The Belding banner-news., 1921-08-24
JESS ELSTER'S
TEAM DEFEATED
IN 6 To 2 SCORE
LOCAL BOYS OUTCLASSED COL
CRED ATHLETICS AND BRING
HOME AN EASY VICTORY

Jess listers Colored Athletics of
Grand Rapids met the Belding boys
on Leonard Field, Sunday, August
II and went down to defeat in one
of the fastest games played on the
diamond this season.
The Belding boys went on the
field in high, good humor and dem
onstrated to the fans that little
good old fashioned talking went a
long way toward helping each play
er do his best. Each player was do
ing his bit to encourage some other
player and the coaches and fans on
the side lines kept up a constant
stream of talk and advice and you
all know the result.
The managers of the team were
much pleased with the spirit among
the players and would be more than
glad to see these attending the
games from now on get out and
whoop things up.
The Belding boys all played lit
tie better than usual and every one
is to be congratulated on their abili-
ty to fill their individual places
Nick Miller deserves special mention
due to the fact that he seems to have
gotten his batting eve back and in
the last two games has been to bat
nine times and delivered seven safe
hits, some Of them being nice long
drives.
Score of Sundays game:
Elster 1O00O 900 1-2'
Belding % 0 0 Ks
On Saturday the Belding boys went
to Rockford and went down to defeat
by score of to 3 and we are sor-
ry to be forced to say that the game
was not justly won by their oppon-
ents.
In the 8th inning with two men on
base and one man out, Rockford
batter hit a ball that landed about
four feet outside the foul line and
naturally our boys made little effort
to field it. The umpire called it fair
ball and this let in two runs. Had
this play been called right the score
would have been 2 to in favor of
Belding.
Right here we want to say word
regarding A. d. Fristoe, the man
who has given great deal of his
time and done much to make base
ball in Belding what it is today. We
know the work he has done and the
effort he has put forth and there is
one thing that we want to say for
him and that is that at all times and
under all conditions this man has
told our boys that above all else he
wanted them to be clean sports and
that he never wanted anyone to be
able to say that any team had re-
ceived anything on the Belding field
except square deal.
He has at all times counseled the
boys to play the game fair, win or
lose, and we believe this counsel has
had great deal to do with the spir-
it the boys have put into the games
and made the games so worth while.
Score of Saturdays game:
Rockford 2 0 0 0 0 o o o 2+4
Belding 90 o 90 2 o 0-3
On Sunday, August 20 the Amer
lean Legion team of Kalamazoo will
play in Belding.
This is one Of the fastest teams
in the state outside professional ball
having beaten such teams at the Pope
q Heyboer, Owosso. Holland, Lam
sing Giants, and also having defeat
ed the Kalamazoo League team is
to 6.
Everyine should see this game as
Belding hopes to have a lineup that
will repeat Sundays score on this
fast team.
The game will be called at 800,
admission Soc including tax.
Nelson jerks, of Detroit, visited
at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A.
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