The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1917-07-05
FUSSEL PITCHES
A NO-HIT GAME
Record Game of Base Ball Ia
Witnessed In Julesburg On
July 18th Between Hax-
tun And Julesburg

Fred Fussel Is some classy pitcher,
and added further laurels to himself
IN pitching no-hit game on the af-
ternoon of the Fourth of July against
the fast Haxtun base ball team. Mr..
F'ussell also pinned roses on his lapel
by striking out Is of the Haxtun
players. Some class, that boy Fus-
sell, and the crowd went wild over
him. And we want to ask you. why
shouldn't they?
The game the afternoon of the
Fourth was the best ball game we
have seen for some time, and it was
pitchers battle from start to fin
ish Morgan, who did the twirling
for Haxtun. pitched brilliant game,
but was pounded out for hits by
the Julesburg sluggers. He struck
out IA men. He had perfect control
most of the time and was given good
support by the rest of his teammates.
The game started out with lots Of
pep on both sides, there not being
any scores made until the seventh,
when by costly errors made by Car
son, Smelser and Beam, the Haxtun
secured two runs. 1t then begin to
look like the old ball game was 60
ing to be tucked away by the visit
ing team, as the eighth round passed
without either team scoring But in
the ninth things took change when
Carson started the batting rally which
proved fatal to the Haxtun boys A
one-base hit by Carson, followed by
Tollefson with a two-bagger, made
matters dangerous. Then Beam came
up with the willow in his hand. The
crowd was asking that gentleman to
save the day with a timely wallop.
Mr.. Beam swung at the first one
but when the second ball came over
he pounded the pill out for two
base hit, and when the dust had
cleared, Carson and Tollefson had
romped home with two scores which
tied the game No more scores were
made in this inning, and it meant an
extra session.
The first half of the tenth Haxtun
made things look dangerous on &C
count of an error at first by Smelser,
Fussell wasn't very lenient and re-
tired the side in big league style.
In the last half of the tenth Smell
ser hit for three bases, but was put
out shortly afterwards trying to make
home plate. Then Fussell again aid
ed in winning the game by putting a
nice two-base hit out towards center
field. The situation was tense when
Law came up. 1t was his chance to
end the game-and he did by smash
ing the ball for line drive over the
first and second base line, bringing
Fussel in for the winning run.
1t was nobody's game up until the
last. 1t would have been bad medi-
cine for Fussel to have lost the game
after pitching a no-hit game and Sc
curing 18 strikeouts. Errors by the
local team made things look danger
Gus at times, but we pulled through
with victory. AS far as Fussel was
concerned the score should have been
2 to 0. But it was some ball game
and due credit should be given our
boys for their stick work at the time
it was needed--it was batting rally
for true. 1t is estimated that five
thousand people witnessed the game.
Haxtun has good ball team and
are hard bunch to beat, they giving
Morgan the best kind of support.
These two teams recently played a
close game at Haxtun, the score at
that time being to 1 in favor Of
Julesburg. Following is the result
of Wednesdays game:
2 8 4 5 6 8 9 10
n n n n n . n n
.Julesburg % 0 % 0 0 90 2 Is