The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1922-07-19
Sparks Wins in
Game with Fanon
Game At Local Park Sunday Best
Exhibition of Base Ball
This Season
SCORE TIED UP TO
THE EIGHTH INNING
Fallon Plays Yerington Next Sunday
And Sparks Here Week
Later

Fandom jammed the grounds and
stands at the local base ball park
Sunday afternoon. The strikers
from Sparks having been defeated
on June fourth by the locals came
to town with a desire to even up the
count. They had strengthened their
lineup and had Douglas the pitch
ing ace primed and groomed for the
start.
Captain Powell of The locals had
both his pitchers warming up. When
play was called he sent Stewart in
with the hope of tanning the high
spirits of the strikers.
In Sparks first go at the bat,
Pittson drew a base on balls; Eddie
Schmidt, the smart little first sacker
for the visitors hit to Ferguson who
threw Pittson out at second, while
Schmidt registered at first on the
fielder's choice. Peekema, the strik-
ers' heavy hitting shortstop, took the
count on three strikes. With two
men out Peterson stepped to the
plate and with a big Babe Ruth"
bat struck madly at two of Stew
arts "spitters" and then landed a
crashing blow on a straight one for
the longest hit made this year on
the home lot. 1t was the first home
run and sent two runs across the
rubber. Braug, the snappy little
right fielder of the visitors who had
been tried out by the Salt Lake City
coast league club was sent TO the
dugout through the strike-out route.
In Fallon's half Sanford the first
man up was handled by Douglas and
Schmidt for the first out. Knoblock
then polled out long one which
was good for two bases, but in his
anxiety to reach the far corner OF
the diamond was caught out between
second and third Dickerson s
weak attempt to hit went the way
of Sanford and the inning was over.
From this inning ON until the
sixth Stewart had the visitors at his
mercy. In the sixth Schmidt
struck out and Peekman hit a visci-
Gus line drive to center; Sanford
raced in for the put-out only to muff
the catch. Peterson put over his
third hit for the afternoon and
Peekman raced home for the third
score. This ended the visitors
scoring until the ninth when they
succeeded in scoring two more runs
with the aid of single and triple
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field.
Fallon threatened the visitors in
their half of the fourth inning
Knoblock the first man up was call
ed out ON strikes; Dickerson had a
life on a wild heave by Douglas;
Powell received a life ON an error
by Schmidt at first. With one down
Foote landed safely for the second
longest hit of the day which would
have counted for home run but for
the fact that this player failed to
touch second base. With two down
Mapes Ferguson sent out a single
and was pushed around to third by
hit from the bat of Thatcher
Foulkes received life on an error
by the third baseman. Two men
were on bases when Stewart knock
ed an easy one to the third sacker
who threw him out at first and stop
ped a disasterous rally by the To-
calls. Steve relieved Stewart in the
seventh and had he pitched the ball
of which he is capable the game
would have gone into an extra in
ming and the final outcome might
have been different.
Both teams played fast ball and
regardless of the outcome it was
the best exhibition of real fast base
ball that has been seen on the To-
cal diamond this year.
Because of the strike on at
Sparks a game has been arranged
on the local diamond between these
two teams on Sunday, July 80.
The box score and summary of
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