Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1920-09-13
THE WORLD AGAINST
OTTAWA OTTAWA
Wins JUST THE SAME.
THAT GAME WITH AURORA YES
TERDAY BRINGS OUT SOME
FANCY UMPIRlNG AND SOME
FANCY WORK FROM LOYAL"
STREATORiTES THREE OF
WHOSE MEN ARE ON OTTAWA
PAY ROLL.

Manager "Dinny" Dunns fighting
baseball nine are undsputed down
state champions. This was decided
yesterday afternoon when Aurora
and the local team engaged in
battle at the Streator fair grounds,
the final score being nine to eli ght,
in favor of Dunn's men The game. al.
though Il very poor one, decided the
championship. Aurora has been de
feated by Morris twice out OF three
times. Ottawa broke even with the
team up the Fox, while Morris has
suffered two defeats from Ottawa.
That is enough to hand Dunn's team
the championship so far. IeSter-
days game was a close one all the
way through. first one team would
take the lead and then the other
would pop into first position.
In the first inning the Aurora team
succeeded in scoring run, but OF
tawa made up for that in the second
when it Tailed three scores Then
came the fourth inning, when Fit2-
patrick pulled a bad decision. The
aggregation from up the Fox only
made two hits in that inning. but
scored five runs, Umpire Fitzpatrick
did not give Dunn's men a chance on
decisions and the vitriolc attacks
from the bleachers was result, AT
ter the game, many Of the local fans
made statements to the effect that
they would not attend any more games
If Fitz was behind the bat.
In spite of the bad umpiring Otta-
wa Went right out in the same inning
that Aurora grouped theirs and grab
bed off four, taking the lead again by
one score. Then in the fifth inning,
Aurora got lucky again and picked
off two more ringers. This put them
in the lead again, From there on
Heath held the enemy at bay and did
not allow them to score another, while
the locals tailed two in the eighth
which put them in the lead for The
last time and won the game,
Along with Fits umpiring the
game was a very poor one, although
crowd OF approximately between
800 and 1000 witnessed it, George
Lefty Pierce did not pitch for Au-
rora Pierce had a sore arm and was
unable to oppose Heath, otherwise it
would probably have been a good
game ROhn. started the game for
Aurora, but dispersed himself at the
end of the fourth inning after Dunn's
gang had walloped him for four pref
ty hits and scored four runs Enger.
one Of their first string hurers. then
toed the mound, but as a pitcher he
would have made a good blind man.
When he famed out Spencer Heath,
Ottawa's stellar hurler, in the sew
enth inning, he was kept busy picking
up quarters. dimes and niCkcls which
were tossed to him by Streator and
Aurora fans The Ottawa gang at
first thought he was a cripple or deaf
and blind, but they could not see the
tin cup or the grind organ, so We're
finally convinced that he was phys
ically all right.
Rohn during his time at the mound,
allowed eight hits, struck out two and
walked three men. Enger, the pitch
er who substituted for him, did a lit
tie better during the five innings he
pitched He allowed five hits to be
made. struck out three men and walk
ed two, In all Ottawa's heavics got
thirteen hits off both pitchers
Heath pitched a good game He al
lowed ten hits, nine of which were
pretty lucky. struck out seven and
the game he kept his head and played
"A very good game of ball At times
he had fairly good support and at
other stages OF the game he was
forced to play it alone.
Five hundred from Ottawa saw the
contest, while the rest were from Au-
rora, StreatOr and nearby cities. only /
the fans from Ottawa We're for Dunn's /
men, while those from Streator along
with Aurora and others were pulling
hard for the team up the river, PEG
pie who witnessed the game from
Streator rooted for all their life for
the Aurora gang, but they could not
keep a good team down Ottawa.
with practically two.thirds of the
crowd against them, and Fitzpatrick's
muffs doing all they could to beat
them, was up against IT and had hard
shedding Several "slckers" from
the sod near Streator, thought they
had Heath ratified but Spence man
aged to keep his head and was not
bothered by the foolish statements
made by the seeds
Another thing that would probably
have changed the game bit was that
the biggest hit that could be made
was a two'hagger Because Of the
crowd which gathered all around the
diamond, part Of which was strung
in the outfieid. Fitzpatrick announced
that only two bases would be al.
lowed when the ball was knocked
in the crowd, but he did not play
ialr on the agreement. anyway he
didn't with the local team Probably /
II Il hadn't been for such a rule. .
Aurora would have gotten an awful