The Ely miner., 1930-08-08
! ELY AND TOWER
|. IN PENANT TILE
VERMILION RANGE TEAMS VIC
TORS IN RANGE LEAGUE-VIR-
GINA, EVELETH, HIBBING, CHS
HOLM, COOK AND MEADOW
LANDS ELIMINATED.
(By Charles Gallagher }


Ely and Tower will fight it out for
the championship of the Range
Amateur Baseball League as result
of last Sundays games. Both teams
tied at the top of the league with 5
wins and defeats for the second half
Ely won the right to enter the three
game series for the title by defeating
the Queen City nine to 5, in a close
battle that was not decided until the
third man was out in the ninth inning.
Chisholm, the only other team that
had a chance for play-off berth. was
given a stinging to setback by the
Hibbing Amateurs.
Up until the seventh inning of the
game last Sunday, it was hard fought
pitchers battle between Mckenzie and
Lefty" Gadbout with both men hurl-
ing excellent ball. The locals drew
first blood in the seventh inning when
four runs were pushed across on three
hits, three stolen bases, a sacrifice and
two costly errors by the Virginia boys.
Virginia came back in the last half of
the same inning to snare three runs
with three hits, a walk, two stolen
bases and two errors. Larson smashed
out a hard liner that was good for a
next inning both teams pushed across
two more runs and the ninth inning
both sides were retired shortly to give
Ely the much sought for victory.
A bare handed catch by the one
and only "Stocko" Meehan, of a hard
liner hit by Gianotti in the fourth
inning with men on second and third,
robbed Ely of two runs and Gianotti
n q yuI M
have both been in a hitting slump,
more or less, all season, perked up and
did more than their share, while some
of the boys who have been hitting
heavy were strikeout victims, one of
them three times. The score by in
ningS was:
Ely, ............00 900 600 420 6 5 2
Virginia, ........ ZOO 900 800 5 z 4
Batteries: Ely-Gadbout and R.
Starkman; Virginia-McKenzie and
Hanson. Two base hits-Snider, Cad
bout, Simmons, Slade; Stolen bases
Slade, Hanson, Aijala, Starkman, Gra-
hex, Gianotti, Anderson. Umpires-
F. Gerzin and Kutcher
In the other games played Sunday
Cook gave Tower its first setback of
the second half by downing them 4
to while Eveleth turned back the
Meadowland farmers by 5 to count
and Hibbing subdued Chisholm to g.
1t appeared as though the Mesaba
range teams were doing their utmost
to keep Ely out of the playoffs but it
proved of no avail After Ely had won
and had been awarded the first half
championship, Prof. Kelley of CHS
holm decided that the first half would
not count and the two top teams in
the second half would battle II out.
Then three inning game between
Eveleth and Tower was awarded where
it should have been called no contest.
Then to top it off Hibbing protested
their Ely game on two different
grounds-but they still couldn't keep
the locals out of the series and it will
be strictly Vermilion range cham
pionship and the six Mesaba range
teams will be mere onlookers.
In sizing up the two teams they look
fairly even with Ely perhaps having
little edge. Although Tower must be
conceded a pitching advantage, Lefty"
Gadbout is hard man to beat when
in form. Ely has decided advantage
in both hitting and fielding and pos
sibly in relief pitching. AS yet it has
not been decided who will get the first
game of the series but either this one
or the second will be held here in Ely.