Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-09-21
SOUTH DEFEATS
BRUSHERS when
STEWART CLICKS
RugeriteS Win Close Game at
Shafter; Simmons Pitches
Good Ball for Home Team
fspecial Star. Bnlletin Correspondence !,

Especial Star BnlietiE Correspondence1
FORT SHAFTER, Sept. 21.-Fort
Ruger came out today in all their
glory to see about this ninth inning
rally business and while they won the
game three TO four, yet we gave them
a heart breaking dose of that ninth
inning squirting and batting that
showed them what we can do! A
mighty close decision on Zuber in the
last frame is what really prevented a
tie and a possible victory-but the
milk is split, and we are game sports
and back again to the contest at the
very next opportunity.
The game was mighty close one,
and the free pass that Perry was CIV.
en- by Simmons in the fourth, quickly
followed by a two-bagger by Stewart
to deep center, and a. hot single
through Zuber by Baily, turned the
trick in the lucky chalking up in the
fourth, for the tallies numbered two,
and the best that the mixers could
do in am inning after that was with
three-bagger by Estelle and dupli-
cation of the same by Dawson in the
eighth to bring in their last run max
ing total of three for the dough boys.
The first inning for both the cosmo.
liners and the dough boys was the
loose playing era. each team made
two runs: the Bushers getting theirs
from a. single to first and a crack to
right pasture coupled with base on
balls and stolen base, and two glar-
ing errors, one by Perry and the 9TH
er by McClain In scrambling after
the elusive sphere. On the other
hand the Rugerites were given pres
ent of free trip by Simmons to Per-
ry, then Sim" got mad and tickied
Langley in the stats, then the mound
beaver made cute little error OF
Bailey's shin knocker, then he struck
out man, Pruett got hit through
third baseman, Ashwell got to first on
a felder's choice. This angered Sim
mons again and he tickled Womack
on the crazy bone, and with McClain
an easy out. pitcher to first sacker,
the. delirium was over and the pitch
er was the chief actor in the dramatic
circus.
Both mound artists were affected by
the weather, the torrents came down
for a while and soaked the balls, and
the strike-outs were not as large az
usual for either South or Simmons,
but South gets credit for ten whiffs
and Simmons only misses this count
by one, as he famed nine of the heavy
artillerymen.
The batting of Bailey and Pruett for
the victors and that of Estelle and
Dawson for the defeated we're the fea-
lures of the game, the game right
fielder, Estelle, and the plucky catch
err Dawson, each picking long three
Dagger out of the heayes of South,
and skied them over center in that
superfine eighth inning. The ninth
was curious in that three men OF the
NEEDY" boys OF Shafter in success
sion, Fowler, Zuber and Lindsay
knocked out Texas leaguers aid all
nearly to the same spot between cen
ter and right, there must have beer
some sort of magnet out there, but
with all that Border help, that is OF
the Texas rangers, Shafter was doom
ed to defeat, for after that Simmons
tried the exact same thing, but the
brainy right shepherd had come In,
and soon gobbled The skyscraper and
we lost-tears! but there is hope!
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