The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-06-03
Beaver 30; Liberal 0G.


At Liberal on Monday of this week
occurred the hardest fought game of
base ball played in these parts in late
years. The day was a miserable one, the
wind blowing perfect gale from the
south, being in favor of the batters and
against the pitchers. Had 1t not been
for the wind the score could probably
have been expressed with one figure for
each side. A good crowd was in attend
ance. Judge Etzold, of Liberal, UNI
pired the game and gave entire satisfact-
ion. Beaver went to bat first, and scored
one run on hits by Reas and Franz
Drummond, Liberal was in no hurry to
score, and neglected to even send man
TO first base. In the second inning Bea-
yer added three runs on hits by Arthur
Thomas, Flagle and Black Liberal again
drew:a blank In the third Beaver found
another run, and Liberal woke mp and
scored two runs on single
by Vessels and home run by Lane.
From this On to the end efthe game base
hits and runs were more frequent, and it
was anybody's game until the last man
was out. In the eighth Beaver fell down
and let in eight runs. Liberal PLAYED
much the better game in the in and out
field, but the husky sand hill lads laid il
over them in the matter of batting.
When Liberals last man was cut off at
first, great cheer went up Qt was not
the first cheer, thought and out of the
crowd came Miss Myra McDermott, who,
on behalf Of the Liberal bell club aud
citizens, presented to the captain of the
winning nine new bat and Spalding
league ball, as trophies. To the bat was
attached ribbon, a piece of Grape for
the vanquished ones, and card on
which was the following:
To THE BEAVER NINE.
Had the Liberal nine won this prize TO day,
Our speech would have been hummer;
ou. eur now OF rhetoric fails to gush,
For the rival nine, a winner.
So congratulations we sparingly give,
Your praises we cannot sing;
But you re welcome to the ball and bat
Just take the ''darned old thing
1t was the unanimous opinion of the
Beaverites that Liberal was flush ON
poets, anyway, if they-welll The |
casualties of the game, as far as we
could learn, were af follows:
Liberal-Keating. crippled in one leg;
Rhincss, hit in breast by pitched ball;
Thornberg. hit in side by pitched ball,
Beayer-Will Thomas, leg hurt; Cooper,
hit twice by pitched ball; Overton, hit
numerously by pitched balls; Pete
Drummond, toe split foot wren cAed and |
finger knocked out of place.
Following is the score by innings:
Iibernl-O A l 3 8 4-26 |
Beaver 3 0 4 8 7-29
Never was q town more appropriately
named than Liberal. The keys of the
town were handed to the boys from Bea.
yer, and the people of Liberal, especially
the ladies, did all in their power to make
The visit pleasant one. Landlord Nc
Dermott has the thanks of the visitors
Tor courtesiss extended.
Liberal has two ball clubs; the regu>
ars. or Lily Whites" and the scrubs or
AAAAs. After the smoke had cleared
ip after the first game the latter club ia
lmated that they would like to have
Vhack at the visitors, and game was
accordingly arranged for Tuesday
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zone home, but substitutes were on
land, and the game commenced with
he wind still blowing gale. There
vas plain understanding (among the
Four As') that Beavers pitcher was
o play some other position than in the
'o1. He played second base IN the first
ming. but when he stopped at the
plate in the second there arose
mighty and unexpected roar from the
FOUR AS. who said put him outl
hats not fair" etc. They re-
snted, though. and did not put
i'm out this time. but gathered around
he plate and pounded the ball to the
nne of goose egg. A crippled short
top pitched for Beaver in the third. but
a the fourth, wh.n positions were
hanged again. the Four AS, supported
y the audience, rose as man and re-
used 10 play that way. Beaver yielded.
nd tremendous sluggisg match took
lace until the end of the game, the
our AS winning out by a margin of one
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