Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-23
Ell CentrO Loses
Score of 8 to 2
Standing of League.

Imperial defeated FL Centf0 at I'M
perial yesterday before a large at
tendance of baseball fans.
1t was a very close game up to the
fifth inning, when Imperial started to
find our pitcher, and from then on they
got some lusty wallops off him, two
of them being home runs by the same
man-Downs, second base.
Considering that Love had not
pitched ball for six weeks, since the
close of the Coast League season, this
was not half bad.
Imperial played errorless ball and
Skeever Tanning had considerable on
the ball.
Grabbing" because the management
imported the tall Mr. Love to do the
hurting for Ell Centre in yesterdays
game with Imperial is rather sense
less, inasmuch as the said slim hurler
stood second in the list of pitchers
of the Pacific Coast League while toss
ing for Los Angeles last summer, the
percentage of runs secured off him in
81 nine-inning games being but 1.5S
LSchneider won't be ready for a week.
IKantlehner was needed for the Thanks
giving game and Love was the best
substitute in sight in view of his rec
ord. He wasn't right yesterday, but
there have been days when other
pitchers were not right either.
Kaiser Baerward came to the front
nicely yesterday. The shift to right
field put him in good. He niftily
pegged Hetling at the plate, made a
neat backward scoop of Corhan's long
fly in the fifth, scored Irish Meusel
with a two timer in the seventh anH
tailed the only other run in the eighth
on Flick's single.
Bancroft got hit yesterday and
believes he is rounding into form. He
hit like a. fiend last summer, but has
apparently been way off his game
since joining Ell Centre.
When Pitcher Keefe stopped Meu-
sells line drive with his legs in the
last game with Brawley he didn't
know that it meant the hospital. After
the game medico found that the
drive had broken bone and Keefe
won't be out for several days.
Alexander's whip was in great shape
yesterday, as three assists show.
MacMullen didn't get his hit yester-
day, but he made up for it in put
outs and assists.
Tanning had no terrors for Gardner
yesterday. The 800 hitter got two
Umpire Finney's judgment seemed a
little at fault in several instances yes
teraay, noticeably in the case of Bass
ler's drive into right field in the sew
enth, which struck squarely within the
whitewash and would have been good
for three bases. Finney called a foul
and Old Man Bassler, brokenhearted
struck out for the second time this
season.
Downs of Imperial fancied every
thing Love had in his bag of tricks
He made his selections like an early
Christmas shopper and tore off two
home runs.
! Augustus Maggert was quite tame
yesterday, working off his surplus en-
ergy 10y slamming out three safes out
of four times up.
Following is the score by innings;
Score by Innings.
12 8 A 6 789
Ell Centre .....O 0 900 0 l 0 IL
Imperial 20 0 1 0 8 2 2 0-s
| First Inning-Bancroft flied out tc
Hetling. McMullen struck out. Gard
ner out, Tanning to Arbogast. Mid
dleton struck out. Corhan walked
end advanced to second by Maggert''
single. Downs out to Baerwald. Cor
han roing to third on the inthrow
iHetling fled out to Muesel. One hit
No runs.
Second Inning-Muesel out, Downs