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Show SMITHFIELD AND WELLSVILLE PLAY ELEVEN INNING GAME For Championship of the county. It was a beauty and Won by Smithfield, The Score standing 6 to 5. There was an afternoon of good, clean sport. in an eleven inning contest at the R.Y. C. ball park last Saturday afternoon, after-noon, thcSmlthtleld team demonstrated demonstrat-ed its right to tho chamionship of the county by defeating the Wells-vllle Wells-vllle team by a score of 0 to 5. The game was a "rattling good one" from start to finish, the score being close enough at all times to awaken Increased interest as the Innings slipped by. There were no remarkably sensational' plays, but many very good ones, and comparatively few errors. Roth teams played hard and once the game was started there was little or no jangling. It was Just such a game as lovers of good sport delight In, and the kind that If continued would make baseball popular with all classes. As the boys lined up on the field, It was plainly apparent that the Wells-vllle Wells-vllle team was the huskier of the two, but less agile than the Smithflcld bunch, but they were both In first class trim and out for blood, so these little discrepancies on the part of cither counted for little. In the first inning both sides were goosed but In the second Wcllsville scored one, and the rooters went wild. In the third Wcllsville scored again, but the Smltlftlclders also scored. The fourth was a goose-egg for both and In the fifth Wcllsville scored onc and Smith-field Smith-field two. This placed them together and tho excitement became Intense. The boys fioin the soutli got a cipher in their hair of the fifth, while the northern aggregation added one. At this time you could tell a Wcllsvlllo rooter by tho length of his face It almost dragged the ground. Rut the team from that town where tho new electric railroad will end didn't get rattled, and instead settled "down to harder work. Roth teams played, so hardthescven andelghth Innings that neither side scored and the" fatal ninth was on hand with Smithticld one score ahead. Smlthfleld failed to score in their half and it was "up to" the Wcllstlllc bunch to tie tho score or lose the game. The game had been the genuine article up to this time and the excitement was intense as Elmer Maughan faced the white-haired white-haired youngster who was dishing up such warm stuff for the Smlthflclders. Maughan tore a corner oft the ball ullrlght but the sphere landed in the shortstop's hands. Then ca me Danny Stewart a chunky little fellow built to drive a ball within four miles of the moon, and from the way he grasped grasp-ed the willow, It was plainly evident that he intended to do or die and lie didn't die. Instead he thumped onc of "Snowball's" downward shoots square on tho proboscis and the globular horschide didn't stop until un-til it lilt tlic old millshcd, on thowest,, Danny chased himself around the diamond and was perched on third baso when tho ball was returned. This set oft tho wholo bunch of fireworks and pandemonium reigned. That Smithlleld ball-tosser didn't mind It a little bit, howovcr, and proceeded to saw wood, striking Alex. Maughan out "just as easy." Then came up another Maughan, Robert Augustus Hercules by name, and that gentleman bumped the sphere for two bascs.Of course Stewart walked In, and the score was tied. The next Maughan did tho best he could, but ho could do no 'more than bunt the ball Into tho diamond and Robert Augustus Hercules was put out at home. The two teams agreed to play until the matter was decided, so tho tenth Inning was begun, but neither side hcored. Then camo the eleventh, and Mack, onc of tho Smlthfleld bunch, tore olf a three bagger, a perfect beauty. beau-ty. Ilancythen sent a ball to Guy Maughan, that ir lis temperature could have been taken while oniouto It would havo shown up 110 In theshado Guy handled It as though It wore a hot brick and Muck scored. Chris-tensen Chris-tensen then struck out, but Kwlng dropped a fly overtoClmrllo Maughan, which ho dropped, and Iiancoy scored. Ewlngwas put out at second-and then It was Wellsvillc's opportunity. They had two to overcome. That Danny Stewart repeated tils trick or a former Inning, landing squarely and chasing around for tlirco bags. Alex Maughan fouled and out, but Robert Augustus Hercules also smashed her again for a baso and Danny scored. Then came two put outs In rapid succession and tho agony was over. Mr. James A. Langton umpired tho game, and gave general satisfaction. There was a kick or two, of course,but most who witnessed tho game feci that no man could havo done better. It was evident that he was dealing deal-ing on tho square and with excellent judgment. , The line-up of tho tea ms was as follows: fol-lows: WELLSVILLK 8M1THK1KLD Stewart c Pond Arch and Alex. ( Ewlng and Maughan f ' Christcnscn Robert Maughan 1 b Woolf Chas. Maughan 2 b Douglas Guy Maughan 3b rlsgnscn Hankhead s s Nelson Walters f Hanccy Elm. Maughan c f Mack Arch and Alex. ) , . Maughan f rf V Score by Innings: 1 2 4 5 0 7 8 9 10 11 Wcllsville 0110 10001 0 1 Smlthfleld 001021000 0 2 Woolf, Chrlstensen and Hancey, of the Hyde Park team, contributed fully ful-ly their share In defeating Wcllsville.' Tho Wcllsville. contingent could not shake "Snow-ball" Chrlstensen In his pitching. He was as stolid as an Iceberg. |
