The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-06-08
A NERvE-RAcklNG GAME.
Napoleonvilles Beat PeIicans in Ninth In
ming of Hard-Fought Battle-Pel
ican- Banzais Lose Out at
Thibedaux.

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win from the Pelicans in the ninth in.
ming of the most nerve-r acking game
pulled off on the local grounds in a long
while. The teams were as evenly
matched as possible and from the be.
ginning of play until the last man was
out it was nip and-tuek, with the ad-
vantage first in favor of one club and
then the other. Talbot, who did the
box-Work for the Assumptionites held
the edge on his little adversary in that
he was steadier and issued but one
| pass, and again, the red ones gave
him more consistent Support than the
birds did Acosta, cutting off several
drives that should have been hits,
while the birds allowed several bingles
to pass as such when they could have
been easily gobbled up.
The Napoleonvilles made the first
effort and, after Gautier missed three,
Munson walked and stole second;
Guillot famed, but Sammie Gilbert
hit short fly to left and before Va
riani could field the ball Munson had
come in with the first run of the game.
Trosclair hit a dinky bounder to the
pitcher and was tossed out at first.
The Pelicans failed to do anything
in their half and the red ones were
BANKED in the next round, butthe locals
spruced up in the second and tied the
score this way: Schonberg singled to
left and D. Weber, who was put in to
do the running for the big fellow, inn
mediately pilfered the keystone sack;
Sellers struck out and while he was
doing SO Weber annexed third; it was
then up to Creoli to bring the runner
home and he delivered the goods by
laying down a bunt on the first ball
pitched, making first on the play, but
Umpire Tearney called him out. Lam
dry followed with a tWo-sacker to left,
but became victim OF Gautier's crafti-
ness, being touched out by Barton.
while he wss flirting with the short
stop, whom he supposed held the
| sphere.
There was stay IN the run-getting
then until the fourth inning, and all
the while the crowd in the grand-stand
was yelling like mad, the Nap'yille
rooters being reinforced about this
stage by contingent that arrived on
the Lafourche branch train. The new
comers arrived just in time TO see Mum
son let a grounder by allowing Vari-
AMI to reach first safely; Fl. Weber did
the right thing by knocking one out to
center and Variant took third; Schon-
berg then singled, scoring both rum
ners and reaching second on the throw
to the plate; Sellers reached out and
landed safely, committing larceny OF
Pitcher Talbot was considerably wor-
ried aud gave Creoli four bad ones, I'LL
ing the bags; Landry evened uphis score
with Gautier by slamming one down
that went through the shortstop, and
Sehonberg and Sellers hustled home.
With two men on bases and none out
the birds quit scoring right there as
w. Acosta was an easy chance from
second to first, while L. Acosta and
d. Weber famed. Pelican rooters
were hilarious then, everyone believ-
ing the birds had runssenough to win,
but they didn't by a iugful, as subse-
quent happenings proved.
The down-the-baYou crowd didn't
add any in the fifth and neither did
the locals. In the sixth, with two men
down, the birds became Eighty and
permitted their opponents to tie the
score before the other out was made.
Creoli started the monkey business by
making bad throw TO first in an at
tempt to catch Sidney Gilbert, who
had secured the bag on hit. The
ball got by Acosta and rolled into the
field, where it was picked up by Schon-
berg and fired TO Creoli quick enough
TO head off the runner, but the throw
was so high that only the grand stand
stopped it. Aldwin Talbot hit one
| through Sellers; Gantier walked and
so did Munson, and Guillot then hit
| q fast groander along the frst-base
line, clearing the bases and tieing the
score. Sammie Gilbert ended the in
ming by striking out. The winning
run was put across In the ninth on a
hit By Guillot, a base on balls, sin
gle by Aubert Talbot and an error by
d. Weber. The Pelicans had chance
TO again catch up in the ninth, but the
necessary hit was not forth coming.
The game in detail:
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