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LOST BY ERRORS.Dubuque Defeated by Detroit Yesterdayin an Interesting Game—BaDk Errors Did the Work.WhilePears Was Easy—Notes onthe Game.One of the features of the game yesterday between the Dubuques atd the Detroits, of the Western league, and which met the hearty sppioyal of the twelve hundrrd spectators, was the takiog of Crawford off second base after the fatal sixth inning and send* log him Into the field. If the change bad been made at the end of the fifth inning the score might have been very different and In Dubuque’s favor by 5 to 4.The large crowd did not go oat ex*pecting fosee the home team wins butrather to see Glenalvin and bis aggre* gation of stars. But the crowd wasmost agreeably ditan inted in the game and would have cheered the boys to victory bat for the rank errors they made It was Dubuque's game and we should have had it. The battery work of Miller and Graham was so far ahead of that of the Detroits that comparison Is unnecessary. It was just such playing as was witnessed y»s terday that lost the Dubuques la*tbucday’s gime and we would suggestthat if aonie of the locals haven’t the strength themselves they should InterviewDings and each *time failed to reach first base.Now for Clinton, the crack team of the state. Jess and Dee will be the battery Saturday, Beal and Graham on Sunday and Miller and Graham onLabor Day. We must have two out of the three at least.WhereiFrom the Cleveland Plain Dealer.The “General” tells, with swelling pride, How the fires of battle gleamed —Of the slaughter of men “on the other side,^ As the shell add shrapnel screamed;How ‘we charged the foe like a mighty wave Of a wild and stormy sea,”But, in that rush of the true and brave*The Private—where was he?The “Colonel” boasts how his horse fell On Georgia’s blood-stained hills;How he stemmed the wave of that battle hell, Avenging his country’s ills;How the ghastly heaps of gallant slain Bestrewed the slippery ground—But we study the tragic tail in vain,There were no Privates ’round.Ob, the “Major’s” sword, it was red with gcre!And great was the foe’s alarm,As they charged, halted, and Med before The swing of his mighty arm;But Freedom burnish'd her epaulettes,As she swatted the hosts of sin —And the lonely peusioner still forgets That the privates were not in.How brave they flew, at their country’s call,To the outposts, fariu front!“Generals,” “Colonels,” “Majors” all To strive in the battle brunt;And the ‘‘Captains stand, ten thousand strong, To tell how the thing was done—But where was the *• Pri vate” in that throng? Alas, there was not one!MYSTERY DEEPENS.The Corn Beef Eaten by the PeoplePoisoned at Derby GrangeAnalyzed Yesterdayi(-!
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Dubuque Times
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Thu, Aug 30, 1894
Page 5
Full Page
Clipped by
Austin P.
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