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Show MILFORD NINE GET GOING WITH 2 WINS IN HOLIDAY GAMES Milford baseball team celebrated the "glorious fourth" with two long longed for victories. Saturday the local nine whipped Minersville in a seven to twenty-one game that degenerated degen-erated into a hitting practice for Milford. Mil-ford. Sunday they cleaned Beaver in a hitting, pitching battle that saw a thirteen to twenty win chalked up in their favor after Beaver had run in five pitchers in a futile effort to stop the hitting streak that seemed to be a direct gift from Santa Claus. Bill McGee, one time pitcher for Milford, returned Sunday to pitch for his old team against Beaver and pitched' pitch-ed' a class of ball that gave Beaver only thirteen hits out of forty-eight times up to bat. Beaver pitchers did not fare so well. Jfjlford up to bat sixty-two times got twenty-one hits and ten walks. Hitting Good And everv member of the Milford team collected hits, Livergood leading the sluggers with four, Done and Root following up with three, White, Tanner Tan-ner and Theisen getting two -and the rest claiming one apiece.- The runs were collected in inverse order, Done leading with four, White, Tanner, Theisen and McGee following up with three, Root, two and Livergood and Schow collecting one. The first inning give little indication indica-tion of the terrific wolloping slated or Beaver. Done walked to first, managed to ooze around the diamond "or a run while his team mates fouled foul-ed out, or were struck out. Beaver Leads Beaver came to bat and collected three runs through the excited fumbling fumb-ling of Milford infield, and the inning ended three to one in favor of Beaver. ' At the end of the second the score remained re-mained the same. The enL of the third saw one score for both teams with Beaver still holding a two point lead. The fourth gave Beaver another score. In the fifth, Beaver collected another run and Milford started luting lut-ing hard, with a result of three runs. From then on it was Milford's ball game. Then started the teriffic hitting hit-ting of the local nine and then Beaver began it's nervous shifting of pitchers. Milford collected eight runs in the next three inning and seven the first half of the nineth. Until the nineth, 3eaver was thoroughly disorganized and then a last minute rally gave them six runs over the Milford aggregation aggre-gation who were tired of the business and wanted to go home. Home Runs Beaver and Milford divided honors in home run hits, Beaver getting two and Jesse Done and Shadow White getting one apiece. As soon as the game ended the Beaver manager started negocintions with Cliff Cook, manager of Milford team, for a return game here Sunday. Cook anxious to. give the boys plenty of practice for the Beaver Home-Com-ing series when they, play for a hundred hund-red dollar purse agreed to give Beaver Beav-er a chance to wipe out the defeat here Sunday. lieavcr AB R H P O A K Davis ss G, 2 2 4 6 1 Goodwin If C 1 2 4 1 0 Scott rf 5 12 2 3 0 . Pearce cf . 6 3 . 2 3 0 0 Barton lb : '. 5 2 2 2 1 0 Lessing 3b 5 113 3 1 Williams 2b 5 2 1 11 1 Thompson c ... 5 0 1 4 0 1 Anderson p 5 10 4 11 Totals 48 13 13 27 lfi 5 Milford Done ss 8 4 3 2 C 3 S. White 3b 8 3 2,3 4 2 Tanner cf 7 3 2 1 0 0 Livergood c 7 14 3 10 Turner If 7 0' 1 4 0 0 S. Schow lb T l'l 4 2 0 Root 2b 0 2 3 4 4 1 Crawford rf 3 0 0 3 0 0 Theisen rf 3 3 2 0.0 0 McGee p (13 12 10 Totals C,2 20 21 20 18 ' fi Summary: Strike outs by McGee, 9. Bases on balls by McGee, 2. Batters hit by balls by McGee, 2. Strike outs by Heaver !. Bases on balls by Heaver, Heav-er, 10. Home runs by Milford, 2. Home runs by Beaver 2. Minersville game was pitched by Kim'-I Coon for Milford. He was relieved re-lieved by Lawrence Easton late in the ga me. |