Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-09-08
SChlITz TEAM WON
 FIRST OF SERIES
REPEATED CLEEG REGENERATION B1 VOTE OF 3 TO < BEFORE
 SMALL CROWD.
De;ver Was Hammered in First In. ming But Regained Control in
 Later Rounds.

The struggle for the baseball cham pionship of Pine Bluff is on The lads who perform in Schlitz uniforms trimmed the Claud Cleggs to s at Forest Park yesterday afternoon in game marked by free-hitting and loose fielding. At the same time the plucky manner in which the Schlitz overcame "a siX-run lead and forged ahead of their opponents and the ninth inning rally which put the Cleggs within one run of a tie kept the exceedingly sparse crowd on it's feet.
 Yesterdays game was the first of a series of three which the Cleggs and the Schlitz will play for the championship of the city. Though the latter outhit their rivals num- Der of their hits were of the scratch variety In other departments of the game the teams were evenly matched and the games that are to follow pro- mise to be hotly contested After the first inning Denver frightened up and had somewhat the best of the pitch ing argument.
 Young started the game with four consecutive balls to Franey. Taylor caught the first hall pitched to him on the trade mark and gave it ride down the right foul line tying up at second, Franey scoring. Taylor was promptly caught off the bag by Flour ney who had the ball in his hip pock- et Rebecca came in fast and got Wares loft back of third. Lieberman whiffed.
 z Tn their half of the initial round the Cleggs fell upon Deaver with a hombardment of hits which netted them six runs. The hits!aWere clean ones and it looked as though the youngsters had the ex-leaguer's num- her. Nichol, first up, got on when Ffaney dallied with his dust raiser. McAlexander singled through second. keilar delivered a line drive to cen ter just out of reach of Franey's out stretched hand Rebecca was there with rousing hingle, scoring Nc Alexander and Kellar. Sorrells pop ped to the box. FIournoy hit past third permitting Rebecca to register, but was himself forced at third. Holz- hauer grounded to Franey. Sanders was good for Texas Leaguer back of third. Young came clean with two-sacker to the center weed patch which put Holzhauer and Sanders across. Nichol hit to short left and was caught stealing.
 In the third the Schlitz added two tallies to the lonesome one they made in the first. Franey went down, Kel- lar to Sorrells. O'Connor hit to short center. Ware placed one down the third base line and he and the Irish lad worked double steal with the aid of a battery error Llebermah planted the pill over the center field CTS head for two cushions, pushing O'Connor and Ware over the pan. Ware advanced to third on Graves infield death but go not farther as Kellar froze to Sparks bounder ana got his man by step at first.
 The Schlitz annexed another count CT in the fifth and in the sixth base on balls, three singles and a double steal netted them three more. 1hls round was thriller. There were two outs and the cushions were congested Graves, at bat, had three balls ana two strikes called on him when ne delivered a mighty clout to right scoring O'Connor and Ware. Graves and Lieberman worked double