Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1907-06-05
ALMA DEFEATS ALBION
The Presbyterian Nine Beats the
Methodists by a Score
OF 5 to a.
HOT BALL THROUGHOUT GAME
Harper's Team Will Now Defeat the
Winner of Fridays Game
at Albien.

Alma won her last home game last Sat
urday afternoon when she downed the
Albion nine by a score of to !. BY win
ming this game Alma has had the pleasure
of defeating every nine in the Interscholas-
tic circuit and puts her into the finals
without another contest, while Albion
and Nj. A. c. must saw off before facing
Coach Harper's freshmen in final bout.
The day was very windy which tended to
confuse the two teams and increase the
number of errors. Outside of the wind,
however, the day was good base ball
weather. The crowd was small, there
being not over 800 fans present and there
was very little roofing during the first
seven innings. The first FIVE innings
passed with no scores on either side, but
Albion found the ball and secured one
tally in the sixth. They also put two
men over the plate i'll the seventh. 1t
looked discouraging for the home nine,
but the one score that they secured IN
the last of the seventh had tendency TO
cheer them up and in the next inning the
Albion balloon went soaring and four
men tailed. Albion secured one more
score in the first of the ninth and the
game was Alma's.
In the first inning Moffet struck out
and Squires secured a two-bagger, but
Moore and Kiles were unable to bring
him around and he died on second.
Alma puts some men on bases, but
nothing doing.
Albion goes down in one, two, three
order, not man reaching first.
Alma takes the stick again and d..
Duncanson catches one of L.athan's S
crooked ones in the small of the back and
limps down to first. Deering sacrifices
and Alma's south paw makes second.
Defoe passes him around to third. Mag
idson swings his club three times and
Duncanson dies on third.
Albion to bat-McCall fans as does
Latham. Mofit hits two sacks. Squires
strikes out. leaving Moffit dead on second.
Alma trots III and Campbell gets to
first. but is caught on second by bunt
from off the bat of his brother. r.
Campbell reaches third. Helmer gets
cut off between home and first. A. Dun
canson bunts, but is caught at first.
Albion tries again. Moore goes down
on first. Kiles gets hit, Hudnutt gets a
pass, Kiles goes to second, Miller fans
and Knickerbocker follows suit.
Hill, DuDcanson and Deering all add to
I.athan's list of men struck ont
Kiles gives Helmer some exercises and
trots over TO the bench. Hudnutt gets
four wide ones and takes the first install
ment from where he steals second. Mil
Ter brings him in with two-sacker.
Knickerbocker strikes out. Mccall hits
to centre and Dan Immediately puts his
glove under the ball.
r. Campbell hits one too easily. Hell
mer sends a fine one TO centre, but it
does not hit the ground. A. Duncanson
fans.
Latham bunts and makes Srst safely
and steals second on a pass. Latham
reaches first and Mofit discovers bunch
of errors and plants himself on third.
Sqnires gets a two-bagger, but tries to
reach third. where he is stopped. Moore
gets four nice little balls, I<iles goes TO
FIRST and Moore is caught on second.
Moffit tallies one.
Hill hits for one sack. D. Duncanson
gets a dead one and Hill manages to
tally. With three men OH bases Latham
pulls himself clear and three men die on
base.
Albion drops in one, two, three order.
Duncauson reaches first and steals sec
ond. Montieth gets wise to one Of I.ath-
ans curves and Alma has two more to the
good.
Albion makes an effort to redeem
themselves in the ninth, but after one
tally they don their sweaters. And then
the fans went crazy.
Innings S o 7 s 9