The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-06-18
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Score.

baseball aggregation in this neck
OF the woods. On that fair day at
East End Park and before the larg-
est crowd of the season, the vaunt-
ed Greensboro Grays stacked up
against our Oil Magnates. The
Owensboro bunch came with quite
a formidable reputation as expert
performers In every branch of the
national game, and they undoubted-
ly delivered the goods" but they
were entirely unprepared for the
little surprise we had in store for
them.
At 2:30 O'Clock. with the in
terest of the bugs" at fever heat,
Umpire Marvin Miller called play
BALI" For Hartford. Richard and
Thorpe were on the points. Pirtle,
an old Ohio county boy, and Bean
performed for the Grays in the
same positions.
The fun began i'm the first few
minutes of play, and for awhile, il
looked like our boys would knock
the visitors twirler out of the box.
In the first period Green, the first
man at the bat for the locals. reach
ed first when the visitors backstop
failed TO hold the third strike. Tay-
Tor laid down nifty bunt, sacrific-
ing the runner to second. Then il
was that Richard, Hartford's twirl-
err. got his bat on the ball and pro-
ceeded to lose it beyond the left
field fence, at the same time scor-
ing Green.
This sort of an opening was what
was necessary to give our boys the
required pep" and they began
SLOWLY but surely to walk away
with the game. In the second bout
neither side was able to count. but
in our half of the third the home
lads laid up another tally when
Richard scored from second on a
two-b2eger by Barnett. We added
another counter in the next period.
To push things, Pup" Thomas and
Thorpe each helped himself to a
pretty single and the former scored
On a wild throw to second before
the. Distillers could retire the re-
CURED three men.
In the fifth inning the locals
again managed to collect a bunch
of pretty hits and as a result Green
came in with Hartford's final score.
The next session was barren of re-
suits to both sides, but in the
seventh Greensboro took a brace
and managed to get their first man
into counting territory.
At this point the Grays staged
rather extensive batting rally OF
which the headliners were q brace
of two-baggers by Pirtle and Rich
ardson and as many runs as a re-
suit. In the next inning Bean, the
visitors backstop, came across with
timely double and before the
smoke had cleared away, managed
to get across the home plate with
their last run and also the last of
the game. After one more try at
the bat by the Greensboro boys the
fun was over.
On the whole this was very
pretty game, both teams putting
up a high class article of ball.
The victory meant a great deal to
our boys, for we had defeated per-
haps the best and certainly the
most feared semi-professional team
in this part of the State 1t is re-
GREETED that the game was marred
bv the constant "beefng" of some
of the Owensboro players and the
very disgraceful and unsportsman-
like treatment of Umpire Miller by
ceDtertielder Woodward and second
baseman Wilmer, of the Greensboro
team, which resulted in Miller's re-
fusal to finish the game and neces-
STATED the drafting of r. r. Collins
to umpire the remainder of the
contest. In which, as always. he
gave full satisfaction. The follow
ing WAS tha