Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-05-15
4 CLOSE AND PRETTY GAME.
Little Falls Defeats BIainerd in One Of the
IN Best Games of Ball Ever Seen :. Tx
Here Sunday. q
VISITORS COULD NOT FIND TERRELL
He Pitched Almost Shut Out Game
The Entire Team Played =.
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!, Good Ball.

! One OF the most interesting and en-
letting exhibitions of baseball ever
witnessed in this city, was played
between the Brainertl and Little
Falls teams at the new bali park
Sunday. The weather was very dis
agreeable. Up to the end of the sixth
inning a high wind prevailed and as
the air was filed with dust 1T was
not only difficult for the players to
play fast hail, but it was very
ldisagreeable for the spectators. At
the conclusion OF tt e sixth inning a
shower came up which necessitated
a postponement of the game for p
short time. but it left the ground i'm
excellent condition, and as the wind
also went down the players could
work to better advantage.
1t was anybody's game ito the
final play. Brainerd made the first
score in the second inning, and never
crossed home plate again until the
eighth, when one score was added
Little Falls tailed one score in the
third, two in the fifth and one in the
eighth. Brainerd came to bat IN the
ninth with the score to 5. against
them. One man scored making the
score to 5; two men were on bases.
one on second and one On third, and
Howe was at bat. Howe caught
the ball fairly on the nose after hav-
ing two strikes, and it went scream
ing through the air toward deep
center. To the anxious spectators
it looked as if it would clear the
fence or atleast bring in the two
men on bases. tieing the score. Car
ley went after, but it seemed to be a
hopeless effort. The game
probably depended on that play.
He went up after the ball in very
i, difficult position and to the Joy and re-
lief OF every Little Falls spectator he
pulled it down. ending the game
with the score 8 to 5. 1t was, a
brilliant play at q critical time, and
Carley was carried in from the field
on the shoulders of a throng OF en-
thusiastic fans.
The game as compared with that
OF the Sunday previous could not be
put in the same class. Those who
watched the game wondered how
the home team could have been de-
feated by St, Clouds aggregation OF
mistits, such was the improvement
made in their work In one short
week. To Terrell is entitled the
greater part of the credit for win
ming the game. He pitched a superb
game, striking out fourteen men,
hitting the ball, fielding his position
perfectly and making three Of the
five scores made by the home team.
He was we'll supported, but there
were one or two costly errors made.
Five hits were credited OffOf Ferrell's
delivery, three of W hich were doubt
full A left field fly was misjudged
by J)roskowski. Owing to the, high
wind it was very difficult to Judge
flies, but under ordinary conditions
DrosKowski should have got it and
would have been credited with an
error for missing. A SIMILAR fly was
lost BY Carley and in going after an
other fly Carley slipped and fell, but
got up again and almost reached the
ball. Under more favorable condi
lions at least one of those might
have been called an error on thu
part of the fielder If last Sundays
game with St. Cloud shook the, faitt
OF the Little Falls people in Ferrel
yesterdays game fully restored hin
to his old position in their estima
ton, and in fact the stock of the en-
tire team has gone up several points
With the exception Of costly error
by Howe, Lucien and o. Peterson
Brainerd played a fast game. How
lost his temper and Judgment at tn
same time. and his antics not onl,
amused the spectators, but mad
the other members Of his team quit
weary. He kicked on the umpire'
l decisions, which were to nearly al
the other players quite satisfactory
The teams We're lined up az follows
: Little Falls Position Brainert
Sylvester..... catcher ........ RuthfOrt
Bnurassa ........ LIST base ...... Dressing
Willing. "................. Finn
i H. Newman. short stOp....... Luciel
Gravel ............3 rd base How
P. Newn an fright field o. Peterson
Carley..... ...center...... III. Peterson
Droskowski....lef field. .Murph,
Terrell 49,. pitcher voorg
The following is the score by in
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. Brainerd.....O i o O 90 Q l Is :
Little Falls.O o / O2O 1.1*-5 g.;
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