The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-07-19
A SWELL GAME OF
BASEBALL SUNDAY
ATHLETICS TOOK THE CROOKS.
TON BUNCH INTO CAMP BY A
SCORE OF 8 TO 4--vIcToRY
CANE IN SIXTH INNING MERRY
oo-RouND.

Athletics 9, Crookston 1, was the score
OF the baseball contest at League
park Sunday afternoon. Barring the
high wind which. prevented long
,swats, the conditions were ideal.
There was most encouraging attend
ance, and the fans had run for their
money The athletics played fast.
snappy ball. Ward was the fielding
hero. In the fifth he pulled down a
difficult one after a long chase. and
in the ninth he effectually killed off
little rally by a sharp double play.
Forman was In magnificent form
and threw a game that entitled him
to victory He had everything, and
the half a dozen swats the visitors
were credited with were scattered
over as many innings, and three of
them were scratches. His best feat
was whipping the three first men who
faced him in the eighth He had
total of eleven strikeouts.
Carl, a husky man with large per-
centage of aborigine blood, was on
the mound for the visitors, and he
threw nice ball. He had one bad
Inning, the sixth, when the locals
punched on him.
The visiting team played with GIN
ger and enthusiasm, and in all but
that one disastrous frame gave a good
account of themselves.
Neither team accumulated ANYTHING
in the first. Fargo started trouble in
the last of the second After WEIGH
had famed. Nelson singled was sac
riffced to the middle, swiped third and
came home on Martins overthrow.
Crookston got It's only score and
knotted things up in the first OF the
sixth. Monroe, who had already made
two hits, beat out a little one down
the third base line-that wouldn't roll
out. Martin gave up his life, and
while he was retired from Forman to
Peterson. Monroe tore on to third in
stead of stopping at the midway sta
ton. Peterson threw TO WEIGH, but
his heave was very bum, and the
sors registered at the final station with
their only score.
Disaster overlook the visitors in the
last OF the sixth. Forman should have
been the first man up, but Tierney
was so anxious to get at the orange
men from Minnesota that he batted
out OF order. Every man on the team
was up during the frame. The results
were five runs. They were secured
on four hits and a swipe, combined
with four errors on the part of the
Crookstonites.
Tierney singled. Burns attempted
60 sacrifice. but beat It Tierney
Started for third, reconsidered, and
when Brown made a bad peg to the
middle sack Tierney re-reconsidered
and took the corner anyway. Burns
swiped and Tierney was an easy out
Carl to Brown, and Burns scored.
Peterson came over the pan when
Martin failed to hold Barrett's nice
return OF Welch's grounder. = Nelson
laid down another, forcing WEIGH,
Barrett to Burger. Ward singled and
Nelson scored on Stephens failure to
hold the throw from Monroe to third.
while Ward got to the second sack.
He came home on O'Donnell's swell
single. and Forman ended the excite
Tnent by tanning.
Crookston had an elegant chance to
DO something in the seventh after
nelson nit anu WelCn mao nABu
heaved Carts grounder. but Nelson
went to sleep at third.
In the last inning there was some
fireworks when Mortinson, the first
man up. singled Barrett raised a
high fly to left and Mortinson evil
IDENTIFY concluded Ward was a bum
fielder or thrower and took too great
distance towards pecond. Ward
picked the fly out OF the atmosphere
and with perfect throw to first got
Mortinson before the latter could get
back Burger, the stocky second sack
er OF the Minnesotans. whanged away
at three he couldn't distinguish from
the surrounding ambient. Score: