El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-16

- TT at Rio Grande park, Wednesday
~ Baseball league staged its second
mid-weelS game of the season before a large
crowd OF youngsters from both schools
Tho youngsters are beginning To take 10 thQ
3 league like duck takes 10 water and are
coming out to the games ana are rpoIlnG
themselves hoarsc Tor their favorite team 10
win. This spirit helps the boys in the fieic
a whole lot as is shown by the last two
games played. teams coming from behind
and winning the game in the closing Inn
ings after il was almost hopelessly lost But
that f. what makes the grand old game or
baseball. you can never tell what is going
TO happen until thu last man is out
Wednesday, game started promptly NJ 8
o'clock with umpire Franklin Williams, OF
tho High school. calling the captains to-
gethCr for conference on the ground rules.
Capt. Gutierrez o. Alamo won the tess and
chose 10 take the field. Williams an
uounced that the batteries would be ftarte
and Moralez. for Alamo, and Dieu and Ham
ilton for Bailey.
Change Bailey Batting order.
Coach MISS Walker gave the Bailey
batting order general shakeup i'm hopes
that the boys would break into tho win
column and she was not FAR from right n3
the Bailey boys sure hit the pill i'm the
last two Innings. al Of which pleased The
coach very much George WHnless was Sc
lCcted to start things for the Bailey ban
tossers. Wanlcss sent this ball sailing into
left, going TO second on a passed ball
little later from there. Waulcss scored on
Greenes hit into right field for one base
Greene stole second. Hamilton struck out
ON four pitched balls. Slaughter struck out
also. bud" Brown was cheercd h.
came 20 the bat by The Bailey rooters. and
responded by tipping his hat but Bud
was nOt overcome by the generous cheering
and picked one Of Ytartcs offerings for
home run into left field. Wild cheers from
the Bailey section Mckay ended the inn'
Ing by striking out
Pitcher Ytarte faced Dieu with a two
base crack into center which the center
fielder should have caught The next bait
ter struck out. Then Alamo had a land
slide. scoring six runs before the Bailey
crew could put stop to the affair. This
six runs were scored on p combination Of
three hits In "A row. and half dozen errors
by the Bailey outfielders.
Htarte IN Fine Form.
In the second Bailey could not get man
passed first base because young Ytarte was
master OF the situation at all times. strllS-
ing out two. Alamo tried hard TO score ~
the second but Mckay was on the job NJ
short for Bailey and retired all three bats
men at first on fine throws and stops
Greene led of i'm the fourth by the walk
route, stole second and scored on couple Of
wild pitches but after that the Alamo pitch
er got control and put some stuff on the
ball and retired the side without further
trouble.
Alamo started what proved 70 be re.
peater Of the first landslide scoring six
more runs before the scorer announced
three outs. Bailey did not give Dieu any
too good support in this stanza- Bailey
was safe on an error and Mckemy walked
Then Greene lifted one into left center FOR
double The side was retired without
further scoring.
Dieu in Control.
John Dieu had master control after the
third and made the Alamo run gctters eat
out Of his hand thus banking Thorn
through the seventh. In the fifth. Bailey
scored again but that was all as Ytarte
struck out the three next tstters. The sew
enth was the md0ing with the whole Alamo
team up I'm the air allowing the Bailey crew
to score seven runs. coupled with two moro
in the seventh taking the game right out
from under the Alsmo boys noses by the
score Of 1G TO u.
Ytarte the sturdy young pitcher. should
he given great credit because he certainly
had tho Bailey batters tanned at times,
striking out total OF Il in seven innings.
which is a league record.
The Alamo boys, though they were beat
en-. fought hard throughout the contest and
they will be the first team out for moro
next game The Bailey boys feel much enc
after being able TO break into %
win column. The game was well andled
by Franklin Williams and we hope tn"
williams will work some more Tor the boys.
rho hov score follows