El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-04-06

n IsAPPOINT8IENT was evidenced
upon the faces Of all the fans at
- the first game of city league
baseball at Washington park Sunday,
WHeu the Purity nine won its initial
game Of the 1914 schedule by defeat
ing team from company &C" goth
infantry 1t was a Onesided, uninter-
esI.nS, ragged seven inning session;
City league baseball, however, was
Vlndlcated, from the lopsided previous
encounter. when in a hard fought con-
test, the Rio Grande bankers WallOped
the newspaper team (nOne Of them are
newspaper mem by the score Of 4 to 0
in the second game. For their initial
appearance on the field this season,
however, the Purity team displayed an
excellent brand Of team work through
out the contest, an essential TudimenL
Of the diamond game which the
soldiers, apparently, were lacking to a
great extent.
a rough. uneven surface over the en-
tire field Handicapped the opposing
teams in both games to a great extent
contrary TO orders, the earth had not
been rolled properly and consisted
mostly of small clOds and Jumps, with
net results Of numerous errors. When
the diamond was found TO be in such
poor shape, an effort was made to lay
out an imprOvised field in one corner
Of the park. but the movement failed.
Three errors, a passed ball and one
runs for the Purity team in the initial
inning. The soldiers. however, came
right back and two tallies were Ushereo
across as result OF an equal number
Of well placed hits. TWirler HarkinS,
OF the soldier club, had little on the
ball, while Fisher, of the Purity,
though hit often, managed to keep the
blows well scattered and SOOseegged
the infantry nine after the third in
ming, when right fielder Woodruff pro-
NOTED the soldier register one run.
Nnr1 el0r~Hf i've e-fw4 In, I'D NJ
some snappy headwOrk netted three
more runs for the Purity and advanced
the teams total account to eight. John
ME Fassett, first man up. raped out
a neat grass cutter into center.
Husky" Chant, the big bacl1stOp, sin
gled into right and Fassett Went
around to third. Adkins scored him
with crack to right and Chant went
to third. A single to center scored
Chant, and Adkins advanced along one
hassOCk. Three successive outs ended
the scoring. the soldier infield tight
ening up and forming breastWOrk.
In the fifth, five more Purity players
spiked the rubber Three singles, an
infield hit, a three timer and a scorch-
ing two Dagger aided the runs along.
Chant was IeadOff man and placed a
short fly in right. Adkins sent him to
third with q two Dagger near the right
field foul line. Davis and Hunt were
scored on Fullerman's single Fuller
man counted a moment later when
AlNSWOrth singled into LETT AIyS-
worth scored q moment later on Da-
vis's three Dagger into deep left. Fish
er came along with an opportUne rap to
center and Davis registered.
The Second Game.
Vastly different from the preceding
contest, the second game was by odds
the best observed on a local diamond
this season. Superb pitching by all
three twirlers and perce3tible fight
ing instinct on the part of both teams
made the contest the most interesting
that has been witnessed at Washing
ton park this season. Mavor c. E
Kelly. who occupied seat in the press
box. declared that il was the best game /
he had seen in a long while.
Cleaner and more OppOrtune hitting |
won for the Rio Grande team. The /
credit Of the victory went to Williams,
whose timely home run to deep right |
field scored two men ahead of him in |
the last half Of the fifth. Hits were |
few and far between. Nine strikeOuts I
were made by the combined efforts Of ]
Rodgers and Weiss. twirlers Of the /
club, while seven were sent /
back to the bench by way Of the /
strikeOut route by Woleslagle, Of the /
Five hits by the Rio Grande players !
against three by the Newspaper nine /
set record for City league baseball in |
FL Paso. Both pitchers twirled alright |
ball up to the fourth inning, when that /
grand outburst was staged by the Rio /
Grande team. Brann waited Rodgers /
out and secured n pass. Walker struck |
out Newman hit to Hamilton, who |
muffed the ball. Evans hit to Ham