The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-06-13
Panaca and Phoebe
Play Fast Game

The baseball game between the Pr
oche and Panaca teams was started
about $3.50 last Saturday and proved to
be snappy. fast and classy contest
Well matched. each team played the
game with few errors and with more
than the usual skill. There was some
luck for. of course, the catching OF the
infield fly after IL bounced out OF the
four outstretched hands was luck. pure
and simple. Panaca has the making Of
regular team and IL was freely pre-
dicted that they would trim Phoebe al
| there was heated difference of opin-
| ion. with Phoebe strongly supported BY
some others who had watched both
teams Perhaps Phoebe Is weak in bat
ting. but not SO worse, not so worse at
that.
Everyone was surprised at the fast
work OF each side. There was the
usual difference OF opinion on decisions
and one man rather sensibly remarked,
AN Jump is an Jump and an Jump Is
boss. IL he says a mans out, he's out.
Why argue2 A good Jump calls II as
he thinks IL is That settles it. unless
it's "A case of rules. II he calls high
one strike. why. a strike IL is. 1t was
made a strike by. the rules WHICH MAKE
bali "
Saying nothing Of Dixie walking
over couple Of children and few
| grown people with spiked shoes as he
| gathered in the high foul during the
fourth inning. the game was marred by
| two accidents caused by batted ball
| Miss Matte Orr was struck in the side
and painfully injured. Breathless for
| some time. she finally recovered SUI
iciently to be taken home in Judge
| Orr's automobile. She was quite re
covered Monday evening. Dan Lloyd
| lending first aid to Miss Orr, had just
returned to the side lines when he was
| struck on the left ear by batted ball
Gee" he said, this is worse than
| war"
The committeeman who thoughtfully
provided the barrel OF drinking water
| awaited themselves of few goblets
II. f. Prudential had something to dc
| with the barrel or at least he was seen
fixing one before the celebration. But
you never can tell. Maybe this was to
| take care of raisins and honey. Yes
| yeast is added, and it's let stand fol-
three-but the ball game; the bal
game, Well. the fair ones were in
splendid voice. Taking the high notes
| with ease and volume they filled the
diamond with melodious and dulcet
kill the umpire and knock the cover of
the ball and swat the onion over the
| fence. Other fair ones were there with
yells and whatever they may have
| lacked in volume they put into 1t with
| earnestness.
During the first inning no man as
much as reached first base. A couple
started but they were just kidding
themselves, They were out when they
hit the ball In the second inning they
| learned the way to second, but no far
ther-and at that there's a difference
| of opinion. In the third inning the Pi.
oche boys took a brace and stopped
them before they reached first and Their
made two runs themselves, while tive
men died trying to monkey with the
Panaca third base.
| In the fourth Dixie caught a high
foul for the third out-and he had &c
| catch ii, as he had five-spot on the
game and there were two men on bases
which, as everyone knows, makes five
dollars worth only three eighty-sever
but these things married man car
never explain. He's got TO make ~ooC
and Dixie went through the crowd fol
the coal money, Then came a low
gathered in the lost ball in time to gel
1.-THE runner on second, which made Oar
dance with joy, for while gentlemanlN
during business hours he is a savage
at heart in a ball game and loves t.
put EN- out. That made Panaca mao
and they brought in three runs anC
filled the fair ones with such joy thai
they screamed their delight, while the
Phoebe ladies sat up and took consid.
cradle notice, Then pan made first in
the next inning and died on second OF
a broken heart when two men caught
Hautler's fly on the bounce. Score
to 2 in favor of Panaca and very IA
vorable to the Panaca rooters.
Panaca was held in the sixth and Phi
oche earned a run or stole it, fol
Dixie was stealing the bases regularly
and the score was to 3. with the Pi-
oche ladies coming back strongly. With
Jess on second Dan came to bat. II
was then the fire alarm stopped this