Saturday, July 4, 2020

Jefferson County's Pastime


Baseball, Oskaloosa vs. Ozawkie

From the Oskaloosa Times, June 13, 1902

Last Tuesday, before a good-sized crowd, the Oskaloosa first nine defeated the Ozawkie ball club by a score of 3 to 1. It was a great game, both sides playing fast ball and but few errors were made. The battery work of Conant and Davis for Oskaloosa was excellent and Root pitched a good game for Ozawkie. Conant struck out 12 men and Root 7. Oskaloosa scored 2 tallies in the 2nd inning and 1 in the 6th. Ozawkie’s tally was made in the 3rd inning, but according to the rules which were looked up afterwards this tally should not have counted. In the last half of the 9th inning it appeared as if Ozawkie would score several more runs, but effective work by Conant, Mains and Dick prevented it. Three men were on bases and only one out, a fly was knocked out into right field but it fell into Irl Mains mitt and stuck there. The next batter knocked a beauty out into left field and it dropped into Homer Dick’s basket and nestled there. The Ozawkie nine was strengthened by Geo. Chapman, former shortstop for the Oskaloosa club, while the home team had Ernest Thompson, a new player on 1st, and he did good work. This game demonstrates the fact that Oskaloosa has a first-class ball team, and they deserve encouragement and better support than they have been receiving.

This story appeared in “Yesteryears” in October 1988.

No comments:

Post a Comment