Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-07-25
LEAGUE GAMES.
Langdon Plays Three Games-won One Lost
Another and Gave Fargo the Other.

During the week three league games
have been played by the Langdon team
on the home grounds and at one and all
the attendance was good. The story OF
Saturdays game was one that made the
local fans jubilant. Pitcher Bill Ken
nedy was in the box for the locals and
with the support Of some fine fielding by
the team closed a seven innings game
with score Of 9 to 6 in Lsngdon's favor.
Judge Cleary umpired the game and his
decisions seemed to find favor with spec
tators and players alike. The visitors
having to leave on the afternoon train
was the reason of the game being called
in the seventh innings. Hillsboro made
a brave effort to stop Langdon players
from pillng up the scores by changing
pitchers twice the last man put in the
box by them being Slette, who first sign
ed with Milton but broke his contract
early in the season. It has since been
learned chat he is barred from playing
in league games, a fast that of itself would
have lost the game to Hillsboro
Monday the visiting team was Fargo
and it was nice game at the start off,
with to 0 in favor of Langdon in the
first innings and Brenna gave them three
more innings OF the Same brand. After
that the local fans felt awfully bad and
the game closed with score Of Z to in
favor of Fargo. It was fated from the
time that Attorney Gordon told the boys
to start playing ball that heavy over
hanging clouds should threaten to deluge
the diamond and occasional peals of
thunder and flashes of lightning seemed
to add emphasis to the threat. Finding
the pitching of Brenna too strong Fargo
played the only game it seemed eble to
play, waiting game, waiting for rain to
call off the game before the fifth innings
was reached. Everything that could be
resorted to was done. On the other
hand Langdon grew impatient to go
ahead and in order to press the game
past the fatal fifth struck at everything
and retired in the one, two three order,
Good batters, "Little Fitz," Berg and
PIymoth, all able to hit the Fargo
twirler passed up the easiest strikes only
to find out afterwards that the illuslve
shadow had vanished. Fargo came to
bat as the clouds cleared off, punched
three hits while our boys vainly sought
to cover the field, which was damp and
slippery, and when innings closed the
visitors had 8 runs. One run was all
that Langdon got after that and in the
Same innings Fargo got 4 more. Score
at close OF game Z to 5. It was rs easy
as falling of log if properly cinched,
but the chance slipped by.
Yesterday afternoon the Langdon ball
team went up against Gregory, the
famous twirler OF the Grand Forks team.
The game was we'll played from start to
finish free from wrangling and the dc.
cisions OF Umpire Herb. Mum received
with general satisfaction. The only
point of superiority noticeable in the
visiting aggregation was their ability to
pile up scores. LangdoD was stronger
in out field plays and able to de- every
thing except get hits off Pitcher Gregory,
Langton had Brenna in the boz and no
scores were made up to the first three
innings and three more goose eggs were
given the visitors before the game close d
Two runs were scored by Langdon in the
fifth and on two different occasions later
in the game the locals had base runners
we'll ON the way towards the home plate
when the inning closed. Grand Forks
scored runs. The game played by
Lansdon was freer for errors and better
than has been seen for some time. A
of fine plays by Cameron,
Brenna and Tucker IN the field pleased
tho spectators immensely. Fitz9lbbon,
Kennedy and Catcher Conwell got most
all the hits of Gregory. 1t was. good
game.