St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-06-20
GARDEN CITY DROPS
GAME TO OPELOUSAS
Locals Wins Closely Con-
tested Contest from ST.
Mary Crack Team.
BY "a BRUF."

In a game which eontrasted
delightfully."- with the Eunice
wrangle on the Sunday before,
the fast Garden City baseball ag-
gregation went down in defeat
at the hands of the Opelousas
team at Comeau Park last SUM-
day. The final score was A to 8.
From every point of view the
game was Infinitely more pleas
ing than was the disgraceful
abuse of the national pastime
staged here by the powers be-
hind the team from the Western
st. Landry town. Spectators
and players alike agree that last
Sundays contest was one of the
cleanest and best ever witnessed
here.
With Red Styles, a regular
pitcher with the New Orleans.
Southern League team, in the
box, and Bremmerhoff in re-
serve. indications pointed to a
victory for Garden City. The
first five innings was a pitchers
battle between Styles and Casey,
the former having shade the
best of it. Up to this time
neither team had been able to do
any effective hitting, and both
pitchers were retiring batsmen
in record-breaking order. But,
the fifth proved disastrous for
the visitors, not on account OF
any especially brilliant playing
on the part of the locals, but be-
cause the Garden City boys SIM
ply went up in the air. all OF q
sudden and failed to give Styles
the proper support. And Styles,
too, became rather unsettled and
seemed a bit undecided as to
what he should do with the ball.
Opelousas obtained the lead in
the fifth inning. Casey, first up,
hit an easy fly to center. The
fielder dropped the sphere. L.
Deiean laid down a bunt on the
third strike. Cazelot, in an at
tempt to stop Casey, threw to
second, but the ball was naufed
and both runners were safe.
Thompson grounded to second
base, advancing both runners.
HoItz smashed a terrific liner
through short, scoring L. De-
jean and Casey. Styles tried tc
catch Holtz mapping on second,
but threw wildly. Holtz landed
on third. Then Chastant, the
hard-hitting second baseman,
drove a grounder through short,
and Holtz crossed the plate.
Broussard hit an easy pop fly
back of second, but the ball was
muffed. Dorr groundedrto short.
who threw Broussard dout and
completed the double play at
first. Two hits, three-runs.
In truly generous style, Ope-
lousas .ruturned. measure for
measure, the gift of the three
runs, when Garden City came to
bat in the sixth inning. Cas-
taing singled to center. Styles
hit an easy grounder to Chastant,
who fumbled the ball and threw
badly to first, Castaing landing
on third on the play. Davis
walked. Casey, wishing to
show no partiality, walked Cult
terez, and Castaing was forced
in. Mullin hit to short, and
Styles was thrown out at plate.
Durr threw high to first and De-
jean failed tothold the ball. De-
jean quickly recovered the horse
hide, however, and nipped Davis
as he tried to reach home.
Adams scored both Mullen and
Guitterez with a pretty single
over second. Bremmerhofi
smashed a terrific fly to deep cen.
ter. Dygert, after a hard chase,
made a great catch and stopped
the scoring.
The winning run of the game
came in the eighth. Dygert
tripled to deep left. G. Dejean
grounded down the third base
line, and Dygert was tagged at
the goal. C. Dejean committed
grand larceny of the keystone
bag. The mighty Casey then
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