The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-05-19
FARGO College
lost TO THE u.

The wireless messages sent to the
Forks after the first inning of he f.
Gu. N. d. game Saturday must have
caused a general blowout at the uni
v%ersity. What struck the locals in the
first inning is the question. Whether
the Jingle of the first big game was
too much, or whether Dame Fortune
handed one to the visitors will never
be known. What did happen was the
slipping in of four runs for the uni
Versity right off the bat in the first in
ming. With this lead against them on
the score book, Coach Watkins bunch
settled down to business, but the hand
leap was too much, and the game end
ed with the big end for the U, 5 to 2.
game in spite of the symptoms of rain,
and all agreed that a good game had
been pulled off, with the exception Of
that first hoodoo inning.
didn't see the plate in time, walking
the first two men up. Heising landed
on an error by Ellis, the f. C. first
baseman, and Burfenning connected
Cling of James bingle landed one
more on first. Heising brought. in the
next run followed by Sagen, the big
university third baseman.
Captain Drummond's cubs came to and
held the visitors. Palfrey got his eye
and worked we'll with Rolfe at the re-
ceiving end. ~Burfenning, who did
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ball game last winter, seemed to have
his horse shoe with him again, hav-
ing things coming his way all the time.
His windup was peculiar and his style
a little puzzling. The majority of the
balls sneaked into some ~tnfielder's init
for an easy out at first. Sagen on
third scooped up the majority.
Lawrence ran around to third in the
fourth inning on errors. He got first
on a high peg to first by Harper, the
U short stop; ran second, where he
was hit in the ear by the ball, chang
ing it's course. When the dust had
had come in ahead of Robinson's peg
from behind second base. h chance
of scoring was lost by the men fol-
lowing with stick, Aronson being the
one for Burfenning.
The university nearly added one
more to their column In the score book
in the sixth, when Fargo got all balled
second on a high throw from short to
first. James swung low shooting out a
high fly that pulled frost off third
toward second. Rolfe, catcher, ran
pitcher or second baseman. and Ellis
ran home from first to cover the scor-
ing corner. University retired on bin
gle to Palfrey.
The next score was rolled in on a
wild heave in the eighth when Burfen-
ming came in on an aero-drive over
first.
h only runs made by Fargo were
in the eighth inning. Ellis landed an
easy n to Sagen, out at first. Boise
up with one strike, Withdrawn in favor
of Carpenter, who caught a speedy one
in the left arm and got on: Tillotson,
up for Palfrey, dropped an easy one
for Heising, catcher. Carpenter went
to third on Rusness' single. Rusness
stole second, and both crossed the plate
on a pretty hit by frost.
Aronson pitched the last inning for
the locals in good style, pulling off two
easy strike-outs. With a man on third
he held the last batter down to an easy
infield pop-up to short.
MISUNDERSTANDING p; Harper
IS; Heising G; Sagen 3b; James 2b;
McCutcheon If; Robinson CT; Swenson
rf: Lowe 1b:
p; Rolfe C; Ellis 1b; BUSINESS 2b; Drum
mond IS; frost 3b; Boise If; Lawrence
CT; Aronson IF; Tillotson IF; Carpen-
ter IF.
Score:
Fargo college, % 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 ? Is
Base on balls off Palfrey in eight
innings, 2; off Burfenning, O.; struck
out, Palfrey 5, Aronson 2; by Burfen-
ning Z; wild pitch; Paifrey z; stolen
Carpenter. Umpire George Holzer. !.
Fargo college lines UP against the A.
G.. next Wednesday at Dakota field for
the first city game. h fans are all
in readiness for a coed contest; n
against Fargo college, the A. c. having
beaten the u 4 to 0, the sky pilots are
coming right along, and are looking
better every day. The T. C. students
are behind their cam, and are prepar-
ing to aid in pulling, a victory next
Wednesday by lusty roofing from the
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