The Nome daily nugget., 1913-02-05
MERCHANTS ARE
 BEATEN AGAIN


 Hall never heard such e racket from similar number of people. Part of this racket was due to some decisions by the nmpires. Tn some cases at least those decisions can only be described by the word rotten"
 At one time Sloan was out on first by nearly twice the length of his own body but he stayed in. At times O'Neill, captain of the professional mems team stood right in the field and coached one of his men on sec- ond and not 0 word was uttered against 1t. Of course some of the boys were bent on getting the new umpires rattled and, maybe. the row did get them going a little. All the decisions that looked shaky seemed tn favor the winners.
 Sloan sent the first ball pitched to the gallery. Jones went out on first. Murane stole second and third. The fielding was rotten. O'Neill walked. Murane lost out In stealing home. Grigsby got first. On a muddle by Taggart Weith got second and all kinds of things happened before the end of the inning.
 Doyle, Samuels and Allan all easily fell in the second half.
 Jones and Murane got home in the second. O'Neill got a gallery hit and struggled around the bases until Grigsby kidnapped him from third home Cole caught Bruner. Mustard got all around the bases, but was put out near the plate.
 In the second half the best the peddlers did was Divine getting to second base.
 Doyle caught Jones in the third. By high throw to first by Scotty Allan Murane got second. Daniels caught O'Nelll and then some awful fumbling let Murane reach home and let Grigs- by reach third. Weith got second. Crowley caught Bruner and at this time O'Neill went into the field to coach a man off second. but the um- pIre said nothing.
 At last Daniels got home for mer- chants. Cole. Doyle. Taggart and all hit. Professionals went to pieces and the business men scored like wildlre for a time.
 In the beginning of the next Lomen was out about five miles but Umpire Cunningham said he was in. Oh. how that crowd howled.' But that was nothing until Sloan was also given in when a diagnosis would have proven him dead. and gone by a mile. It was awful. awful. Jones was badly miss ed by Daniels. In the second half Diamond was conspicuous.
 The next contained clever catch of Samuels by Weith. Diamond felded well and put Sloan out on third. Daniels missed Grigsby.
 Ill tHe ScSOHu udII OINIHc got all around by fumbles on the other side. For the same reason Diamond scored. Doyle hit two bagger. Samuels made a foolish attempt to reach third and fell.
 The professionals did nothing in the next, thanks to good fielding by Crowley.
 In the last half of the last inning the business men showed some class but so did the others. Crowley and Divine both scored. Sloan caught Samuels. Muraae fumbled badly. At one time in the game he held the ball so long on first while bases were be- ing run that some one remarked that he had taken it under advisement un- til Grigsby got writ of habeas corpus.
 This inning was remarkable for catch by Mustard. He held the ball, stumbled and fell but still snuffed out Daniels and the last chance the busi- ness men had.
 The score was 17 to II for the pro. fessional men.
 After the game Doc Kemp in behalf of Tony Polet challenged the winners. Tony is said to have swell aggrega- ton.
 Basket Ball.
 The basket ball game between the Burley and Thompson teams was rattling performance. The boys just went into it as if their lives depended upon the result and brilliant and speedy work was the rule from start to finish. Those who did not see the game lost something good.
 Burley won by 13 to 8.
 Charley Thompson seemed to be $$$$s-s$&%%%$$e$*$$%s%%%e%@ E i