The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1909-08-12
The National Game Like Fiends..
L0velOck Learns the Fact.
FINAL SCORE READS fOUR.TWO
With Fallon on the Long End. Our
Boys Play the Most Brilliant Game
Ever Seen on the Local Field.

playing honors, listen to tale of ball
playing valor from this little vale of milk
and honey, whose team played the
fairest, fastest, fanciest game last
Sunday against the Lovelock swatters
ever seen in these parts In fact, we
think we are wholly within the bounds
of truth when we say that last Sunday s
exhibition was little short of professional
ball and the snappest contest that was
ever pulled off on diamond in the
State of Nevada. Sounds strong,
doesn't it, but there are five hundred
fans who will pat this paper on the
back in the assertion and the limping
but game Lovelockers took just this
sort of an impression home with them,
too.
w. r. Fits, manager of the Love-
lock team, arrived with his boys on
Sundays train, accompanied by several
of the faithful from the Humboldt
alfalfa town. The boys came over
here with all the confid snce that comes
from hanging successive defeats on
the FaIlon and Reno teams and bets
were freely offered locally at odds of
two to one that Lovelock would win.
Most of these bets found takers, but
the saying that prophet was never
without honar, save in his own country,
holds good here. We never knew be-
fore Sunday just how fast our lads
could cover ball playing territory under
high pressure.
The game was called Sunday after
noon at three o'clock with the largest
crowd of fans present that ever attended
a bail game in Fallon. Interest was at
high pitch from the start and the loYal
Fallon rooters got TO work with the
first ball pitched and never let up until
the game was finally decided.
Rossi, the salaried pitcher of the
Lovelock team was said 10 be over
confident. At any rate, while he put a
good ball over the plate, and had ex-
cellent support, his one bad inning
sufficed to prove the undoing of the
Lovelockers, and we do not believe
that he is in the same class as George
johnson, who hit fewer batsmen,
fielded his position better and struck
out twelve men to Rossi's eight. This
tells the story of the pitchers battle,
but not SO the players. Individual work
in both the infield and outfield by men,
bers of both teams was of such high
order that it certainly smacked of
professional ball and the lads from Love-
lock were simply amazed at the manner
in which their apparently safe hits
were nabbed time and again by the
local fielders.
Neither team scored in the first or
second inning, although the Lovelockers
looked dangerous in the second. With
man on second and one on third,
Rossi came to bat, but could not con-
meet with the spheroid and the score
remained nothing The home
team got busy in their half of the third
inning and when the smoke of the
battle had cleared away, four scores
had been chalked up to their credit.
which came from three safe hits, a
sacrifice and passed ball. Lovelock
had already annexed one run in the
first half of the third, which together
with another run garnered in the
succeeding inning, constituted their
score. After the fateful third inning
Fallon never sent player across the
home plate, although number Of play
ers reached third. Each time, Rossi
frightened up and retired the side.
One of the crudest attempts at a
double steal imaginable was made by a
the Lovelock boys in the first inning,
but pitcher johnson put quietus on
the plot and retired the side. After
this attempt was foiled the invpding
lads had more respect for the Fallonites
and confined themselves to legitimate
ball until in the sixth inning when First
Baseman Bridges of the Lovelock team
hit dinky grounder and in trying to
beat it out, kicked the ball out of the
reach of Pitcher Johnson, who was try
ing to field the ball. Fallon's pitcher
took the act as an insult and made a
smash at Bridges, receiving one in re-
turn, and the boys were Immediately
separated. Those who witnessed the
overt act did not blame johnson.
In the fifth inning Catcher Earl
Johnson received an injury from a de-
hected grounder, but he nervily played
the game out and caught good con-