The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-13
LOCALS WIN OUT
AGAINST DULUTH
Baseball and Giveaway is
Freely Mixed in the First
Game With White Sox.
AN D SITUATION
Duluth Starts Thickness and
is Beaten BY the Locals
at Game.

(By .."Elie.")
Grand Forks won the first game
Of the series from Duluth last even
ing, 5-4. and after the seven innings
had been played the fans were anus
ed with an aftermath that was I'M
usual, funny and at the same time
disappointing.
At the end of the seventh. as stated.
the tally stood with the lead in the
locals favor. In the Duluth half of
the eighth Erickson walked. Hoffman
hit and an error by Bell left both
GraW came along and damned out
q neat three base hit, scoring all
three and putting himself on the
third sack a.. Then is when the inter-
esting thing. happened.
According to Umpire Hall, Manager
O'Brien of Duluth ordered his men
to get out as quickly as possible. as
Duluth was two scores ahead SO
Grand Forks could have her bat in
finished. the game called and Duluth
be the victor.
Manager Lohr hearing Of this evil
IDENTIFY decided to beat the visitors ut
their own game and Immediately the
local tossers started dropping balls,
missing flies, overthrowing and what
not. In order to give Duluth every
thing possible and avoid putting the
head of the lake men out . This kept
Hall became Disguised at what he
termed a farce. and it was becoming
rather dark anyhow. so he called the
game, ruling that it went back to
the. seventh inning, this making
Grand Forks the winner by a score
Of s to T.. Manager O'Brien of the
Duluth team announced that. he
would protest the game to the presi-
dent of the league. SO what the final
outcome will be is q matter Of con-
lecture.
OF course the action of both teams
one. in trying to get out as quickly
as possible the other to try and make
them play as long as possible-is not
above criticism . AS one fan express
ed it at is baseball. but not exactly
the highest type of the game" How
ever the case may be. the manage
ment' will make some sort Of an
games in the future 80 that a possi-
bility of q further game of this kind
will be done away with.
In all probability there will be an
agreed time for calling the game or
a stipulated number Of innings play
ed, and in this way possibility of un-
pleasantness will be overcome.
in every detail and the locals played
a better brand of baseball than they
have for ONE time. Duluth nego-
tiated three scores in the first inning.
after Hyzer had dropped a fly Of
Kuehn's. letting the Duluthian nego-
tiate three bases. Then Van Dine
juggled a grounder of McGraw's.
which took a bad bound and Bluhm
hit scoring Kuehn. Leber sacrificed
and Sours took first on a fielder's
choice with no putout. o'Brien rails
caught and then Bluhm scored from
third after holding until the fly was
caught, according to the ruling of
Umpire Hall &. Sours caught going
from second to third on the ny
caught by Hyzer.
Duluth's only other score came in
the second inning when Erickson.
first up. made three base hit and
scored on a passed ball by Edmunds.
half Of the first, DeHaven walking,
CAnty singing and Van Dine scoring
both on a singing grounder through
short and second.
In the third frame the locals made
three more, Van Dine lining out a
two-bagger. Foster walking and Att
man getting on through a fielder's
choice, Foster being out at second.
With two men on. Bell poked out a
as. far as the fence. making the local
tally five.
This ended the legitimate scoring
Of the game although both teams had
some nice chances throughout, which
failed to materialize.