Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1912-05-31
win An EXCITING GAME
LrEALS DEFEAT BENTON CoUN.
TY SCORE 1 to 0-BRAINERD 8,
ST. CLOUD 2 IN II INNINGS

iii one Of the hardest fought games,
with Jake Thielman of American as
nociation fame and Al. Dominick, the
efficient southpaw twirler Of the home
Cram, opposing pitchers, Little Falls
wous oyer Sank Rapids at Athletic park
Inst, Sunday afternoon by the score Of
n to o. ''':'> J
At the same time Brainerd with Cook
in the box won an eleven inning game
Hntnn> St: Cloud on its home grounds by
szesscore of g. to 2, Harris doing the
ta1siifling for the tttgranite'' city; az
gzegation. The Brainerd-St. Cloud game
went seven innings without run and
in the ninth was tied at to e. -.
Thielman and Dominick were in the
best Of form and both pitched the class
Of ball that would have sent the game
INTO ;'the extra: innings but for. the
locals taking advantage Of an error in
Ghs sixth inning, when Berg, first up,
ssnt a fly to the right fielder, who drop
ped it, Dominick sacrificed him. to
second, and Berg scored on a mean one
Sy::. Thiegs through Helmet, barely
making it as Thielman relayed the. ball
90 Hodgins. Thiegs got around to second
hase on the throw-in and it looked az
slough the balloon was going up when
Eauerman Immediately afterward sin.
gled to center field. The out-fielders were
playing in close, however, and seeing
sAat he was blocked at the home plate
and in trying to get back to third base
ran out of bounds into the diamond
and was called out. Lauerman reached
second on the play. Greisch fouled out
% Murn.
Dominick got through his first in
ming in great style, and showed that he
was in excellent form by striking out
Hodgins, first man up, without that in
dividual swinging the bat once. The
next popped out to Theigs and the 9th
r retired Theigs to Lauerman.
Theigs,. first up, made things look
rosy, for the home team by connecting
FOX single, but in attempting to lay
DOWN Z bunt Lauerman popped one VI
5n,hurn, who made an easy double out
at,it, retiring Theigs on first base
Efeisch struck out.
IN the second inning, Stoll started
With a two-bagger to right field but
Thielman frightened up and struck out
Newman, Howard and Kingen.
The visitors attempted to take ad'
vantage Of Kingen g slowness in throw
ing to first, allowing Galerneau1t to
reach first, when Pappenfus sacrificed
aim to second with a perfect bunt,
Ehich was handled by Howard in a
manner that won him applause from
she grand stand and bleachers. N
Larson flew out to Stoll and Hodgins
struck out. Again in the fifth inning
ehings looked kind Of dubious for the
Soeals, when Murn singled to center
aeld and stole second, but Dominick
pulled the chestnuts out Of the fire by
retiring Galerneault, Pappenfus and N
carson via the strikeout route. With
s7voe down in the sixth inning Thielman
doubled with beautiful drive to just
left center, but Dominick again struck
gut the following batsman. In the
eighth, Pappenfus was given a pass
and was sacrificed to second by N
carson but was almost Immediately
caught off second by some clever play
ing of Dominick and Thiegs. Dominica
then struck out Hodgins for the fourth
time.
With one down in the eighth inning
Berg singled to left field, but Thielmar
finally got Dominick to fan the air and
Theigs grounded out to Galerneault.
Benton County attempted a ninth in
ming rally when Selke who had twice
previously flew out to Berg, sent q
fast fly to Berg and was retired. Thiel
man was safe on second on an over
throw Of first base by Kingen. Domin
Eek, however, was bound to keep thu
game in the nine innings and STRUCK
out Skates and Heinzel
Lineup and summary: