The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-04-25
TRINITY IS THE VICTOR
W|Ns.FROM VENUS TEAM
The Visitors from johnson County
Lost by Score of 5 to "A
Clean Game Played.

In the game of baseball Monday
between Venus and Trinity Univer-
sty, the latter team won by the
score of 5 to A. Both teams played
gilt-edge ball and it was practically
anybody's game until the last man
was out in the ninth inning. An
derson started the game for Trini-
| ty but seemed to have an oft-day and
was relieved by Sealy at the end of
the third inning. Sealy appeared to
| be Venus hoodoo, as they could get
| but one hit during the balance of
the game.
| The scoring began in the first in
ming. Russell for Venus struck out.
| D. Reed singled to right but was out
from Mckee to McElree, trying to
play Ty Cobb and stretch it into
two bases. Burleson singled and
| scored a moment later on s. Reed 8
| two Dagger. Reed scored when r..
McElree threw wild to first base.
| C. McElree ended the agony by
grounding out to Chapman. In Trim
tvs half, R. McElree went out the
deadly route, short stop to first.
wilkins, taking it for a good exam
pie. duplicated, Webb was safe on
a missed third strike, stole second
| and scored when Hurt singled to
right Mckee was hit by pitched
ball but died on first as Wicker was
thrown out from short to first.
In the second inning Howe was
safe on Chapman's error and went
to third on Smiths two Dagger,
scoring moment later on passed
ball by Wicker Russell hit an in
field fly to Hurt Smith was thrown
out at the plate by McElree in an at
| tempt to score on d. Reeds ground
er. Burleson sent Reed to third
with a single, but s. Reed could do
no more than fly out to Mckee in
right Trinity's men went out in
one, two three order.
In the third inning, Venus failed
to score altho Sanburn registered a
game McElree was given free
transportation to first. Wilkins
came to the rescue with a neat sin
gle. Then the uneXpected-to Venus
happened. Webb calmly stepped
to the plate and sent the ball almost
to the street out through right field,
for the entire circuit scoring Nc
Elree and Wilkins before him.
At the beginning of the fourth,
SeGly took the mound for Trinity.
Smith was safe on Hurts error
| went to third a moment later on
| Green's error and scored on a wild
pitch. From this time on, Venus
! was unable to occupy FIRST long at a
time, In Trinity's half of the fourth
Green and Chapman singled in sue
cession, but the former was forced al
third by SeaIy. Chapman stole third
and scored the last run of the game
| on McElrce's out from short to first
| For Venus, the work of d, Reed at
short and S. Reed at first featured
The former accepted / 2 chances with
only one miscue and the latter took
scalps to his credit For Trini-
ty, all did good work. The pitching
of Sealy was the main feature.
During the six innings he pitched, he
allowed but one scratch hit, which
should have been fielded. In the
meantime. he sent nine men around
the windmill route
Score by innings:
Venus 2 I 0 0 0 0 0 o.
Trinity 0 3 l 0 0 0 0 s.
Earned runs Venus /, Trinity A
base on balls, off Sealy /, off Smith
2; wild pitches, Sealy / two base
hits, S. Reed home runs, Webb;
struck out, by Smith, 2; Anderson
3; Sealy 8; double plays. McElree
| to Green to Hurt; passed balls,
Wicker; hit by pitcher, Sanburn,
| Barnes, Mckee and Green.
Batteries; Smith and Burleson;
Anderson, Sealy and Wicker. UNI
| pire, Poindexte-.