The Mena weekly star., 1921-08-25
EXCITING GAMES
 BY RURAL TEAMS
Union Grove Ball Players Stage Ninth Inning Rally and Defeat Board Camp Saturday-Nunley
 Downs Shady Grove.

furnished baseball fans at Menafield Saturday afternoon when two excit- ing games were played by rural hines. In the curtain raiser Nunley defeated Shady Grove 15 to 13 and in the finale Union Grove downed Board Camp in a hair raising contest l2 to 9.
 Mere figures cannot tell the heart throbDing thrills that the last contest produced. There may have been bet ter exhibitions of baseball science on Menafield this season, but there have been few if any games more produe~ tive of thrills than the Union Grove Raord Camp contest. This IS particu- larly true of the ninth inning, when the Grove team, four runs behind, but determined to do their best, fell upon their opponents and in mighty on- slaught hammered out nine runs and victory
 1t was a situation long to be remem- bered by the big crowd of fans that waited for the final inning. Those who left the grand stand when Board Camp apparently had the game cinched in the eighth, missed the thrill that comes once in lifetime.
 Union Grove started right at the be- ginning to get revenge for what Board Camp did to them the previous Saturday. With Roy Swiger in the box the Grove boys had world of confidence and they fell upon Sude Heath, pitching for their opponents, and hammered out a pair of runs in the opening inning. They added an- other in the fourth. Board Camp Event runlegs for three innings, then added one each inning for three frames unt the end of the sixth saw the teams K nth three runs each.
 The tic lns1Htl until the last half of the eighth, when errors by Union Grove aided with few hits permitted Board Camp to pile up four runs and apparently clinch the game. Up to this time Swiger had pitched remark able game, having famed 15 men and allowing but few safe hits, nearly all of the runs made off him being due to errors and misplays by his team mates.
 Heath, pitching for Board Camp, did well until the ninth and had better support than did Swiger, but on his last time up Sude met his Waterloo. The Grove batters laid down bar rage of hits which seemed to confuse the Board Camp boys and the first thing the fans knew the score had been tied, with only one out and a man on base Swiger came to bat and sent the ball far into left field against the fence and before the Board CamD helders could find it in the weeds. Roy he'd made the circuit for the first and only homer of the day. This put Union Grove two runs to the good and the team batted out three more for good measure, making their total nine for the inning and 12 for the game.
 Swiger was relieved by Middaugh in the last half of the ninth and Board Camp tried hard but they could only secure two runs, which left victory with the Grove team. Ward did the receiving for Union Grove and Sims caught for Board Camp. The umps were Maloney and Anderson.
 In the game between Nunley and Shady Grove, Heath did the hurling for Nunley and Kelly and Runyan the catching. Pirtle and Forshee were pitchers for the Grove Boys and Ter rell did the hackstop work. In this game the score was tied until the last half of the ninth. when Nunley hammered out pair of runs to add to their IS. These teams will play again on the Shady grounds next Thursday. At previous game on the Nunley grounds the Grove boys won D to 8.