The Natchitoches enterprise., 1921-07-28
Baseball
few faithful ones who hr,

= W see The ZWOlle Match
tne weatA- last Sunday were we
'ocnes game o. 'nved to be the mo.
e"".ue, ~ I" p here in years
for twelve innings the tsa:
battled desperately, but in the g.,
ming of the eighth it looked as tho, .
the locals were in for shut out, as
Zwolle had three runs to our none; no
matter how many men got on base or
how hard we hit the ball it just seemed
impossible for us to score and we could
not fathom it out because we were
getting more hits than our opponents,
were fielding just as good and Dave"
Melancon was striking them out at an
awful rate, but, somehow, the breaks
would not come our way. Finally.
when Quarles hit to Third in the eighth
and that gentleman threw too low to
First and Cleve went safe, we simply
could not help but feel that at last the
breaks were headed our way; then T.
.tillen struck out and we began to
feel wt::k :. 81 w,an Melancon chalked
up his first hl1 /. center and Turpin
followed with one to ie.t, we felt
mighty good to sec Melancoa cross ~;
plate for the second run, leaving
Zwolle only one run ahead of us; then
came our ninth, score, Zwolle 3, Match
itoches 2. and ''Babe Ruth Bonner
fest up for Natchtoches; if we ever
pulled for Pete to knock the
"klyver'' off the bail, we did then; he
responded with a beautiful line drive
TO center; then again our hopes grew
faint when S. killen struck out ard
Caspari. next up, flew out to Right
Field; by this time Bonner had reached
second and when Cleve Quarles came
up, we yelled ourselves hoarse-f for we
knew that only single would tie the
score and give US cuance 10 Win-but
place his picture in the hall OF fame SO
he laced out beautiful double to left
ield, bringing in Bonner with the re
quired score; nothing muca happened
IN the tenth for either side, but in our
half of the eleventh, Leo Hyams
brought us to our feet by lacing one over
the left field fence and it looked like a !
home run, but dame fortune was
against us and just before falling in
the old corn patch, the ball went Foul,
then Leo struck out--well, you can
about guess what was running through
his mind; then came the twelfth and
Zwolle scored one more; then we knew
what General Haig meant when he !
told his army: "Boys, we are fighting |
with our backs to the WALL" We were !
determined to at least tie the court,
and we did more-We won the old bali |
game, and this is how it happened:
caspari first up, flied out to right |
[ield, then Qdarles got single be-
tween third and short but was forced |
out at second when l.. Killen hit to the
pitcher; here we were, one on first,
Two men out and one run behind, but |
Melancon secured hit through short,
then, Killen on second and Melancon |
IN first, two out, Turpin hit to the |
second baseman who fumbled and l.. |
Killen scored; Melancon on second,
rurpin on first, then Melancon stole
third and Turpin stole second. Cotton
Wayup, xnd tie 0fd Boy never fails to |
nit it somewhere when we need it, and
70 hit to the third baseman and that
7oung man made his second costly |
error and Melancon was home with the |
run. Thereby hangs tale.
Aelancon was the big factor in our
winning the game; he struck out Is
men. allowed only seven scattered hits
md out of four times at bat secured
wo clean hits and made two of our
i've runs. Good work, Dave, come out
gain. We like that kind of hall play
ng. You made balk and let in a run
ut we forgive you've all make mis-.
axes.
The t,oY score.