Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1921-06-29
.DDYYEERRSVILLE TIGERS
WIN $3.50 GAME
5000 FANS WITNESS HOTLY CON.
TESTED GAME ON FAIR
GROUND THURSDAY
EARLVLLE LOSES ON ERRORS
Sam Teams win Play On Fair Grounds
In Manchester Fourth of July
Afternoon.
(Dyersville Commercial "Extra'o

| (DyerSv1lle Commercial EXtra)
Before crowd of 5000 excited
bowling, blue blooded fans, at the
| Manchester Fair Grounds Park, Thurs
day afternoon, Manager Schlitchte's
Dyersville Tigers, defeated the Earl
vile Base Ball Team, in the $3.50
challenge game by a score of 8 to 5.
The crowd formed a wall around
the diamond and field, and the grand
stand was filled to overflowing. Del
aware county was represented from
the border of the DEVILS Back Bone to
Bill Beel's black bass rendezvous
south OF Hopkinton, and all took a
hand at roofing. Earlville declared a.
half holiday and everybody went to
the ball game. They were there one
hundred per cent, band and all, and
the stage was all set to get the mon
ey and put on a big celebration. Dy-
ersville was there with ball team and
good bunch Of rooters.
1t was the one big event in the
bush sportdom, one that will long be
remembered and talked about when
the youngsters gather about in years
to come.
Outside of the big guaranteed gate
receipts, it is said there was but lit
tie money made up. The teams were
thought to be quite evenly matched
and 1t was figured the victory would
depend on the breaks, however, Dy-
ersville proved to have the edge on
Earlville from the start, and practic-
ally took the confidence out OF their
opponents in the first chapter when
~, axy uopnopad fn,tr Snnrac Tho roOt-
ing squads were lined up on both
sides of the field, Earlville off first
and Dyersville off third and the big
noised swayed from one side to the
other, as any advantage to ether team
was gained.
The Tigers hit the ball from the
start. Ferring, first man up drove a
high one out to Scheels. Pettinger
singled, Hall drew free ticket and
Friedman with two-bagger cleaned
the bases, Jaeger sacrificed, and
Koelker drove high one over CEN
ter for home run. netting the two
additional scores. Hall scored in the
third inning, getting one with walk
and scored on an error at third, on a
return throw on Frednlan's single
In the fifth Hall led with a fine two
sacker. Friedman singled scoring
Hall and he scored on a sacrifice by
Henkels. The other two scores came
in the eighth. One was a home run
by Freymann and the other was reg
istered by VonAh, who singled. and
scored on Pettinger's drive. Pettinger
being thrown out.
Earlville registered the first score
in the second. Cary led with long
drive for three bases and he scored
over drive by Sawyer. The later was
safe on an error In the third Splin-
ter singled and LaxOn was safe on a
preference, Splinter being thrown out
at second. A two base hit by Hit
temiller scored Laxon, the only run
this session. In the fifth Laxson led
with two bagger, Hittemiller was
safe on an error, Laxson rounding the
circuit Hittemiller scored on the
single by Sawyer. Reeder was thrown
out at first and Scheels struck out.
Snyder scored in the si1th drawing
pass on Flick's single.
Lefty" Vonah made up his mind to
end the program for Earlville from
then on and only one extra man faced