Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1901-09-05
BASE BALL FINALS.

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Easy Grounders With q Few Jabs and Jolts
For the Line Up Of the State League ~
It Makes Final Exit at the Stage En-
trance When the Curtain Drops.
Cavalier won three games from Win
nipeg last week, and now they have dis
banded.
Hjalmar Wigs again has plenty Of
time to throw stones at a mark in an
attempt to secure control. Mr.. Wigs
has been handed his release. -Minnea-
polls Tribune.
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Harry Howe, who was catcher for Hills
boro's league team early in the season,
and has previously been known as q
Milton ball player is now with the Per-
ham, MIMI, team where he also officiates
behind the bat.
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Fargo got its batting clothes on last
week and in game Saturday with Mil
ton won with score of "a to 10. The
stick work Of the victors must have been.
something like tho game which Langdon
took from the Forks not go very long
ago.
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The Grand Forks base ball team
wound up the season with $1,000 in the
treasury after paying all outstanding
debte. This was divided among the Is
players on the team. Those who had
played in every game through the season
received 500, and the others pro rata.
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IT'S said that MCCARTHY OF the Globe
was with the Milton hall team as
manager during the disastrous trip they
made to Fargo last week when the boys
dropped three games. Still they woald
hardly kick on the manager. Its the
umpire that generally has to take all
that kind of thing.
Xxx
The manager CT the Fargo team an
nounces that he is anxious to play the
winners of the North Dakota pennant
as soon as Milton and Devils Lake have
broken the tie in their percentage by
the game played yesterday at the
Forks. Such a game should prove to
be one of the fastest of the season.
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Pitcher Wiggs, the tall twirler with the
wonderful speed, has been released by
Minneapolis after two weeks trial. He
goes to Chicago, where Comiskey may
give him trial. Comiskey's staff Of
pitchers is in badly crippled condition.
Katoll is out of the game-by order of
Ban B. johnson, Griffith has broken
finger and Callahan is sick. If Wigs
can get those fast ones of his over tho
plate he ought to do we'll down there.
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During the past week Milton lost
one and all of series of three games
played with Fargo. The games were
played in the latter city and on the
occasion Of the second game, which by
the way was played last Friday, the
Fargo Call remarks that one of tho
Milton team threatened to quit the game
if the umpire was not deposed. That
isn't all, the Call adds that it thinks that
particular player would have been
missed more in Moorehead than he would
have been in the game.
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Catcher Mullane went from Cavalier to
Minneapolis when tho North Dakota
league quit and like the impregnable
Wigs was given his release in short or
der by the management of the Millers
Mullane's contract called for his report.
ing there September LIST, Instead of that
he reported earlier and worst of all had
two fingers broken at the time. Anxious
to make good showing he said nothing
at all about his lame fingers and went
in and worked. The result was he look
cd too weak for league company and was
released. He is good catcher and with
his fingers in shape will attract attention.
Xxx
Yesterday afternoons base ball game
at the Forks was the first of series Of
three decide the championship of the
North Dakota league and give the pen-
nant to the winner. The score was 3 10
4, Milton losing after one of the hardest
fought battles on the diamond this sea.
son. The attitude of the Devils Lake
team up to day or two ago indicated
that they did not intend to play off the
tie and Milton discharged its pitcher and
first and third basemen. This left than,
at disadvantage when the game was
played and in the opinion of many il a
reasonable excuse for Milton LOSING