The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-10-10
BASEBALL SEASON ENDS.
Bsues Add Two More Victories to Their
Long List-Labadie Greys the
Final Victims.

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vile was brought to close with twc
exciting and well-played games be
tween the local Blues and the crack
Labadieville Greys at Cleveland Pari
last Sunday and Monday afternoons
both contests being won by the locals
in fine style.
Sunday s mix-up was Witnessed b.
the largest crowd of the season, fully
1900 enthusiastic fans being IN attend.
ance, and the fact that an extra inning
was necessary in order to decide the
winner shows how evenly The teams
were matched and how strenuously
us < anne was contested. Louis Bauer,
late of the Birmingham team OF the
Southern League, twirled for the Blues
and held the visitors down to six scat
tered hits, while Henderson of the Texas
League, who heaved for the Assump-
tionites, was touched up for fourteen
biagles.
The locals scored their first run in
the second inning. Tarleton, first up,
was given a pass to the initial sack
and promptly stole seeoGd, making a
beautiful slide to the bag. Huber laid
down a bunt, beating it out and ad-
vancing Tarleton to second. While
the pitcher was holding the ball Huber
stole second. Weber laced long fly
to deep right and Tarleton scored on
the thrownin. Hickey struck out and
Bauer retired the side with a fly to
right. In the third inning Wills hit
safe; Lane went out on line drive to
short; Murch singled, advancing Wills
to second, and when Tarleton poked
the pill past third for a safety Wills
trotted across the pan.
The fifth brought another other tally
for the Blues. Murch hit for two
bases and scored when Tarleton sent
sizzling grounder to Gautier, the Wis
itors' short-stop making a wild throw
to first.
Labadieville scored its first run in the
third inning. Leblanc walked, went
to second and third on sacrifice hits by
Gautier and Cancienne. respectively,
and scored when Relf got a scratch
hit in the shape of a bunt down the
third base line, which Murch felded>
bit too slowly. In the ninth the visit.
ors added two more TALES and tied
the score. Relf, first up, struck out;
Duplain hit line drive to short, which
Prejean muffed in an attempt to make
a spectacular one hand catch; Lanzon
singled. advancing Duplain to third,
and both runners scored when Chas-
tant smashed the sphere to deep left
for two bases. The next two up were
easy outs.
There was nothing doing for the To-
Gals in their half of the ninth, nor for
the visitors in the first half of the
tenth, but in the second part of the
latter inning the Blues showed across
another run and copied the game.
Murch. the singled to left and then
pulled of some remarkable base run
ming, stealing both second and third.
carleton relieved the agony of the
shouting fans by dropping q juicy
single over second, Murch trotting
nome with the winning run.
OF the fourteen hits secured by the
locals, Murch got four out Of Eve times
up, Tarleton three out of four times
lp, and Huber and Wills two each out
If four chances. Chastant, formerly
If the Blues, was the bright particular
batting star of the visitors, peeling of
10 sxvo- baggers out of four times
1t bat.
Score: