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Base Ball News,ren(iE W. Pickett Sporting Editor.Ehj I liberty and i ayton played their first g ime Sunday afternoon on the Dayton diamond, the latter winning by a score of i to Liberty had everything , their own wav up to the eighth inning. ? the score ln*in^ ; t-» o in their favor, and thev had been playing rings around the Dayton bunch in everv department of the game, but in that inning they got a lt;otiple of hits, whic h aided by a costly error, allowed Dayton to put three runners across the plate and tie up the score. \nd m the ninth inning I avton made another run in this manner— two men were out when drown got n good, ciean single in center held, and in running the baser, he failed to touch first by at lea-t twenty feet, and in a general mix up he was allowed too.tcircle the bases. A kick was made(which, bv the way. was •he only kick made during the game, and up to that time it was a beautiful game) but the umpire claimed that he didn't see the runner cut the base hence he allowed the score to count. Riviere did the twirling lor Liberty and he pitched the game or his life, and it ever a pitcherd ‘Served to win a game, it was h m_lie only allowed three hits, and theyc ame in the last two innings, after hislinger had been hurt by a thrown bail, never passed a single man and strut k out i s num. And in the fourth inning, with runners on second and third, with none out he fanned three of I ayton's heaviest hitters. Price also did some good work on the mound, he was as steady as u cloc k, only passed one man and struc k out ten, and in the lt;th inning, with all of the base,* full, he struck out Liberty’s hardest hitter -liaillio. I he main feature of the game, leaving out the umpiring of Smythe, was the fielding of Chambliss, he pulled down live long drives that were tagged for two baggers, lkzetnan plav-i ed a nice game for Dayton, a . he had |to make sevc rai hard runsaf er tlv ballsbut he managed to capture ail of them 1 The piaycrs were *Liberty. Dayton. iL «illio 1 f Iiolton iPatton jd b Coffey jI lout Inns j st b PcrgusonSevens -d li BrownSteusoff c KortPnkett s s kehevChambliss r f HopkinsBentley r ! BoxemanRiviere p plht‘Two base hits—Riviere and Bolton. Three base hits Patton and Chambliss.The second game of the series will be played at Lund’s Lake Park Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Lverybodv come out and see a good game of ball.
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Liberty Vindicator
Liberty, Texas, US
Fri, Sep 02, 1910
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