81, hits and errors gave
them four more in the third frame.
Sheldon then went into the box and
allowed the All Nations single score in
each 81 the fifth, seventh and eighth
innings, bringing their total up to eleven.
The An Nations had such big lead
that it looked as il they would run away
from the home boys, but the Athletics
were not one whit discouraged. They
1 managed to punch the plate once in four
successive innings the third, fourth,
fifth and sixth, and grand batting rally
IN the !aeky ssys1th I gave ave then them four
II to 10. Blatnier then counted one for
the An Nations In the first Of the eighth,