The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-03-06
ALLEN AND HIS BLuE-CLAD
HOST GO DOWN TO DEFEAT
BEFORE BIG AL.
NEW STR|KE-0UT RECORD
AlI-Star Pitcher Whiffs Twenty Three
Men, but Loses Just the Same
Lundstrom's Support Is Wei! Nigh
Perfect.

The Marathons. defeated in the in
itial game of the city championship
series, came back with a rush last
night and won from the P~atagonian
Allen and his supporters by a score of
5 to 4. The game was close and ex-
citing, hut it was not quite as fast as
the first battle. The Wearers of
B1ankenship's unies blew up in the
fifth and ornalnented the error col
umn with some success while allowing
the champions to Slip two me
across the rubber. At hat the game
was worth watching and was n deal
better than the sort of contests dished
up by the now lead and buried
Garden City league.
Allen wasn't able to mystify the dry
goods vendors with his usual success.
Though the lofty tWirler whitfield %
of his opponents he was touched up
for 10 safe blows and was wild with
men on bases. At that he pitched a
strong game and would probably have
won had his cosmopolitan supporters
played good ball behind him. His
strikeout record is unusually good and
establishes a new total for Missoula
indoor ball. Lundstrom, who faced
Allen, din't go after a whiting record.
He pitched steady ball and left a lot
of his work to the men behind him.
He got results, too. only one error
did the Marathons make and that was
on a hard throw to first.
The conglomerate stars looked due
to bring home the bacon at the start.
Peterson scored in the first. reaching
the initial sack on a bingle, going to
third on two passed balls and coming
home on a wild pitch. Burns tried to
steal home, but "a caught out and
Allen and Gleason famed.
The Marathons evened up the tally
in the fourth Scribner hit a scorch-
ing double into a flock of ladybugs at
the end of the hall and stole third on
the next ball. Allen made a desperate
effort to hold him there, striking out
Peters and Rummell, but the Old Man
slapped the pan when Lundstrom
drove out a safety.
The All-Stars didn't seem to worry,
though. They came right back with
| another score in their half of the
IDtIilS oNil viz d" ~ -
the balcony and went to third and
then home on wild pitches. Aller
broke his back on three fast ones anC
after hitting safely Gleason was
caught in the double play that fol-
lowed Pritchard's catch of Robertson
fly.
Then in the fifth came the bloW-uI
that gave the traders another lead
Schwartz hit safely and stole seconC
during the ensuing melee. Schwartz
tried to pilfer third On the mex throw
and was safe when Gleason threw the
ball away. The railroader started fol
home and got there just as Wise
heaved the ball toward the roof. Thea
Bailey Whammed one in the eye fol
two bases. He was safe at third or
Robertson's error and went home OF
a wild pitch. That was all. Aller
struck out the next three men.
The All-Stars didn't even crack the
run column in their division of frame
No. 5 and it began to look dubious
when the Marathons kicked their tai
ley a notch higher in the first of the
sixth. Peters singled and stole sec
ond. Allen made a mess of Rum
melrs easy bounder and Peters Went
to third, Rummell resting on first
Henderson bingled and Peters scored
Three strikeouts ended the session.
In their half of this inning the All
Stars braced a bit. Peterson stood a,
the plate while Lundstrom heaved
-four wild ones at him. Burns slipped
a hot liner into S%cribner's mitts, but
Allen sent his Scandinavian first base
man to third by uncorking a blow
Gleason walked and the bases, to falI
back upon Jack Helfrich. Were intox-
icated, Robertson struck out, cut ir
so doing attracted enough attention tC
himself to allow Peterson to stea,
home. Wise went out by the Rummel
to Scrihner route and a mighty prom
Using little rally gave up the ghost.
In the seventh and eighth the stellar
collection blanked the Marathons, sc
that the score stood 4 and 3 in the
final half of the eighth. Peterson