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ILY TIMES TUESDAY. SEDISMAL WOKK.The Local Ball Olub Plays Like SchoolBoys and Presents a Game toClinton.('81yhhticihT!The “Highwaymen” of (Minton crossed blits with the Dubuque ball club Sunday afternoon, Ix'foro an audience of fully four thousand people. Thcv day was all I j, that could have been deni red for out door sports and the Dtilmq ues hact a splendid j opportunity to make good their assertionthat they had l)een “robbed” out of aI game at Clinton by defeating the visitors,but they ingloriously failed to redeemj themselves and the highwaymen added an-I other victory to their score. rlhe audience was of such vast proportions that it should have in spired the Dubuque dub,! as a whole, to have played ball but the effect was otherwise and two or three ofI; the players played in a very decayed man-i tier. They would not do what Manager : Lux wanted them to do and disappointed | the grand audiefiee and the public gener j ally who have fx*en giving them such liberal support during the summer. Du-! buque should have taken the game; in | fact they had it won in the fourth inning,| in which they made six runs, making J the score seven to three in their favor, but errors by Crawford and Jess allowed the vistore to make four runs in the first I half of the sixth and from that on the I home team failed to score. Lee played a | very good game as short stop, having only | one error credited to him. All the nine | except Graham made an error, but the! errors by Crawford were the most costlyin the way of •run getting; and subsequently, when Crawford came up and said something to occupants of the grand stand, it did not help his case any. He explained that he had missed the flies sent out to him in center field lx*eause the sunwas in his eyes, but the same excuse did not hold good in the case of the Clinton center fielder. Jess struck out as though he had no grudge* at all against the ball. With the exception of Keas, Graham Jess, Miller and Taylor the Dubuques appeared to lx» unable to bat- the ball out of the diamond. Many left liefore the game was over. Any club is liable to lx» defeated, but when a game is lost through inexcus Iable errors, the public have a right to pro- ; test—especially a public that has given ; such good support to a club as that given A by the Dubuque public to the Dubuque j club. IGraham played a very g«xxl game and was given deserved applause bv the audi encc. The little fellow was struck by tin* ball in the throat and came very near be ing knocked out, but he pluekily re mained at his jxjst amid cheers from the audience. MtxaciT«0iitl01HtSlt;hwixaiai11:wCl lt;BufibiTsiol(*1olscIII
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Dubuque Times
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Tue, Sep 18, 1894
Page 8
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Austin P.
MN, USA 03 Aug 2018
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