The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-05
SOLDER BOYS
 LOSE GAME ID
 LOCAL PLAYERS
GIB5ON BALL TEAM SUFFER- s DEFEAT AT HANDS OF
 FAlRBANKSANS.

Undoubtedly one of the prettiest and cleanest games of ball ever seen | last evening at Exposition park. when the team of soldiers from Fort | Gibbon went down 10 defeat at the hands of picked aggregation of 1 Fairbanks players. by the score of i three to nothing. The game was | crowds of fans ever attending a
 game at Exposition park. Excite
 ment ran high throughout the game.
 particularly among those who were
 placing their money on the Fair | banks team. as there was never a
 moment when. if there had been 1 team. the soldiers could not have
 stepped in and taken the game away
 from them.
 The game was peculiarly devoid of
 errors throughout on the part of i all of the players. The three runs gained by Fairbanks were made
 in the third inning when Judkins. with two men on bases. knocked a ! two-bagger and then succeeded in | getting home himself before the side
 was retired. At no other time dur i ing the game was there imminent danger of Fairbanks getting another score. so close did the soldiers play
 By clever plays at different times | during the game the soldiers sue | ceeded in placing a man on third | but their side was always retired 1 before any of their men had the i chance 10 be put out al home plate By knocking the first two 1 bagger of the game Judkins won the
 prize offered by The Bijou Cigar and Candy store.
 Most of the Fairbanks players are well known 10 all who have follow | ed the game here. the new men in
 the aggregation being Gideon and l Wooster. The soldier team was com posed for the most part of boys
 who were here last year during the l Fourth Of July games. the only two i new men being Mccartney and i Swonger. Sammy Stewart the biz
 soldier who pitched through win.
 ming series last year was again in 1 the box for the soldiers. while Jack 1 Hansen pitched for the local team 1 The result of the game showed elo- 1 quently that with the good support 1 accorded him. the latter was al his | best
 The game of last evening was the | first of series of three games The | second game will take place at II o'clock this morning and the third i tomorrow afternoon al l o'clock. | II was stated last evening that the | lineup of both teams for today's game will be practically the same with the possible exception of the pitchers, as 1t is stated that Eddie | Stroecker will be in the box for 1 the local aggregation.
 i l. is understood that considerable money changed hands as the result
 of last nights game. as the soldiers 1 had numerous packers even among | the most enthus iastic of Fairbanks
 fans. However, it is also under 1 stood that most of those who are wagering have put their money on
 the result of the series. so il is ! therefore expected that interest in | the coming two games will be great
 er than ever
 i The game lasr evening started al | o'clock and ended al s:i5. At 6:30 o'clock the Fort Gibbon band l in the full dress uniform of the l United States army, headed the pro- cession of players and spectators
 10 the park, returning after the game to the Auditorium. where they entertained large crowd until the ! time for the performance of the Juvenile Bosronians to start.
 The lineup and the batting or der of the teams las, night Wa as follows
 Fort Gibbon-Warth. 2b Oriot tcaptain) C; Slezak 3b. Stewart. D; Mccartney. ss Rover. lb: Swong, CT. If Hughy. riff. Clark. cf Fairbanks Pauli 3b. Wood tcaptain) ss Koon lb Gideon. rf,
 Hansen. ?; Wooster. 2b Stroecker. cf: Myers e. Judkins IL
 Batteries Gibbon. Stewart and Oriot; Fairbanks. Hansen and Myers.
 Twobaste hits. Judkins and Gid
 con
 Double plays Gideon 70 koon:
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