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Show COPPER LEAGUE Copper Wins Two and Loses One. j . , On Wednesday last the Copper team journeyed to Garfield where they took the Smelter to camp with a score of 11 to 9. Grant pitched an excellent game, only jetting up when the game was on ice. On Sunday the team played the Smelter on the home Ipt Again the Copper had the game sewed away only to find a defective defec-tive stitch and lost the game. It all came about over a decision at home plate. The Garfield umpire um-pire called the decision. The Smelter objected. According to reports the local base umpire put in his uncalled for sayso, which induced the head umpire to reverse re-verse his decision. Whether it was this decision or the inability of the local team, due to long hours and little practice, to stand the strain, the defense snapped. Glynn was pitching his usual masterly game but the team went to pieces behind him. Five costly cost-ly errors in a row in the eighth inning melted all the Copper ice. The game was spoiled and Smelter Smelt-er went home with the victojy, 9 to 6. ; On Wednesday of this week the team again went to Garfield. The T)oys had not seen the diamond dia-mond since they left it Sunday evening. All had to work from seven in the morning till eight in the evening on both Monday and Tuesday. Fortunately Arthur Ar-thur forfeited and saved the Copper Cop-per team from slipping out of second sec-ond place. It may be good sport to criticize criti-cize the ball team, it may show loyalty to crab and knock, and it apparently is, judging from the the conduct of local fans. There is one thing certain and that is the team cannot win baseball games and work 12 hours a day every day except the day of the game. The field day opponents will be met on the local field Sunday, look both teams over and then judge who will win Field day. I |