Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1934-09-27
Pine County Entry to State
Tourney Wins Two
Games.
Willmar, Who Won Cham
pionship, Defeats Lakers
in 1O-inning Game.

in 1O-inning Game.
failed to surmount the third game
again in the state tourney at St. Paul.
The third game has been the jinx in
previous years for the Lakers in the
state tournament. Willmar defeated
the Pine county entry in the semi
finals in a hectic ten-inning struggle,
and the Willmarites went on to take
the state Class A title on Sunday by
defeating the Lakeville club by a
score of to 2.
The game on Saturday in which the
Lakers were nosed out in the 10th
inning was discouraging to the team
and to the followers. The box score
of that game shows that the local
club out-hit the Willmarites by nearly
two to one, Sturgeon Lake getting
thirteen hits to Willmar's seven.
Willmar, however, punched four hits
and that in connection with three
walks in the sixth inning when Mack
Anderson weakened after pitching
brilliantly for five innings scored four
runs for the Western Minnesota team.
The manager, Bob Anderson, started
that inning by singing with no one
out, Warnings walked, Hanson and B.
Denser followed with consecutive
singles, A. Schneider was intention
ally passed and E. Kirkland singled
and this whole attack netted four
runs making the score at this point
Willmar 5, Sturgeon Lake 2. Lee An
derson relieved Mack in the seventh
after the first man up had doubled
and Lee retired the side in order and
he proved invincible to the Willmar
batters the rem ainder of the game.
Neither side scored until the ninth
inning when the Sturgeon Lake team
put on a hectic rally that tied the
score.
Sturgeon Ties Score.
Mcclellan, first man at bat, singled,
Mack Anderson, who was playing Sec
ond base, after going from the mound,
walked, Nelson singled scoring Nc
Clellan, Olson flied out to center field
advancing the runners, Gay was in
tentionally passed and with the bases
loaded, Monroe Cunningham con-
nected for a single over second base,
scoring Nelson and Mack Anderson to
sew up the game at 5 and 5. On the
throw-in from the outfield on that hit
the ball passed the catcher and rolled
to the back-stop. Gay, who was on
third, seized this opportunity to race
in home in an attempt to score what
would have been the winning run.
The ball was retrieved by the catcher
and thrown to the pitcher who was
covering the plate. Although the
pitcher made two attempts to touch
Gay coming in, Umpire Kauth, of the
N. w. Umpires Association ruled
Gay out.
In the tenth inning on the Willmar
side, B. DenZer singled after one man
had been retired, Theis was safe on
an error, A. Schneider walked to fill
the bases. Brikland, next man at bat,
sent potential double-play grounder
to Klar at third base. Klar fielded
the ball and touched the base for the
force-out at third and threw the ball
home but Denzer scored when Gay
failed to touch him as he slid into
the plate.
Sturgeon Lake threatened again in
the tenth when Lee Anderson walked
after one man had been retired, Nc
Clellan singled, and Mack Anderson
walked to fill the bases. Nelson
forced Lee Anderson at the plate
when he grounded to the second base
man which was another close decision
on the part of umpire Kauth which
was ruled against the Lakers. Olson
grounded out to the second baseman
to end the rally and the game.
The hitting honors in this game
went to Monroe Cunningham who hit
safely four times in five times at bat.
The First Game.
In the game against Oronoco, the
first game in which the Sturgeon Lake
club participated, Albin Peterson of
Moose Lake, played a prominent part.
He held the OrOnOcO batterS to five
scattered hits in the seven innings
that he pitched. He was relieved in
the eighth inning after having walked
two men successfully with no one out.
Mack Anderson went to the mound
and was greeted with a two-base hit
inside of third base which scored two
runs and tied the score. He frightened
Up and was untouchable from then on
striking out three in the ninth and
two in the tenth.
Joe Klar, first man up in the ninth
for Sturgeon Lake tripled, but was
caught at the plate when he at
tempted to score on a passed ball.
In the tenth inning Mack Anderson
started a rally by driving out a two
base hit, Nelson was hit by pitched
ball, Olson singled, Gay doubled, Jack