The daily sentinel., 1910-06-14
TRINIDAD LOSES
To LOCALS
4 To |
Snappy Game Opens
Series.

About 200 people were present
when the Trinidad series with the
Smudgers opened this afternoon in
this city.
Umpire Swearingen announced the
| batteries-Nash and Briefly for the
visitors and Pratt and Anheir for
the home boys-and the game start
ed promptly on time.
A few changes were noted in the
Grand Junction lineup. as the home
boys were out for blood The hole
in center field, caused by the resig-
| nation OF Washer, was filled by Cap
tain Jimmy Moorehead, and Gaffey,
new man. held down third base.
Foster took Moorehead's right-leld
position, and Whittle played second
base, Clarke holding down the bench
The game opened up with much
enthusiasm. and Trinidad had to be
satisfied without scoring in the first
inning, while the Smudgers trotted
on the field with one to their credit.
Moorenead brought in the lucky
one run by securing first base on a
single and second on an error: and
Gaffey. the new man, introduced him
self most favorably by scoring Moore
head on a single.
Then the game was on, and Ii was
a good one. Grand Junction did well
in securing the one run before the
game settled down to business.
Beyond a doubt, the series is to be
the best which has been witnessed
here this year.
The Trinidad team is the fastest
that has yet journeyed to Grand
Junction, and some fast and spec
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noon.
My! how natural 1t seemed, Trim
ibid as usual slater beefing as soon
as the game opened His jumps de-
clared a foul ball but Trinidad tried
to see that the batter had been hit
with the ball. OF course, his honor
held firm, and the game went on as
soon as Trinidad had gotten some
thing out of their system.
But peace was not for long. Nash
performed baseball operation quite
skillfully with his spikes on Nc
Hugh's ankle. and for while the
big first-sacker and the opposition
pitcher said sadly impolite things to
each other. This small affair being
smoothed over. the next on the pro-
gram was a second-base debate, the
result of which was that Gaffey was
declared out at second
Meanwhile. three innings had
passed By with the score unchanged
- to o in favor'of the home boys.
In the next two innings Foster
demonstrated the act that he could
play as good game in the out field
as he could infieldl He pulled of two
long hits which were simply scream
ers, both of which performances pre-
vented Trinidad from scoring He
deservedly received much applause.
Craig, the Miners center field, by
fast running was able to smother a
| sky-rocket drive from Captain Moore
heads bat. 1t was one of the features
of the game.
The sixth was an exciting inning
Bates was hit by a pitched ball. He
went to second on scratch hit of
Nash s, and to third on hunt, that
was fielded by Pratt However. he
did not score. In trying for home he
was caught out at the base by An
heir on a play which left Craig on
the first base, fielder's choice.
This made two gone: but things
were still about as exciting as pos
sible. The relief came when Moore
head caught the third man out from
| chance to score was lost for the time.
This inning was more than inter-
| esting, and Trinidad tried her best
to even the score. The playing was
fast and snappy. and probably about
as good baseball as has been seen
here this year was exhibited
In the sixth inning Grand Junction
filled the bases on two wild throws
| giving them two more scores. The
| game now stood 3 to 0 in favor of
Grand Junction
1t took pitching on Pratts part to
pull the game through in the eighth
| inning, as a three-base hit gave the
visitors man on third with no outs.
| But Pratt was game and good for it
| all. Two men We're unable to even
clip the ball, and the third man went
out on an easy one, second to first.
| and the trick was done
Trinidad got two hits in the eighth
but did not make any dangerous eff
forts to score.
In the eighth McHugh hit out a
| clean home run, bringing in the
fourth score for Grand Junction. 1t
was a pretty play and received due
amount of applause from the jubi-
liant fans, and also upheld the big
| irst-baseman's reputation as a slug
ger.
Trinidad made one run in the ninth
by timely hitting, but the game end