The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-06-09
STATE BASEBALL NEWS

There will be big game of baseball
next Wednesday at Leal between the
home team and the Kensal nine. The
two teams are great rivals and ii is ex-
pected that the contest will be warm
one.
Cogswell won from Newark in a list
less game too one sided to be interest
ing. Gilmore and Hoffman did the
pitching for Cogswell and z. Knapp
was up for the visitors The latter
was hit hard and his support was the
worst ever. Only seven innings were
played Score:
CogsWel ..........ss....22 $40 xii
Newark .................00 DOL 600 L. 2
Batteries-Gilmore, Hoffman and
Wolstad; Knapp and Blanchard.
The McHenry baseball team de-
feated the Binford bunch in a holly
contested game of ball by a score of
8 to /. The game was characterized
by spurts of brilliant playing on the
part Of both teams.
Oaks shut out the Havana ball team
Is to 0. Ladd, the mound man for the
visiting team was in good form. but
his support was very ragged at criti-
cal times. Jones, who tossed the game
for Cakes threw splendid game and
allowed but one hit.
With Gardner and Slingsby, the
Fargo college battery at the points,
Forman won from the Cogswell team
at the latter place by score of z to 2.
The game was a good one up to the
eighth inning when the visitors bunch
ed their hits and aided by errors piled
up four runs and cinched the game.
Gardner pitched good ball all the
way, striking out fifteen men and al
lowing but five hits He was steady
as clock and held the locals safe in
pinches.
The fielding Of both teams was rag
ged at times and only the work of the
pitchers kept down the score.
The visitors scored in the first in
ming on hits by Green and Rusness,
aided by errors the visitors got two
men across the rubber.
The visitors scored four in the eighth
after three men should have been re-
tired by consecutive hitting.
Cogswell scored in only one inning,
the third. After Hoffman had famed.
Montgomery beat out slow one. Dem
ming hit grounder to short. who
threw to second, but Merchant dropped
the throw. j. Wolstad scored both on
a long drive over Green's head.
Aside from the pitching of Gardner,
the work of Rusness. the Fargo college
short stop was the feature.
Hartland cleaned up the Coulee nine
easily by score of 16 to 6. Except
for a few errors at critical stages IL |
was a good game, especially so for
the first of the season.
The fast Glen Ullin team. which has
finally been strengthened materially. |
defeated the colored gophers Of st. |
Paul, by score of to /. The colored
men played a good game but were un-
able to hit Nelson effectively. The
next game to be played by Glen Ullin
will be with the fast white sox team
Of the capital city.
The page team journeyed to Erie |
wednesday afternoon and took the
fast Erie team into camp by the score
u to 2. Martin. who pitched for
The visitors, threw shut out ball fam
ming fifteen men and allowing onlv
three hits. The Page team excelled /
It the bat and in the field. having
ne game well in hand all along the
quite.
In the ball tournament held at Leo
lard on Wednesday, June z, the morn
ng game went to Sheldon over kim
ired by score Of to L. The first
game Of the afternoon Leonard won
over Chaffee in shut out game bv a
score of to 0. This put Sheldon ana
leonard in line for the finishing game
playing for a purse of $25. Leonard
cad in the start and had the game in
IS favor from the first inning with
final score Of 15 to 81 About 900
spectators Witnessed the game.