Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-05-23
JIMMY AND MATES
HAVE THEIR OFF DAY
AGAINST DARK BOYS
LYNCH. ROTH EFT AL ENCOUN tx
BIG JiNx IN COMBAT WITH uN'
ION GRANTS AND LOSE 8 TO 3
BY OWN PLAYING.

Two thousand baseball fans. from
all over the county, passed through
the turnstiles yesterday afternoon ana
ahmed into the amphttheator at IN
North Side lot, to catch Ottawa on IlS
first "of day" and TO witness the Irst
defeat of the Ottawa Cubs when koO.
ert Gilkerson' Chicago Union Giants
team showing itself as third caIlorf
carried the game away in basket by
a final count of S 10 3, Inc game
was not a high Calibered offering al
certain stages and the fact that the
locals. who are capable OF taking on
any of the best scmi.prO teams IN the
country. and beat them, lost To the
colored boys is surely no bIomlsl' on
the climbs record When It comes
down to bare facts. the negroes dla
not score one earned run. IheH
counts we're practically forced upon
them
The Giants were credited with hay.
ing gotten nine hits off Lynch about
fvo OF which should not have been.
They were nothing short OF DuntS ana
resulted in measly inHeld pop up
which they We're lucky enouCh to peat
out at the first milestone on each oc.
uasion. As a whole the Colored band
offered an unsatisfactory brand OF
hall and should never have won the
affair. They were weak httters, just
fairly good at fielding, and ordinarily
would not have been capable Of beat
ing a high school team Jackson.
their pitcher. is mighty lucky that he
has Job. He has little more pitching
ability than Crusoe's man Friday did,
and his victory will not help his rec.
ord any. In the first inning he was
slammed for a double and three base
hit. walked one man and only struck
out one In the second hit he was
slammed again in the next frame for
three clean single base ball hits ana
walked one man.
The fact is il was Ottawa. on day
Previous to Yesterdays game they
had been playing star base ball and
won the first three games OF the sea
son Every team has an Oft day an,
the locals came Yesterday against
very weak team, whose victory owe
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