Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-19
Alva's Mines Badly Defeated.

AItas Mines baQly DeIeated.
Skinned like fish, that was the
common expression of the evening on
the streets. Alva came up Friday
evening with two nines-the first and
the secondhand really expected to de-
feat both our mines.
The forenoon of Saturday was given
to the second mines and was played in
league time, continuing one hour and
forty-five minutes. The first inning
served to take the conceit out of the
Aiva juniors and seemingly foretold
the fate of the senior ballists of the
Windy Wonder. The special features
OF this game were the playing of Sew
ard Field behind the bat and Harry
Burney In the field. Alva did some
very good playing after the second in
ming and would have come out victor
Ious had it not been for the enormous
score made by Medicine Lodge in the
first two innings. Our boys were shut
out six consecutive innings without a
score during which Alva gained 9 tai
lies. 1t required the last half of the
ninth inning to decide the contest. At
the close of the first half OF the last IN
ming the score stood 16 to Is in Alva's
favor. Now was the time for our boys
to put forth their best effort. A short
time demonstrated the result of the
game andAlva's young heroes succumb-
ed gracefully to their fate. The game
was umpired by Geo. Axllne and local
Oil Johnnie" the former of this place
and the latter from Alva. The score
of the game is found below.
a Medicine Lodge: 70 g s s-1s
FIRST MINES MEET.
In this game there WAS more than
usual interest and enthusiasm mani
tested. 1t was currently reported that
the Oklahoma team had the advantage
OF the Medicine Lodge InvIncibles by
great odds. both at the bat and in the
field but a few innings substantially
established the fallacy of such a state
ment. In the first few innings the
Alva sports led by few tallies but
Medicine Lodge soon got down to bust
ness and the Shippers fell an easy prey
to their victims. In this game Alva
was shut out times without scoring,
and Medicine Lodge twice. Axline and
Sloan formed the battery for Medicine
Lodge in the first half of the game and
Ellis and Fleming in the last half.
Alva's battery was composed of Kelley
and Lamb, pitchers, and Hicks, catcher.
Kelley did some remarkably good
pitching the first three innings but
broke down and Lamb was put into
the box until the last two innings when
Kelley again tried his skill but with
out great avail. AXline and Ellis
pitched with their usual force and vim
and to them, of course, is traceable AL
vas weak batting. Only a few base hits
were made by Alva, nearly all the runs
having been made on errors. Flem-
ing pitched the first half of the ninth
| without giving the batters a base hit.
The Lamb boys and Kelley of the Alva
nine, did some very good playing, In
fact all OF the players. barring a few
plumbers and errors, played well. The
game was the best by far that has been
played on the diamond here so far and
shows that the western coyotes are ball
payers capable of building up a reputa-
ton. AT the close of the first half of
the ninth inning the score stood II to
10 in favor of the home team. The
score is given in full below.
| Medicine Lodge. 4 5 0 *-1g
| AlYa.- 0 0 o ) al
When the game closed and the re-
suit made known the Alva boys con-
gregated on the field of battle and gave
three rousing cheers for Medicine
Lodge after which they wendell their
way towards the hotel, receiving the
information repeatedly at different in
tervals that they could play with Kio-
wa but had better practice ''some more''
before tackling our bitter Medicine.
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