The Ketchikan miner., 1907-06-01
BASE BALL D0lNGS

pulled of. The powers that be were certainly kind on the weather ques- tion an ideal day being furnished. Upon arriving at Metlakahtla about noon lunch, WAS the first thing to de- mand the attention of the crowd and judging hy the satisfied expression prevalent afterwards most verybody had good one. The ball game WAS of course next and everybody went to the ball grounds, where our Indian friends evidently figured on getting even on some of Us IS we were con- pelled to cough np fifty cents apiece 10 get inside and two bits more to get inside the grand stand-guess we must have looked easy. The grounds were as bad as ever. the batters standing in hole. which made most of the balls high but in spite of this B fair article was served far the edification of the crowd. ketcaikan opened the ball by sending Charley Ingersoll to the bat. and he used good judgment walked 10 first on fszar balls so wide that even the Indisn umpire called them such. lie stole second. got to third on a passed bali by the catcher and home when Mahoney smashed out a long drive for two bags to left field Rurkhart struck out. He'd fired the umpire frem the mill short time ago. so stood no show. Murphy sent out low hy to right field, which the dusky warrior on s@ard there failed to connect with, bringing in Ma honey. He purlosaed second. ditto third, and died about three feet from home trying to be-. the ball in after Stackpole had sent . hot liner to third which the gentleman there managed To hold onto and the side went out with two runs to their credit.
 For the Indians Howard sent a short grounder out to Burkhart and died, 5. Booth struck out, and Gordon sent a short hy which kubley missed arriving safely at first, he tried 10 sneak second bu. Murphy was too much for him SC le headed back for first. went down and out. ard the side retired with no sa--es.
 h the second inning hubiey sent a short gTounder 10 the pitcher who put him out at hrst. Schlothan and Busbois struck out, Bolton walked, Hewston struck out, and Bolton came in on a high throw by pitcher to second base. Booth and Leask failed to connect with the ball and struck out, score , to l favor of ke,chikau.
 Third inning. Williams walked, Ingersoll sent grounder to pitcher and died. Burkhart according to the um- pre- struck out as also did Joe Ma honey and Williams died at third.
 Fawcett and R. Booth each had holes in their bats and Atkinson, the pitcher gave nice little fly to Harvey Stackpole
 Fourth: Murphy landed a nice fly between shor. and middle field making first. Stack hit fine little liner to pitcher who fumbled it and the long haired boy beat him to it while Murphy made second easily. The catcher dropped the next ball brown. advancing both men on bases one bag. Kubley and Schlothan each famed and it looked as though the two base runers were there for keeps. Brisbois. however, picked out ar easy one which landed him safe on first and Murphy across the home plate. Williams lined out a hot one which the second basemau missed, and a bum throw by the catcher 0 second brought in Stackpole and Brisbois. Ingersoll famed out all right hut got up steam enough to beat the ball to first, swiped second and third and vas still there when the umpire again famed out Frank Burkhart S. Booth was struck by pitched ball taking his base, Gordon sent warm drive to Burkhart, WOO dropped it but picked it up again in time to retire Booth at second. k. Booth struck out as also did Boulton and Gordon died at third.
 Fifth: Mahorey sent fly to left field making first with half an hour to spare, Murphy lined out one which snort tried to hold but couldn't, Mahoney was nabbed at second, Stack pole walked Kubley and Schlothan famed.
 Leask had hole in his bat, Fawce.t popped up a high fly which Williams took care of and Atkinson sent out short grounder which the pitcher manipulated and sent to first ahead of the runner.
 Sixth: Brisbois and Williams couldn't reach the balls thrown, and the pitcher reached out and took care of the grounder Ingersoll sent his way romping to first ahead of him.
 Howard sent long fly to Kubley which he held on to like hero an d s. Booth and Gordon struck out re- tiring the side.