Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-08-28
Tho Baseball Games.

yCoOoCudy dAboIuOOu., 1a6 d 6OrC or an
appetizer for what was to come later
in the day q game between the Fort
Halleck nine and the Elko Juniors
was arrange for the forenoon. The
Elko boys went to the bat, but we're
coon sent to the field by the brawny
farmer boys. The game was interest
ing throughout the seven innings.
Although the Fort Halleck boys saw
they were, no match for the Elko
boys, they kept pluckily at it and put
up very good game. Following are
the players and the scores made by
each: .........,.
Fort HALLECK-Gottlnger,O; Nc
Namare, 2; Berg, 1; White, O; Fair
banks, Il; Wines, o; Burnett, 2; Muir
ply, 1: Miller, o. Total,7,
ELKo-Bruce, 3; Loring, 3; Hunter,
1; J. Gardner, O.; "A. Henderson, /;
Mcdowell. 1; Snyder, 1; Mayer, l; G.
Gardner, 2. Total IL.
The Fort Halleck boys claimed that
they were not credited with one tally
which would have made the score IL
to 8.
9. B. Welsbons umpired the. bases
and Lee Terril of Tuscarora the
strikes. s. Jacobs of Elko did the
scoring.
At two o'clock the game between
Elko and Tuscarora was called. The
Tuscarora boys went to the bat and
succeeded in making one tally. The
Elko boys then went to the bat and
run up six TALES, making the game
stand 6 to in favor of Elko at the
end of the first inning. The Tusca-
roras added one more to their score
in the second inning, while the Elkos
retired with a goose egg. In the
third inning the Tuscarora boys we're
whitewashed and Elko added seven
more TALES to their score, making
the score ID to 2 in favor of Elko.
This put ginger into the Tuscarora
boys and they made six runs in the
fourth, two in the fifth and five in the
sixth. while the Elko boys had to be
satisfied with three big goose eggs.
At the end OF the sixth inning the
game stood 10 to Is in favor of the
Tuscarora boys. In the 7th and 9th
innings the Tuscarora boys failed to
score. The Elko boys made one run
in the seventh and four in the eig nth,
making the score Is to Ii in favor of
Elko. In the beginning of the ninth
inning the Tuscarora boys went to
the bat with blood in their eyes, but
retired without making any runs.
This left the score 10 to Is in favor of
Elko and closed the game. Elko
still having one more chance at the
bat.
Following is list of the players
with the positions and runs made by
each:
TUsCARoRA-Peoples, Sd b, 2; Eng
ish, p, 1; G. Terrill, 1st b, 1; j. Ter.
ril, I'd b, 3; Mcmahon. +, 3; Kap-
pie, C, 2; Horn, r T, L; Primeaux. q 8 l;
Curieux, I, 1. Total. 15. .......
ELKo-E. Taber, 8 8, /; Mitchell, LIST
b, /; Dunn, 81 b, 3; Rodman, I'd b, 8;
Henry, C, 2; L. Taber, p, 1; Wallace,
If, 3; Henderson, I, 8; j. Taber, r I,
/. Total, Is. ........
G. F. Loring Of Elko umpired the
strikes and James Meehan of Tusca-
rora the bases. Reese Wheeler did
the scoring.
The game was exciting from the
start and every good play was cheered
to the echo. The large crowd in at
tendance was good natured and there
was but little iangling over the decis.
ions Of the umpires. The Tuscarora
boys took their defeat like the gen.
tlemen they are, and the victors wore
faces wreathsd with smiles. Nothing
occurred during the day to mar the
pleasure OF the spectators and the