The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-10-18
Score Runs in Early Innings off
Pipgras, Coast Through
Last Few Frames
BY Henry L. Davis

By Henry L. Davis
Laying down a barrage of base
hits and aided by errors the barn
storming Millers scored all their
runs in the first four innings to de-
feat the All-Stars 1912 in baseball
game Saturday afternoon at the
fair grounds.
A crowd estimated at 1,150 per-
sons filled the stands to see the lead
ers of the American association dur
ing the playing season who lost in
the championship playoff to Column
bus. Cars lined the left and right
field lines and the windshield of one
was shattered by foul line drive off
the bat of Pinky Hargrave, Miller
catcher.
After plating their 10 runs the
Millers did not exert themselves to
make more scores and coasted along
behind the tight hurting of Jess Pet
ty, Buck Marrow and Rosy Ryan,
who shut out the All-Stars for eight
innings after they had collected their
two counters in the opening canto.
The three allowed only nine hits
while the Miller sluggers were CLEAN
ing 16 from the offerings of Ed Pip
gras, Ziegenhagen and Binger, two
of which were homeruns.
The Millers scored all their runs
off Pipgras, who hurled last year in
the International league and who re-
ports to the Boston Braves next
spring, in the five periods he was on
the mound. Ziegenhagen and Binger
limited them to four base knocks for
the remainder of the contest.
Both teams scored in the first in
ming. For the Millers, with one
down Ernie Smith was safe at first
and went to second on Bassie Wag-
ner's high throw to first of his
grounder. Spencer Harris then sent
a line drive to center which Bean of
Comfrey tried to catch at his shoe
strings but which went through him
for a single and a two base error,
Smith scoring and Harris pulling up
at third. Arlett followed with a sin
gle to right plating Harris and COM
pleted the round when Abby Wright
smashed a homerun to right center
bringing in two more runs. Har-
grave shot a one baser to right and
Leo Norris was safe on another mis-
cue by Wagner. The next two men
went down in order.
For the All-Stars Cady of Spring
field led off with a triple to right
center and scored on Bert Eichten's
ground out to Andy Cohen at second
Gjerdahl of Fairfax then hit roller
along the first base line which took
a bad bounce as Harris was about to
field it and continued into right field
for two bases. He scored on Wag-
ner's double to the same pasture and
that ended the run making for the
All-Stars.
The Millers counted their fifth
marker in the second inning when
Smith got his second bingle, a triple
to center and continued on home
when Wagner, who played last year
for Hutchinson, Kansas in the West
ern association, made high throw
to the plate for his third error in two
innings.
A double by Hargrave, a single by
Camel and another one ply swat by
Buck Marrow, after Camel had ad-
vanced to second added two more for
Minneapolis in the third. The Mill
ers ended their scoring in the fourth
when Harris singled off Pipgras'
back, Arlett advanced him to third
with a one baser to right and after
Wright had popped to short, Young
slammed long drive over the right
fielder's head for four sacks, scoring
Harris and Arlett ahead of himself.
The Millers had plenty of opport-
unities to score after the fourth but
seemed content to make outs by
reckless base running, trying to
stretch hits and steal bases standing
up. The All-Stars were given very
few scoring chances and when they
were the Minneapolis hurlers put a
little zip on the ball to cut down the
batters.
The infield was rather rocky and
bunny and made handling ground
balls very difficult, several bounding
away for base hits as they were
about to be fielded.
The starting lineup for the ALL
Stars consisted of Cady, Springfield
left field; Bert Eichten, Wanda, sec.
ond base; Gjerdahl, Fairfax, third
Wagner, Springfield, short; Dudek
Olivia, catcher; Mock, Echo, first
Bean, Comfrey, center field; Wor'
scher, Lucan, right field and Pip
gras, Slayton, pitcher.
Others who saw service were Verr
Eichten, Wanda; Ziegenhagen, Nor
gan; Goring, Comfrey; Dolan, Lu'
can; Gill, Echo; Janotta, Morgan
Binger, Delhi; Schiffman, Wabasso
and Benjamin, Franklin.
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