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Show BELLS DEFEAT OCCIDENTALS. Batters All Tried to Knock Ball in Mud Around Third Base. Only a handful of enthusiastic baseball fans gathered at Walker's field yesterday afternoon to neo tho Bell Tolephono team dofcat the Occidentals by a scoro of 23 to 13, The game was n novel one In many respocts. The diamond was fairly dry, oxcept around third base, where there was n nice big patch of black, slippery mud. Early In the game the players discovered dis-covered that a ball sent down that way moant safe passage lo first base. And so every batter either tried to bunt In tho direction of third base or knock a fly Just, a little beyond. It waB simply Impossible Im-possible for tho third basomnn to got tho ball In either event. This fact accounts In no small way for the final scoro. Both pitchers were hit rather. hard imrt, ns tho support was ragged, runs wero frequcut. Tho lineup follows: Occidentals. Bell Telephone. Joe Burns c Mead Morgan P Wllkerson Gans 1 b Thayno niauk 2 b Brown Graves 3 b Castro willle SB Mason Lightning ft... Cassldy Bockloy e f. Bail C. Bums I t Gunn Pacific Coast Loague. At Portland Portland 5, San Francls- CAt' Seattle First game: Seattle 2, Lop Angeles 1. Second game: Seattle G, Los A "u1 Oakland First game: Oakland 3, Freano 2. Second game: Oakland 7, Fresno 0. Game Is Postponed. DES MOINES, la.. Sept. 2. The Des Moinos-Llncoln game was postponed; wet grounds. |