The Clayton citizen. [volume] (Clayton, Union County, N.M.) 1906-19??, 1916-07-27
CLAYTON SERIES FROM TRIM
DAD IN WONDERFUL WINDUP

OAO I'm WONDEhf OL MINDUR
Permit us to draw the curtain over
that lamentable exhibition of Monday
when nine innings of more or less in
different playing in most every de-
partment of the game gave the game
to Trinidad by a score of II to IL.
Before we pull aforesaid curtain al
low us to remark that everything was
Indifferent except the hitting.
The Eagles got total of 20 hits off
of Clayton's three twirlers. And the
Blues got mess of them too.
The second game and the decisive
one of the series is more pleasant to
write about and talk about, not be-
cause Clayton won it but because it
was the most marvellous exhibition
of pitching ever witnessed in Clayton.
The game was more awe-inspiring
than interesting. George Knaddler,
, the Clayton giant sent ball after ball
through that the crowd and evidently
some of the slugging Eagles were
literally unable to see. To see Knad-
dler in action reminds one of Ripley's
famous sport cartoons. He starts
with terrific wind-up ending with
apparently every ounce of muscle in
his big body with few sticks of
dynamite thrown in) sending the ball,
which, leaving his hand while his body
is at some unknown acute angle,
makes sizzling grey streak and
lands in the catcher's big mitt with
noise like the crack of a forty-fve.
Seventeen batters, more than half the
total number to face him, struck out.
He hit no one and allowed no walks.
Men on. bases, though they were few,
drew no attention from him. The task
of retiring the batter seemed to COM
prise his sole mission and that he was
successful is verified by the score of
2 to 0. Big Catcher Lyons handled
the fast ones the classiest kind of
style.
While on the subject of twirlers we
must not for a single instant forget
Leo Rossi, the Eagles star Tuesdays
game was his first defeat since his
engagement with Trinidad. While he
perhaps hasn't the remarkable speed
nor the sharp, bewildering curves of
the 20-year old giant, he has the dis
tressing knack of making the batter
roll, wobbly, weak infield balls into
everybody's hands for a put out. On
the other hand when a batter does
connect with Knaddler's fast ones
they have the equally distressing habit
of dropping just behind the infeld.
The fielding exhibition of the two
teams just about balanced. Clayton
fielders had about one third as many
fielding chances as Trinidad and
made one error, Miller being the un-
: lucky chap at short. Eagles are
, charged with three errors the first of
r which was responsible for one score.
/ The score should have stood l to 0.
: After shut-out ball until the last
f half of the eighth, Knaddler biffed
Y a hot one to Hogan. 1t sailed be-
/ tween his pins and Knaddler reached
y second. Bobby Miller redeemed him
S self by getting single through Sec
= ond Knaddler came home and about
: 500 fans at last released the hysteri-
e cal scream that had been piling UP
S down third base line on which there
= is some dispute as to whether CLARK
S should have been charged with ar
: error. But Miller scored and Lynch
+ went to third on a wild throw to first
S Lyons flied out to Richardson and thai
ended everything of consequence.
There were two or three squabblel
over decisions which looked rathel
raw to Clayton but the fans demanded
, that the game go on regardless o
! decisions and on it went.
on slow grounder to second.
e Fifth inning, Trinidad, Dryden wen
IS out at first on hot grounder to Moore
t. Caskey singled. Martin struck out an
.e Caskey was caught at second on stea
le Clayton-Moore sent fly to Rich
TX ardson who corralled it. McFadde
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