The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1914-07-21


Daily Alaskan was present to report
the. game of baseball at Mccarthy on
Wednesday afternoon. He per-
formed his duty with particular
ability and technique, in the follow
ing accurate account of the big
battle on the diamond:
The Chitina baseball team made
professional visit to Mccarthy We'd
nesday and took along a trainload Of
lady friends, business men, fog
horns and megaphones. The combi-
nation proved too much for the Nc
Carthy people, the score standing 5
to in Chitina's favor 1t was an
ideal day for ball game, calm and
cloudy. The railroad company put
on an extra coach for the accommo-
dation of the Chitina delegation,
numbering So adults, and landed
them at Mccarthy about noon. The
Mccarthy ball grounds are new and
while they show that lot of work
has been done on them, they will
stand lot more. The character of
the soil makes the diamond SLOW"
Very few 'grounders' landed the
batters safe at first and by the same
token it was hard proposition 10
steal a base.
The game was called at 2 p. m.
and it was soon demonstrated that
the mines were very evenly matched
and that whichever side won would
be the result of baseball luck.
Mccarthy won the toss and Chitina
went to bat. The first three innings
resulted in series of goose eggs. in
the 4th Chitina made runs and
Mccarthy l in the 5th Chitina made
2 and Mccarthy 3; and in the 9Th
Chitina scored what proved to be the
winning run. The. last three innings
were very exciting. In two of these
Mccarthy succeeded in getting a
man around as far as third base and
in the 18th Brown and Stein made a
pretty double play, thereby retiring
the Chitina side with the bases full
In the 9th the Mccarthy boys went
out in one-two, three order and then
the Chitina musicians favored the
Mccarthy and Kennecott people with
few selections in which every artist
felt called upon to render fish horn
solo obligato fortissimo POGO a POGO
crescendo.
The time of the game was two
hours and five minutes and the con-
cert lasted until each artist wore out
his Cor herr mouth, lungs and gall
The principal feature of the game
was the lack of kicking against the
decisions of Tibbs and Conway, the
umpires. The Mccarthy people
showed that they were good losers
and Immediately challenged Chitiua
for return game. After a confer
ence with Caleb Corser the PROPOSE
ton was agreed to and the present
arrangements include a dance at
Chitina after the game and a train
back to Mccarthy the following day.
The Chitina nine played George
Lajoie Steel at short and Ed. Walsh
held down first for Mccarthy. Hirst
pitched a steady game, striking out
10 men. Feaster made a grandstand
catch of wild throw in the Sth.
Brown showed great speed in the
box for Mccarthy and did some eff
fective work with the stick. The
score is remarkable in that the
Chitina first baseman put out but
three men and made no errors. Som
mer, the Chitina catcher, did not use
a mask during the entire game.
The Mccarthy citizens were
greatly disappointed because the
train returned to Chitina shortly
after the game was finished The
Chitina nine got back home at 10
p. m. and upon calling the roll found
all the musicians present or &C
counted for, tired but happy. Every
one voted that the. Mccarthy people
were good sports and understood the
game thoroughly. The only bad
feature of the day was the accident
to Horace Leach, who sprained his
ankle in getting off the train. Fol-
lowing is the score:
CHITINA
ABB R H Pc A F.
Steel, IS. .....4 1 2 2 2 1
Feaster, lib. ....4 l 2 3 0 0
Anderson, 3b. "A l 1 4 1 O
Taylor, 2b... "a 0 1 2 0 2
Sommer, c.. .....4 l 0 IA q /