El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-02
TAILENDERS RALLY AND TIGHTEN
UP CITY LEAGUE PERCENTAGES
Skeletons Play Classy Ball and Win From the Army Team
to Bakers Get Four Men Around the Sacks
and Shut Out the Millers $ Millers Win
the Saturday Game

a victory for the Bakers, was equally
as fast and full of snappy baseball as
the first game of the afternoon. al
though the score of to in the Bak-
ers' favor does not seem to show it
Ihere was plenty of brilliant fielding
and good heavy hitting, while pitcher
Armstrong pitched a game that few
have equaled on the local diamond.
Only twice, during the entire game,
did Miller reach the third station,
and each time he held them there, not
letting them get any farther. In the
inning he filled the bases with Miller
runners and when Doering dropped a
pitched ball he fielded at the plate and
caught Chenoweth at home, preventing
the Millers from scoring. The other
men that faced him in that inning he
famed with the bags filled at the time.
Only five hits were made off his de-
livery and although two of these were
for extra bases they amounted to
nothing.
The entire Baker team played a bril-
liant game, both at the bat and in the
field, making wonderful throws from
different places and catching the
MiIlers, the Caro-Breish-Th Thompson
route making two double plays over
players on first and second
The game began by Perkins making
a pretty single to right field, advanc-
ing to second on Thompson'S hit when
he beat out a bunt, and on to third by
a wild peg. The next three batters up
went out and left the two Bakers die
on bases.
Pretty Play at Plate.
The Millers became dangerous in
their half of the inning when ChenO-
Weth opened up with a clean twO-base
hit. Kiefer was safe on first on an
error and Chenoweth went to third
Hill walked and the bases were filled
with not man out Pitcher Armstrong
then began to work and when Barker
and LeyYa each had famed, his catcher
dropped the ball and ChenoWeth came
racing home. Doering, however, re-
covered the ball, and, tossing it to
Armstrong, caught the Miller shortstop
at the plate.
In the third inning the Bakers
crossed the home plate three times:
Thompson reached first on an error OF
Hills, in center field, and stole second.
With two down, Doering singled to left
and scored Thompson PomerOy fol-
lowed him UP and brought him home
with a three Dagger. Lyman then put
dropped it and POmeroy came home. 1t
took two hits and two errors to mako
the runs of this inning.
AIiIIers Caught in Il Double.
In the second half of the inning. with
the Millers at at, Cargo singled to
center and when Cheney drove one to
Caro-, at short, he hustled the ball to
Briesh and the second baseman sent it
flying to Thompson at first. Cargo and
Cheney both being caught in a. double
In the inning previous H. Grady had
singled and when he tried to advance
on the fair ball of Fassett, Caro- caught
the sphere at shore sent it to Briesh
at second. catching Grady and he sent
il to Thompson at first, getting FaSsett
there and retiring the side.
Doering made the final score for the
Bakers in the last inning when he
walked to first, was sacrificed to sec
ond by Pomeroy and scored on a freak
hit by Lyman.
Harry Kane officiated in the umpire
line and has proved the best of the
season. The players abided by his de-
cision. doing away with the customary
wrangling.
The score: