The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1908-06-18
OUR BOYS
'TROUNCE
LOvEL0CK
Fallonites Show the Lovelock
Boys How to Play
Baseball.
Alfalfa Tossers Taken Into
Camp to the Tune of
Is to q.

The score tells the story. There wal
nothing to it after the first inning, ano
the team that went to Lovelock last
Saturday afternoon with the expecta'
tion of having hard game came back
Sunday night, or rather Monday morn
ing, with Lovelock's scalp hanging al
it's belt.
The game opened up rather badly for
Fsllon, Lovelock scoring twice in the
initial inning while FaIlon drew goose
egg. In the second innlng. though, the
boys pounded Witt, Loveiock' south
paw twirier. to such good effect that
when the inning closed the score had
tied and our boys felt they might as
well WIN the game after all, 80 they
proceeded to put it neatly on ice and
the yeips of the kids who formed the
vanguard OF the Lovelock roofing Sec
tion became fainter and FAINTER. (1hese
Kids, by the way, are almost as good as
the bunch at the games mere III K sllon.) }
some OF the spectators complained that
the string OF men IN red suits running
around the bases made them DIZZY ana
. number mad TO leave the held ON that
account, after promising US q good
game next week with the section crew.
1he tallon boys took all the chances
tnat came their way and even when
they had the game safely tucked away
tney played the same kind OF snappy
ball that gave them their hrst lead.
Witt may be good pitcher, but either
the standard OF good pitching isn't the
same in LoveiocK as It Is IN fsllon. or
Witt had an off day. Anyway, he should
have been taken out Of the game and
some one else sent IN 20 try to stop the
slaughter AT any rate.
Lloyd and Ralph Foote were the bat
terry for fallon, and they made good.
Three men tried to steal second on
Ralph, but each time they found the
ball IN Birch's hands waiting Tor them,
and after that they stayed pretty close
to first and didn't try any more conclu-
sions with the little catcner's throwing
arm. Birch surprised the natives, too.
The husky second baseman stepped up
to bat and sent the ball screeching over
q fence on the horison OF the outfield,
which set new mark for the Lovelock
boys. Manager FRANKIE wanted to make
a ground rule before the game. limiting
the runner to two bases in case the
ball was put over this same fence, but
he was pooh-poohed out of it and in
formed that no such thing has ever
been done, and in fact, that 1t was quite
out of the question. 1t all goes to show
you never can tell.
The game progressed merrily for nine
innings, in spite of a little rain a,
times. II was hit and run, steal sec.
ond and third and come home on the
next mans hit. The way the boys
smashed that ball wasn't slow and il
the field they ate everything in sight
and looked around for more. In one
inning three men popped" out to Ray
Foote, playing shortstop. in one, two
three order--a thing that won't happer
once in a hundred years. Ray said i
working him overtime. but he didn'
care.
Mention must be made of the small
but enthusiastic roofing section tina
followed our team to the game, Mr.
and Mrs. |. II. Kent were there
MIR. and Mrs. Fred. Wightman
l.. G. Leehouse and Bobert Shirley
too. besides several others VIII
escaped before our reporter on tn
ground could interview them and sc
cure a statement. Mr.. Kent told u
what the result was going TO be befor
the game was well started and tn
score shows that he had the righ
hunch. The appearance of these ia
miliar faces on the field certainly helpe
and encouraged the home team. Tn
boys say they were treated well i
Lovelock and only hope that when tn
the next game is played they will hav
to work little harder to win.
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