Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-08-20
THE TOURNAMENT.
Lead City Takes First Money-5orne
Very Exciting Games were
Witnessed.

Lead City Takes First Money-Soms
Very Exciting Games were
Witnessed.
The base ball tournament is over and
Custer people feel that for one week al
least, they have had sufficiency. If not
a surfeit, of the national game. For
several days previous to the tournament
a force of men was kept busy, cleaning
off and leveling up the diamond, and
the games commenced Wednesday
morning on the finest ground in the
Hills The teams from Lead and Hill
City came down on the o'clock train
Tuesday evening, and few hours later
the Hermosa aggregation drove in. The
Pine Knots from Pringle did not put in
an appearance, as they had agreed to.
Hill City and Hermos drew the game
for Wednesday morning, and it was
called at, 1890, b. r. Wood umpirias!
Hermosa was short three or four men,
and had to fill out with players from
the End nine Of Custer. II took two
hours to play FIVE innings, and at 1890,
at the end of the fifth. the game was
terminated, and by mutual consent
awarded to Hill town, the score being
28 to z. Hermosa's team was but Ie-
Gently organized, and the fact that the
boys here had but little practice, ac-
counts for the walk away which the OPP
posing nine had. Little interest vas
felt in this game, and the attendance
was very small.
CUSTER VS. LEAD.
While it can hardly be said to have
been close one. the game between the
teams Of Custer and Lead, Wednesday
afternoon, was certainly interesting and
exciting. The game was called at 8
o'clock with the following named play
ers in their respective positions
Custer-Ross, C; Grsntham, p; Walsh,
l b; Chandler, 2 b; Willis, b; Long
s. g.; Johns, |. f.; Frink, C. e.. Fisher,
r.f
Lead City-Hamilton, c.; Charlton, p.;
Garretson, b.; Mullen, 2 b.; Eberhart,
3 b.; Moran, S. s.; Leggit, |. f., Marshall.
C. f.; Quinan, r.f
Romeo Marshall of Lead, umpired
the game, and his decisions gave entire
satisfaction to players and audience.
Lead won the toss and took the field.
In the first Custer scored once on a
single by Frink and a three bagger by
Johns, the latter dying on third. Lead
got goose egg. Custer scored again in
the second, AMI the visitors put three
men across the plate in their half Of the
same. Not one safe hit was made, but
two bases en- balls, and a couple of er
rors did the work. In the third each
side drew blank, and Clusters allot-
ment was of the same value in the ext
four. The visitors, however, sawed
wood industriously, and in the fourth,
sixth and eighth scored eleven times.
In their half Of the eigntn our boys
braced up again and pounded out four
runs, renewing interest in the contest,
but were blanked again in the ninth,
and the game was lost to them. Gran
than pitched six innings, and did good
work, striking out seven men, and max
ing splendid catch of a hot liner. In
the seventh he was relieved by Long
who occupied the box until the game
was over. 1t was not thought at any
time that the home team could go
against an aggregation like the Lead
Ravens with any show of defeating
them, and the good game of ball put up
by the Custer boys was gratifying to all
who witnessed it. They made their OPP
ponents play ball from start to finish,
and the latter had no cinch on the game
at any time while it was in progress.
Charlton, the pitcher for the Ravens
was hit hard and often, but he scattered
them out, and kept his head all through
the game.
Score by Innings. I 3 8 67sS
Custer. ..........1 1 o. g
Lead. .............0 3 o O D Ola