The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-08-08
SHUT OUT FOR
CHISHOLM SUNDAY.
SHORTEST GAME OF BALL EVER
PLAYED ON THE ELY
GROUNDS.

Owing to several counter affairs
Sunday the attendance of the Ely
| Chisholm game was not up to expec-
tations. With the berry picking par
ties for the woods, the funeral in the
city and the expected rain liable to
arrive at any minute, many people
could not or would not attend the
game. The lack of a large crowd
however did not have any effect on
the exeellency of the game and those
present witnessed one of the finest
exhibitions of the sport ever pro-
duced on the Ely grounds.
1t only required So minutes of ac-
tual playing to complete the contest
and when the spectators had gotten
well settled, the game was over. Not
Chisholm man reached second base
during the nine innings and the Wis
itors only secured two hits off Clan
otti while Ely secured six from the
visiting pitcher. Gianotti and Lam
bert were the battery for Ely and
Anderson and Howard for Chisholm.
Dunphy, the new man in the Ely
uniform, showed up fine. He sus-
tanned an injury to his knee early in
the game but filled the position of
short in truly finished manner.
Gianotti was in the best of form,
striking out 10 opposing batsmen
while Anderson was credited with
six. Ely had no errors charged to
them while Chisholm had two.
Gianotti struck out six men in the
first nineteen balls thrown. Written,
Martin and Bouska were absent from
the game their places being filled by
Harrio, Dunphy and Johnson. Um-
pire Cox. The score by innings:
Chisholm 100000 90
Ely OO1OOO2 OO-3
Next Sunday the Ely team will go
to Chisholm for the return game and
| it is expected that Chisholm will be
treated to some real base ball. The
following Saturday and Sunday, the
Northern Hardware team of Duluth
will be here for two games.
Notes Of the Game.
There is no better advertising in
the country for town or a city
than its base ball team. Ely has one
of the best this year and are de-
serving of the support of every man,
woman or child here with drop of
red blood in his veins. The team is
strong one and the attendance at
the games should be in keeping.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
local team is giving their services and
their time free for the games and rs
cent and 81 exhibitions are being
furnished for a 25 cent admission,
there are certain bunch of "cheap
skates" who weekly see the games
from the school house grounds and
the outfield fence. This class Of cit
liens should take into consideration
the expense of bringing teams here
and walk up and pay their admission
once in awhile.
It certainly was the best game so
far played here. The only remarks
heard in the grandstand against it
was it's briefness. Fifty-five minutes.
It was one-two-three and the side was
out.
A league team could not have done
better than both sides did in this
game. The visitors showed that they
were players and knew the great.
game and were sportsmen as well.
They held our boys to three earned
scores. It was some honor to shut
out team like that.
The crowd was small for various
reasons, but they were an enthusiastic
bunch of rooters. The blueberries
needed picking. A funeral was on
at the time for the game. Rain threat
ened to- keep the game from starting
and only about $50 We're taken in at
gate. The Game was splendid adj
Ivertisement for Ely and the home
team. Our people are learning that
the Ely team can play ball.
Only eight and the first half Of
the ninth inning were played; the
latter half was not needed as the Wis
| itors were shut out scoreless. AT no
time was Ely in any danger of losing
| the game. But few of the visitors
got to the first base. General Good
Luck seemed to be lettering around
our boys all through the game. A
couple of simple costless errors only
occurred to them, while the few
errors of the visitors were costly to
them. A wild throw to first by their
catcher helped our boys around the
diamond.
The game was noticeable nicely
from the fact of its fairness and alb
sence of any 'rag-chewing' or ar
guments on decisions. The CHS
holm lads are gentlemen and it was