The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-08-12
PIERCf'S
fine SHOWING
Baseball Team Shuts Out Com
petitOrs in Two Games
BALL GAMES DIVIDED
Won and Lost One Game Each to West
Palm Beach and st. Petersburg
Fine Game Today.

Baseball the past week has excited
the interest of our citizens to marked
degree, four big league games having
been played, in two of which the crack
Fort Pierce team has shut it's competi-
tor out without single run, while only
scoring one for themselves.
The first games were played at West
Palm Beach last Thursday and Friday
afternoons, Palm Beach winning the
first game by score of 4 to 2, while
the second game was captured by Fort
Pierce by score of to 0.
Monday and Tuesday afternoons the
crack army team from Forts Dade and
Gaines, called the st. Petersburg team,
played the locals on the Fort Pierce
diamond. As usual lately, Fort Pierce
lost the first game, the visitors winning
by score Of to 6. The game was
full of errors on both sides, and almost
every error meant run. The second
game was one of the most brilliant speci.
mems of the National game ever seen
here, and possibly no better game was
witnessed anywhere in the United States
the same day. Fort Pierce was victori-
Gus, winning by score Of to O.
A most interesting game was played
on the local diamond yesterday after.
noon between West Palm Beach and
Fort Pierce. Another game between
the same teams will play again this at
ternoOn at o'clock.
The local team is endeavOrng to
have Miami come up the first OF next
week for series of game, and they
will also have other teams visit Fort
Pierce during the present month.
The Palm Beach News of last Fridry
contained the following account of the
first game played at that place:
West Palm Beach vs.. Fort Pierce,
Thursday afternoon on the East Side
diamond played the finest article of the
National game seen on our home grounds
since the famous shut out game be-
tween West Palm Beach and st. Au.
gustine four years ago. when we took
the visitors scalp by score of 2 to 0.
Yesterday it was not shut out, but
fast game with close score OF a to z
in favor of the home team.
The famous 81. ZOO Marquad Beauty
Wyndam was on the firing line for Fort
Pierce, and Littrell did the twirling for
the home team.
1t was fast fielding game, as only 4
hits were recorded against Littrell and
6 against Wyndam. The work of our
infield was league ball class. Only three
errors are recorded against the home
team and they came at times when
thew were not costly. The support be-
hind "Marquad" Wyndam was loose
at times. Several errors let men to
first.
One unfortunate feature of the game
was the spiking of Bennett, of Fort
Pierce, on first by Sylvester as the rum
ner was making dash for first base.
The Miami Metropolis contained the
following account of the second game
played at Palm Beach,:
The classiest game of ball ever play
ed On the Palm Beach diamond was
pull d off today in ten inning game
between West Palm Beach and Fort
Pierce. Until the first half of the
tenth inning not score was made and
only four times had man gotten as
far as third base for either team: 1t
was then that the "Kid Member" on
the Fort Pierce team, Charlie (Howard)
Horton, Jr., succeeded in scoring the
one run of the day.
Again this lad had the opportunity of
adding laurels to his splendid record of
the day when in the last half of the
tenth inning West Palm Beach had
bases full, two men out, and Littrel. one
of the teams heaviest hitters, at the
bat. Littrel got heavy swing at the
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