Fergus County Democrat., 1907-06-11
MOORE DEFEATED
BY POWER TEAM
One of the Best Games Ever Play
ed in This City Is Carried Off
BY Big Store Bunch.
SCORE WAS FOUR TO TWO
Visitors Scored in But One Inning
Pitchers Effective-Fine Support
Given Both.

In what was about the fastest
game of base ball ever played in this
city, the Power Mercantile aggrega-
ton defeated the strong team from
Moore Sunday afternoon by a score
OF 4 to 2.
The visitors scored both of their
runs in the seventh inning on some
wobbly work by the Power infeld.
But for this break by the locals,
they would have placed shut-out
to their credit.
Weather conditions were not the
most favorable for fast and accurate
playing, nevertheless, the helders put
up remarkably fine exhibition on
both sides. Each team made four
errors and some of them were made
on very difficult chances.
Moore first went to bat and
Coombs made promising start with
neat single to right field. On the
next ball pitched, he tried to steal
second but Mickey Browns arm was
in good working order and the run
ner was neatly headed at second.
David went out, Roshon to Hegstrom
and Shafer flew out to Willard. The
visitors went out in oder until the
fourth when they got the bases full
due to an error and two bases on
balls, but star catch by Hegstrom
who fell in catching low infeld
fly, saved the day for the locals.
The bench boys scored their only
brace of runs in the seventh. Wolff
hit through the pitcher and Phillips
tore off one of the three hits allow
ed by Rathbun, Forsyth sent one up
back Of first which Hegstrom, RoshoA
and Hoffman played Alfonso and
CASTOR with, permitting it to drop
safely. The boys then got busy try
ing their arms and before they g,t
through throwing the ball around,
two men had scored. Tommy
Knight saved further trouble by
spearing a long fly to center on the
dead run.
Again in the eighth, the visitors got
dangerous with three men on bases
with but one man out But Rathbun
threw Shafer out at the plate and
the last man went out second to
first.
But three men batted in the ninth.
Coombs long fly was taken care of
in fine style by Dick Baker David
few out to Willard and Forsyth
died, Rathbun to Hegstrom. Slater
died at first on good throw by
David who got the ball which land
ed right in front of the plate and
Hegstrom also fell victim to the
deadly work of Fleming on first.
Tommy Knight then stepped up
and cracked out a beauty to right
Tor two bases and scored when For
syth played humble pegs with Rath-
buns grounder Baker flew out to
center, giving Stafford a chance to
make good catch.
The final run was put across the
pan in the seventh. After Roshon
had taken three vicious, Intellectual
swipes at the atmosphere and Hoff-
man had died, Coombs to Fleming,
Willard made the first cushion on an
nrOt1onf1Ny cfo1a
third and came home when Mickey
landed for a clean single. Slater
wound the thing up by striking out.
The boys went one, two, three in
the eighth and last inning at the
bat. Forsyth made good pickup
and throw to first on Hegstrom's S
grass cutter. Wolf took care of
Knights bounder in the same man
ner and Rathbun struck out.
Lewistown made one in the first
when Willard, the first man up, got
to hrst on an error, went to third
while Brown and Slater were being
thrown out at first and then pulled
OF the rather unusual stunt of steal
ing home while David and Combs
were mapping. Hegstrom ended the
inning by striking out.
One more score was added in the
second After Knight had been
thrown out at first, Rathbun got the
initial cushion on an error, stole sec
ond, went to third on Bakers out
second to first, and scored on a wild
pitch. Roshon rolled out at first
In the third, Hoffman went out or
long fly to Shafer, Willard hi,
safely but was left when Brown ant
Slater went out, short and third re.
spectively.
There was nothing doing in ths
fourth. Hegstrom and Knight botf
wen tout at first, Rathbun lambastel
out two bagger to right field bu
was left when Coombs threw Bake,
out at first.
1t was the same old story in tn.
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