The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-07-27
Ely Hands Keewatin Club
Surprise 1910 Whipping
Eight-Run First Inning is Too
Much for Visitors; Tackle
Virginia Next.

A seven-hit, eight-run barrage by the
Ely city baseball club in the first inning
was too much for the Keewatin team
here Sunday as the host city handed
their powerful opponents an unexpected
and very thorough II to 10 trimming.
Reginald Lefty" Winquist Smacked
out his initial homer of the year, scor-
ing Al Banks ahead of him, during that
big first inning to help his own cause
along.
John Glavan started the onslaught
by arriving safely on first on single
to center field. Frank Debeltz sent
Glavan to second on a sacrifice, and
Ed Buckley brought him home on a
two-bagger to right field.
Rudy Krall landed safely on first as
the centerfielder committed one of the
three errors chalked up against the
visitors during the inning, stole second
on a neat bit of base running, and
added run number three to Ely'S total
as John Sweigel sent three-bagger
into right field, scoring both Buckley
and Krall.
The heaVy-hitting William Langen
stepped to the plate next and received
a free pass to first after being hit by
the pitcher. He then stole second, feat
he has duplicated several times this
season, but was thrown out at third by
a play from the Stort stop to the sec
ond baSeman. At this point the start
ing pitcher, Smarazeya, was moved to
centerfield and T. Emanuel, the fielder
replaced him.
Banks, who followed Langen to the
batter'S box, poled out single to
centerfield, after which WinquiSt con-
nected with his homer. Tony Strukel
was donated a trip to first as the short
stop bobbled the ball to complete round
one Of the batting list to the plate.
Glavan, starting the attack on the
haplesS Keewatin club all over again,
sent three Dagger into right field and
Strukel scored. The ShortStop again
juggled the ball to allow Debeltz to land
safely on first base, and Buckley con-
nected with his second hit of the inning,
a single, to score Glavan.
Krall flied out to the leftfielder to
end the inning, with the score 8 to l
in favor of Ely. Keewatin had chalked
up the initial run of the game as L.
Felippi scored after Smarazeya had sent
a triple into the right field.
The visitors made it 8-4 with three
runs in the third. Scores by Glavan
10 !
inning ended.
Keewatin'S big inning was the sixth
-Four runs came in on a like number of
singles and an Ely error. With only
one down and Keewatin within two
runs of knotting the count at 10 all,
of their big guns, L. Felippi and G.
Emanuel, down on strikes.
The visitors again threatened to turn
the tables on their hosts in the ninth
A single by T. Emanuel and double
by Smarazeya put them on third and
second, respectively. Two men were
already out. Schaefer followed with
long three-bagger to right field to
bring two runs in. Their hopes died as
R. Spadacinni famed to end the game
Ely's final runs were made in the
eighth by Buckley and Sweigel.
With the defeat of Keewatin, the up
and coming aggregation of Manager
Ernest Madden has engaged and con-
quered the three "best" clubs in the
league. On successive Sundays they
turned back Eveleth, 9 to 2, Chisholm,
to 6, and then Keewatin.
Next Sunday they travel to Virginia
to tangle with the fourth best" club.
If the local boys take this game, there
is going to be lot of argument as to
whom has the best club in the league
regardless of the team taking the league
title. Ely's five straight setbacks at
the start of the season eliminates it
from any such honor.
Winquist famed nine men and
walked one, while only two of Ely's
players were returned to the bench on
strikes. -Four of them were given free
tickets to first. Besides Langen, Banks
had a stolen base to his credit. The
box score.