The pioneer-review. [volume] (Philip, Haakon County, S.D.) 1920-current, 1920-08-05
PHILIP WINS FIFTEEN INNING
GAME.
Overgaard Out-Pitches Rock In
Hardest Fought Game Ever
Witnessed In This Part
of The State.

| In one of the longest and hardes
fought games of baseball evel
played in this section of South Da
kota Philip won from Inteior or
last Sunday by score of 2 to l
For fifteen innings the two teams
battled, with both pitchers work
ing hard and pitching big league
ball. Nearly every inning one side
or the other had men on the bases
and a hit would have meant 8
score, but at these times the pitch
would tighten up and all hope,
of winning the game in that in
ming go glimmering.
In the first inning both sides
were retired in one, two, three or.
der. In the first half of the Sc.
cond, after two men were out,
Dorothy hit safe and stole second
scoring on Overgaard's hit. In the
last half Hodges for Interior, hit
safely and stole second. In an at
tempt to catch him at third, Dor
othy was interfered with in max
ing the throw, which went wild,
allowing the man score.
The score stood one to one for
twelve more innings of the best
ball playing that has ever been
witnessed in this part of the coun-
try. Both teams played air-tight
bali. A few errors occurred on
both sides but only few. Both
teams were hitting the ball, but
fast work on the part of the field
ers preventing them from going
safe. Wheaton starred in this reS-
pect, pulling down line drives and
long flies that looked like they
were impossible to be fielded. On
one or two occasions his fielding
was all that saved Philip from de-
feat.
After the tenth inning it was
evident that it was a question of
the endurance of the pithcers. The
Interior pitcher, Rock, showed the
first signs Of weakening when he
walked two men in the twelfth.
ON the other hand Overgaard was
showing plenty of strength and
was always able to get his man in
the pinches.
The Fifteenth inning opened
with a two base hit by Hecken-
throne. Carr followed with a sin
gl. Heckenthrone should have scor-
ed on this hit, but was inter-
fered with by an enthusiastic Phi
lip fan, who in his roofing came
too close to the line and both rum
ner and fan came together and
Heckenthorne barely had time to
get bacg to the base. Dorothy
again rose to the occasion with a
hit allowing Heckenthrone to get
in with second score. In her
half of the inning Interior succeed
ed in getting a man to second base
after two men were out. However
this batter, owing to an error on
the part of the umpire was given
a fourth strike and was on first
when Overgaard tore his shoe off
in fielding the ball and was unable
to make the throw. Rock, the
next batter up hit a long fly to
right field which Wheaton pulled
down after a stiff run, this play
retiring the side and giving Philip
the victory by a 2 to | score.
About twenty-five automobiles
from here took over more than a
hundred fans, and this in addition
to the Interior people and those
form the surrounding towns made
up bowling aggregation of back
crs for both the teams. One Phi
lip booster tore up his hat, and
came home hare headed but happy.
We can say that it seldom that
two teams as evenly matched as
these, play as many close games,
and all Of them good, clean exhib-
itions, without the usual rag-chew-
ing and kicking. We do not ex-
pect to see better game for some
time to come.
The lineup:
Philip Interior
Wheeler lib B. Solon 2b
Fitzgerald 3b j. Scion g
Wheaton If 4. GilcArist IS
Heckenthrone 2b II. Gilchrist 1b
Carr cf J. Hodges rf
Dorothy SWEET cf
Overgaard d F. Solon 3b
Marquis IF Freemole If
Hoover IS Rock b
Roberts replaced Marquis for
Philip in the twelfth.
Hits: OFF Overgaard 6; off Rock
8; Struck out: BY Qvergaard III;
by Rock TO- Base on balls, 2 by
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