Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-06-26
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II was just as easy To make ii three I
sJraIghts from Baton Rouge as it
was 10 make it two out of three, so the |
Lumbermen with the kind assistance
of Mr.. Grubb. took the last and CON
cluding game of the series Saturday
by a score of 1 TO ,. and that was all !
II was by far the best and most eX
citing game OF the series, for Brackcu
had the locals guessing and the fans
Groann2 most of the time. and only
lost by an unfortunate inning. But
as Billy Earle would say. four runs
didn't hurt us and il did them, so
what's the use. Vernueli pitched
another one OF those star games fol
which he is famous. and would have
been shut out if Murphev could have
reached Howard's fly to short right in
the first inning. Howard had a
chance to retire the side in that inn
ing, but dropped the fly after hard
run. Then Gruhb tumbled one and
Woodruff followed with three bag
j ger, which kept Nernuei from ever
hoping TO shut Out the visitors after
that. II was all Ncrnnelli could do to
keep UP his spirits for Bracken began
to NOV us down in one. two, three
i order.
When Grubb his thai first three
basel 10 left center in the fifth inning
with no one out, and Sample, Dawkins
and Clayton failed to knock the bali
outside the diamond even the faithful
fans gave up up. But every dog has
his day and the locals took whole
day in about fifteen minutes when the
seventh inning rolled around -Four
runs were enough to win and win
easily Nernuelli and Bracken both
pitched good ball and if such thing
were possible. both deserved to win.
TO man up a tree it looked altogeth-
er like Baton Rouge up to that lucky
seventh.
The runs were scored in this inning
about in this manner. Murphey was
disposed of by Pender on a bpunder
to second. Lauzon singled and then
Grubb took one of those speedy shoots
that Bracken was fooling the others
with and sent II on line between lett
and center field Bananas still car
ried that game leg, but he got to third
easily before the ball did Lauzon scor-
ing ahead OF him. Sample was given
his second opportunity to bring Grubb
! Off the bag, but accepted it by striking
out. AS the short stop died on the
look bad again, but Dawkins had
hit up his sleeve which he delivered at
the proper moment and Grubb scored.
Clayton hit hounder to Newman
who is new man. and the little
fellow fumbled long enough to let the
runner get to first. Then VernueIll
walked up to the plate saying, Il nee
hit and the gods of baseball heard
his appeal and the hit fell from the
clouds. 1t dropped in a safe place in
center field, and while Gnadinger and
Howard were chasing the ball Daw-
kins and Clayton scored with what
proved to be the winning runs
Gfrorer was safe on Ruh's error and
Vernuelli went to third but Cavender
forced Gfrorer at second for the third
out.
In the eighth Grubb got another
three-bagger just to keep his hand in,
and there were many in the crowd
who we're sure that had the game
lasted longer Grubb would have con-
tinued to knock three-basers every
time he came to the bat. He had one
up each sleeve and pulled the other
out from square between the shoul-
ders The following is the score:
Pine Bluff AB r H PO A Z
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