Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1921-04-28
.Bogalusa Throws
Away Ball Game

After sewing up the game Sun
day, preparatory to carrying off the
honor of defeating the Orioles, cham
pions of the New orleans Winter
League, Captain Blacks ball tossers
blew up in the seventh inning and
let the game slip through their fin
gers with a score of z to 6. Bogalusa
led all the way until the last inning,
and, apparently confident of their
lead, slowed up slightly, enabling the
visitors to cross the plate with the
three runs necessary to defeat the
local team.
As though working on regular
schedule, lobe Smith, lead off man
for the Blackbirds, slammed his
weekly two-bagger against the fence,
advanced to third on Boyd's single
and came in when Voter knocked a
grounder through short Boyd, who
stole second, came IN on the same
hit.
Lefty Verett, in the box for Be-
galusa for the first time, put out the
rlrst three Orioles to face him with
three pitched balls, and, incidentally,
only three men faced him in each
inning until the fifth, His slow ball
was a puzzler to the visitors, who
failed to solve it until the seventh
inning.
Bogalusa scored again in the sec
ond when Verett, reaching first on
an error by Shortstop Jackson, was
advanced to second on Stollenwerck's
sacrifice, reached third on Gatzman's
grounder and came home on wild
throw to the catcher.
Opportunity knock at the door for
Frank Stollenwerck in the third in
ming, but found nobody home, when,
with the bases loaded and two men
outS the mighty "Casey" famed on
three pitched balls However, lobe
Smith, first man to the bat in this
inning, again landed on the ball and
brought home the bacon by advanc-
ing on Boyd's sacrifice, stealing third
and coming in on VOTERS single.
lobe took the cake for his per-
Torrance Sunday. Out of five times
to the bat, Friend lobe slammed out
three singles and a two-bagger, scor-
ing four of the six runs made by
his team.
The visitors made their first score
in The fifth when Jackson reached
first after Verett fJ5mbled a ground
er and was safe at second when Black
muffed the ball at first and romped
home on Gaule's single, the first hit
made by the Orioles, but far from be- !
ing the last.
The Blackbirds BANKED in both the !
fifth and sixth innings, but when |
Smith arrived at cne plate in the |
seventh he made his customary round |
IF the bases and added one more1
alley to the score.
The Orioles found "Lefty" Verett's
slow ball in this inning and gathered {
n three runs before they could be
stopped; they blanked in the eighth /
ind Bogalusa, still confident of viii /
ling, went on the field in the ninth
II prepared for the slug-fest that
cored the three winning runs of the
same. Four singles and two two
oaggers were distributed about the
ield in this period, and when the
3lackbirds came to the bat for their J
laR of the ninth, Marx knocked a
ly into the hands of Council, Smith
,opped out at third and Underwood's I,
oul was an easy out for CooneyA /,
The game in many respects was the
,est played here so far this season,
nd certainly was the best finished
ne.
Score by innings: R. H. E.
orioles 900 O1O 803-7 9 4
sopalusa PHI 100 1905 IL
Batteries: Orioles, Kline and
,ooney; Bogalusa, Verett and Vo-
Ter.
Umpire Sherman.