St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1915-05-01
LOCAL TEAM EASILY
DEFEATS LAFAYETTE
Large Crowd Witnessed Opening
Game at Comeau Park
VISITORS ARE ALLOWED
ONE HIT By FLUKER
Victims There Base Hit in Eighth
Victims There Base Hit in Eighth
Brings Cheers from Crowd as Two
Runners Speed Across the Plate

runners speed Across the Plate
With a large crowd of fans pres
ent, on last Sunday Opelousas de-
feated the Lafayette club at the
opening game, the score being 8 to
o.
The game was featured by the
pitching of Fluker and a three-bag-
gar in the eighth inning by the
Mighty Tobe'' with two men on.
The Lafayette boys played fairly
good ball, but were entirely out of
their class. The game was a walk
over for the locals from start to
| finish. At no time did Lafayette
| come anywhere near reaching the
home plate. Fluker had them at
his mercy throughout the nine
| innings. For the first three innings
the Lafayette boys went out in ro-
tation.
Game by innings:
ist. Lafayette: Dupree to Thomp-
son to Boudreaux. Lorry struck
out. Peck to Thompson to Roud-
reaux. Opelousas: Aycock singled
to right. Ria sacrificed and sent
Aycock to second. Boudreau sim
gled to left and Aycoek scored.
Colgroye hit to right, scoring Boud-
reaux. Colgrove stole second and
went to third on a wild ball. Was
caught off third. Bodie walked.
Dejean to short and beat the ball to
first. Thompson struck out.
End. Lafayette: Hawkins to
Ria to Boudreaux. Bergeron flew
out to left. Grouchy struck out.
Opelousas: Veltin famed. Fluker
was out from short to first. Ay-
cock famed.
3rd. Newsham to Thompson to
Boudreaux. Verte famed. Lacoste
flew out to short. Opelousas: Rlza
Ito short to first. Boudreaux flew
out to short. Golgrove famed.
4th. Lafayette: Dupree went 70
first on Thompson's error. Thomp-
son fumbled and threw wild to
first. Dupree went to second on the
throw. Lorry flew out to short.
peck struck out. Dupree stole
third Hawkins struck a hot one
| to Fluker and was out at first.
Opelousas: Bodie out from sec
ond to first. Dejean drove long
fy to left. Thompson struck out.
Lafayette: Bergeron hit to cen
| Ter and stole third.
5th. Grouehy. Newsham and
yerte struck out in rotation. ope-
lousas: .yeltin famed. Fluker
went out from short to first. Ay-
cock famed
9th. Lafayette: Laceste went out
on a fly. to second. Dupree struck
out. Lorry went out on lily to
| center. Opelousas: Ria walked,
and went to second on Boudreauxs $
sacrifice. Ria scored on the wild
throw. of Peck to second. Colgrove
and Bodie famed.
7th. Lafayette: Peck and HaW-
kins famed. Bergeron went to flrst
, being hit by Fluker. but was
caught in attempting to steal sec
ond. Opelousas: Dejean singled
through short. Thompson famed.
yeltin singled to center, advancing
Deiean to third. Veltin stole sec
ond Fluker went out from short
70 first. scoring Dejean: Veltln
went to third. Aycock went 10
first on an error of Bergeron, scor-
mo yeitin. Ria went out on fly
ball to short.
9Th. Lafayette: Gronehy and
Newsham famed. Veret safe at
first on Boudreauxs error, put Was
caught by Dejean in attempting 70
steal second. opelousas: Boud-
reaux famed. Colgrove flew ont 70
left and was out. Bodie singled 70
center. Dejean went to first on
yeret,s error, advancing Bodie to
third. Thompson went TO first on
yerets error. veltin hit for three
hases in right scoring Thompson
and Dejean. Fluker went out 70
short to first.
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