The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-07-29
BASEBALL FEVER
RISING HERE
MORE INTEREST IN NATIONAL
GAME IN BRookINGs THAN
FOR MANY YEARS
BR0OMNGS WINS COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP
Local Team Takes Honors at Baseball
Tournament-White Team is De- =.
feated in Big Game on Friday

Brookings is getting the baseball
fever and getting it bad. After lying
dormant for nine years the local base
ball fans are shaking off their leth-
argy and taking a real interest in the
national game. Not since the days of
the famous Bookings Reds of 1905
has there been as much baseball en-
thusiasm in evidence here. 1t has
been the opinion that the Reds were
so good that they killed interest in
anything that did not have their class
and this was probably true for a num-
Der of years. This year, however, we
have a good fighting ball team and
their good work has been responsible
for the awakened interest. 1t would
not surprise us a bit, in fact we ex-
pect to see a strong salaried team here
next year. They may not have the
class of the Reds but they will be a
real ball team, because if Bookings
gets into the game it will not do a
half job in selecting a team.
Events of the last week have given
local base ball a big boost. At the
county tournament held here on We'd
nesday and Thursday of last week
Brookings. won the county champion
ship in competition with the White,
Elkton and Aurora. White was not en-
tirely satisfied with their licking in the
tournament, SO it was necessary for
our boys to go out and give them an
other on Friday to prove that the first
one was no fiuke.
On the first day of the tournament
Brookings put White out of the run
ming by shutting them out, 4 to 8,
while Elkton took Aurora into camp,
IS to 2. Thursday morning White and
Aurora played for the consolation
prize, White winning, s to 2. Brook
ings and Elkton decided the cham
pionship Thursday afternoon, Brook
ings winning, 5 to 2. Richter of Brook
ings pitched great ball, holding the
visitors to five hits and striking u
nine men. He wavered a little in the
eighth inning and Elkton tied up the
score, making two scores, but Brook
ings came back strong in the ninth and
chalked up three. A good crowd was
out and both teams had strong local
support. The score:
Brookings ......1 l 0 0 0 0 0 0 3-5
Elkton .........0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 %
Notwithstanding, Richter and
Swift; Elkton, Peterson and Goodman.
As above recorded the White bunch
were not satisfied that Brookings was
the better team, so it was arranged for
the two teams to meet here on Friday
afternoon for a purse of 5000. The
purse was real none and not for ad-
vertising purposes and it produced a
real ball game, as both teams were out
after that coin. 1t went an extra inn
ing, Brookings winning out in the
tenth, 3 to /. Brookings scored one
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that way until the last of the ninth,
when White tied it up by means of a
pass and a hit. A great throw from
right field by "Runt" Ray prevented
the visitors from winning in this inn
ing. In the tenth inning the home
boys started a bunting game and this
put the White pitcher and infeld into
the air. The laxative third baseman
heaved one high over hrst, letting in
the winning score and another was
chalked up when the pitcher threw
one past his catcher. Olson pitched
great ball for Brookings and outside
of the ninth inning he had the White
team tied hand and foot. Hovde also
pitched a great game, but he did not
have the alright support that Olson
did. The game attracted a big crowd
from all over the county and there
was some enthusiastic roofing on both
sides.
The score:
B~rookings ....1 0 10000 2-3'
White ........O 5000 0-1
Batteries: Bookings, Olson and
Sieverding; White, Hovde and Cooper.
Miss Amanda Clement, the famous
lady umpire, umpired the four games
of the tournament and also the White
-Brookings game on Friday. She
gave universal satisfaction and her de-
cisions were never questioned.
Elkton defeated the home team at
Elkton Sunday by a score of 6 to 2.
Claude Swift was tried out in the box