The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-07-08
ON THE DIAMOND
Sauk Centre Drops a Game to
MeIrOse July 3
GOOD BALL IS PLAYED
New Manager and Assistant Mana
ger Selected and Team Starts
Out to Win Games


head when he secured the new battery
for the Sauk Centre base ball team.
E. A. West of Emory, Wis, is classy
twirler, while Pat Collett of White
Bear is high grade back stop.
This battery was ION deck'' last
Thursday in contest with the Inter-
urbans of Minneapolis on the local
diamond. To say that they gave
good account of themselves is putting
it mildly. The fans are enthusiastic
and feel that Sauk Centre is going to
make a record during the remainder
af the season.
West is left-handed, and while not
in possession of large variety of
curves, yet he chews gum and smiles
and and mixes up balls and strikes in
a manner particularly puzzling to the
batter. He fields his position superb
ly. West certainly made good. Four
times at bat West scored hit, run,
struck out twice and stole second base
"a good enough record for the first
game and up against as good pitcher
as the visitors presented. West
struck out II men as against by
Klein the opposing pitcher.
Collett is good one behind the
bat. Few balls get by him and when
it comes to throwing to second he's
there with the goods every time. Of
the four times at bat, Collett waited
and walked once, struck out once,
flew out once and reached first base on
an error by second baseman Roken.
Mr. Collett plays the game and satis-
fies the fans.
The third new man, Chas. Bush of
Bemidji, showed up we'll on second
base, assisting in very pretty double
play, in single and putting out one
man. His batting was not particu-
larly brilliant, he scoring one hit out
of four times to bat, tanning out the
other three times.
The rest of the team played good
ball and but for an unfortunate in
jury to Hines in the second inning,
the score of to 1 i'm favor of the
home team might have looked better
for the locals "after the ball'. Hines
had distinguished himself in the first
by scoring a spectacular slide home,
running in from second on an infield
hit by Bouton. In the first half of
the second he made pretty stop of
hot grounder by Sable and fielded it
beautifully to first where Bouton was
Johnny on the spot. Hines came to
bat as fourth man in the second. He
was waiting for a good one, when along
came the shpere like bullet from
gun and hit him on top of the head,
rebounding thirty feet. The popular
and speedy short looked around help
lessly for a fraction of second and
then sank to the ground, the blood
| flowing freely from the wound. DR..
Moynihan took the case in hand and
Hines, unconscious, was carried into
the shade at the east end of the
grand stand. After some minutes
Of unconsciousness, the little player
recovered and after the game was
able to walk up town, though some-
what weak from the loss of blood.
Friday morning he felt better and the
doctor said he would be all right in a
few days. The game proceeded with
Nelson running for Hines, that play
er getting over the plate safely, Brady
following suit little later.
Hines'injury necessitated two changes.
Jones was called in from left field to
to short and Nelson took Jones'
place. The locals were slightly dis
concerted but continued to play the
game. An exceedingly pretty double
play in the eighth elected tumultuous
applause. O'Donnell was on first when
Mullen hit grounder to West who
fielded to Bush, catching O'Donnell,
Bush throwing back to first and catch
Mullen.
The visitors made a poor showing
early in the game but later on braced
up and kept the locals busy. Their
pitcher, Klein, is good one. The
locals scored twice In the first inning
and three in the second; after that
they could not get over the plate
again. The visitors scored their lone
rum in the fifth on an error by Meyers.
The game was largely a pitchers
battle, with West In the lead. The
locals also fielded much better than
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