Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1922-07-06
HAzELToN WINS BALL TOUR.
NAMENT

lStrasburg ...... $50. 333
Napoleon !. ...... $3.50. 3 900
Hazelton carried off first money on
the ball tournament held in Linton
Sunday and Monday Hazelton, Ma
poleon, strasbNrg apd the home team
participating. NHaaelton won every
game she played. Linton defeated
all teams but Haze1ton. Strasburg
took one away from Napoleon, and
that team didn't annex a single VIC
tory. Sunday afternoon Strasburg
played Hazelton and lost by score
Of 2 to in ten innings. strasbprg
then played Linton, and lost by a
score Of 8 to 6. Monday, Napoleon
played Hazelton and Linton, and lost
each game by a score Of 8 to o. On
the afternoon Of the Fourth, Linton
land Hazelton played q 10-inning
game, which went to Hazelton by a
score of 4 to 8. Napoleon and
Strasburg then staged the last con-
test, the latter winning tc 5.
There were some excellent ball
games played during the tournament.
The first game, between Strasburg
and Hazelton, was thriller. Hazel
ton started off with one score in the
Srst inning when Mike Baumgartner
made a bobble at second. There was
no other scoring done on either side
until the ninth when Strasburg got
a man to second. He started to steal
third, hesitated, started ahead again,
and Armstrong lobbed the bali easy
to third, it going far over the base
mans head. The runner scored and
tied the game. In the tenth inning,
La hit of an error gave Hazelton the
winning run.
The Linton Strasburg game was
q slug-fest, with the usual crop Of
errors. Ronning, former Lintonite,
pitched for Linton, and Lipp for
Strasburg.
4 Mondays games were almost iden-
teal. Napoleon battled for eighteen
innings without annexing single
score. Hazelton took them to route
4 for nine innings by a score Of 8 to o
\ After Hazelton got throughf Lintor
repeated the performance.
The star game Of the series, al
far as the crowd was concerned, wat
the first game on the afternoon o.
( the Fourth, between Linton and Ha.
!, zelton These towns have been Ole
baseball rivals covering period o1
wears. Linton was considerably
J. handicapped by injuries, Shier, the
local star, and H. Petrie being out.
i Shier srrained an ankle Monday, and
J, H. Petrie dislocated his shoulde,
Sunday. The game went ten innings
and Hazelton won it 4 to 3. Young
J. playing third made flock of errors
}. and Stewart, catching, absolutely quit
irving to catch runners stealing
/ either second or Ithird. Angel pitch
!; ed an excellent game, as usual, but
such handicap was too much fol
him to overcome. 4Hazelton took tn,
Head in the start Of the game .whe1
d errors by Tufford and Stewart CAV,
j Hazelton run. In the next inning
a 9 triple and errors scored couple
! Linton tied up the score in the sixth
With q man On second, Cunningham
hit Fred Petrie IN the head, and
tnear-riot was started. It was q fas
one, and Petrie was unable to get hi
head ont Of the way. The bail hi
q him full on the: forehead. Petri
!! dropped u the ground, quickly re
covered his feet, and, while Still
dazed, ran to the pitchers boz an,
clinched with Cunninsham Acrow,
soon gathered and the men wer,
i pulled spart Il was 'unfortsu,,n,at. s,,,t
], that Cunningham hit Petrie ia. III,
!. head, fsrt hsd the blow landed
tDuple Of inches to one side, IL voul,
have undoubtedly killed him On th
! other hand, sit was also info fortunat,
s,lthat 50 much III feeline esulted fron m
the affair. Because 81 Sd sfivalried
livery little is needed to fal ths m
of anger between the fans ofs s, the ,5S IL, u
Towns Wkatever effect thes ! I,,i ..,;p s.,
Y may have had on svents, sLintos tis tfis,
9 started scoring and had tied Ii ! scor,
ssbetore the third man was ont Will