Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-08-29
Its First Defeat
lFrom MONDAYS Daily.

son by score of S to 3. Up to the
one, the score standing 3 to 3. In
that inning Durango went to pieces
and let Pagosa score five runs.
The umpire was rank and away
behind on baseball. He made rank
decisions on both sides. but Durango
came in for the larger share of them
If the Durangos had have played their
usual game they would have won in
spite of the umpire, but they didn't
and there is no use crying over split
milk. An amateur team cannot expect
to play top ball all the time.
In the Pagosa team, as it was made
up yesterday, the Durangos had foe
worthy of their steel. They strength
ened their team by the addition of the
two Fettes boyes from Antonito-one
for catchen and the other for second
base Hubbard, their pitcher, was in
grand form and pitched great game,
increasing in efficiency as the game
progressed pitching better ball at the
end than at the beginning.
The grounds We're bum. the rain of
Saturday and Sunday morning made
them a bed of mud, which was i'm
proved by covering of sawdust.
Neither team scored in the first. Du-
range made two in the second and
Do, 81 Id
string of O's for both of them until
the sixth, when Pagosas scored, put
ting them in the lead, and the Pagosa
crowd went up into the air, and the
Durangos went the other way. In
the seventh Durango score. making ii
again tie. In the eighth a couple
o. wild plays put the Durangos on the
bum and they didn't recover until the
Pagosas had piled up five runs
Neither side scored in the ninth and
Pagosa Springs yelled as it never had
never will again-their team won from
the team that had won nine consecu-
dive games this season.
They yelled and they had a yell
coming.
Their rejoicing would have been ten.
fold greater had they had the nerve
to back their team. At the beginning
of the game bets of 800 to $50 were
offered that Durango would win and
there were no takers. Odds of three
tc one were then offered and no takers
for anything but small amounts. The
Durango sports begged the Pagosas to
take the offer. but they were mum
until after Pagosa was ahead and then
they began to unlimber and dig up in
81 and 81 amounts. The Durangos
were game, and still hoping that the
team would pull through in the end.
put up their money, thereby taking
the worst of it by long odds.
So much for the ball game
At 7:45 the engineer footed the whis-
tie, the conductor said board Leader
Vandaniker of the drum corps rat-tat
tatted his drum and away they went
bound for day of pleasure. They
had it and no regrets were expressed
for the trip.
Engineer Billy Edwards was at the
throttle and the way the train streak
ed it on stretches of straight leve
track was a caution. There was nc
recklessness displayed however, and
when caution was required 1t was
used.
A burned out journal caused delay
of fifteen minutes at Ignacio. No
other was made and the train reached
the junction on time and the up hill
)ull began. 1t rained most of the
way up, but stopped a little while
before the Springs station was reach,
ed.
When the train pulled into the sta
. hand and the hackmen gathered in
good many sheckels from those who
did not care to wade the mud on the
quarter of a mile walk to the town.
The great scramble for chuck began,
after which the visitors put in cou-
lie of hours enjoying themselves, some
visiting friends, others taking the
plunge and seeing the sights.
The ball game began about 1880 and
continued all too long for Durango.
AS the result of the two hours i'm
mediately following $3.50 is rather
sore spot on some of our people, we
viii, not dwell further on it. After
that the scramble for something to
eat, n stroll around the city, the de
parture of the excursionists for homt
at o'clt K and their arrival at 1920
this morning complete the story.
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