The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-06-12
FOURTEEN STRIKE.
OUTS FOR LEIGH
Pitched a one-Hit Game
Picketts Won Close Game
Score 2 to1

mSs
some Of the best baseball seen here
this year was played when the Pick
etts defeated the Grafton nine ON
Sunday by score Of 2 to /.
Leigh pitching for the Pickets Twill
ed one Of the fanciest games of his
baseball career, striking out fourteen
of Spike Spanton's pets and making
the redoubtable Spike" forget that
he ever knocked home run. From
start to finish Leigh tossed the pellet
in magnificent form and had the whole
Grafton goatherd corraled in about
two innings. The visitors managed to
get one hit in the ninth but the game
was neatly tucked away at that time.
The weather man has all his physic-
ians on the job today poulticing the
gashes the Grafton bunch cut in the
atmosphere.
Grafton got their lone score in the
fifth frame. Thomas struck out, and
Johnson got in the way of one of
Leigh's fast ones. He took his base
and stole second, Seim struck out and
Mckay clouted one along the ground
to right field. Eddie McIlraith was on
the job and steamed the ball to Gull
dickson at first, the ball came high
and Gullickson had to reach for the
pellet, which dropped out of his nit
and Johnson crossed the pan.
Leigh, who had been pitching great
ball up to this time. stiffened up and
held his opponents, with a grip like
a bulldog attaching himself to q
tramp's pantalettes. for the rest of
the game. In the next inning, the
first half Of the sixth, three pitched
balls retired the side; Williams fly
ing out to Evans and Gilroy and An
derson connecting with the ball for
easy throws to first.
The Picketts started things in the
last of the sixth. Ludwig walked to
the rubber and got to first on an err
ror by Seim. Hallet. struck out, Ed.
McIlraith walked, Ludwig going out
trying to sneak second. Evans who
did great work during the game in
the sticking line, hunted one down
towards shortstop, who made "a wild
throw to first base, Ed. McIlraith,
who had taken second on wild pitch
and stolen third on Evans bingle,
coming in on the wild pitch, tying the
score.
In the first of the seventh the Graf
tontown terror, Spike Spanton, of
Northern league fame, picked up q
suitable wagon tongue and sent a
beautiful fly for the right field fence.
The ball started out for Conmy's
garden and was carried by the wind
to right field where Eddie McIlraith
glommed 1t. McIlraith, as soon as he
saw tie smoking shot leave on trip
for the deep, deep field, turned his
back on the grandstand and beat it
for somewhere, the ball and Eddie
colliding about two feet from the
fence. McIlraith picked 1t out of the
air with his attired claw, making one
of the nobbiest catches Of the sea-
son. Very impolite of him.
The Picketts got their winning run
in the last half Of the eighth on q
hit, walk and an error by Thomas
Chandler assailed the inoffensive out
of doors and went back to the bench.
Ludwig leaned an easy one to first
base. With two out Hallett came to
bat and made the fans feel like his
nickname when he boosted out "a
glorious single, stole second, and
wandered to third when nobody was
looking, racing home on low pitch
by johnson which Thomas failed to
handle.
Leigh surely earned his shekels in
Sundays game and pitched some Of
the finest ball ever seen in this part
of the U. s. A. The game was en-
bellished by number Of fancy pieces
of bricabrac. Eddie McIlraith had the
fans on tiptoes when he COPIED Span
tons try at awaiting a pill over the
fence Evans picked a peach from the
atmosphere in the sixth, making a
pretty running catch. He kept up his
batting average in the Grafton game
and led Johnson's angora around by
strinng every time he faced the up
state twirler. He managed to get
three hits out of four times to bat and
got to first the other time by an err
ror, the ball seemed to come to his
bat like a fly to molasses.
The game was pretty much pitch