The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-08-19
jewellers in SACK
CLOTH and ASHES
LOCALS PLAY RINGS AROUND
THEIR BASE BALL PETS
SUNDAY
MAKE DOZEN HITS OFF GRAVES
GREYS PLAY AIRTIGHT BALL BE-
HIND GOOD PITCHING
NOTES OF GAME


remark upon the ability of the ball
tossers representing Long Prairie III
the Central Minnesota Base Ball
League. In fact, this paper has gone
on record in several instances with
the assumption that they were about
the classiest aggregation of diamond
artists performing in this section.
This bunch made tehir farewell ap-
pearance in Sank Centre for the seas
on Sunday afternoon.
1t has been quite the proper thing
for any sort of ball club to drub the
dayights out of the Sank Centre
Greys any old time they met. The
members of the local aggregation
themselves had about come to the con-
clusion that they could not beat a
hasty retreat.
There is an old saw that even the
worm will turn, and that. it is long
lane that hasn't any breaks. The
worm turned and the lane broke on
Sunday with vengeance.
When the Dwellers came onto the
diamond they did not hate themselves
in the least and most of their chests
were swelled up even to the bursting
point. They generally admitted that
they would go in and win the old
game any time they wanted to.
Fisher and Franklin, discards of the
Dwellers, were in the points for the
Sank Centre team. Mr.. Fisher had
pitched hard game against the Le-
land Giants the previous day, but he
still had enough "stuff" on the ball to
make the supposedly hard-hitters of
the League leaders look like ordinary
dubs.
They were set down in order in the
first three innings, but what did that
matter, wasn't Joe Graves, the only
real redskin out of captivity, on the
mound for them? The Herald in COM
menting on Joe's proves in a former
game indicated very clearly that he
had something more than a glove as
twirler. 1t is a dead mortal cinch
if Poor Lo monkeys with the pale
face long enough he will get the worst
of it. His support became wobbly in
the third inning and couple of sound
smashes and an error sent one over in
this frame. In the 7th' merry rat
tie of hits gave "our boys" five, and a
couple of more were pushed across in
the eighth. In all an even dozen hits
were accumulated, about every one
getting safe blow to his credit.
Mr.. Fisher is not as snowy pitcher
as Graves but he kept steaming them
over. Long Prairie scored pair in
the fifth on clean single, Sank Gen.
tres only error, and a hit down the
third base line by Koehler which nine
out of ten in the audience declared
was foul. But the Jumps said she was
fair, so the scores counted. They came
dangerously near scoring in the fourth
but a fast double play from Fisher to
Bradley to Franklin ended the agony.
| Word by grapevine telegraph reach
es the Herald that the Long Prairie
boys have been giving more atten-
ton to dancing and moon gazing than
to practice-hence their poor showing
Sunday. The real solution, however,
is that the locals were, for the first
time this season, playing the game
Sunday of which they are capable, and
backed by good pitching, the result
was really never in doubt. Fisher let
Long Prairie down with four clean
singles and the foul before mentioned.
Some weeks ago Long Prairie re-
turned from victorious trip to St.
Cloud in a specially chartered train
and they were met at the depot by
brass band and an excited populace.
When the returns from Sundays
game were waited to Mr.. Lees town
the populace were excited alright
enough but upon the return of their
pets there was crepe galore in evil
dence, but the music gave way to
tears.
The real features of Sundays game
aside from the battery work of Fisher
and Frank was the fielding of Wills
at third and Art Weisner on second.
Time after time they picked them out
of the air and dirt mailing the runner
at first. Wills also led the team at the
bat, polling out three very timely bin
giles and scored two of the seven runs.
Fisher gave seven of the visitors the
"set down" ball and five were whitfield
by Graves, three of these being in the
first inning. The following is the score
by innings:
RHE
Sank Centre ...O0O1OO42x--71 IL 1
Long Prairie ..00002000O--2 5 5
/ Frank M. Eddy contributes the fol-
lowing:
| The Occasional editor herewith and
hereby tenders the apologiest kind of
an apology to the Sank Centre Greys,
to the club collectively and to each
individual member individually, for
the filings he has taken at them during
the playing season.
| After having been beaten and shut
out by every dub club in the country,
they suddenly woke up last Sunday
and made the Dwellers, from Long
Prairie, one of the classiest semi-pro-