Evening star., 1903-08-15
the lead In the Church League champion

the lead In the Church League champion
ship race.
The fans again proved that they are not
OF the fair weather sort. by swarmin3' out
In numbers almost equal to the tremendous
push at the last set-to between the Tigers
and the Reds. Threatened rain has no ter
rors for the dyed-in-the-wool Church
League rooters. who have repeatedly risk
ed drenching and taken long chances on
there being game rather than miss a
single opportunity to see the snappy, clean
brand of base ball d.shed up by the teams
in the league.
Neither Of the teams presented as strong
a line up as Wednesday. either with the
stick in the field. The Tigers were weak
ened by the absence of Browne and Geibe.
while the Reds We're handicapped with
Much out of the game.
The contest was a reversed repetition of
Wednesdays in many respects. Then the
Tigers scored sufficient runs in the first in
ming to land the game. fielded well. and
won by margin of four runs. Yesterday
the Reds registe. ed three in the first.
enough to win, the Tigers excelled in error
making and victory perched in the Temple
camp by a majority of four.
The game was pitchers battle through
out, and but for the poor support given
Donaldson the result would have been in
doubt until the last man was down.
Fulcher started in this time without
lead to overcome and won his game
through superb pitching. the Tigers getting
only three hits. but he had only shade the
better of Donaldson, as two of the Reds
bngles of the scratch order. They
We're evenly matched in control of the
sphere. Fulcher giving two bases on balls,
while Donaldson passed one Red and hit
one. They were also a par on strike
outs. each tanning eight.
Seldom has there been an exhibition be-
hlnd the bat In local amateur base ball
equal to that given by Harding. No passed
balls and not a stolen base against him is
record hard to beat. and this is all the
more remarkable because Fulcher's favor
lite and most effective shoot is quick
drop which frequently takes nasty bound
just back of the plate.
Donaldson was not far behind Pop" He
allow nothing to pass him. and the stolen
base credited to Fulcher was when he went
to second with Red occupying third Don
aldson's one error or a throw to sec
ond. which went a trifle wide of the bag.
Anderson. who was shifted from right 70
LETT field. accumul lted a m.crobe carelessly
mislaid by Much. and joined the "spectacu-
lars" by pulling in Dawson's fly in the
sixth inning after long sprint.
Moreland played fast ball at short and
Babson carried OFF the fnfeld honors for
the Reds
Ballenger and Beall not only secured all
of the Tigers hits. but slammed out the
only extra base drives for either side
The Reds had few assists or hard chances
as most of the Tigers went out on balloon
ers or pops. but with the exception Of a
Wllu throw Dy Lay. all the Reds handled
the ball cleanly.
Lay. Who headed the batting order waited
for four wide ones in the first inning and
Babson was hit by Donaldson. while More
land was busy trying to catch Babson at
second. F'ulcher placed a slow grounder
through short that would have been easy
for Moreland had he been In his position
and Lay scored Harding flew out to Bal
lenger and Anderson famed but Evans
slipped up on Quantrell's easy fly, allowing
Ba bson and Fulcher to score making a to-
tai of three. which turned out to be suffi-
cfent for victory. Two more Reds crossed
the plate in the third on hits by Harding
and Anderson. a wild throw by Catcher
Donaldson and Dawson's miscue at third
Their last run came in on muffs by Smith
and Evans.
The Tigers broke into the run columns in
the fourth. Beall raped out a two Dagger
to left. and scored the only earned run of
the game on Ballinger's corking three
Dagger to kenesaw street. 'Bally' scored
on Lays poor throw to catch him at third
After the fourth the Tigers could not con-
meet for safety off Fulcher and only one
man reached first, and that was on a gift
He died on first, and Temple had won its
nnal game of the playing schedule
Ihere Will be no game today but the
Gunton Grays face the Sixth Monday and
should they take the measure of the Tigers
the much-hoped for struggle between the
Reds and Grays will be "on' Should they
lose the Red Birds of Temple will have won
the well deserved championship in the
Church Base Ball League