The Glenwood post., 1907-08-03
MAYS DEFEATED BY GLENW00D

The fans who journeyed out to the
ball park Sunday afternoon to witness
the double header between the Mays of
Denver and the Cream Puffs saw two
of the best exhibitions of the year.
Several spectacular plays pulled off at
opportune moments kept excitement at
fever heat and when GlenwoOd landed
the second game by wonderful ninth
inning rally, enthusiasm knew no
bounds. The second game will go down
in baseball history as the best game
ever played on local grounds. Only one
error was made and it was anybody's
game until Cameron scored Ballinger
with n clean single in the last of the
ninth. Many n usually dignified man
jumped to his feet and acted like
raising play and the ladies were not far
behind when it came to genuine root
ing and enthusiasm.
Both games We're played for blood.
ne mays, lTOH lHtlT NlClOIICS at
Grand Junction and Fruita, anticipated
little or no difficulty in defeating the
Cream Puffs and when they awoke to a
rca alization of the fact that they had n
fullszed game on their hands, lat once
resorted to the usual tactics of n bad
loscr-roasting the umpire and beefing
at every decision. Umpire Bradley
plays no favoritcs and always gives a
dec sion as he sees it. He had no less
than five close decisions to make in the
st game, three of them going against
the home team. Taken all through, un-
biased students of the game say that
the Mays had shade the better of the !
decisions. Every throw Lefty Davis
made to first base was certainly a balk,
yet not one of them was so called and
he caught several men off the initial
sack in that manner. But enough of
that. A game loser never finds fault
with the umpire. What you want to
know is how the scoring was done, so
here goes:
In the very first innings, Garst drew
a base on balls and was safe on secnd
after see saving between the bags afttr
on the next ball, Garst being caught
trying for home on Gard s short throw.
Skinner slammed out a beauty scoring
Toepfer. Ewing got four wide ones;
e., I, 1
brought in Skinner Cameron struck
out.-Two runs.
The Mays got their first tally in the
second. Smith used the perforated .
bat. Gard hit for two bases and went |
to third on passed ball, scoring on
Rollins fielders choice to L. Ewing
Winkler slammed out nice one, but
McEnerny flew out to Johnson, retiring
the side.-One run.
The visitors secured the lead in the
fourth Connors reached first on Skin
ncr's error. Smith hunted and on Bal
linger's bad throw to second went to
second, Connors going on to the third
station. Gard famed. Rollins was out
on short fly to right field, Connors
beating the ball home and Smith regis
tered at the home station on Mang-
nall s wild throw to Skinner McEnerny
struck out.-Two runs.
Glenwood added one and tried the
score in the fifth on a base on balls
to Garst and Toepfer's s hit and in the
very next inning got decidedly busy.
Ballinger smashed hot drive that
o O'Brien let get away. Mangnall stop
pei one of Davis in-shoots. Cameron
hit safe scoring Balinger but Mang
nall was caught at third. r. Ewing hit
safe as did johnson, but the latter was
caught between the bases a moment
after. Garst made pretty hit and Bill
Tocpfer hit the leather right on the
trade mark for three bags. Skinner flew
out to second base.-Four runs.
No more scoring was done and Glen
wood came under the wire an easy
winner to 3.
After the termination of the first
game, the players enjoyed rest of ff-
teen minutes, when Umpire Kennedy
called the second game. After nine in
nings of fast ball. the onlookers natur-
ally anticipated n slow and listlcss
game, but it proved heart breaking,
ginger and snappy playing being con-
stantly in evidence. Atkins went in
the box for Denver, while Ballinger