Grand Forks daily herald and the evening times., 1914-07-18
GET twelve RUNS
N ninth INNING
Four Grand Forks Pitchers
Are Hit All Over
the Farm.
LARSON DID WELL
UP TO THE LAST
Team, as a Whole, Played
Good Ball Throughout
the Contest.
ToDAY's IF COLUMN.

Duluth .....39 II .b91 .o9i 90
Virginia SO 81 .6s7 .544 .5?s
Fargo-M. ...s5 35 500 .507 1875
Grand F'ks. 80 SO ass .483 .448
#. VIM. pa Al 1913 .s47 1913
Games Yesterday.
Grand Forks, 8; Fort William. IA.
Virginia, o: Duluth. 9.
winona. 4: Superior. l.
Fargo-Moorhead, 6; Winnipeg. 9.
Games Today.
Fort William at Grand Forks.
2Fargo-Moorhead at Winnipeg.
Winona at Superior.
Virginia at Duluth.
The lowly Fort William crew had
q wild-eyed, uproariously good time
out at Dacotah park yesterday after
noon, and when we started home to
a cherries supper. We carried with
us the memory of a las defeat. The
fact that We were congratulating r
selves at the end Of the eighth on
having tucked the game away in a
deep vest pocket. makes the ninth
inning nightmare a real tragedy.
Fort William came from behind"
as they say in the baseball accounts.
And they came quite a distance from
the rear. When they entered the stage
at the beginning Of the ninth act.
they were trailing along on the weak
end Of an So count. but when the
curtain went down oh, horrors!-they
were weighed down by the burden of
1913 victory.
Hit Four Pitchers.
The horrors of a Spanish inqusition
were as an English tea party COM
pared to the blood curdling stunts
pulled off in that ninth frame. The
Fort Williams luggers hoped upon
Jour Flickertail hurlers and distribut-
ed their c%arcasses to every section Of
the field. They grabbed nine hits. n
three-bagger and one double, out Of
the mill in the one frame, and sent
twelve men up to the counting ma
chine. They were assisted by two
forced-in runs, which would lave
made no difference, however. had they
not been given by the kind hearted
Grand Forks twirlers. Nifnecker gets
credit for an error, the only one Of
the game, in the ninth, but the con-
test was all Fort Williams when he
bobbled the sphere.
Larson was delegated to win the
game n went along s~plendidly I'M
til the ninth. Then he went along
Erandly-for the Canucks. After Lar
son made his departure from the
tx III &c oItiSI 1l01 tCl .
went tn-Morse, Donley and Weidell.
h simple statement of facts is this:
not of the pitchers had anything,
and what they did have was easy to
slug to various sections of the field,
particularly where they weren't"
Did Well Up to Ninth.
Up to the ninth inning Larson held
Three of the hits were punched in
the fourth frame. and the other three
were distributed over seven innings.
1nthe ninth inning three singles were
garnered off Larson's delivery before
he was yanked. Morse then went in
and after forcing in run by hit
ting Libette, passing another man and
allowing n single, he had to re-
tire.
Donley was called in from the "het-
ting-up" house, and he too was easy.
Foster, the first mar to face him,
grabbed a three-bagger, which cleared
the bases. Two singles, a walk and a
double followed, after which he gave
way to Weidell. One single was made
off Weidell, but before the Canucks
U go any farther. the side was
retired.
During the eight innings preceding
n awful eruption in the ninth. the
Grand Forks team played good ball.
The team as a whole played we'll in
the ninth, but the pitchers were un-
able to hold the opposing sluggers.
Not an error was made until the last
frame.
Breaks Help Some.
The visitors were favored ON by
n 'breaks' in the last session. With
the bases full, the team played in for
a double. and a Canuck dropped an
easy Texas Lacquer behind the short
stop. Then. after drawing back,
Wheeler ran down the third base line
70 catch an easy grounder. out before
ball hit an obstruction and bounded
over his head. There were one or
two other similar breaks" For the
most part, though, the Canadian out
ut got their runs on legitimate hits.
Elder, who reported from James
town yesterday, performed at second,
and did exceptionally we'll. He &C,
cepted every chance, was in on one
double play and got two singles out
of four times up.
Foster. who wal traded to the Fort
William team for Weidell, played at
short for the Canucks, and sure did
his share in winning the game for
them. He drove in the first run with
q timely single and counted the sec
n himself. In the ninth in
ming he tucked the game away 70,
them by slamming out a three-bagee1
with the bases full.
oh. Yes, the Ninth!
Not because it is pleasant, but sim.
ply because duty demands 1t, we now
bark back to that awful ninth tc
show you how 1t was lost. Big CHIEF
House was the first man up, and he
1rabbed his first hit Of the day. wise
who had struck out three times, con.
nected for the first time and hit safe.
s1y. sending the Indian to second
Chapman was walked, and Kramer
batting Tor Sutton. put an easy one
into the infield, and, while House
Na6 scoring. Chapman was caught a,
second Nifnecker to Elder. Thoma.
followed with q single to right, scor.
StnGgWise.
a this point, Larson was yanked
NandsMcrse vent In. hzzette was hit
aGgIlng the baaes. Morse had a hard
g 3tfxns Anding the plate and walked