Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-07-05
FORT HOLDS THE FORT"
First and Tenth Inning Batting
Rallies Win Game for the
Fort.

Last Sunday was an ideal hot day
for a ball game and a good sized
crowd of fans were in attendance.
Continued long range hitting by
the climbing Fort Atkinson team
brought them another victory over
DEBORAH last Sunday at the fair
grounds, and permitted the boys
from the Fort to nose their way to a
tie for second place in the race for
the Little Four League pennant, but
it took them 10 innings to turn the
trick.
Fort Atkinson secured three runs
IL the first inning, but they should
not of had tally. Doubek hit a fly
ball to Weiser for an out, knight hit
to Marsh who threw a trifie wild,
but if Larson had held the ball he
could have easily got his man and we
would have shut them out in this
inning, but as it was it gave knight
a base; Bevins tie next man up hit 3
fly ball to Rima for an out, this
made 2 outs. Budke then came up
and drove the ball into deep Left for
a homer, bringing in Knight; Capp
got single and stole second; Sulli-
van came up and drove in Capp and
took second; kovarik hit foul ly to
Losen which retired the side. This
terrible first inning is what lost the
game, as Fort Atkinson only got one
run from then on until the tenth
when they again succeeded in adding
three more tallies to their count.
Shelley was up first in the tenth and
got a two base hit; Meyer followed
and struck out; Doubek got walk;
Knight hit slow one to Orr advanc.
ling Shelley and Doubek but he was
thrown out at first; Bevins came up
and nit fly ball to right which
brought Shelley and Doubek and
Bevins home, but the reason Bevlns
scored on this hit is because the
grass is so high out in right field that
when the ball is hit out there you
might as we'll look for a needle in a
| hay stack, and this is why Bevias
got a home run bringing in two
scores on hit that would have only
| been good for two bases had the grass
been cut down the way any real
diamond ought to be. Wont some
one get busy and cut it,"
DEBORAH got two TALES In the
! fifth and two in the eighth, which
tied up the score.
| In the fifth Bernatz was up first
and got a walk and stole second,
Marsh was up next and struck out;
Orr followed Marsh and struck out;
Larson hit grounder to third which
the third baseman fumbled allowing
Bernatz to take third and giving
Larson base. Larson then stole
second. Weiser came up and got
nice clean hit scoring Bernatz aud
Larson and took second. Weiser stole
third. Rima followed Weiser and got
J a walk. DOtseth hit grounder TO
| third for an out at first, retiring the
side: this left the score to in
Forts favor.
In Decorahs half of the eighth
Rima was up first and hit slow
grounder to kovarik for an out al
first, Dotseth was up next and hit a
grounder to third who threw to first
but Capp fumbled the ball giving
Dotseth life. Losen followed with
a walk; Riggs followed Losen with
walk. This made the bases full
with only one out. Then his honor
the pitcher (kovarik) gave Bernatz
a walk forcing Dotseth home, but at
this time with the score to in
Fort Atkinson's favor and DEBORAH
having men on base and only one
out, il started 10 rain, and for a
Though
wouldn't be able to finish the game,
and we sure felt discouraged, as 1t
looked very much like DEBORAH would
win in this inning, but after few
minutes the shower let up and the
fight was on again in all its fury
Marsh followed Bernatz and hit fly
to center for an out. Kovarik then
threw wild to Sully letting Losen
score, making the count 4 all. VIVA
len was put in as pinch hitter in
ILarson's place and struck out, thus
our chances were sewed up in the
eighth.
In the tenth Losen hit fly to left
for an out; Riggs was up next and
got a single and was advanced to
second by Bernatz's hit; Ryggs then
stole third and BernatZ took second;
Marsh struck out and Orr was given
a base on balls; Whalen was then
up and for a moment we thought
things might be evened up again as
there was three men on bases and
out, but Whalen struck out which
ended the fight, giving the game to
Fort by the score of to 4. Following
is the box score and summary of the