Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-06-23
THREE OUT OF four
Medicine Lodge Defeated Wichita
White SOx in Last Weeks
Games. Both Teams Play
ed Good Ball.

Monday Medicine Lodge q White Sox 0.
Tuesday-whte Sox 4; Medicine Lodge l.
Wednesday ay-Medicine Lodge 6; White Sox g.
Thursday Medicine Lodge 2; White SoX !.
These four lines tell the story of
the base ball tournament, between
the home team and the Wichita
White Sox, held in this city last
week. Every game was played in
league fashion and errors on both
sides were less frequent than in any
previous games played here. The
home team had the advantage in
weight and more timber from
which to select for the box and
these two elements contributed
much toward their success. Four
different men-Davis, Woods,
Drouhard and Axline-pitChed for
Medicine Lodge in the above order
and each did magnifcently, al
lowing very few hits.
Wichita had one excellent pitch.
er, another medium good and a
third very poor. The last named
pitched Wednesday and gave way
to the "little man" in the second
inning when the home team had
made s of the 8 scores.
Goddard, catcher for the home
team, is strong everywhere. He
put up great game every day,
both behind the bat and at the bat.
Paul Fair as shortstop was per
feet and the same should be said of
Raymond Schmidt on first. But it
is hard to specialize-all the boys
played extraordinarily good.
Thursdays game was handicap.
ped by rain but the game went ON
between showers and there was
fair sized crowd present, although
not nearly as large as it would have
been had the weather been favor
able.
The umpires for the four davs
were Roger Axline, Seward l.
Field, Roger Axline and w. w.
Elliott. Each umpire has been
criticised for his decisions but that
is part of the program. a man
who consents to umpire d base
ball game must prepare for
''roast." Some of the home boys
claim that Seward Field favored
the Wichita BOYS on Tuesday while
the Wichita boys are just ar firm
in saying that Will Elliott was
partial to the home team on Thurs
day. Our guess is that all the UNI
pires were fair and just. 1t is no.
ticeable that those who criticise
the decisions do not agree on the
particular cases in which the de-
Cisions were wrong.
But waving aside these criti-
cismS, it was great week for the
local "fans." The series of games
were greatly enjoyed and literally
attended. The ball team came
out of it little "to the good" fl
nancially.
DEFEAT AT ALyA
The Medicine Lodge team went
to Alva Sunday and played a
double header with the Alva Cubs.
They lost both games II to II and
to 4. The games were played
with considerable wrangling and
neither side played as good ball as
was played here.
A special train for the occasion
was run from Belvidere to Alva
and big crowd went with the
boys, but the crowd wasn't sufici-
emily large to outroot the Alva
TooterS.
The Medicine Lodge boys were
treated exceedingly shabbily by
the Alva managers. One of the
umpires had money up on Alva
and, of course, couldn't be fair but
probably the greatest indignity
consisted of 'hornswaggling" our
boys out of their rightful quota of
the gate receipts. The Alva man
ayers should study up on the art
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