The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-08-12
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Bismarck retaliated their defeat of
Thursday by turning around and
beating the Valley boys by a score Of
g to 4 last evening (Friday). Our
pitching staff was slightly on. the
bum, due to heavy work in the games
before at Minot and Walker of Shey-
enne started the game. They knock
ed him ont of the box about the third
inning, and Dennis was substituted.
However, they soon got their range
on him and he retired. Wingfeld, the
star first baseman, was then put in
and according to reports he, pitched
some real ball, even if his home has
been on first base all season, He went
in in the last half Of the seventh and
held the Bismarck boys down to no
runs in the last two innings. Pretty
good work.
The local team is frank in admitting
that Bismarck has a cracking good
team, good sports and real ball play
ers. They had Boardman, the we'll
known twirler, in several bad holes
during the first game there on Thurs
day but he pulled through most of
them safely. IT, Bimarck would have
won both games a tie would have ex-
listed between the two teams. AS it
is Valley City is one game to the good.
One accident marred the first game
when Captain Dolly Elder Of Bismarck
sustained q broken rib in the first inn
ing. This caused the Bismarck line up
to be shifted somewhat. 8.,..t~..
The following is part of the write
up given by the Bismarck Tribune of
the first games. &5@-. ,
"The best game of the season.
"That's Thursday evenings twi-
light game with Valley City even if
Bimarck did lose. The real ball fan
got lot of pleasure out of seeing a
first class exhibition.
Al "The score was to 1 in favor of
Valley, but the game was in doubt
until the last and spectacular playing
toward the end kept Bismarck
from possible win.
"Boardman hurled for Valley City.
He had fourteen strike-outs, and held
Bismarck to five hits of which FL
der got two both clean ones. Both
teams played we'll in the field. Bis
marck's only error was credited to
Elder, an excusable error on a hard
hit ball. Elder was badly hurt in
the side early in the game in making
a dive to tag Boheen at second, but
continued to play throughout. the
game.
Brown robbed Robert of hit by
a shoe-string cNtch in center, Con-
roy robbed Chicken of hit by spec
tacular fielding and Frankly spoiled
some Valley City's chances by nice
handling Of fly balls around first.
sThe real fans. were mighty well
pleased with the game"
The Valley City team arrived from
Bismarck early this morning and left
again on the 500 for Hankinson, where
they will play that team today and
tomorrow. Engel is slated to pitch
the game today, while Adams will be
in the box tomorrow for Valley.
Tower City has knocked the chip off
from Valleys shoulder and will at
tempt to beat us here on the home
diamond next Monday. Whether they
will do it or not is question being
much debated. They have been de-
clared the champions down there in
their district, and have got it into
their bonnet that they can clean a
team like Valley City. If they can, all
well and good. We still have hopes,
however, that we might possibly beat
them and show them what they don't
know about baseball.