El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-11

NANNY PDNSt DkD'S teammates on
VI Duty's sturdy nine came to his aid
AT an opportune time Sunday after
noon at the Rio Grande ball yard
hitting out some timely wallops that
ended one of the prettiest pitching
duels shat have been witnessed at the
sandy stadium this season in favor
Of the Dodgers over Mai. Conlin's Zone
supply aggregation. five TO three. II
was purely a southpaw battle from
start to finish and brought the two
leading left handlers Of the league TO
the mound for the opposing teams in
Johnny Mulcahy and Ponsford- Each
boy wore the stripes Of the High
school Tigers and the fans were
treated 20 a brand OF baseball that IS
seldom excelled when the former
fellow students met on the mound.
Old Error Jonah.
and had il not been Tor that old
error jinx which clings to the Zone
team and crops out at eriJleal mo mo-
ment it is probable that the game
would have gone five more innings
as the pitchers seemed to grow better
IS the contest went on
The players OF both clubs were
on their toes from the first ball
and there were n number of snap-
py plays pulled off just in time
10 prevent a score which kept the
fans interested during every min
ufe that IL was in play. In the
meeting Of the two left handlers
the bugs were also treated to
more real pitching IN ten innings
than Is usually witnessed in both
affairs Of the matinee double bill
every sunday.
Ponsford allowed eight hits and
struck out II batsmen while Alulcahy
sent 10 would be home run swatters
back 10 the bench via tie strikeout
route and was nicked for one less hit
Ponsf0rd, however. was backed by the
stronger hitters and ne had the ad-
vantage OF heading much smoother
team in the Dodgers as the Zone team
has been disrupted several times this
season Of the eight hits Of the
Dodgers four Of these were for extra
bases while not a single one OF the
blows made off Ponsford counted for
more than a single 1t must also be
remembered too. that not hit was
made eff Ponsford until the fifth in
ming the lanky boy holding the oppo-
sition IN check until that time
Dropped High One.
Pho dropped a high fly from the
bat of Carberry in the first inning
and it proved to be a costly error. as
the little fellow amply upheld tradi-
ton BY racing around the sacks later
when BEDFORD doubled
Duty had previously helped
matters along with n sncrifice hit
tfuI slam OF some sort OF other
In the fifth errora again figured
in the run making Of the Dodgers,
rs after two men were out Car
berry Obtained base on RaiRey's
muf OF his ground ball. The d.
mfuuffre inffelder scored when
Duty doubled against the right
field wall and Duty himself came
home when Fuller slammed the
ball into deep left center.
Catcher Leads for Zone.
Buford led in the attack o. the Zone
team in the fifth, leading off with the
first clean hit made by the supply ag-
greEation, a crashing single into cen
ter field Mulcahy hit into feeders
chioce. put Buford beat the throw at
second base Cunningham singled,
scoring Buf0rd, and Mulcahy counted
when Carberry took Towards
grounder and threw the fielder out at
Mccormick scored for the Zone in
the sixth. when he singled, went to
second on a wild pitch and raced
home on Rainey's hit Buford hit into
a fielder's choice and Il was here that
the Zone did some poor base running
which lost the game, as after Rainey
had reached third he attempted to
come home on the single He was
caught by a wei directed throw from
Fuller 70 Duty and the catcher then
whipped the bali TO second, where Bu-
ford was caught trying TO stretch IL.
Errors A=sfn Figure
DWyer made the winning run IN the
tenth, when Mccormick raced in front
of Patterson and prevented his accu-
rate handling Of Pete's grounder. He
went to second on passed bali John
ny frightened and famed Gowan. but
Shea singled, sending Dwyer home.
He took second on the throw
and scored when POusford also
singled into left Carbcrrv few
out for the final one of the Timing.
Patterson walked and Dlas sin
Eled in the tenth. VIXEN the Zone
made n determined effort to come