Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-07-02
Base Ball

were the cOntending twirlers
Each team secured four hits and
made one error. Hutchinson scor'
ed in the sixth inning. Stanley
got a hit, was sacrificed to sec.
Ond, and on long hit by link
came home. In the Seventh
Great Bend had a fair chance to
score, but not quite fair enough
In speaking of this game the Hut
Crimson News said, TT is hard to
think of a better game than that
one yesterday and there should
have been more of the fans out
This Great Bend series is furn-
ishing some rattling good ball
games, just as good as you see
anywhere. P"
fridays game went like all
the rest. For Hutchinson by a
score of 5 to 3. Watson, the
new man started in on the mound
u! p1Eq4 g pue quo 1a4ge ana
ming, during which time he walk
ed two men and permitted two
hits he was yanked and Maple
put in his place. Lefty passed
two men, struck out three, and
gave five hits. JOkerst got a
hot one on the thumb in this
game which has laid HIM off for
catching for a few days, and Mr..
King in a squeeze play while ne
was at the bat, had two fingers
busted which has put him out OF
the game. for a week or more.
This left the team badly shot to
pieces. The MillerS secured SIX
hits off of Heine Schmidt, and
made four errors, while the Salt
Packers gathered in Z hits and
had only two errors.
Owing to the crippled cOndi-
ton Of the team, there was moth
ing doing at Hutchinson in the
next two games. The lineup was
shifted around considerable toI
make even a Semblance of show
ing. Saturdays game read like
this. Great Bend, 5-1O-5, Hut
Crimson, 7-9-1. Salm started to
pitch for the Millers but was re-
iieved by Maple. Smith did the
stunt for the Salt Packers.
Sundays game was the worst
of all. With Green in the box,
Kennedy and Horack playing ]
regular positions, all Others be-
inc shifted around, the boys
tried to make a contest, but could
not. In the seventh inning Green
who was being hit hard, was re-
lieved by Salm. The close Of the .
game exhibited a score OF III to !
l in favo rOf Hutchinson. The
Salt Packers made II hits off
Green lin 6 innings, one off Salm
in three. They had two errors to
Great Bend 6. The AillerS got!
six hits off of Donovan, the SOr-
rel Top. Cleary umpired all the
games in the Hutchinson series,
and aside from what the score
would have been under the con-
ditiOns, he helped much to make
it worse than it would have been.
They say in HutchisnOn that
Cleary is a good umpire. He ma,
be for some. But his work at
Great Bend, and what we have
seen at other points, Indicates
that he is so rotten THAT a gar
bage wagon would pass him up.
If there is a straight hair in his
head, it must have gotten there
by accident. His work here lndl-
Gates the truthfullneSs of this as
SertiOn.
The team began a series at
Wellington Monday. They lost
the first game, Z to 2. Watson,
the new man pitched. The Dukes
made Z hits off of him, while he|
struck out s men, heissued 9 pass
es. The Millers had 4 hits and z
errors. The Dukes also had Il
errors. j
On Tuesday the boys seemed
to get on the right side Of the
game again, winning from thel
Dukes by the sore of 8 to q
Each team got Z hits, the Dukes
had 2 errors andthe Millers IL
Maple and Mcdowell did the fan
cy work.
Wednesday the tables were
turned, the Dukes winning by al
score of 5 to 2. Salm was on|
II or,5 for the Millers. butt