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UNSHAVEN HITBALLHARDINSEVENTH TO WINStephens, Dubuque PitchesHurls Great Ball Whilethe MoundA wrong font, typographical!! speaking, mixed in the regular a disrupted a perfectly smooth-ope ing machine Saturday afternoon a as the result Dubuque dropped t first exhibition game of the seas to the Canadian House of Dari The score was 7 to 6, Sounds closbut it should not have been an:where near that. *Johnny Stephens started the pitch| ing for Dubuque and hurled mastoi#ful ball for six innings, holding tlH| unshaven to four hits and one rufl| In camp there is a young fellow young 50 years ago—who begged have a chance. Manager Roper sen him in and he started gummingthe works on the first ball pitchHe filled the bases and before ToSims could get warmed up five ru I j had crossed the rubber. In th eighth on a couple of hits and a error, the Bearded men scored twinning run.The locals threatened to do muIaharm in the ninth frame. A batte of pinch bitters were sent in. On# got a base on balls and two wer# erased on fielder’s choices. Croai then shot a long triple to deep rightcenter to score Rojan. Palkadid his best to bring him In, but hfil long fly ball was taken off the fence. Even in defeat the Dubuquers did not look so bad. They hit the ball well and hard and ran the bags ixt big league fashion. Periodically the i fielding was somewhat erratic. In -1 order to give the boys a chance t# t get in the ball game. Manager R* t per used eighteen men.The leaguers looked at a prettf fair left-handed pitcher in “Lefty.* While he did not display auf amount of stuff on the ball, he badrAexcellent control and seemed t#pitch his best when In a bad way.The Dubuque baseball team wiB clash with the ex-leaguers at th# baseball park Sunday afternoon. Th# general admission ^111 be twenty-flv# cents, with a charge of fifteen cenfp ** ,for the bleachers. The game will be called at 3 o’clock.o
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Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Sun, May 01, 1932
Page 21
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Michael W.
NA, 21 Jan 2023
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