The daily sentinel., 1913-06-16
FRU|TA BEATEN BY LOCALS IN
SWA1FEST; FINAL SCORE 8 TO s
CdIeo Trims PaSade Smudges Retain First Place. But Must
Meet Cameo at Home Next Week. Paisade
Still Has Minus Percentage.
IBy GUMI

IBy GUM.J
Wei, IL was another good game
with the exception of one or two in
nings when everybody went up in
the air and let few men from each
team cross the pan.
Neither Bragg nor Davis pitched
the class OF ball they have been pitch
Ing in the past few games; but. when
the rest OF the players are fielding
tho ball like they were in yesterdays
session, there is no need of the pitch
81 working hard. OF course, IL is
hard on the Prairie Dogs to say the
score was to ; against them after
they had gone 10 Cameo and trimmed
the Miners. but nevertheless the
smudgers seemed to have IL over
them all the time.
The fireworks started In the first
half OF the first inning, when Bur
gesser. the first man up for Fruita,
raised one over left field for a home
run. Then In the last half of the
second, Haggerty. the new short stop
Tor the Smudgers, hit for two. Steele
lifted one to the right-flelder. who
dropped the ball. and Haggerty went
to third and Steele to second ON the
throw In. GcX flew out to Bossman
aud Haggerty scored ON the throw
tying the score.
In the Smudgers half of the third,
Thomas went safe to first on Dixon's
error, and went to second on "A passed
bail. Essert went out at first. and
Dittman singled, scoring Thomas.
Then there was nothing doing un-
Ill the sixth inning, when Mcclure
hit for three bases and Calderwood
went safe to first ON a fieldcr's choice
and Mcclure out at the plate. Bragg
"a N "a
ond. Dixon struck out and Bragg
and Calderwood both advanced one
ca passed ball. BOSNIAN went
safe on Haggerty's error He then
recovered the ball and threw wild to
second, letting Calderwood and Bragg
score. Steele recovered the ball and
threw wild to third. letting BOSNIAN
score; but Wright went out at first.
retiring the side.
In the last half OF this inning Hag-
gcrty singled over second, Steele went
out at first and Haggerty advanced
Ia third. Gex was safe on fielder's
choice and llaggerty scored.
In the first of the seventh Hill hit
FOR three and Mcclure singled, scor-
ing the former; but in the last half
Dittman singled and Hughlett flew
out to BOSNIAN. johnson safe on Nc
Clure's error, letting the ball go
through him, and Dittman and John |
Ron both advanced one on the throw
In. Haggerty went Safe on n second
error for Mcclure in this inning, and
Dittman and johnson both scored,
making the score to In the last !
half of the seventh.
Fruita could not get anyone over
in the first of the eighth; but, for the |
locals, Davis singled Thomas sin
gled, advancing Davis TO second; Es- |
sert flew out TO Wright, and Davis |
and Thomas advanced one on a wild |
pitch by Bragg Dittman hit for two, /
scoring Davis, and Thomas scored on |
wild pitch. Dittman going to third /
IIughlett singled, scoring Dittman.
The lead of three runs was too
many for the boys from Fruita, and |
In the first half of the ninth they
failed to put anyone over. and the
final score stood s to 5 with the
Smudgers on the long end.
Score by innings:
II II Il
fruita 10000 00-5 . 5
Grand Jet. o / 00l 2 3 *-S t3 . I
Batteries-Bragg and Calderwood;
Davis and Dittman.
r
Cameo succeeded in slipping an
other over on Palisadc yesterday by
score of to G, thereby retaing the
second place in the league standing.
+ + +
The standing of the teams in the
league at this time is as follows:
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