The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-06-11
COMEDY
OF ERRORS
BuTISsque Base Ball Yesterday
Resulted, Clovis, q
PHCOS Valley 8

Something more than a thousand
people assembled at Glenwood Park
to witness the baseball game between
the Pecos Valley team OF this city
and the Clovis, n. NJ, team. Less
than half that number remained till
the finish to see the p. V. team go
down to ignominious defeat to the air
OF Fl to s.
The dope sheet had given 1t out
that this was to be a fast game and
the big, good-natured crowd OF root
ers that attended had their best base
ball voices with them in the expec-
tation OF encouraging their favorite
team. But the P. V. teams rooters
we're meek and humble lot directly
after the first half of the first inning
and the noise Of the Clovis rooter
was all that could be heard,
Beginning with the first ball pitch
ed, hoodoo seemed to be attached
to the home team, as catcher UNI
phres had his hand injured by this
ball. After having the injured mem
Der attended to by a doctor he went
gamely back however, and finished
the game.
The railroaders set a pace for
themselves in the first half OF the
first inning by combined effort to
make costly errors, and this pace
was religiously maintained through
out the game. Lyons on third base
and Stubblefleld in center field
brought themselves into the lmelight
in this inning by their ragged play
ing and held their unenviable posi-
ton the rest Of the game in spite Of
the efforts of most OF the other play
ers to wrest it from them. The
seven unearned runs that the Mexi-
cans succeeded In piling UP in this
inning had a demoralizing effect on
the railroaders and they never re-
covered from the shock during the
game.
Lyons rather redeemed himself
when P. V. got the bat by his clean
three base hit which scored Gala
her. In the second Clovis succeeded
In getting another score but p. V.
did not get the ball out OF the dia-
mond in their half of this inning and
no scores were made.
In the third, the husky lads from
over the line had another run pre-
sented to them and the home team
retired to their benches in one, two
three order.
The first half of the fourth was
featured by home run by Freeman,
Clovis husky second baseman. This
and a number of errors by the shop
men gave the visitors net increase
OF six runs in this inning. P. V.
gracefully closed the inning with a
shut-out
In the first Of the fifth, Pitcher
Marshall was replaced by Hollander,
Lyons went from third to short and
frolinger took right field. In this
inning the Clovis team was shut out,
the only one they accepted during
the game.
When the railroaders went to bat
IN the fifth, 1t looked for a time as
though the hoodoo had flown and
had made connections with the Mex
leans, In this inning the Clovis men
seemed determined to show their
ability to err. And, to make matters
all the worse, the railroaders were
able to make costly connection with
the ball. Finklea made a base hit
which brought in two scores; Hol-
lander forced wild throw home and
scored and Finklea went to third.
Then came the sensation of the game,
the tremendous hit Of Gallaher that
landed the ball over the fence and
Above dhim to walk home. Six runs
resulted to the home team in this
inning and their stock went up ten
notches.
In the sixth P. V. stock cane
tumbling down again, an aggregation
of errors among which those OF Ly-
ons were particularly atrocous, al
lowing the visitors five runs, while
p. V. suffered another shut out. In
the seventh, the visitors were held
down to one run and the home team