River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-05-21

LdSl fr1udy 5 game mere IWeeu
the Normal and st. Thomas col
lege was a record breaking one in
many particulars. In the first
place it was the longest game ever
played in this city. And it was
also the c%leverest game. There
was not a moment throughout
the whole struggle that was not
intensely exciting. 1t was "any-
body's game" from start to finish,
and every player On both teams
was striving hard, all of the time,
to win. 1t was the kind of play
ing which makes baseball's pop
ularity lasting.
Even on professional league dia-
monds one soldem sees a finer
pitchers duel than that staged by
Weideman and La Bessionere. But
both were saved from defeat time
after time by the clever and
speedy fielding of their team
mates.
st. Thomas scored first, getting
two runs in the second round.
Cornwall singled. Gallogly was hit
by a pitched ball. Kennedy hit
safe and kicked the ball, but was
not called out. and the bases were
full. Wiedeman famed Doentin
and Sylvester smOthered Malone's
liner, but LaBessionere singled past
third base and two scores came
in. Hannah was an easy out.
Wiedeman to Clemens.
Normal didn't get a man to
second base until the sixth mn
ing, owing to the splendid field
ing of the Saints and the excel
lent pitching of LaBessionere. The
Peds hit the ball, only two strik-
ing out in the five innings, but
they couldn't hit safe. In the six
tin Doentin muffed Nelson's fly and
Reed advanced the catcher to
third with a single. Nelson scored
when Bohen booted Keith's fast
grounder. Normal tied the cor
in the eighth. Nelson hit for two
bases, and scored on Keith's sin
gle to right field.
From the second inning the
Saints were totally unable to solve
Wiedeman's delivery. They did
Mt hit safe until the ninth. In
the third, fourth and fifth he
struck out five consecutive batters,
Gallogly, last to bat in the third;
Kennedy, DOntin and Malone, his
three victims in the fourth, and
LaBessionere, first up in the fifth.
In the tenth the Saints scored
without a hit. LaBessionere got
a life on Keith's error, stole sec
ond, went third on a wild pitch,
and scored on Bohen's sacrifice
fly. Normal evened up the o
in this inning by clever stick work.
Wiedeman worked his rival for
a pass. Sylvester hunted a sac
rifice, Les. going to second. Mel
son sacrificed him to third and
Reed saved the game by placing
a hot line drive %squarely over sec
ond. In the eleventh both sides
went out in one, two, three order.
In the twelfth Clemens hit safe,
but the next three were cay outs.
Wiedeman struck out the first
two in this inning and Race caught
out the last. Not a ball touched
the ground during st. Thomas
turn at bat in the fifteenth, the
first three up batting fly hiCs to
the outfielders. Two Saints got
on bases in the sixteenth, but the
needed hit was not forthcoming,
Wiedeman closing the round by
striking out Dontin for the fourth
time during the game. The first
two Peds. were out in order and
the game ended when Dopkins,
substituted for Clemens, went to
bat and was called out for not
giving notification of the change
in lineup.
The game, starting at 1880, was
called at 7:15.
The lineup:
RIVER FALLS ST. THOMAS
Sylvester-2 Hannan-S
III. Nelson-c Bohen-ss
Reed-cf Culligan-cf
Keith-3 Conway-2
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