Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-05-05

TRIBUNE SPORT COLUMN

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The Murdoch ball team played a
practice game with the Dublin Giants
last Sunday and won by score of s
to 6.
The Renville county league, com.
posed of eight teams in Renville coun.
ty. will open the season on Sunday,
May 10th.
Morris opened the season a week
ago by defeating Graceville, Is to 2.
Buttell, pitching for Morris, allowed
but one hit and famed twenty batters.
| For some unaccountable reason the
Kerkhoven high school team CANCEL
ed their game with the Seminary for
last Saturday, leaving the locals with
out a contest.
Archie Carlson played right field
for Carleton College against the Uni
versity last Wednesday and made one
hit, accepted one chance and stole a
| base.
Cokato and Dassel opened the sea-
son last week when they played ten
innings, Cokato winning by a score
OF to 0. Schneiderhan pitched for
the winners, while Lem Norden work
ed for DaSSel.
The high school base ball team will
play Litchfield high school on the To-
cal grounds next Saturday afternoon
at three o'clock. With a little more
hitting practice the locals should be
able to get away with this game, as
the brand of pitching dished up by
Erickson last Saturday was first
class.
The high school and seminary base
ball teams played practice game
last Wednesday afternoon, the latter
team winning by the one sided score
Of IL to 1. The game went but six
innings, and Roy Christian allowed
the losers but one hit, while the semi
nary hammered Kunz and Erickson
numerically.
"Gabby" Nelson of Litchfield re-
turned from brief sojourn at Grand
Forks, N. D. last Friday afternoon.
He was trying out with the Northern
League team at that place, but his
lack of experience counted heavily
against him. He will play at Tolna,
n. D. this year. An old Willmar boy
is with them, too, in the person Of
Adolph Kiland.
Word was received the first of the
week from Peck Kielty who is trying
out with Winnipeg in the Northern
League. He says he is getting along
in good style, and in the first exhibit
ton game he banged out three hits as
his share. He says Choppy Dean is
making good in fine shape, and an
other player known to Willmar fans
is Jack O'Donnell, who caught for us
at Marshall last year. He is consid-
cred first catcher at Winnipeg, says
Peck.
The Southend and Eastend teams
played at the ball park last Friday
afternoon, the result being a victory
for the former team by score Of
tc Z. The game was a dandy, both
teams playing clever ball and pulling
off some good fielding stunts. "Svea''
Swenson pitched the full game for
the winners, and got away in good
style. His left handed shoots were
Person and Earl Frye pitched for the
losers, and altho they allowed but six
hits between them, these were bunch
ed. Shorty" Swenson was the bat
ting star of the game with three clean
hits. The score:
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Southend 80. 0 0 1 4 1 0 1 0 %
Eastend -. i 0 l 0 l 200 81
Batteries: Southend, Swenson and
Forsberg; Eastend, Person, Frye and
Erickson.
The high school base ball team
played their first home game of the
season last Saturday afternoon ant
were defeated by Kerkhoven, in
good game. The final score was K
I. From the start it was a pitcher''
battle, between Negaard for the win
ners and Erickson for Willmar. Hon
ors we're practically even, as Negaart
allowed three hits and famed 13 mel
and Erickson allowed four hits ant