Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-06-16
BEAT LONG PRAIRIE
Locals 0utplay Champion
ship Contenders-
Score s to 4

at Athletic park last Sunday when AL
Dominick, the star twirler of the local
club and ''Blondy" Liese, he Of big
league and American association fame,
who occupied the mound for the
visitors, met as opposing pitchers
when the Blues took on the fast Long
Prairie team, and defeated it by the
score of . to 4.
Both south paw hurlers started in
wrong at the very outset,
Dominick hitting Thiegs, first up,
with a pitched ball. the runner then
stealing second and advancing to third
on a wild throw by Dominick. The
team pulled out of this hole. however
Young flying out to Wagner, Olson
striking out and Liese flying out tn
Lauerman. Not so with Liese. He
passed Howard. first up in the local. S
half of the first inning. Greisch went
out to Thiegs on foul fly, then Lauer.
man rolled a grounder to Liese, who
threw wild in attempting to catch
Howard at second and the latter
finished his way around the diamond
to the home plate for the first run OF
the game. Wagner and Stoll struck
out.
The locals were likewise first to get
the hits, K1ngen connecting for q
single IN the second and Greisch a
single in the third inning, both OF
which counted for nothing, however.
Three more runs were scored by the
locals in the fourth inning. A two.
Dagger by Stoll, a wild throw by
Thiegs on dropped third strike OF
Newman's on which Stull scored, a
pass to Hail. who then stole second,
Kingen's strikeout. and an error on
Football Maynard in handling one oil
Dominick's bat along the first base
line on which Newman and Hall both
crossed the pan, was the method.
Howard flew out to Shoemaker and
Greisch struck out.
In the fifth the visitors came back
with two runs. Weidel made first on
Stoll's error, went third on Shoe
makers two-bagger, Maynard flew out
to Howard, and Sheets brought the
two in on a single to right-tield. With
one down in the locals half of this in.
ming, Wagner was passed, advanced to
second on Stoll's single, stole third and
scored on an error by Thiegs. New
man was retired Thiegs to Maynard,
but Hall singled to r,ght-field, scoring
Stoll. Hall was caught trying to steal
second. This ended the scoring for
the home boys.
In the sixth inning Young, tor the
visitors, was passed, stole second and
third bases; Olson flew out to Kingen,
Liese out on foul to Howard, and
Young scored on Weidel's two-bagger.
Shoemaker struck-out. Long Prairie
scored ITS fourth and last run in the
eight inning. Thiegs made first on
Halls error on a fly, stole second
where he remained while Young and
Olson struck out and was brought in
on Liese's two. bagger over the center
tielder's head. Weidei was retired
Howard to Lauerman on a dropped
third strike.
It looked like another run for the
Blues in the eighth when Stoll singled
to left field but on a dropped third
strike, Newman started running for
first base and little indecision on
Stoll's part led him to start to the first
sack, evidently not remembering that
Newman was out on the third strike
whether it was caught or not, and he
was retired on the play. Hall struck
out for the third out. There was moth
ing doing in the ninth inning for the
visitors, and it was a sad but wiser
bunch that left for the Prairie that
night.
"Slow' Batters and Long Prairie
man were the officials and umpired a
very fair game. Thiegs hurt his hand
in the eighth inning and F. Maynard
went in tor right field, and Olson came
in to catch.