The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-07-13
SWANVILLE EASY
FOR REGULARS
SEGER'S SKATERS PUT STOP
TO LONG WINNING STREAK Z,
OF THE VISITORS
POUND HORSE HIDE VICIOUSLY
LUKE TWIRLS GREAT BALL AND
is GIVEN ADMIRABLE
SUPPORT.

Gloom hung in great gobs eve
Swanville ball tossers and rooters las
Sunday at the Fair Grounds when tn,
nine-round bout between the Morrison
county aggregation and the Sau!
Centre Regulars was concluded. 1
was natural that Swanvllle should b,
enveloped in grief. They came her,
with record of seven straight win:
to their credit and no defeats. Con
fidence oozed from every Swanvilit
pore. They were willing to bet ever
their neckties and canes on the result
Then came the fireworks and the de.
lnge: Score-Sauk Centre, 8; Swan.
vile, 1. It should have been a shut
out. A passed ball allowed the lone
tally.
Incidentally, Rod McRae, out in
right field for the visitors, gave tes-
tinony at the end of the sixth inning
that Verdun had nothing OH his ter
ritory when it came to receiving bonn
bardment. During that frame, in
which the locals chased in seven
scores, six hot line hits were shot out
into McRae's pasture and kept that
young man busy and uncomfortable.
The visitors started off in whirl-
wind manner and scored in the first
two minutes of play. Cofeld led off
with pretty bunt down the third base
line on the first ball thrown and beat
out Lees peg to Bradley. Cofeld is
faster than lightning on the bases and
stole second and third while Wi!mot
famed. Larson got life when Brad
ley failed to touch the bag on Edke's
assist. Roy McRae flew to Luke.
With two down, Schwartz let one by
him and Cofield scored. Mielke was
an easy out. The Swanville rooters
went wild and had the game tucked
way up in their sleeves.
But it was only flash in the pan
and, incidentally, the last chance. for
jubilation. Only four times again did
the visitors get on bases-once on a
hit, once on being hit by pitcher and
twice on errors. Two fast double
plays cut off any chance to score when
men were on. Luke pitched a great
game, allowing only two hits and Civ
ing only one free ticket to first. His
support was superb, none of the four
errors accumulated by the locals being
costly. .,se.,-s! -rle4 ~r-
Nicholson, who pitched the first
four innings for Swanville, was puz-
zle' to Segers' swatters in the first
two innings but in the third they be-
gan to get his measure and tied up
stne score. After Luke went out on
an, easy one, Bradley singled, stole
second, went to third on Weisner's
sacrifice and scored on Wills clean
single to center. Wills then stole sec
ohd but died when Jacobson whitfield.
Neither side scored in. the fourth |
and fifth and then came the heart |
breaking sixth, with NJ. Vincent on the
mound. Jacobson led off with a dou-
BILE, to right and scored when Schwartz
sent a hot single to the same field.
Schwartz stole second and scored
when Arnestad unlimbered his artil-
lery and sent one screening out in
McRae's direction. Franta famed. Lee
shot another safe one out to right.
Luke was safe when Wilmot took his
grounder but delayed in making the
throw. With the bases full, Weisner
sent long one out to N. Vincent,
which he dropped, and Arnestad scor-
ed. Wills poled screecher out to
McRae which was pretty hot to han
die. McRae lost the ball and Lee and |
Weisner scampered across the plate,
Wills going to third and scoring on a
passed ball. jacobson ended the agony
by shooting another one out to McRae.
Neither side scored again but the
visitors had chance in the eighth.
M. Vincent went out on an easy
grounder to Bradley. Rod McRae shot
one down the same groove and Brad
ley booted it. Raft sent one to Luke
and he repeated Bradley's stunt. The
end came quickly, though, when Co
field flew to Lee and McRae was dou-
bled at second. The score: