The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-07-31
The Tesrasaest.

The baseball tournament began on
Tuesday afternoon by the match between
Humbolt and Pembina. There is little
to be said about the game as the score
tells the whole story. Humbolt had an
aggregation Of pretty good ball players
gathered from several towns but lacked
the ''play together part. Seven runs
in the first three innings made Pembina
somewhat careless and in the next two
innings they made Humbolt present Of
6 runs. After that they played ball
pretty we'll again. Hits were plenty and
strike outs scarce on both sides. The
game lasted two hours and fifteen
minutes with a score of Is to 6 for
Pembina.
After supper good sized crowd wit
messed some ball playing between Hem
sci and Cavalier, which owing to the
intense rivalry of the two teams which
have met several times already this season
and parted on about even terms, was
played for all it was worth by
both sides. Cavalier had imported a
pitcher from out west somewhere that
made good while the Hensel team had
the assistance of Spike" Spanton who
is old league player. It just took an
hour for the Hensel team to get one run
and keep Cavalier settir g on goose eggs.
1t was fine exhibition of the national
game and Cavalier had nothing of which
to be ashamed.
Wednesday forenoon it was the special
game between Bathgate and st. Vincent
The latter was pickup nine and in
cluded "Spike"Spanton who was catcher.
But in this case practice and discipline
again showed the superiority. If Noyes
had not been substituted for Gooselaw
as pitcher in the 5th innings the score of
the Bathgate crowd would have been
still larger. Spanton knocked the ball
over the fence and walked round the
bases homeland the crowd declared he
only hit that hard SO as to save the
trouble of running. Score Bathgate 6,
st. Vincent 0, Spanton l.
A heavy shower came OPPORTUNITY at
the noon hour and the afternoon game
was delayed an hour for the grounds to
dry up.
The game between the losers of the
previous day, Cavalier and Humboldt, was
another repetition of practice VS. mis-
cellany. Krumholtz, the Humboldt
pitcher did good work but had poor
support in some directions. Cavalier
played somewhat careless after getting
the lead in the beginning of the game.
Play started late owing to the rain and
was finished too late to put on the ath-
letic sports on the program. Score was
Z to 4.
The after supper game between Penn
bina and Hensel was hard fought fight
from start to finish. Spanton again
made the single run of the game for the
second time in the series for Hensel.
Hensel had the best of it all the way
along and usually filled the bases when
at bat, though Pembina managed to shut
them out before they scored. Pembina
rarely got as far as first. 1t was certainly
fine game and large crowd of rooters
were present. The only score was made
by Spanton for Hensel early in the game.
Mr. r. DeMars of Hallock was the UNI
pire at all the games and gave the best
OF satisfaction, because he was not only
impartial, but he showed good judgment
and even the rooters let him alone.
The utmost good feeling was displayed
all around, both between the players and
the spectators. With very few except
ions the players were Pembina County
boys, while the Humboldt aggregation
we're also amateurs, though rather
scattered as to locality.
Pembina hopes and believes that the
visiting clubs were pleased with their
treatment.
The Pembina band was on deck and
gave plenty of music which was highly
spoken of by many of the visitors.
The dance at the hall on Tuesday
evening was attended by large number
of people but it was rather too warm for
real enjoyment in vigorous exercise,
though the dancers went on to an earty
hour Just the same. Wednesday evening
the weather was more cool and the dan
GERS again enjoyed themselves.
The attendance from the country was
not as large as expected but the neigh
boring towns were we'll represented. .
Altogether the tournament was very
successful and made two enjoyable