The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-08-05
nine team ERRORS,
Three HIT BATSMEN
TELL TALE OF WOE
Johnson and Fuller End Seized.
ule by Garnering Three
Hits Apiece
WARD, CHILDS HIT N E
Cancelled Games With James,
town and Mandan Draw the
Curtain on Dismal Season
WARD, CHILDS HIT N
BY J. G.. MarGREGOR

Bismarrk's ~big-hearted Grays Sun
Jay disn1ally closed a dismal baseball
season by meekly handing a Is To 5
victory to end a glorious season for
Minot %gloriously. +.
II was a Roman holiday III some
respects for the Magic city club.
Like playboys they took advantage OF
doc" Loves three bases on balls.
three losses that hit players. Is Of
ferings and nine team errors to
gambol around the sacks with Is
runs. Every Minot man completed
the circuit at least nee scoring i'll
every inning but the fourth and
eighth.
While the Grays managed to get
l. hits. they were only able to send
five men home. Three runs we're
scored in the second. one in the sew
enth and in the ninth.
johnson and Fuller had a big day
with the bludgeon for the Grays. The
diminutive third bascman dashed a
triple, double and single in four trips
70 the plate. johnson cracked out
three singles,
Roy Mcleod entering the contest in
the fifth hit a double and single and
scored two runs in three times at bat.
Babe Mohn connected safely twice
while Doc Love and Guidas rounded
out Bismarck's batting with a binglc
apiece.
Kecfe. Ward Scintillate
Minot's big shots were Kecfe and
Ward. Besides a perfect day in the
field. Keefe cracked out three Texas
leaguers. Ward duplicated keefe's
feat. Barney Childs slammed out the
only homer Of the game in the ninth
Nth Rowe ahead Of him. The ball
sailed out in McLeod's territory and
hid itself in the weeds beneath an
automobile.
The game was a tragedy of errors
for Bismarck.
Minot opened the scoring in the
first. Keefe reaching first on a base
on balls. going home after two we're
out when Sagehorn threw wide to
Tobin in an effort to catch Rowe.
Three more runs were added to Mi
not's total in the second after the
Magicians had held the Grays score
less.
Worner, first man UP. singled.
Ward drew a pass to first. Mach
popped out, the runner advancing to
second and third. Evanson whitfield.
doc" Love then got wild and allowed
Keefe to reach first on a poor toss
to Tobin. With the bases loaded,
Worner scored when Tobin dropped
Ophcim's pop fly. cleared the paths
with a pretty single over second base.
Grays Score Thrice
Bismarck had its best inning at the
same time.
johnson drove a hot groundcr into
left field. O'Donnell famed and
Mohn singled into left. Love sent
the two home with a smashing double
into center. Fuller duplicated Loves
smash. scoring the Gray hurlcr. Full
led died on the bags as Nagel and
Tobin flew out.
DOC" Love set out to make one
for the books in the first Of the third.
Childs singled. Worncr reached first
on a fielder's choice, Childs being
nabbed at second.
Docs big moment arrived. He first
threw a curve into Wards ribs. Then
he filled the bags by hitting Mach.
The three scored on Evanson's single.
Then doc" hit his third mar Of the
innin, when he caught Keefe on the
point Of the elbow with a fast n
Opheirn proceeded to clear up the
paths with a single. Noyal reached
first when Mohn juggled the ball.
Opi1eim and Novak completed the
scoring ON EoUe's double.
While Lefty" Eyanson was setting
the GTays down in one-two-threc or
der during the next four innings. Mi
not proceeded to add four more runs
to the rapidly mounting count.
Mcleod Scores Twice
Mcleod finally broke the ice in the
seventh by scoring on Guidas' two
Dagger after the Scotchman had
reached first on a neat single to right.
Mcleod completed Bismarck's scoring
in the ninth when Johnson singled
him home, Mcleod having landed on
the bags by lacing out a double to
center.
Minot scored twice in the seventh
and twice In the ninth.
Cancellation of games with Bis
n1arck by Mandan and jamestown
have left the Grays without a 5ched-
ule. Neil O. Churchill. manager. an
nOunced Sunday that it was unlikely
that the boys would don their uni
forms again this year.
The box COZ
$50.