The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-08-24
TEN-INNlNG TIE.
Donaldsonviile and WhitecsstIe Battle to
standstfll In Game Rsplete with
Errors. Wranglips and Dumb
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Tomorrow.

The Donaldsonville Blues and
Whitecastle Greys fought each other
to q stsndstill at Cleveland Park last
| Sunday afternoon, and the game was
| far and away the worst played, scrap
| piest and most unsatisfactory seen
| here this season. After ten long In.
nings of wrangling and monotonous
arguments the score stood 2 to 2, and
the members of both teams, as we'll as
the managers, the umpire and the
spectators, were more than willing to
let the tie stand and proclaim a tenn
porary truce.
The locals scored in the very first
| inning, thanks to an inexcusable
bobble on the part of the up-river first
| baseman. After Hochenedel retired
on long fly TO center field, Dudley
Weber laced outs dandy single, ad-
yanced to second when Iyens famed,
| (Creoli dropping the third strikel,
and scored on Harry Weber's line
drive to first base, which Campbelle
found too hot to handle and let slip
through his fingers. The second run
tailed by the Blues came in the fifth
inning and happened this way: Schon-
berg got hit and Chastant was per-
mitted to run for him. The fast third
| sacker promptly stole second, and
scored on Hochenedel's screaming
| single over second base. Center
Fielder S. Leblanc made. pretty
throw to the plate, but Chastant beat
the ball by city block and was de-
clared safe by everybody but Umpire
! Fowler of Whitecastle, who called the
runner out. Manager Ned Leche and
the Donaldsonville fans couldn't see
the play that way, however, and after
| long wrangle the bum decision was
reversed and the tally chalked up. A
| few minutes later she would-be umpire
| from Ibervilla handed Harry Weber a
lemon in the shape of q rotten de-
cision on pitched ball, and upon the
protest of the grand-stand was re-
moved from the game, George Prejean
handling the indicator for the re-
mainder of the contest. The double
umpire system had originally been
settled upon, but Umpire Tearney re-
tired early in the proceedings when one
of his decisions (which afterwards
turned out to be perfectly correctly was
harshly questioned by Manager Will
liams and his squad of kickers.
The Whitecastiians scored their
first run in the third inning, when
Creoli reached first on an error by
Chastant, adyaning to second when
Reiss iuggled Gondolti's grounder,
and scoring on d hit by Campbelle.
Another tally was presented the Wish
tors in the fourth, the catastrophe &C.
curing like this: f. Leblanc, first up,
landed safe at first on an error by
Ivens, was sacrificed to second by
Bouchsrsau and to third by S. L.
Blanc, and journeyed home when Pit
ard flew out to center field, Yentzen
getting in the way of Harry Weber's
throw to the plate and blocking the
ball.
On several occasions both teams
filled the bases and had fine opportu-
mites to cop the game, but effective
pitching and fast fielding prevented
further scoring until darkness put an
end to the spasm. Features of the
game were HochenedeI's pitching,
Dudley Weber's pretty double play,
which ne executed at second without
assistance, and Whitecastle Fowler's
punk umpiring.
The official scorer says this is what
happened: