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Show Bingham Beats Magna on Forfeit On Wednesday the Copper team journeyed to Magna for one of the postponed games. Magna set out to win and tried to make it doubly sure by having hav-ing their usual reliable umpire. In his first three decisions on bases he manifested and made perfectly plain to the Bingham boys that anything within three feet was enough for him to call a Magna man safe and a Bing-hamite Bing-hamite out. In spite of the base umpire, Bingham kept in the lead until the seventh, when four hits in a row gave Magna three runs and made the score 5 to 4 in Magna's favor. The sun had just gone over the hill and it was still bright enough to play ball, but Magna said, "No; it is too dark." The head umpire and judge of such things said play ball, but the Magnaites, remembering re-membering Sunday, refused to take chances, but tried to bluff it out. The result was that the head umpire called the game by forfeit in Bingham's favor. Magna will make its final appearance ap-pearance on the local diamond Sunday and we may be sure that their umpire will do his usual best. |
