The Winslow mail., 1925-05-05
THE METEORS HOLD.
GAMERCO TOSCORE
OF FOUR TO TWO
By OBRA GRAY.

| WluSlOW udSSUdll HGSS saw q
real game of baseball Sunday aft
| ernoon when the local club met the
semi-professional club of the Cal
lup American Mine company. The
score itself is indicative of some
thing more than ordinary in the
way of amateur baseball in this
part of the country. The fashion
able scores sound more like foot
ball than anything else. No doubt
most of the fans who visited the
park Sunday expected to see the
local club annihilated, or at least
scalped, and those particular fans
were so agreeably surprised that
all they could do was lean back
land admit they were disappointed in
that respect but more than pleased
with the game.
To start the first inning. the
first Gamerco man to bat beat out
bunt, bad start. and it rather un-
nerved Winslow's twirler, because
the next man up got on also. Then
to further muss up the show Turner
picked up what would have been
an easy out, and threw the ball
wide of the first baseman, allowing
the, first man up to score.
The game went along even until
Gene Thompson busted one on the
nose and hoofed clear home before
the coal miners found out what
had happened. The ball was just
inside the left field foul line by
inches, but folks, it was sure long
way out to where it finally stopped
rolling. Took half the Gallup team
to relay it in. Too bad there
wasn't some one on bases at the
time, but there wasn't, so we had
to be content with one.
With tie score, it looked like
some extra innings until the man
ager of the Gallup team got it into
his head that Bigby was due to
bust something, and rather than
have him bust his uniform let him
bat, and what that old baseball
picker done to the onion made the
fans wish he had been left at
home. Some one overlooked tell
ing Eddie Clark that Bigby was at
bat and he played for any natural
left-handed hitter, but Bigby is no
natural hitter He is a socker, and
Eddie ran off four pounds getting
his hands on the pill. Bigby got
a cramp in his leg turning third
base and took header, which
beat him out of a home run. Didn't
matter much, though, because Gal
lup got three scores that inning.
Winslow came back in the next
inning and got another one, and it
looked in the ninth like another
score, but Walters took a fresh
chew of Horse Shoe and famed a
pinch hitter and Lloyd Parks.
The box score below is evidence
that lot of Winslow people
missed a ball game. We won't ex-
press the old gag that the people
ought to support the club, because
just as soon as the fans find out
we have a real ball team the
crowds will come. The main draw
back in the way of gate receipts
is usually chargeable to the ball
team first and the management sec
ond because they don't let the peo-
pie know what is going on. The
game next week with Clarkdale
will be a hummer. Clarkdale has
one of the fastest teams in Arizona
Winslow will give any of them a
run for their money.
Turner pitched swell game. His
old slow ball had the Gallup fence
busters knocking puny little flies
and made their heavy hitters easy
pickings in the field.
Dan Hitchcock and Gene Thomp-
son starred for the locals, with
Pitcher Turner strutting his stuff
about as nicely as any pitcher we
have seen in a long time.
Tho S0Orn