The Waterloo Times
Friday, April 23, 1915

Base Ball Babble

The Season is Inaugurated in Waterloo – W. H. S. Loses

The Waterloo High School base ball team and the Belleville High School team engaged 
in a 10 act farce comedy Saturday on the Mentel grounds.  One team tried to outdo the 
other in the misplays and hard swatting, and the game was not decided until the tenth 
inning.  Both pitchers were swatted at all corners of the lot, and after the dust had 
subsided in the final frame the count stood 14 to 11 in Belleville’s favor.  Our boys did 
well, considering it was their first game of the season.

The West Ends and the Bloody Nine, two rival teams of this city, engaged in the first 
game of the series Sunday.  Steve Pautler, the manager of the Bloody Nine, was absent 
and the entire team did not have their usual pep.  Three pitchers could not stampede the 
swatfest, which the West Ends let loose.  Twenty-five this in all were garnered by the, 
some being of the extra-base variety.  At the end of the bombardment the score stood 
23 to 7 in West Ends favor.  Marcellus Hartmann pitched for the West Ends and struck 
out 15 batsmen.  Clemens Reinhold was the hitting star of the game, getting a triple, 2 
doubles and 2 singles in 7 times at bat.  The second game of the series will be staged in 
the near future.