The Socorro chieftain., 1907-07-06
NOTES ON THE GAMES
BeIen and San Marcial Go Down to
Defeat before SOcOrro's Team
Of Ball TOssers.
SOCORRO'S TEAM IS ALL 0. K.
Hagerman Is a Chinese Puzzle to
the Man at the Bat. Inhs!d
Doing Better.

Socorro's aggregation Sl ball
tossers is a winner, and nu queS-
tion. Both Belen and San Mar
cial put up a good game, but
Hagerman's speed aud Chinese
puzzles and the Sucurro teams
hard hitting power, were too
much for them and they went
down to honorable defeat So
corro's infield is improving but
still needs bracer. The out
field has mighty little to do for
the ball seldom takes trip be-
yond the diamond. Cook still
has some difficulty in stopping
them, but that is not so bad, for
it would take a stone wall to do
that. Persistent, hard practice
will soon put Socorro's team in
condition to defy all comers.
Commenting on Sundays game
the Albuquerque Citizen SAYS:
Riley Edwards and M. Hide
brandt, the Geronimo batteries,
who went to Socorro Sunday to
assist the Belen base ball team,
returned home this morning.
According to the two local play
ers Belen lost the game by a
score of Z to &. Edwards made
home run play, with two men on
bases, that made a great hit.
Hildebrandt held the Socorroans
down in fine shape, but lost the
game on account of errors, made
by the Belen players"
Conrado A. Baca is making an
effort to organize a stock compa-
ny for the promotion of the ma
tional game in Socorro, and he
says that the prospect of success
is good. 1t is Mr.. Baca's plan
to build an enclosure and a grand
stand on the vacant lots adjoin-
ing the Crown Mill property on
the north. He feels quite sure
that stockholders in the enter
prise will realize good interest on
their investment. Success to
Mr.. Baca.
Hagerman struck out twelve
of the Belen team Sunday and
ten of the San Marcial team on
the Fourth. In the latter game
San Marcial did not succeed in
batting the ball outside the dia-
mond. That sort of pitching is
hard to beat.
socoRRo &, BELEN b.
g., Sundays meeting between the
Belen and Socorro teams ON the
local diamond was one of the fin
est exhibitions OF the national
game seen in Socorro in years.
The visitors battery consisted of
Edwards and Hildebrandt of the
Albuquerque GeronimoS. and
they came down as full of conf
dence as a rooster on a fence"
But when Socorro went to the
bat in the first half of the first
inning and hammered the ball
all over the lot for five runs, and
when Belen went to the bat in
the second half of the same in
ming and no mothers son of them
made connection with FIRST base,
the visitors began to realize that
they were up against the real
thing. SocorrO added one more
to her score in the second, one in
the third, and one in the seventh,
making a total of eight. Belen
squeezed one man to first base in
the second inning and he scored
on errors and passed balls, not
earning the run by half mile
That was the only run that Belen
came anywhere near making
until the seventh inning. Then
the visitors took a bracer, or the
home team suffered passing
attack of brain storm. Belen
added two to her lonesome one
run and followed up her perform
ance in the eighth BY putting
three men across the plate on a
magnificent home run drive by
Edwards. This gave Belen
six to Socorro's eight, and things
began to look squally for home,
sweet home. Both teams ac-
cepted goose egg in the ninth,
however. and all was we'll. The
visitors were disposed to quit the
game at one time on close di-
cision by Hill, but finally con-
cluded that their own manager
would make them a satisfactory
umpire and the game went on.
Every SocOrro rooter felt sure
that the new umpire gave So