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CHARITON IS DEFEATED BY WHISKER BOYSSpecial To Thf* Courier,Chariton. The House of David i baseball team nosed out the Chari-I ton Red Sox in the ninth inning of la game played here Wednesday afternoon by a 13 to 11 score. The local nine was leading, ft to 7. at the end of the eighth stanza, but the bewhiskered visitors drove in six tallies to take a four-run lead in their half of the ninth. They were able to cut what appeared for a time to be a Chariton rally to two runs when Montgomery, the lust Chariton player to bat, struck out.Chariton scored once in the : fourth, twice more in the sixth.! pushed four more rudo across in the seventh on two triples and a |lt;iOuble, and finally crossed the ! plate twice more in the last inning.The invaders pushed one run across in the fust, two in tin-third, four in t,hlt;* seventh on three walks, a single and a home run by Williams, and six runs in the ninth stanzaBoth clubs used three pitchers. Maloney, Jennings and Stevenson pitched for Chariton, while Way-i vila. Alexander and Laufer took the mound for the House of David. The locals collected twelve safe blows off thr^ visitors’ offerings, while Rex Sox pitchers gave fifteen hits. The larlt;t:t crowd of the season watched tin- game, and heartily, applauded the “pepper game” which the visitors put on between innings.
Newspaper Details
Ottumwa Daily Courier
Ottumwa, Iowa, US
Thu, Jun 14, 1934
Page 14
Full Page
Clipped by
Michael W.
NA, 27 Jul 2023
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