The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1914-06-26
VIRGINIA STOPS
WINNING STREAK
OF DULUTH TEAM
Ore Diggers Hand Out A 13 to. 4
Beating to Duke O'Brien's
Advancing Forces.
GREISCH CLEARS BAGS
WITH TIMELY DRIVE
White SOx Use Three Pitchers
In Effort to Stop Fusilade
of Virginia Hits.

DULUTH, June Displaying base
ball like a team drawn from the men,
bership of the mattresses union, the
Duluth Docks lost their goat early
and from that time on Jonah was chief
consul and attorney in fact at yester-
days game. The Ore Diggers, sassy
things, broke our long string of wins
and by score of 13 to at that. All
the misdeeds which were not perform
ed in the last IL games were punched
in yesterdays contest.
The fact of the matter is that the
Duluth fans have become intoxicated
with success and couldn't take a joke.
Every one knew that the Docks had
to lose some time, but evidently few
realized that, especially when they
were face to face with solid facts yes
terday.
Poor pitching was entirely respon-
sible for yesterdays loss. Blancke
was in poor form and the two life
savers who went in to help him out
were not able to swim themselves and
their efforts were fatal.
A rain of blows, walks, hit batsmen,
stolen bases and a few other curious
things happened to the booklets yes
terday. That was no reason, however,
to yell for the hammer, put fresh rib
bons on the handle and rosin on the
hard part and go on the war path.
Had the result been the other way it
would have been called good game,
although it was bad baseball.
Many times during the game it
looked as if the worst had really
come, but Jonah yelled for the re-
serves and more grief came pounding
into the frame and downed our
gloomy-eyed warriors.
The jinx arrived in time for the first
inning. In fact, the third ball opened
the fray and chased the Dock nanny
under the grandstand, where it
bleated piteously the remainder Of the
afternoon and refused to be coraforted
Blancke punched Herman, first up
in the Stats. Then came bingello,
followed sacrifice, a walk and 8
hit. Then that Greisch person hit
the ball so far the felders had to take
the street car to get it back and four
runs came in.
In our part of the first, Bracket
walked and Bond whaled out two
ticket punch, scoring him.
The real grief came in the fifth.
Three runs came in on some awful
ball playing. The dope is too painful
to repeat. Blancke was yanked fol-
lowing that frame. In the last of the
fifth the Docks massed for an at
tack which died shortly after it's
conception. With the bases full and
one out our star-eyed manager gripp-
ed his trusty bat and hit into dou-
BILE play which retired the side. A
youth by the name of Schenck then
went in. They only got two doubles,
four walks, three runs and five stolen
bases while he was in. Then followed
Sharon, who pitched fair ball, but not
good enough, and three more runs
came in. When the thirteenth run
in the thirteenth game had been
reached and the jinx could do no
more, the scoring let up.
In the seventh we got three runs
by straight hitting. Ford started it
with a hit and then Wolfe and Har-
grove did likewise. Edmunds emptied
the bases with a mighty two-base
clout to left. A double play retired
the side.