The daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Beltrami Co., Minn.) 1903-1904, 1903-06-15
LEAGUE BALL GAME YESTER.
DAY DELIGHTED HEARTS OF.
BEMIDJI FANS.
THE ATTENDANCE NEARLY
REACHED 1000. ...r
Duluth Won From Crookston by
a Score of 3 to 2-An
Exciting Game.


In the best game Of bail ever
played in Bemidji, Duluth won
from Crookston yesterday by a
score Of 3 to 2. 1t was a fast ex-
hibition and was witnessed by a
crowd of nearly 1000 people.
The grounds were in fine con-
dition, and were as good as any
team could ask, aside from the
fact that the Quilted had not been
cleared out as far as is usually in
city grounds. This did not in
terfere with the playing, how
ever, and few balls got hit across.
the leveled outfeld None Of
them found the timber Crooks
ton got her two scores on an
error on the part of Duluth in
the seventh inning. Lyons, on
second base, made a wild throw
to home plate letting in two runs.
The players were all in good
form and did excellent work.
Duluth squeezed in four errors,
however, and CrookstOn fell only
one short of that number. Gehr-
ing, Duluth's pitcher, had a good
delivery, and there were no crit
cisms offered on the work of
Freeman, the man who twirled,
the ball for CrooksUon.
Gerard caught for Duluth.
This was his third game of the
season, and he was merely picked
up as a sort of scrub to take the
place of Cline, the regular man,
who had split his hand in making
a catch the day before. The new
catcher by his brilliant work at
the bat surprised not only the
spectators but his brother play
ers as we'll. He made the best
batting record Of anyone in the
game, and got to third on one of
his big hits. He got to first
every time he stepped up to bat.
His work behind the bat was
good, but showed a lack Of prac-
tice.
Following is the line up of the
two teams:
Crookston: Quigley, third base;
Beyette, second base; Burns,
center field; Cameron. first base;
Higgins, left field; Hutter, right
field; White, short stop; Howard,
catcher; Freeman, Pitcher.
Duluth: CULLEN, third base;
Lyons, second base; Kennially,
first base; Lambert, center field;
Shepard, short stop; Mccoy,
right field; Harris, left field;
Gehring, pitcher; Gerard, catcher.
Score by innings:
Duluth. .O10O1O1Ox-3 q 3
Crookston.O OOOOO2O0-2 4 4
Two-base hits, Harris, three
base hits, Gerard; sacrifice hits,
CULLEN, Shepard, Burns; stolen
base, one; base on balls, off Free
man, one; off Gehring, one; struck
out, Gehring, five; Freeman, one.
NOTES ON THE GAME.
In spite of the great size of the
crowd it was a very orderly one.
There we're no disturbances of
any kind. The roofing was not
so loud as il would have been if d
home team had been in the con-
test, but was of a very healthy
nature.
Betting was not heavy, but a
number of small bets were
| placed. Crookston seemed to be
| the favorite with those sportlvely
inclined, but the hackers of Du-
luth won out
The diamond was rather dusty
! but was level as floor. The
ballplayers expressed themselves
as being well pleased with it.
They were delighted at the size
of the crowd.
The grand stand is a large one,
but was not big enough to accomo-
date all who tried to secure seats.
It is as big as is usual in such
cases, however, and will answer
all ordinary purposes. The
bleachers we're not up, When