The Redwood gazette., 1935-05-16
use OF CARRUTH,
PITCHER, Led TO
VICTORY, Y,PROTEST
Three Pitchers Fail to Stop
Redwood Hitters in
Western Debut

Mayor g. l.. Lynn lnaugurated
the baseball season with perfect
strike Sunday and the Redwood
Falls team, profting by this ex-
ample, turned in a 7 to victory
over Morton as their first effort
in the Western Minnesota league.
The game was played under
protest, Manager Hagen of Nor
ton objecting to Redwood's use of
Bob Carruth who, although he
lives in Morton, recently signed to
play with Redwood. The calibre
of his mound work indicates that
Morton's loss is Redwood's gain
for he allowed only four hits be-
fore being relieved in the eighth
by Francis Sheehan. Morton used
three pitchers who allowed total
of eight hits.
Morton scored first in the first
inning when Goodthunder got an
infeld hit, after Schroeder and
Art Johnson were retired on a fly
out and a strike-out, stole second
and came home on a hit by Welch.
The side was retired when Mattke,
Morton shortstop, f1yed out to
Jones in centerfeld.
Redwood's half of the second
inning brought in two scores after
R. Petit, who started throwing
for Morton, walked the first two
Redwood batters, Hauck and Kick
ul. Helgeson was put out at first,
Reynolds walked and Matson was
hit on the wrist with a pitched
ball. Hessing relieved Petit on
the mound for Morton, Jones fly
ed out and Worsech was put out
on a grounder to Goodthunder,
Morton third baseman.
Redwood scored another run in
the third after Bill Reynolds got
a hit, stole second and advanced
to third when Peterson fyed out.
He came home on a wild pitch.
The score remained 3 to 1 until
the fifth inning when Morton
punched it's hits to score two runs
to tie up the count. Jorges start
ed with single, stole second and
took third when the next Morton
man, w. Petit, reached first safe
ly after Hauck, Redwood short
stop, bungled a grounder. Both
scored before the side was retired.
The sixth inning again proved
successful for the home team
when Kickul reached first on a
fielder's choice, Reynolds got a
short hit and Carruth sent long
hit into right field. Errors and
stolen bases contributed to make
the score 6 to 8.
The only other score came in
the seventh when Jones, who was
hit by a pitched ball, made the
rounds to home plate, via a stolen
base and hit by Milo Palmer,
who took Worsech's place in right
field in the fifth.
Morton was held scoreless after
the fifth inning, Sampson reliev-
ing Hessing of his pitching duties
in the seventh.
The game was slow and ragged
at times, with occasional spurts of
professional playing. One such in
cident was the sensational catch
of a fly ball by Donald Peterson
in left field in the seventh. Pet
erson lodged around a moving car
to pick the ball out of the air,
the crowd seeing it hit his
glove as the car passed by him.
Mattke, Morton shortstop, made
a beautiful running pickup of
Matson's grounder in the eighth
and whipped the ball to first while
still travelling. Again in the sixth
Bob Petit ran wide behind park
ed cars and cut back to take Pet
erson's foul ball for a putout.
The game was played under the
rules and umpiring of the North
west Association of Umpires,
which the Western Minnesota
league is affiliated with.
Morton protested the game be-