Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-07-01
They Played Ball.
Deadwoxl and Hot Springs Play Two
Interesting Games.
FIRST GAME.

Hot Springs people have not taken
team this season. Most of our people
went out to the park Wednesday after
noon fully expecting to see Billy Traf-
tley's aggregation from Deadwood
fairly walIop the life out Of our boys.
But they didn't do it. For time it
looked as if the said aggregation of
reds were not in it. But they braced
up and by dint of hard playing, assist
ed by several old gold decisions on the
part Of the umpire, they succeeded in
pulling out the game. There is gen.
tleman from Deadwood, Mr.. Peters by
name, who labors under the painful
hallucination that he can umpire in
ball game. Perhaps he can but before
he makes so many saw decisions again
as he did Wednesday, it might he a
good plan for him to secure a full coat
of armor. He called strikes when
everybody knew they were only foul
tips, he couldn't tell a fair ball from
foul if it struck anywhere within a
block of the foul line; his vision was
much impaired when the fleet footed
players were circling around stealing
bases and more than half Of the strike
outs credited to the pitchers should be
marked down to Mr.. Peters credit. 1t
is only inst, to say that sometimes the
Deadwoods suffered from the rank de-
cisions but Hot Springs Jared worse.
The Deadwood boys are as nice and
gentlemanly lot Of ball players as
one could wish to find. Williams and
Bittinger was the battery for the home
team and did very effective work. Mr..
Williams was pretty wild at times and
seems to have too much speed for his
control of the ball, but little more
practice will no doubt overcome this.
The following is the result of Wednes-
days game by innings:
Rot5naa Hot Springs 222 ! Q 9 0oo 9 9 9 ? 2-7 Z
SECOND GAME.
Thursday afternoon the Deadwood
Nets realized that they had undertaken
a pretty good sized job and so they
started in for blood right from the
beginning. Hurley was in the box for
the visitors and did some pretty effect
i've work. striking out eleven men.
But in the ninth the Hot Springs boys
dropped onto his curves and batted out
three runs and the game. Aigen
pitched good. steady game for the
home team and was credited with seven
strike.outs. Traffley caught for the
Nets and Bittinger did like service
for the home team. Both filled their
places very effectively. A three base
hit wat scored Ly Austin in the first
inning, and later on Bittinger lined
out to deep center clean two bag
drive. In the fifth Hot Springs had
the bases full and only one man out.
1t looked as if they were going to win
the game right there. But young
Hurley then and there started in to
redeem himself. The next two men to
come 10 bat were struck out, and the
the three men died on their bases. In
the ninth inning Hot Springs scored
run, and once more filled the bases,
and only one man was out. Then
Moore came to bat. This gentleman
had already covered himself with glory
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center field. But he was reserved for
a greater feat. So he waited patiently
until Mr.. Hurley sent one of his drop
curves right over the plate. With
this curve Mr.. Moore's bat collided,
making sharp smack like young
fellow meeting his hest girl after an
absence of few weeks, and the game
was won. The grand stand trembled
and the bleachers went wild. Hot
ISprings scored three runs in the ninth
and Deadwood succeeded IN getting
but one. The umpire-well he was a
little yellow at times, but on the whole
Mr.. O'Lynn knows immensely more
about ball playing than did the gentle
man who lent such material assistance
to Deadwood in Wednesdays game
The score by innings:
Hot Springs, O2 1 o 20 O 3-S
Deadwood, O01O2 II
Making Them Squirm.