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.
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