The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-07-11
PENSACOLAS
WINLAST GAME
FROM FLORALA
A HIT, AND ERROR, FOLLOWED BY
A HIT IN THE LAST HALF OF
THE NINTH SENT THE LONE
RUN ACROSS THE PLATE.

When things look dark; when things
look blue;
I clout the Pill mile or two.
My trusty club drives pitchers wild.
My first name "Bift," the pinch hit
child.
(Sunday memories Of Burmeister.)
won in the Ninth" is the title of a
highly entertaining piece Of baseball
literature from the pen Of one c.
Matthewson. 1t is likewise the title of
a piece Of baseball fact from the hands,
feet and noodle of one Burmeister L.
S. A, pitcher extraordinary and Incl
dentally a member of the flock thriving
on home cooking. Two down in the
ninth when the pitchers slam cops the
gravy one to naught! Can you beat
it? 1t surely listens like some of the
imaginative baseball perpetrated by G.
E. Van Loan and others Of like ilk be-
tween the lurid covers of the maya
zines. But the best part of the whole
blooming thing is, it was the real thing
and pulled off right under the noses of
some fifteen hundred wild-eyed fans,
who reared up on their hind legs and
yelled like a bunch of over-excited Co
manchs on the war path.
Burmeister was the pippin kid from
revielle to taps. He held the Florala
outfit right in the hollow of his clam
my paws and only once-in the ninth
did they travel as far as third. For
Manning, too, there was glory in de-
feat. He stood right up to his classy
opponent, shoulder to shoulder, swap
ping punch for punch, and only in the
last stride did he falter.
Florala didn't get a man on till the
fourth. They were absolutely helpless
before Burmeister. Graham's error
gave them their first life with one
down In the fourth, but no damage re
L, e
second and Manning smote the ozone.
White nabbed the first out town hit
in the fifth, a short fly to left putting
him on, but William and Carpenter
were easy. In the seventh Manning
was plunked on the arm. Bowden few
out to right. Weber making a pretty
catch. Hilson forced Manning at sec
ond and White whitfield. Farmer hit to
right in the eighth and took second on
Weber's wild return. He became am
bilious and tried to annex third on a
short passed ball and had only himself
to blame for his untimely end. In the
ninth we suffered all the tOrtures of
the Spanish inquisition, although it
was delightful torture withal, as per
follows: Wright beat out a slow one
to short for a hit and went to second
on Glover's sacrifice. Manning, the
mighty. hit to the left of the box, but
Burmeister knocked it down and caught
Wright at third by a lightning throw
Bowden hit to right, Manning Looping to
third and Bowden to second when
Weber let il bound merrily along. This
nut a man on second and one on third
Hilson caught one on the piccolo, but
Griffin got in the way, and huzzas
echoed rOunda bout like hdilstones on
the rooftree.
We pecked away at Manning right
persistently, but found the going hard
nevertheless. Jones met the first ball
pitched in the first inning for a lalla-
paloosa to center. but Graham mangled
the sunlit atmosphere and Roache hit
into a double play. Lurton hit to right
in the second. but the stickers follow
ing were unable to punch safely. Jones
beat out his second hit in the third
after Gordon had reached second via a
punctured back and Burmeister's sac
rifce, but Graham and Roache went
back to the bench Porter hit to cen
ter with two down in the fourth, but
Griffin was dessicated by Glover and
Hilson- After Gordon and Burmeister