The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1921-06-10
Kadoka 2
Murdo l,

was dished up to the fans of this
vicinity last Thursday afternoon
when the fast MurdO ball team
was taken into camp in the most
exciting and we'll played game
ever staged on any diamond, and
the locals working Oh the long
end of a two to one score.
Thursday morning dawned clear
and bright and every thing was
peaceable and serene within our
little village, but, in anticipation
of the visit Of the fast Murdo pill
s'uggers. Manager Fryberger sent
out the high sign to his nifty
warriors and called them in from
their corn plowing for a little
practice at the art of playing ball.
The boys came in from all dir.
ections after embarrassing Dob
in" and turning him out for an
Idle afternoon munching the
bright green grass, and quietly
got into their ball suits with the
word 'Kadoka" down the front,
and the Murdo aggregation arriv-
ed in good season and followed by
a goodl y sprinkly of rooters
who came to help the boys carry
what they took from Kadoka no.
me, but it was unnecessary for
them to come, as what the MurdC
boys took could have been carried
across the Saharah desert on
ngat's eyebrow and still there
would have been plenty of room
for what they will take the next
time these teams tangle.
Early in the afternoon the Ka-
doka band gathered at the bali
park and gave most delightful
concert while the crowd was gath
ering and the boys getting ready
for play.
With Tommy Thomas of Belvi-
dele, officiating as umpire in the
center, j. L. Brockelsby working
the bases and J. A. Hughes at no
me plate working the foul lines
the stage was. all set for the open
ing of the most spectacular game
Of base ball possible to imagine,
and words cannot describe it. The
game throughout was replete with
spectacular plays, circus catches
and stops and hard hitting and
the best of base running, and not
an inning was played but what
held some thrillers that kept the
big crowd gasping. Fans were
present from Weta, Interior, Bel
videre, Philip and mnay other
places, they knowing that the two
most evenly matched teams west
of the river were to play that
afternoon and all wanting to b,
at the game and see a real cXhi
bition of base ball, and no one
Ment away disappointed.
To pick out an individual stai
of the game would indeed be diff
cult, and to find fault with any
individual player is impossible, as
each and everyone of the players
of both teams were working their
best to win the game. The fact
that Murdo lost the game is nc
discredit to that team, for the
b: and Of base ball they played
Thursday afternoon will win nine
out of of every ten games they
engage in. and the story would
have been different in this case
but for the solid wall of stone
formed by the inficld and outfeld
players of the Kadoka team, and
the fact that it was impossible to
get that little round pill through,
by or around the guardian senti-
nels of the Kadoka aggregation
The fact that Kadokas runs came
in the last half of the final stanza
proves the ball playing efforts of
the visitors and the lonely run of
the MurdO boys in the sixth gives
evidence of the class of playing
done by the X adoka team against
their ball playing, hard hitting
opponents.
The KadOka team presented for
action against Murdo was pract-
ically the same as that sent again
st the visitors when the locals
we're at Murdo. The only chang
es being that Bradley was in con-
dition to stay the route behind
the bat, Billy Norton was back at
his regular station on the second
sack after his illness and the ad-
dition of Cy Vanderbilt in the
left garden, while the only change
in the Murdo team was the sub
stition of Jake Spears at second
for H Lan9e. the regular MurdO