Manchester Democrat., 1908-08-05
Once More Package Handed Back.

The fans and bugs insist tina
Thursday afternoons game was th,
prettiest ever played on the loca
park. BE that as it may. Manches
ter won by score of 2 to 0, as q re
suit Of clean baseball.
The visitors from Strawberry
Point came to bat, and received one
safe hit, which was followed by two
outs in quick succession. "5pud'
Molven, first at bat, struck out, and
Cobb walked, stealing second on an
overthrow. Allen died at first, while
Uhl famed.
The second inning was unevent-
ful, save few flies for Strawberry
Point, which the bugs in the grand
stand wouldn't stand for, and Dyers.
ville's second baseman went down
before Aliens splendid control.
When the locals came to bat, Dow.
den was caught out at second by a
miniature Roman candle affair, and
Hans" dittoed with the same va
riety at a location where the short
stop lived. Jimmy German was
caught out at first by the pitcher.
Then the first half Of the third
was practically one, two, three, with
two strike outs and bit Of mosquito
to short stop, Dowden got it, and
threw the man out at first. Incl
dentllly, Dowden didn't happen to
miss any of those that were coming
his way. He seems to have gradu-
ated from the Kindergarten Of the
art of playing ball some years ago,
and his post graduate course is de-
serving of a masters degree. Man
chester then had turn at the fray,
and Crabb made q pretty hit be-
tween first and second and reached
Bag No. ! without getting caught.
Tommy Davis hunted and made
first his objective point with some
haste, but Crabb was sidetracked be-
fore reaching the second stop around
the loop. Then Malvin made an at
tempt for the sack to the right, but
the pill beat him there. Cobb struck
out.
In the fourth, White, Belknap and
Harvey retired the visitors with no.
thing to their credit, but Manches-
ter made a run when their half
came. Allen grounded to the in.
field, and through an error reached
first, and stole the next one. Uhl
struck out, and Dowden, the boy
from Waterloo, and late Of minor
league in Indiana, got q swipe at the
sphere, but missed connection at
first. During that interval Allen
meandered down to third, and dear
old Hans" came up smiling to face
Mr.. Harvey, the pitcher from Volga
City, whom the citizens of Straw
berry have hired to pitch ball, and
Mr.. Harvey plays right clean game,
as evidenced in his work at short
stop with the locals not many days
ago, but he likes grandstand plays,
and knows his lead in that direction.
Well, "Hans" hit that ball. and
when he hit it. he landed on first
without any interference and with
no hesitation, while Allen came run
ming in which helped things along
quite a bit. Jimmy struck out, and
Hans had to come back.
In the fifth, things happened, and
alterations arose, as we'll as the in
ldignsnt fans, and everything seem-
ed to be going up, even the pitcher
from the Point, who will long. be re.
membered. But sTreadwell, the
left fielder from up north, made q
sensational hit and in sliding to Sec
ond, overlapped himself, and Uhl
put him out, and that started it. But
Umpire Young graciously demanded
that The dispute be continued until
some other day, and Treadwell came
back right angry. ATrewer got out,
and w. Arnold did the same with
out much trouble. Crabb struck
out for the locals, and Davis ended
his constitutional" at first, while
Malven stopped before reaching first,
Nothing doing in the sixth, ex-
cept q strike out for Arnold, and a
couple Of quick plays at first for Su-
sic and Brink, and Manchester fol-
lowed suit. with Crabb, Allen and
Uhl all popping the leather coated
spit ball into the outfeld.
White for the Point, in the sew
enth, sent q line drive to Uhl, who
missed it, and made first through
the error, but Belknap let out an
other fly to Allen, who put him out,
and double killed White. Harvey,
the boy from Volga City, didn't run
fast enough to first, and the side
went back to work. Dowden came
to bat and flew out, and Hans" was
unable to do much that inning, but
Mag" alias, Jimmy, got hit be-
tween third and shortstop, and after
stealing second, made third on an
overthrow, and with two men ont,
Cobb, who played first, came to bal
and with a sacrifice, brought in Jim.
my, and made first through an error
Davis made first through another er.
ror, which advanced the men on
bases, and Spud was obliged to sub
init to having bit of a grounde,
caught and thrown to first before he
could beat it. Three men out but
another score; total in the 7th, 30.
Treadwell, in the eighth, secured
first through an error of Cobb's
having sent a grounder to the in
field, where it was thrown to The
first baseman with no objective re-
suit. With Trewer's hit to centel
field, two men we're on bases, anG
4 w. Arnold made first on a small
play, which filled the bags. Ther
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